The permanent arrival of a 4-year-old spaniel closely followed by a 10-week-old puppy took up a lot of planning and organisation time during October.
I cancelled the minor surgery because there wasn’t anything suitable for them to take a biopsy from. The housework half-hour and the garden half-hour were merged together into a house & garden hour, but I still didn’t keep on top of any of it. I was far too busy with other things.
And I didn’t manage 3 client edits either. One didn’t come in on time and the second took longer than I thought it would, and is still being finalised before I send it off.
I did, however, manage to get some stories out on submission that weren’t in the original schedule. The newsletter finally made a reappearance. And we had the garden overhauled again.
October wrap-up!
Here, then, was how October went in the end:
- create graphic for Hello October ✅
- create graphic for October wrap-up ✅
- revive newsletter ✅
- (week) daily blog post ✅
- (week) daily housework half-hour ❎
- (week) daily garden half-hour ❎
- client edit x3 ❎
- pre–write Book 12 for the Great Novella Challenge ✅
- write Story 10 for 12 STORIES IN 12 MONTHS ✅
- share Diane’s gig list every Thursday ✅
- weekly diary work ✅
- weekly backup ✅
- weekly finance work ✅
- weekly publishing work ✅
- trip to the NEC to see Grand Designs ✅
- hair appointment ✅
- write Book 12 for the Great Novella Challenge ✅
- hospital appointment (minor surgery) ❎
- monthly schedule planning for November ✅
- advance finances for November ✅
- update 36-project spreadsheet (week) daily ✅
- publish book x3 ✅
Extras
- rewrite & submit Snowbound in the Malverns ✅
- collect puppy ✅
- entertain garden man ✅
- take pup to vet for 2nd booster & register ✅
- register spaniel at vet ✅
- electrical contractor ✅
- conservatory contractor ✅
I wrote 48,765 words (this figure will be finalised at the end of the working day today), and 3 publications were in fact published: 2 short stories and a bookazine. Yay!
How was your October in the end?
It may not have gone to plan, but you got A LOT done. And what a delight to have dogs again, even though the settling-in phase takes a lot of time and energy.
Cheers to a great weekend and strong start for November.
Hear, hear! And backatchya!