The first week of July will be a combination of getting settled into both a new house and a new routine and waiting for the dust to settle as well. I’ve booked client work in from the second week of July, but I also want to crack on with those republications. I reckon that by August, I’ll be writing again.
I don’t think we’ll have many tradesmen stomping everywhere yet. We have a window fitter and a decorator already booked in for August, but July will be us doing what we can ourselves, and maybe getting some internal doors replaced.
We need to go and buy an oven and a fridge/freezer and we have to have the oven fitted. We also have curtain rails to replace with curtain poles as we go along, and curtains we’ve brought with us replaced with new curtains and blinds.
So, we still have things to do in July on the home front, but here’s how the work side of things is starting to pan out…
Hello, July!
- monthly schedule planning for July
- create graphic for Hello, July
- create graphic for July wrap-up
- make new covers for the next 21 book republications
- republish 14 short stories
- republish 2 collections of 10 short stories
- 3x client proofreading jobs
- daily dog walk
- daily exercises
- daily household chores
- daily reading hour
- daily blog post
- weekly backup
- weekly finance work
- advance finances for August
- update word-count tracker spreadsheet (week) daily
- unpacking
- post daily to Patreon & Medium
- monthly schedule planning for August
- advance finances for August
- update word-count tracker spreadsheet (week) daily
- dental appointment 😱
- hair appointment
How’s your July looking?
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Is the oven separate from the stove, or together? I always get intimidated with the measurements. I hope that all goes smoothly for you.
I love figuring out the whole curtain bit. I am one of those people who just loves curtains!
I hope you get a chance to enjoy yourselves, too.
We think the hob/stove is fine, it’s built into the worktop, so we’re looking for an oven to just slot in where we’ll remove the drawers, beneath the hob. Ian can fit it, actually, as he says the correct cable is already there. But in case he’s had enough for the time being, we may ask the delivery guys to fit it, but they’ll want the cabling in place and Ian will probably have to do that for them so he may as well go the whole hog and fit the thing.
We have so many pairs of curtains, having moved every 2 years until the last place, where we were for 4 years. We’ve made do over the years and fit what we could where we could. Now we have our own place, we want to buy the correct sizes. I can hem them up if necessary, but curtain-hanging is one of my least favourite household chores, although I do love them when they’re up. Again, Ian can fit any tracks, poles and blinds, whether they be roller blinds or Venetian blinds, or both if we need the extra blackout! And I can make Roman or Austrian/festoon blinds if I’m feeling creatively energetic!
That all sounds good!