Yesterday morning began, bright and early again, with me first letting the puppy out and then feeding them both about an hour later. I had my dirty cuppa and read another chapter of my book. The dogs have a bit of a mad 10 minutes and then both go to sleep. That’s an ideal quiet time for me to just sit and read and sip my tea.
I put the washing machine on a rinse-only programme to flush out the dirt that came out of the floor mat. Honestly, it looked so clean after the carpet cleaner was run over it and then all of this other crap comes out. Ugh! But…clean now. And when the machine was clean, I put a load through that could go straight in the dryer when it was done.
I had a bit of play time with the dogs in the garden and I fed the birds, then I came back to my desk and finished that cover work I’d started the day before. I was only one cover short but I tried out 3 different artworks before deciding on which one to use. Now the full set of Wordsworth Shorts collections is ready. I just have to write the remaining stories now…
The poet arranged the pet insurance so we could get the old policy cancelled for the spaniel and have both dogs on the same policy while I got onto the dermatology department at the hospital. There are 5 light therapy appointments I wouldn’t be able to realistically make, or maybe I could manage one in the middle but they all have to run on consecutively. So I had to ask them if I could move the first 5 to the end of the sequence. When they called me back to say this was fine, I then had to rejig my calendar on TickTick.
This is good for me right now as the dogs will be more used to being on their own from mid-January but also because November is a busy month and I can spread my workload out again. It gives me a bit of breathing space and I could feel the load lightening as I wrote this!
I also moved the other edit revisions to the start of next week. And then I had a look at the newsletter.
I didn’t have a lot to share in the newsletter as I only sent one out last month. But as I’m hoping to have more to talk about in the new year, I’m trying to send it out every month if I can. If I find I often don’t have much to say, then I’ll reduce it. But at least the bar is set.
The newsletter went out, so do check your in-boxes and spam boxes if you haven’t seen yours yet.
I didn’t get around to any editing yesterday. It was all covers and newsletter. I did check my website email in-box, though, and found a message from one of the authors in my editing pile dated 18 October. Fortunately, the client had responded. But I forwarded the messages to my regular email address and wrote back to the author.
I have this big one to turn around and send off at the moment and then I have the revisions to do to the one I sent back to the author recently. Then I’ll be moving on to this author who contacted me and I seemingly ignored.
The latest Words Worth Reading paperback arrived. Son #2 came to visit, to collect something and to catch up with spaniel. And then tea was ready.
The poet had made a prawn pasta carbonara and we had iced mince tarts for pudding. (Mince tarts aren’t just for Christmas!) I really ought to get around to making that plum crumble for pudding today. We have fish for tea and that rarely fills us up without a half-decent pudding.
Sounds like the right kind of busy. And moving the appointments back to when the dogs are more comfortable being on their own is very wise. they’re doing so well!
They are. They’ve only been with us for just over 2 weeks – well, we’ve had Hawley for 3 weeks this Thursday. And the pup is only 12½ weeks old.