Wednesday 29 July 2009 - Wordy Wednesday
You guys wouldn't believe how many recent unfinished posts (including some almost-finished ones) I have languishing in my queue. So in the interest of actually finishing an entry and posting it, today's post is going to consist of a brief, facebook-status-update-like comment.
Up at 6 today to get Spaz to church for a youth group outing to the Fort Wayne Zoo. This is a good 2 to 2-1/2 hours earlier than I've been getting up this summer. It's kind of nice, actually. After getting back, I did some touch-up painting around a window in my bedroom in a spot I had missed yesterday. I started this window-trim-finishing thing on a lark last Friday (it had needed doing since we replaced windows well over a year ago) and this should be the last thing. Maybe I will get the room put back together by the weekend, but i really doubt it, since I plan to do some clutter-elimination and reorganizing.
Uh yeah, I knew I couldn't actually write an FB-status-update-ish post... but that's okay. Continue...
On the agenda today:
1. Begin editing a manuscript. I am trying to break into the editing/publishing field, which is difficult when I lack experience. So a nice editor I know (who happens to be related to me) is giving me a chance to show what I can do. I already did a practice manuscript for him; this one is real. He has much more confidence in my ability to pull it off than I do. This is scary!!!
2. Have lunch with my birthday boy, who turns 22 today. This means I have been a mommy for about half my life!
Definitely too long for an FB status update... Continue...
3. Go pick up curtains that are supposed to come in today. Right now our living room windows have six different curtains/valances on them because we are trying them all out. What doesn't work gets returned. So far everyone (hubz, kidz, guests who've happened by) are unanimous on one set-- the one that I don't like. Too dark and hotel-ish looking, in my most-important opinion. The ones on order from a different store are the same pattern as those but in different colors; here's hoping they'll be "the ones".
4. Maybe go to the farm market and maybe not; we've yet to consume everything I got last week.
5. Enjoy not driving the 35-mile round trip to piano lessons, since the teacher is on vacation. (And the next two Wednesdays, both Spaz & Fuzz have all-day events, and the two Wednesdays bookending these three, Spaz had/will have an all-day activity... C'est summer, when lessons are sporadic but the mom still requires the practice...)
6. Take Fuzz to a free horseback-riding session at a local ranch ministry and then probably have her friends sleep over.
Okay, so that wasn't really facebook-status-y at all. But for me, it was indeed brief. And hey, it's a post; that's what matters.
Time to quit procrastinating on my editing. Must... get... off... the internet. Must put in scary CD-RW and start scary job so that it will cease to be scary... After I get some more coffee...
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