Working on It
I’ve got two guides going these days. They were both supposed to be done by now, but I still haven’t figured out how to edit text that hasn’t been written yet, and so I soldier on behind schedule. I think the count is down to this: 3 to 4 more chapters left to go across the two books. Don’t get me wrong—I am fucking THRILLED to have this work.
I am also being pulled in the direction of holiday stuff, which I’ve written about before. A number of fairly large-scale things must still be made. I am hoping to fill the coming week with enough fun stuff for the children that they will allow me some time to work. It’s a contradiction when you first look at it, but I’m taking a different (naive? no, hopeful) view: Perhaps if I invest in some extra-cool Christmas activities, they’ll leave me alone in between them. Well, there’s always the TV (with which I’m currently engaged in a sordid love-hate relationship). Today is the boys’ last day of school/daycare. Tomorrow begins three solid weeks of vacation—for them.
I also have to work like hell on my textbook revision, which I’ve let slide for the last two weeks. Somehow I must make up those hours before the end of the month because I don’t want my client to know I’ve let it sit idle for days. I think I can, I think I can.
One of my fervent hopes for the new year is that I can learn how to keep track of my shit: I would like to know at all times where my wallet, my keys, and my cell phone are, in addition to knowing where my two children are. Is that so much to ask? Apparently, for me, it is. My wallet is currently missing somewhere in my house. Last time I saw it was Wednesday, when I tipped the gardeners.
I would really like to curl up alone with a good book or six until the 2nd of January.
December 19, 2008 at 6:51 pm
My theory is that having kids=memory loss, Every Mom I know loses keys, kids etc. Hey I have one kid and I still call her by the wrong name sometimes!