It looks like I finally recovered from the vacation/long weekend/too many frikkin' people in the house thing. I have gone from struggling to get up at 4:45 AM to actually feeling human when the alarm goes off at 4:30 AM. I stay awake all day and I think I'm sleeping better at night than I have in a long while, even though I'm not in bed for as many hours. Maybe that's what it takes to tire me out enough for sleep.

Moving the laptop downstairs during the day has helped a lot. I can get plenty more done during the morning, even getting through those things I've neglected for months because they require more than just my two hours of afternoon work time. I still need to set up a permanent desk downstairs though, with my desktop parked on it. I have to move the laptop off the dining table before every meal, and it's annoying to have to break down and set back up again three times a day. Still, it works better than not having a computer downstairs at all.

So what work have I managed to accomplish the last two weeks? Let's see, so far I've...

Balanced my checkbook (it was seriously neglected)

Answered some e-mails that have been sitting in my in-box forever

Critiqued a few stories for ERWA

Outlined several pieces of flash fiction for a podcast I'll be producing

Set up a LibSyn account for above mentioned podcast so I'll have a place to host my files and an easy way to blog the show notes (more about that later)

Written 2,000 words in the current book

Discovered that I can't write any further in the current book until I finally bite the bullet and outline this sucker

Submitted a short story and marketing plan to an anthology

Done some experimenting with drawing and inking in ArtRage 2

Plus I've started cooking again, done some cleaning, managed to get laundry done each day, done a lot of walking and swimming, gotten sick, slowly recovered, nursed a sick baby, read a couple of manga and some other books, yatta, yatta, yatta...

Yep, I'm keeping busy. So I gotta get back to work now. See ya later!

Labels: Current Work, Write-At-Home Mom