Where is the Organization Fairy when I need her? Currently, the dining room table and my desk look like this: And each of those pieces of clutter is something that needs to be dealt with… I did get a lot done today, but some things (like orchid-watering) are being put off till tomorrow. I’m EXHAUSTED. […]

I have a black blazer and a lockbox key! Oh, and a subscription to RMLS, and a membership in EMAR, and an office bill…my credit card is about to burst into flames. FLAMES. Onward! 🙂

Long day today, and fussy-crummy sleep last night…I’m not sure why. I think I’m still nervous about the real estate work. Which, I’ve talked myself down from the anxiety before, and I can do it again–I AM doing it again. The only way past it is through it. To that end, I’m sitting an open

So Mark called me this morning, stuck in his novel. “Here’s the next few things that happen, but if I write them all out, it’ll take chapters and chapters, and it’s enough like the other thing I wrote about earlier…” “So summarize it,” I said. “We know what happens; we’re ready to get to the

I met a LOT of people when I moved to Portland. Almost all of them came into my social circle via the relationship for which I moved to Portland. Then that relationship ended; a few “friends” (very few) decided they needed to take sides and I quite noticeably stopped hearing from them; another few friends

The baby shrimp are not so much babies any more… Here’s two of them–and they’re not even the biggest I’ve got, just the ones who felt like posing. 🙂 Why, it seems like just last month, they were almost too small to see…

I was swimming at the gym today, and the pool was very crowded, as it has been since the new year and all its attendant resolutionistas; but that was fine, there was room enough for me to swim along, having my usual ruminations about my life, my writing, my relationship, my friendships, all that…the sort

At long last, the snafu with my license is cleared up, and I am a real realtor now! Which is exciting. The training has been going well, but there’s been this constant “well you can’t do this or that or the other thing until your license comes through…” and now we won’t have to do

Yesterday I mentioned my publications of last year, for Hugo (and other) nomination consideration….after a closer look at the word-count cutoffs, I realize that “Oh Give Me Land, Lots of Land, Under Starry Skies Above,” my collaboration with Mark, is actually a novelette (it’s 10,000 words) Sorry! ::embarrassed grin::

I don’t do new year’s resolutions per se (any more), but the end of the holidays is a nearly unavoidable time, it seems, to get one’s act together. Plus, the gym had a special on personal trainer sessions. 🙂 So I signed up for a package of three sessions, and had my first one today.