When is Enough, Enough?
I stand in the doorway of my spare bedroom. It looks like it has been ransacked by a burglar, unfortunately this is of my own doing. Why does it look like this?
I am packing!
It is officially 2 more sleeps and a wakey until I go on my grand American tour for 5 weeks and I am just a little bit excited about it.
It still means that I hold a scrunched up piece of paper with my serial killer-esk writing scrawled over it. My 'to do list' that I am happy to say is getting smaller and smaller, but it still doesn't eliminate the the feeling of
"Have I forgotten something?"
The last thing I want to do is be on the plane and realise I have left Macaulay Culkin in the Attic. (We've all been there. Right?)
It is the super-dooper organised me that hates not being in control. I want to be packed already, I want those suitcases by the front door and I want to be sitting back with an umbrella in my drink with my feet on the coffee table.
Instead I will be wrestling with chargers, and calculating undie to sock ratio's and the greatest debate of all...to roll or to fold? I also have two writing deadlines to abide by before I go. An interview and submissions to my editor (very important) Once that is done then I think I will be able to breath.
My editor gave me some very worthy advice. As stress mounted towards my epic holiday, I have been obsessing about submitting my MS to the editor. Meaning I was re working/writing and 'touching' it with the thought of making it better and better. Just one more review I would say, one more flick through. And then my editor gave me some very valuable advice.
"Just stop touching it C.J"
"And besides - this isn't your publication date. You're getting it back and can - and will - make changes after I'm done with it. So it might be worth just STOPPING NOW."
THAT! Was exactly what I needed to hear. It's about letting it go and moving forward. It was like a giant weight had been lifted off my shoulders. It's really important to let go, but sometimes you just need to be reminded.
So where does this leave the next 5 weeks dear bloggers? Well...I had planned on taking a well needed break from technology, but lets face it! That is SO not going to happen. Naturally I will not be so readily available but I will be checking my emails and messages while I am away, but for my sanity and respect to my hubby I have to put the laptop aside and put 'work' on the back burner.
Definition of holiday?
1. A day free from work that one may spend at leisure, especially a day on which custom or the law dictates a halting of general business activity to commemorate or celebrate a particular event.
Oooooh so that's what it means??
Best get back to the 'to do list' Tomorrow is D day on so many levels and I want those suitcases by the front door and breathing easily because I have fulfilled all my deadlines. Wish me luck!
This is not goodbye...Yet!
I am packing!
It is officially 2 more sleeps and a wakey until I go on my grand American tour for 5 weeks and I am just a little bit excited about it.
It still means that I hold a scrunched up piece of paper with my serial killer-esk writing scrawled over it. My 'to do list' that I am happy to say is getting smaller and smaller, but it still doesn't eliminate the the feeling of
"Have I forgotten something?"
The last thing I want to do is be on the plane and realise I have left Macaulay Culkin in the Attic. (We've all been there. Right?)
It is the super-dooper organised me that hates not being in control. I want to be packed already, I want those suitcases by the front door and I want to be sitting back with an umbrella in my drink with my feet on the coffee table.
Instead I will be wrestling with chargers, and calculating undie to sock ratio's and the greatest debate of all...to roll or to fold? I also have two writing deadlines to abide by before I go. An interview and submissions to my editor (very important) Once that is done then I think I will be able to breath.
My editor gave me some very worthy advice. As stress mounted towards my epic holiday, I have been obsessing about submitting my MS to the editor. Meaning I was re working/writing and 'touching' it with the thought of making it better and better. Just one more review I would say, one more flick through. And then my editor gave me some very valuable advice.
"Just stop touching it C.J"
"And besides - this isn't your publication date. You're getting it back and can - and will - make changes after I'm done with it. So it might be worth just STOPPING NOW."
THAT! Was exactly what I needed to hear. It's about letting it go and moving forward. It was like a giant weight had been lifted off my shoulders. It's really important to let go, but sometimes you just need to be reminded.
So where does this leave the next 5 weeks dear bloggers? Well...I had planned on taking a well needed break from technology, but lets face it! That is SO not going to happen. Naturally I will not be so readily available but I will be checking my emails and messages while I am away, but for my sanity and respect to my hubby I have to put the laptop aside and put 'work' on the back burner.
Definition of holiday?
1. A day free from work that one may spend at leisure, especially a day on which custom or the law dictates a halting of general business activity to commemorate or celebrate a particular event.
Oooooh so that's what it means??
Best get back to the 'to do list' Tomorrow is D day on so many levels and I want those suitcases by the front door and breathing easily because I have fulfilled all my deadlines. Wish me luck!
This is not goodbye...Yet!
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