Today, life is an octopus
Yup, today is an octopus kinda day. Actually, more like eight octopuses* because eight writhing tentacles just isn’t enough to describe the kind of wild, all-over-the-place kind of day I have facing me.
What’s on my plate? Let’s look, shall we?
writing (duh! but I need to hit a certain minimum page count in order to ensure end-of-the-month sanity);
laundry (because the good folks of my home town look askance when one sends their kid to school naked);
grocery shopping (because despite the fact that I gained 5 pounds over the holidays, I must still eat and feed my children–they’re very demanding that way);
bills (because I didn’t finish yesterday);
Medicaid (because my mother’s renewal came up and the state gives you about 2.5 seconds to pull all the necessary documents together)
email (because I sluffed off while I was jamming toward a deadline and now my empty inbox is full again)
To-Do list (it’s really only helpful if I use it and organize it. 102 overdue tasks just ain’t working for me)
Proofing (I have 3 books in queue for uploading to B&N and Kindle and other retailers, and while I can pawn off much of the work, I have to do the final proof myself)
Holiday lights (yes, they’re still on the house)
Holiday decorations (we have an open area above our front door that can be accessed only by climbing over a ledge and risking death while scooting down a thin catwalk thingie. Like an idiot, I decided that putting a small tree and fake presents there would be a fun thing for the holidays. Now I have to go clean it up. Or keep it until next year….)
Filing. I would say that I have three boxes of things to file, but that would be a lie. It’s more like ten boxes.
Schooling. Because yes, the little one needs to work on reading and math and history and science. Maybe if I have her pay the bills and proof the books (reading and math). And for science? Well, I suppose she could cook dinner!
And I’m sure there’s more that I’m forgetting!
How about you? Are you sailing smooth today? Or battling 900 things from 10,000 directions?
*fun fact: Octopuses is probably more correct than Octopi because “octopus” is not Latin-based, but instead came from the Greek. Interested? Read more here!
P.S. Did you see that I have a Bargain Books section now? Check the Navigation bar or the side bar on the right.
(And OMG, my current book -- Release Me -- hit the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists! Color me psyched! Have you got your copy yet?
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--J.K.
