Posts Tagged ‘ hide the bishies ’

So it’s been a rough summer. The expectation that my income would go down by 25% led to a lot of stress, not to mention a lot of scrimping. Practice, I told the child. Let’s see if we can live on our new income before it’s our income. The answer being no led to...
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James Scott Bell (Plot and Structure, Editing and Revision, and the Art of War for Writers which I must get my hands on soon) just gave me permission to project-hop. I wonder if it’ll work. I’ve always figured that urge to bounce to the next project was my muses being lazy and tossing out...
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Inch by inch, my friend used to say, everything’s a cinch. Flylady tells me to take babysteps. So I’m stepping by inches! On page 61 of the file tonight. Page 59 of the manuscript. I spent much of my night poking at my bills. If I can find a way to reduce them by...
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Today I bought an extension cord to make my standing-on-ladders-with-power-tools a little easier. The child tried to grab the 50-foot one, but I pointed out that could probably go all the way around our house, and bought the 10-foot one. I also bought a hook for my bike. And a plant hanger. And a...
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