Day 11.

My parents came and went last week, Phil's parents arrived last night and will depart tomorrow.

Goals accomplished:
* paid bills
* shopped for nursing bras (Target's sizes are a bit on the small side--a 40D barely covered things)
* washed the baby for the first time

(the tended-to-baby, tended-to-self goals always come first, of course)

Really, the post subject line says it all ( Read more... )

State of the Abra IncubatorThe sprogling and I are doing well. I think he's going through a growth spurt right now--my belly certainly is! At this point, I'm a bit worried I may outgrow some of my maternity shirts. Medically, everything's going along fine--as of the last checkup, baby's a little ahead of the growth curve, and I'm a little ahead of ( Read more... )

It's easy for me to establish routines. It's important for me to sometimes stop and consider what I'm spending my time on ( Read more... )

(Oh, and Mom says, "I read your friends/readers comments on your blog and am grateful for their interest and support." She is getting treated with Taxitol on Monday, which I believe is the second-round treatment. I think one of the deciding factors was being able to start treatment immediately instead of delaying it for a week ( Read more... )

05/03/10, Monday* Posted writing log, freewriting ( Read more... )

I haven't gotten so much writing stuff done, but I have finished a number of other essential things. Real life comes first, sometimes, hard as I try to fight it ( Read more... )

12/14/2009 - Day job* all day, then came home and fell asleep remarkably early. Tired Abra.

12/13/2009* Read Critters, LunchWeekly, Writing-World, WritersMarket, FFWSmallMarkets, FundsforWriters, Ralan, and 2 Duotrope newsletters and upated market list from them ( Read more... )

Lessons learned:
* Nobody expects the Squirrel Inquisition!
* Never, ever set a "misc" goal unless it's got a time limit on it. Try to specify tasks instead--or at least a number of misc tasks.

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My continuing efforts to figure out what I want to do, how long I think it will take, and how long it actually does (or what I do instead).

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