Adventures IRL #3
Sorry to be MIA from LJ-land for a while. I knew I was going to start posting less the further into my revision I get, but I've had a few Real Life things going on lately...
First off, I got a day-job. Part-time, at the store where I used to work, though this time I get to do data entry and not customer service. Yay! I'm usually pretty good with the customer-service angle, but it can be very tiring. So this is pretty much perfect, and my boss is really supportive of my writing! Double-yay :)
Second... we, uh, bought a car last week. And when I say car, I mean a minivan-ish-thing. Apparently it's classified as a cross-over? It looks like a truck from the front, but it's totally a minivan from the side. Anyway, it's nice, but this also means my (dead) Volvo is gone, and I get the Jetta! I'm no longer trapped in my house if Hubby has the car all day, and as soon as it gets fixed (the reason for buying the new car), I can actually go out of town if Hubby has to work.
Since all this came together at the end of last week, I've been a little crazy. I had planned on revising most of Friday, but we were at the car dealership for somewhere around 8 hours, then I spent Saturday with my friend Anne, Sunday running errands that had been put off because of Friday being taken over... Yeah. You get the point. Still got some writing done, but not much.
On the bright side, while we were getting the van checked out by our fave mechanics at Firestone, I totally unknotted the mess that is Chapter Six of the W&F revision (thanks to a fantastic critique comment from jenschmitadam!!!), and now I'm happily typing away.
I'll try and pop in more often than I have the last week, but like I said- revising & job. I'm already exhausted!
First off, I got a day-job. Part-time, at the store where I used to work, though this time I get to do data entry and not customer service. Yay! I'm usually pretty good with the customer-service angle, but it can be very tiring. So this is pretty much perfect, and my boss is really supportive of my writing! Double-yay :)
Second... we, uh, bought a car last week. And when I say car, I mean a minivan-ish-thing. Apparently it's classified as a cross-over? It looks like a truck from the front, but it's totally a minivan from the side. Anyway, it's nice, but this also means my (dead) Volvo is gone, and I get the Jetta! I'm no longer trapped in my house if Hubby has the car all day, and as soon as it gets fixed (the reason for buying the new car), I can actually go out of town if Hubby has to work.
Since all this came together at the end of last week, I've been a little crazy. I had planned on revising most of Friday, but we were at the car dealership for somewhere around 8 hours, then I spent Saturday with my friend Anne, Sunday running errands that had been put off because of Friday being taken over... Yeah. You get the point. Still got some writing done, but not much.
On the bright side, while we were getting the van checked out by our fave mechanics at Firestone, I totally unknotted the mess that is Chapter Six of the W&F revision (thanks to a fantastic critique comment from jenschmitadam!!!), and now I'm happily typing away.
I'll try and pop in more often than I have the last week, but like I said- revising & job. I'm already exhausted!