Maybe you are thinking to yourself, "but wait! I thought you were all moved in!" You are correct, of course, but even within our new space, there's some downsizing to be done. And, of course, decluttering. It is far too easy for unnecessary, unwanted, or unloved things to pile up.


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I haz them. Not that I always remember this, or remember to organize myself in such a way as to make progress on them. That is, however, something I can fix, and will, in fact, fix after I complete my upcoming move early in 2014. I have given myself a bit of a pass until then, because the downsizing, planning, and execution of the move are too ( Read more... )

You know things have gotten serious when a new notebook comes into play. And by "a new notebook", I mean one that is separate from and in addition to my everyday notebook. One that is dedicated specifically to preparing for the move.

I should note that I use spiral notebooks for this. Specifically, these Miquel Rius ones that I get at B&N. They ( Read more... )

Sometimes Monday mornings feel like an imposition, but today is not one of those Mondays. For whatever reason, this particular Monday morning feels like a piece of time out of time - the sort that comes just before a new start. The sort that asks you to sit down with a cup of tea and plot out the week. And so I will ( Read more... )

1. I have spent hours and hours this weekend cleaning and organizing my bedroom. And I'm not done yet, but boy, is it nicer in her already ( Read more... )

No, there's absolutely nothing wrong with their products or their customer service. It's their catalogues. They make me feel inadequate, and like a really genuinely bad housekeeper. Go ahead, pick up their catalogue and have a look-see. No papers, pretty much anywhere. No "stuff" thrown on top of all the flat surfaces, or covering the floor in ( Read more... )

The paper decided to play. Or breed. Yeesh, if I thought my desk was bad before, then I had no idea how bad it could actually get ( Read more... )

Oh they are beautiful, my new business cards.
All the way from Eng-uh-land, my pretty business cards.

C'mon folks, stand and do the dance of joy with me:

Writhe in sheer happiness for my new business cards.

They look like the little user icon. Cool, no?



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Someone please explain to me how something that is supposedly inanimate manages to multiply so copiously without any apparent effort ( Read more... )

I am in the process of helping with the registration for the Fall Philly, an upcoming SCBWI conference. And I'm no editor, but I've learned a few things about envelopes and their contents. And being short on patience or temper control or whatever, I've already developed pet peeves, with only 50 or so envelopes under my belt. I can only imagine ( Read more... )