Feeling the rush already
Posted by Teresa (Chrissy) | Filed under Real Life
You know that rushed feeling you get during the holiday season? Yeah … it’s only December 5th and I have it already :/ This cannot bode well. Oh, and guess what I’m trying to attempt in the middle of this lovely time of year? Yep, that’s right, begin a re-write of my ‘09 NaNoWriMo novel. I would wait, but I want to be sure that I have it all still fresh in my mind and hopefully during the re-write I can work out some details for the sequel book.
Plus I have a few people lined up to give it a beta (alpha?) read, of which I am excited about. I really hope people like this book. But back to the busyness of the season, shall we …
Last night, I went shopping with my younger sister to pick up the supplies to make my mum a birthday cake (her birthday is tomorrow) and a few smaller things to go with the secret santa gifts I have to mail out. I ended up buying a three foot tree (see photo) for our house this year since no one really felt like getting up in the attic, pulling everything out and dealing with the hassle a full-size tree (which, in my family, normally ends with everyone being in a pissy mood and we need all the festiveness we can get this year, mmmkay).
After getting the tree ready, eating dinner, and doing an inordinate amount of dishes — I seriously believe evil elves stalk the house when we are distracted and dirty up our plates and cutlery — I wrapped the gifts I bought for the Supernatural Secret Santa on Livejournal (not shown) and the Book Blogger’s Holiday Swap (photo to the left). These shall be mailed out on Monday. I was going to do it today but again, I have so much to do, and I didn’t want to run everything to the post office on the same day (I would honestly need almost two boxes for all I have to mail). Instead, I opted to mail two packages today: one to Cash4Books.net and one to a friend in Belgium who kindly bought an unwanted book from me as I’m trying to clear out my collection.
Tonight will be spent addressing my holiday cards, among other things. I will probably post some photos of that tomorrow. Seriously, my life is beyond exciting. ;)
Tags: chores, christmas, decorating, gifts, nanowrimo, novel writing, supernatural, wip
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