Shannon

I am just empty. No energy. Early bed, I think. Like, now.

I must have changed clothes a dozen times today. I got up and went to yoga; came home and changed into clothes for business lunch; got home from that with a little unexpected extra time so I changed into gardening clothes and got the roses pruned (though not fed, because the wind! my goodness! it

Hmm, days of the week are so confusing. I used to have a normal day job; it’s been a few years, though. I’ve been working freelance, which means you set your own schedule; now that I’m in real estate, I’m doing open houses, which, of course, are on Sundays. I had a really good open

Busy few days. And tomorrow I’m doing another open house so it’s not done yet. Yesterday was one thing after another, but I still managed to move piles of things from Where They Were to Where They Should Be, and did some more yard work (but every bit of yard work only reveals that much

It gives me great pleasure to announce that the short story “Night Without Darkness,” collaboratively written by Mark and me, has been accepted into Gears and Levers: A Steampunk Anthology, from Sky Warrior Books. The ebook will be out soon; print publication date is as of yet undetermined. Yay!

Weirdly, the weather is lovely, almost warm (well, okay, not freezing), and bright and sunny (well, until the sun went down anyway)–the point being, I went out to work in the garden a little while today. I was going to prune and feed the rose bushes. But first, I had to trim the dead stuff

Oh I got a lot done today. Though you wouldn’t have known it at noon, when I was barely started…but after that, I rocked! The biggest thing is I built my realtor website. Wanna see? Here you go. It’s quite simple, because, well, there’s not a lot to say yet. But it’s a start! And

Ugh, so tired. I slept miserably last night, not sure why–it was one of those “who replaced my nice pillow with this bag of rocks?” nights. And when I did sleep, I had angsty dreams. But, I got up and went to the office anyway, because, well, I must. And I did a bunch of

Yesterday, Mark and I were in the Fred Meyer grocery store up on Hawthorne, where we spotted this! Right there on the shelves and everything! And what a gorgeous cover, I love the redesign. So we went down to Powell’s to see if he could sign some stock, but they didn’t have any. Go figure.

Someone used to complain, when Mark and I got together, that we’d retreat into a “bubble” and never be heard from. Well, it’s true, I do spend less time at the computer when he’s here. 🙂 But that’s because we’ve been so busy going out and doing things and seeing people. Not a bubble, really;