Wendy's Half Week

The last few days have been fairly productive. Today, not so much.

Good stuff:

• The laundry is pretty well done, including the fabric I bought.
• The suitcase is put away. Can't say the same for the carry-on bag.
• Found some research books free on Amazon and have been reading. By the time I finish this book I'll know more than the average person would want to about the Jacobite Rebellion.
• Logged all my food and stayed under my point allowance.
• I blogged the other day about increasing my work hours (writing when I'm not at the day job) so it won't be a shock to go back to work. I realized yesterday that it's not so much about getting used to working again as it is about getting used to focusing on work again and not getting distracted by household stuff. The plan is to start work by 9 every morning, and work 25-30 hours a week.
• Started free writing a few minutes a day again. I'm going low-tech; Word doc with light gray font and the spell checker turned off so the little squigglies don't distract me.
  

Not so good stuff:

• Even though it's been a very mild month, I got used to FL weather too fast. I've been cold just about constantly since I got home, except for each night around 3-ish, when I wake up roasting, usually with Eric plastered to my back and Ryan holding the covers down in front of me. It's nice to be missed, but come on!
• Haven't been doing very well taking supplements this week, and I can feel it today.
• Spent most of the day on the couch watching stuff that was DVR'ed while I was gone. I did get some knitting done, and I organized music for one of the gals in the praise band at church, so it wasn't a total loss.
• Haven't gotten anything concrete, on paper, at least, for my additional story line, but the story has been perking under the surface all week. It's going to take a major rewrite but I'm pretty sure I'll be able to salvage a good chunk of it.

This week:

• Get to work by 9 Monday through Friday. Put in a total of at least 20 hours. (I did 11.5 since Wednesday. That looks so pitiful until I point out that I don't have 40 hour work weeks. I have 40 hour work months.)
• Put away rendezvous gear.
• Gather up one bag each of donations and trash and get them out of the house.
• Find my kilt pattern and check local fabric stores for wool tartan. (I'm making Eric a period correct kilt for a rendezvous that we're hoping to go to in September, and since I need wool, I need to be shopping for it now.)

Given the new work schedule, that's probably enough to get me started. Hopefully I'll have more to report next week.