Thursday This n That

The saga of the bathroom scale continues.  If you remember, I bought a new digital scale back in April (I think) and it was showing an 8 pound heavier difference from my old regular scale.  Now, I thought my old scale was off a bit, so it wasn't a surprise to see a difference.  Not that big a difference, but still.  Then yesterday, I was at the doctor's office and I weighed myself there.  And there was a 7 pound lighter difference between their scale - which is calibrated monthly - and my new digital scale.  Umm, yah.  So the old scale wasn't that far off and this new cheap-ass digital is wrong.  :eyeroll:  I'm still using the digital scale, though, because it's easier to read.  I'll just be subtracting 7 pounds every time I use it.  Oh, yeah, and the doctor's scale put me at 184 with clothes on.  (But no shoes.  Never weigh yourself with shoes.)

I went fishing yesterday.  Yeah, I know, I said I wasn't doing anything but editing until the book is in AWE's hands, but I snapped.  It was so deliciously gloomy and I was so burnt out on editing, I had to go.  After I got home, I went back to editing.  I only caught two undersized bluegills, but being at the lake was necessary to my existence.

Still didn't get the book to AWE last night.  I explained the situation to her and she forgives me.  I'll have it to her today or no later than tomorrow.  And I'll still be on track for an August 29th release.

Yesterday at the lake, I saw groups of Eastern Swallowtail butterflies drinking from the damp sand along the shoreline.  So pretty.  And too cool.

I cleaned the coffee maker yesterday.  It makes coffee so much faster when I do that.  Boom!  Coffee!  YAY!  If you're not familiar with cleaning a coffee maker, I fill the water receptacle with vinegar, let it run for five minutes, stop for five minutes, run through the whole cycle.  Then I mix the hot vinegar with half a picture of water and run it through the maker again.  Then one or two cycles of just water to get the vinegar out.  Voila.  (Your mileage may vary depending on how hard your water is.  We have really hard water, so I use lots of vinegar.)

Cleaned the dishwasher, too.  Half a container of dry Tang mix in the bottom of the empty dishwasher and the detergent receptacle filled with baking soda, then run a cycle.  Got it almost as clean as when we had the well problem and had to run bleach through the system.  If I could find a way to run bleach through the dishwasher once a month I'd be happy, but since I can't, this works.

Oh, and here's another handy tip.  When you're finished running the vinegar through the maker, use it to clean your sink drains.  Shake some baking soda in the drains ahead of time, then pour in the hot vinegar.  Whoosh.  Clean drains.  Your whole house will smell like pickles, but it's worth it.  Burn some candles to get rid of the pickle smell.

Okay, I think that's just about enough out of me this morning.  What have you got going on today?

Here's The Deal

Okay, here's the deal.  I'm going through Sleeping Ugly line by line and making it better.  (I hope.)  Adding stuff, rewording stuff, deleting stuff.  I already input my editor's pink suggestions throughout, but I felt like I needed to knead this book some more.  Work in some of the more major changes she suggested and just generally go over it again. 

I spent my weekend writing time and yesterday's time doing this.  And I'm on page 39.  With two days left before the deadline I set to send this back to her for final edits.

I will have this to her on Wednesday.  If I have to sit at this computer and pour over the manuscript until my eyes go wonky.  If I have to eschew reading and television and life.  If I end up with brain mush afterwards.

I can't skip everything.  Today's my shot day.  I need the shot, so I'll be taking some time off for that trip into town. 

And I will continue to exercise, because when I don't exercise I feel like a toad.

And I will do any work the pay-job sends over.  Because PAY. 

I may be up late tonight and tomorrow night doing this, but it's kind of par for the course if I want you to be able to read the best book I can create for you.  Break out the coffee, baby.