What’s on the iPod: Restless by Chris Bathgate
I hope your weekend was wonderful – mine was despite lots of rain. I drove back home and spent time with the parents, the sister and her family, and some special visitors. My dad’s brother, his wife, and stepdaughter were back from San Diego. It was the first time in 15 years I’d seen him, and it was as though he was sitting there just waiting for us to join the conversation. It’s an easy, great time with Uncle Ray. He’s making some serious noise about moving back home. Amen. We’ve been waiting.
We had enough sun for me to get a sunburn, which I never expected. My oldest niece was dragged against her will to see her mother’s, father’s and my daughter’s alma mater – IUP. That meant her siblings wanted to go, and since I had a convertible and the sun was out at the time, I was tapped to take them. Hence the sunburn.
Sunday morning I was awakened by a turkey calling outside. I couldn’t see him, but the nephew saw a flock in the neighbor’s yard. Not uncommon to see them in my parents’ yard walking past the kitchen windows.
A wet drive home, but halfway there the rain stopped and I was able to ride the rest of the way with the roof down. There were some sprinkles around Harrisburg, but nothing serious. I came home and left almost as quickly to go listen to the Irish sessions at Molly Maguires.
Today starts the sprint. I have a ton of work to get done before Friday. A few more of my LOIs hit pay dirt, and one prompted a phone call today to get a release out by Friday, I’m guessing. Another is for a face-to-face at the conference. So I’ll be preparing one more portfolio for the show. So far, this has been a fantastic marketing endeavor.
Today I’ll be working on a Web project I was handed last week, and I’ll be calling that new client. Plus I have to tweak my brochures. I may open the wallet and let Staples or Kinkos print them. I’ve no time. Plus there are portfolios to compile, which means I have to make a trip to Staples for the booklets I use for these handouts. Then the wardrobe for the conference and the trip. I’m okay with the clothes, but ironically I don’t have “work” shoes that will be comfortable enough all day. Either I have to buy pants that work with flats or comfort shoes. I’m probably headed for the Aerosoles store.
That’s my Monday. How was your weekend? What does your week ahead look like?
5 responses to “Sprinting”
Still haven't been paid for the last workshop. Not acceptable.
New workshop (with a different and reliable organization) starts today, so that's all good.
Struggling with the book due in June. Must work through this difficult patch and then hope it's smoother sailing.
My weekend was great. Check out the fully-functional keyboard I now have! (Still fighting the impulse to use the right shift key after three weeks of having to do that.)
I had a couple small things to wrap upon Friday, but managed to do a bit of laundry. Saturday I did some light cleaning and had a blast baking and decorating super cute egg-shaped cookies. My sister and brother-in-law were hosting, but I said I'd make cookie place cards. So much more fun that dyeing eggs, but the result was fun. Without knowing, I used some of the same colors as the Easter napkins and plates. It looked planned.
Easter itself was great, with the sister & b-i-l, my brother & s-i-l, niece, nephew, and my cousin's entire family. The funny thing: I had about 8" of hair lopped off, in a slightly different style (lots of layers and shorter in back, longer in front) last week and the s-i-l and b-i-l were the only ones who mentioned it. I guess the bio-fam is just used to me going from long-to-mid-length hair over and over again.
Workwise I have one article to set up interviews for, a few more LOIs to send out and, like Devon, I have an overdue payment to chase.
I didn't know you went to IUP. The b/f also went there, as did a cousin for a little while (who happens to also be from Pville). Small world. 🙂
I really enjoyed our weekend rain… not nearly as much as they were calling for though.
Things here are pretty good. Still cleaning up some blog mess from the near loss after the database failure (mostly trying to restore some of the old comments that got zapped between backups). Then blogging, manuscript editing for the QFF book, and some site dev work this week.
OK. I can't read this morning. Your daughter went to IUP, not you. lol Still a small world.
Actually Jenn, I did go there. I didn't finish there, but I took a few semesters there. Small world yet again. 🙂 That blog disaster was awful. I'm glad things are returning to normal.
Devon, that IS unacceptable. A big outfit like that not paying on time? Ridiculous.
Paula has a keyboard! Yay! Paula, don't feel bad – my daughter has been typing on a laptop that, for three years now, has been missing the M, N, and comma keys. She dropped a tv on it. Don't ask. I'm not sure I want to know, either.