It’s happened again. I’ve come back to the work week happy for the break in activity. The stepdaughter came for a three-day visit, so we were happily preoccupied from Friday through yesterday. We had time to work in the garden, though. It was wet at times and warm – high 70s – but the humidity level made even that unbearable. I took to the garden in spurts.
Tired. Busy weekends are exhausting in a good way. But it was one of those stress-free, lovely weekends coupled with a visit with a wonderful young lady. Rare we have no stress around us, and her visit was just icing.
I redid my website, but realized too late that I’d forgotten the post-Paypal page reroute for the ebook. If you happen to buy an ebook, just drop me a note here or an email and I’ll send you your copy personally.
The website is good, if I do say so myself. I found a terrific template and I spent the money to make it mine. I showed it to the critic whose opinion made me do it (coach extraordinaire Lisa Gates), and she was floored. I changed hardly a word of my copy from the old site – just the design. Amazing how great design can change your entire message.
Today I’m putting a bit of time and effort into a blog client’s posts, then I’m focusing on the Webinar work (see the announcement coming today and please, join us!). I’m also going to get the website pages squared away.
How was your weekend? What’s on your to-do list this week?
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I have two articles to write, a bunch of PR for the Mermaid Ball, starting to teach a 2 week writing intensive, prepping for company that will be here for 10 days, the assignment for Confidential Job #1, a new regular blog gig, and working on the next Annabel book. That's just today. 😉
With the Belmont Stakes AND the Tony Awards AND the Stanley Cup these last few days, it's been insane.
It has been some great tv this week, hasn't it? 🙂
Weekend was great-got in an 8-mile walk on Saturday and another on Sunday for my training.
Don't know if you remember (although I know my activities are the center of your universe) 🙂 but last month was the ton of projects in the queue, but on hold for various reasons.
Well, the floodgates have opened – 2 case studies, a marketing brochure, a newsletter sales letter, a blog post/week for a client, a ghostwritten article, a 2,000 word resource document and I just received 4 new projects for the rest of the year from my favorite client.
The VP of that favorite client is leaving, but promised to connect with me in her new job. Woo-hoo. Life is good. 🙂
Wow! Cathy, that's fantastic! Yes, I remember. :))
On the Tony's when Sutton Foster was thanking (and gushing over) her dresser, I thought, "Wow – I wonder if anyone Devon dressed won a Tony and gushed about her?" Next thought: Yeah. Probably.
This was the first temperate, dry weekend we've had in months when I didn't have a stack of work to catch up with. So I intended to trim the 150 miles (oh, right…linear feet, it only feels like miles) of privet hedge in the back yard. I usually do that around Memorial Day and again around Labor Day. But I bought flowers for the pair of fancy strawberry jars my brother & s-i-l gave me for my birthday. Magenta geraniums on top, pink & cream moss roses on the upper pockets, and flowering vincas (dubbed "lipstick vincas" – they are various shades of white, pink, magenta…)on the lower pockets. Then I started thinking the vincas might overgrow their spaces….
I also planted a small larkspur I bought at a friend's friend's plant sale, but there was no root system, so who knows if it will take. Pulled more of the invasive woodvine that keeps crawling over and through the fence of the foreclosed house next door. (That side of my property only has 2-3" of "yard" between the house and the retaining wall that goes down to the neighboring yard, so I'm always fighting those darn vines.) Potted up a couple more 75-cent geraniums, dragged my giant hibiscus out from the house, swept the porch, planted a few more seeds, pulled weeds, hand pruned a few smaller shrubs and picked some broken branches from the yard. The hedges will have to wait. (I didn't have yard bags, anyway.)
Wrote a column. Did laundry. Need to do a deep cleaning, but there's only so much one person can do in one weekend.
The highlight of the weekend? The Tony Awards!
The weekend was great. Productive and fun, and I even got in a little volunteer work. We also went to the Apple store to see if we can be persuaded away from our PC tendencies. That conversation last week made me want to go find out more about each one so we can make the right choice for our next computer.
My to-do list this week is mostly buckling down with my third-to-last class. I also have a networking event tomorrow and, oh yea, I'm shooting a movie on Wednesday. I'm IN the movie! Maybe Devon can give me some pointers on what to wear 😉 It's a film my friend is producing. He's been making films for years, and he wants to send this one to SXSW. I'm not holding my breath, though. I've never acted before, so this should be interesting. My husband thinks I'm crazy. He's probably right 😉
That computer discussion, last week, got me walking down memory lane. I remembered the first computer I ever got on.
It was the old Compaq "portable" that came out in the early 1980's. It was about the size of our desktops today and ran on DOS. It also had the BIG floppy disks. I didn't actually do any work on it, but I did learn how to use the computer with it.
What memories that brings…