Wednesday, September 02, 2009

So I go to the dentist and come home with new shoes

I didn't get the shoes at the dentist. I got the shoes from the shoe store near the dentist's, which is also close to other stores, like the one where I bought a purse the last time I went to the dentist. I'm thinking there's something about having my teeth cleaned (which isn't always the most comfortable thing in the world) and a need for a reward....

In other news, I'm being followed on Twitter by Hoarders on A&E. I can't tell you how this tickles my funny bone. But seriously, that show? Has me so inspired to clean and get rid of stuff, I can't tell you.

I'm also taking an online course on branding this month. When I have a book due. There's going to be homework. However, since it's a free course, I suppose I can put off the homework until maybe...December...if need be.

Because I recently realized that it's possible that I may be able to do NaNoWriMo this year, if I get my book in before we leave the country for a couple of weeks in October (Italy, here I come!) and if my editor has time to read it before I get back, and if it doesn't require toooo much in the way of revisions. That's a lot of "ifs", but what the heck. I can hope, because it would be great to get that first draft of the next book done, or even almost done, before the Christmas hoopla gets underway.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hmmmm. Go to the dentist, go shopping? I'm too hung over from all the Valium they have to give me. After too many years of being dentist-phobic, I am undergoing extensive dental work. I finally have a dentist I pretty much trust, and we are doing the work a little bit at a time. Even with insurance, we are having to pay almost $3,000. Crazy, isn't it?
Rosemary

Maureen McGowan said...

You know this post's title would get my attention. :-) I come home with new shoes after way too many outings.

I'm wondering about Nano myself this year... but alas, i don't think it's in the cards. I'm about 80 pages into something new that's unlikely to be done by then. I know. I'll make November my rapid revisions month instead. Then I can make Oct 31 my firm, must be finished first draft date. :-)

Margaret Moore said...

Deadlines, including self-imposed ones, and rewards, even self-generated, are good. :-)

I hear ya on the dentist, Rosemary. It probably helps that I've had the same dentist since I was 13.