Happy Mondays: Movin' On Up
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lizzie_and_ariHey kids!
1. Boiler broke. We were *&*^*%&*%*ing cold. I managed to fix it temporarily about a minute before Ari's head exploded for want of a hot shower. Someone then came to fix it, but didn't have the parts, so stuck it together with putty and masking tape. It has now been fixed with real parts. Apparently.
2. Am nearly 20,000 words into Nanowrimo. Behind, but not too badly so - I plan to write another thousand words by the end of today and be a wee bit more on track. They have a good statistics bit which tells you how many words you need to write a day to finish on time (2036) and a 'at this rate you'll finish on...' section, which I managed yesterday to bring down from Dec 14 to Dec 09. For perspective, I put in John's current word count, and it told me that at the current rate he'd finish on June 9th 2011.
3. However, John has officially given up, largely on account of that he is going to Thailand on Thursday! It is going to be very weird without him around.
4. As a separate point so as not to detract from the John News, we will now need to be renting out the room to someone else. We'll be putting the ad back up on Gumtree, but personal recommendations would be better, so if anyone knows of someone needing short term accommodation, we're charging £50 a week. Ta.
5. Had an awesome day on Thursday where everything went right:
6. Have more work coming in in the New Year:
8. Ordered some business cards, from Moo. Thanks for all who gave feedback on the designs. I've ordered a short run so I'll see if they work. I've also been working on my website - look and feel mostly, I need to have another look at some of the copy. I've designed a bit of Ari's site too. I'm using Wordpress but customising the CSS really quite a lot. It's fun.
9. Generally speaking having a very productive time. I have so many projects on the go that I basically do have work to do full time. So we've been getting up in the morning, properly working all day, taking a break at lunch and stopping for dinner. Weekends have been for weekendiness. We've got a good joint work ethic going on and Ari has written the first chapter of her novel. It's all looking pretty good. Money sources are still somewhat scarcer than we'd like but things really are looking up.
10. The only downside of this, combined with the weather, is that we have been prone to staying in all day and lacking fresh air and exercise. (Ari less so, on account of touring) On Tuesday night we were both so cabin fever-y that we decided to go out for a walk. Ari being in charge of the route, we rambled all around Regent Terrace and up Calton Hill. We were out for about an hour and got back just before midnight. It was joyous.
Happy week!
Lizzie xxx
1. Boiler broke. We were *&*^*%&*%*ing cold. I managed to fix it temporarily about a minute before Ari's head exploded for want of a hot shower. Someone then came to fix it, but didn't have the parts, so stuck it together with putty and masking tape. It has now been fixed with real parts. Apparently.
2. Am nearly 20,000 words into Nanowrimo. Behind, but not too badly so - I plan to write another thousand words by the end of today and be a wee bit more on track. They have a good statistics bit which tells you how many words you need to write a day to finish on time (2036) and a 'at this rate you'll finish on...' section, which I managed yesterday to bring down from Dec 14 to Dec 09. For perspective, I put in John's current word count, and it told me that at the current rate he'd finish on June 9th 2011.
3. However, John has officially given up, largely on account of that he is going to Thailand on Thursday! It is going to be very weird without him around.
4. As a separate point so as not to detract from the John News, we will now need to be renting out the room to someone else. We'll be putting the ad back up on Gumtree, but personal recommendations would be better, so if anyone knows of someone needing short term accommodation, we're charging £50 a week. Ta.
5. Had an awesome day on Thursday where everything went right:
- I won £12 on the lottery
- I finished my tax return for 09/10 and I'm getting a substantial wee whack back. This should help see us through into the new year.
- I finished an interview for The Skinny, which is my first proper full length interview.
- I found £3.26 in change.
- Ari's exciting news: She and Siân have been selected for a ghost writing project that someone approached her tutors about. A 93-year old man wants to write up his life story. He's spent a lot of time in Bhutan and altogether seems to have had a fascinating life. They're getting scones at the Balmoral and getting paid a nice fee. Hurrah!
- To be clear - The Balmoral Hotel, not Balmoral.
6. Have more work coming in in the New Year:
- I'm going back to do a few days for Hearts & Minds, who are made of lovely.
- I'm going to be running a day course in proofreading for Leith Academy! It will be in February so I have time to prepare, currently feeling nervous and excited about that. I'll be officially on the Edinburgh Council payroll and so if it goes well there may be more similar stuff. Eek!
8. Ordered some business cards, from Moo. Thanks for all who gave feedback on the designs. I've ordered a short run so I'll see if they work. I've also been working on my website - look and feel mostly, I need to have another look at some of the copy. I've designed a bit of Ari's site too. I'm using Wordpress but customising the CSS really quite a lot. It's fun.
9. Generally speaking having a very productive time. I have so many projects on the go that I basically do have work to do full time. So we've been getting up in the morning, properly working all day, taking a break at lunch and stopping for dinner. Weekends have been for weekendiness. We've got a good joint work ethic going on and Ari has written the first chapter of her novel. It's all looking pretty good. Money sources are still somewhat scarcer than we'd like but things really are looking up.
10. The only downside of this, combined with the weather, is that we have been prone to staying in all day and lacking fresh air and exercise. (Ari less so, on account of touring) On Tuesday night we were both so cabin fever-y that we decided to go out for a walk. Ari being in charge of the route, we rambled all around Regent Terrace and up Calton Hill. We were out for about an hour and got back just before midnight. It was joyous.
Happy week!
Lizzie xxx
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