A Catch Up Day…
Woke up to find the house surrounded in fog. At first I didn’t notice because the rain was pattering on the sky light and it was rather dark. Once I got up and looked out there was fog, the thin grey blanket type over, around, and cloaking everything. It made for the kind of grey, lazy day where you just spend your time catching up on all the little chores you’ve been meaning to do.
Picked up the kitchen and cleaned the counters and stove top. Then started on the big job. Taking down the Christmas tree. Wish we could leave it alone since my back has been quirky for days now. But, it’s not the decorating statement I want to make. The hold up was having to replace the ornament boxes which we’ve had for years and were more tape than box now. So, lots of shopping and checking in stores as we did errands over the last couple of weeks and found a couple of reasonable substitutes. It seems that ornament boxes have become tiny little things that won’t hold ornaments — go figure. So, today we took all the ornaments off the tree and got them packed up. We started going branch by branch to pull the branches towards the center: you know when you separate and fluff them when you put the tree up that you just have to squeeze them all down again. Got about 1/6th of it done. Hopefully, tomorrow we’ll finish that bit of it and get the tree apart, wrapped, and stored. Then it’s clean the living room and rearrange the furniture and the plants.
Meanwhile, I’m almost done with a sock … maybe another 1/2 inch and bind off. Then start the second one. I joined the Rocking Sock Club and I’m really looking forward to the first package. I’ve never joined a sock club before but heard a lot about this one. I just never remembered about it during the signup period.
I’ve found the black yarn for the bear’s face so hope to get that done tomorrow or at the very least over the next week. I’ve been finishing things lately and that’s a good thing. Got the cowl done. Just need to sew in the ends and block. Should have pictures up for that soon.
Meanwhile, I’ve been reading in all the in between times to get my commitments for reviews done this month. Trying to catch up and arrange some interviews before it gets too late, too.
Gumshoe Review published it’s first original short story this month. We’ve already chosen the story for February. We hope to have a new story featured each month. This is a new venture for us and we’re still working out how to streamline the system: reading the submissions, ranking them, going over our favorites, notifying the authors whether we’re interested or not. We’re getting better but still need to get a system that’s easy for us to deal with and make swift decisions for the sake of the authors.
Nevertheless, I still feel even though I got a lot done today that I’m still running in place rather than moving forward.