Day: April 29, 2008

I used myself up yesterday and I didn’t even realize it. By bedtime I was very grouchy with the kids. Only when Howard came up and spent 15 minutes talking Patches through an upset did I realize that I was so focused on “these kids need to be asleep now” that I wasn’t seeing that they needed some extra time to talk and feel loved. Part of my drive to get them all into bed was because I hadn’t had a quiet minute all day long. I was focused on business things all day long until I got to the evening schedule. That was where I fizzled out.

I need to remember to stop in the afternoon. It feels wrong to pause for a break when there are so many things left to do, but if I don’t then the evening does not go well.

Today- May 3 Teraport Wars layout, open merchandise pre-orders, attend big concert thing for Gleek, clean house so it is baby safe, pick up my sister and her kids from the airport.

May 4- 10 Monitor merchandise pre-order, Teraport Wars layout, Teraport Wars copy editing, spend time with my sister, attend another evening event for Gleek, Howard packs and leaves for Leprecon, close pre-orders, drive to Idaho to visit more relatives.

May 11- 17 begin sorting and prepping for shipping merchandise, attend evening concert for Kiki, final layouts and edits for Teraport Wars, begin layout for Out From Under (the newly renamed next Schlock book), plan and execute a birthday party for Kiki, attend fundraiser dinner for Kiki’s summer girl’s camp.

May 18 – 24 Ship merchandise, layout for Out From Under, prepare for and attend Conduit in Salt Lake City.

May 25 – 31 lots of little end-of-school special events, Something from the weeks prior to this which didn’t actually happened during the intended week.