I slept hard last night, and kept hitting the snooze (especially after realising that the reason I had the alarm set as early as I did was because I was going to try and go to B&N _before_ my chiro appt and work, but that wasn’t going to happen if I didn’t have Word accessible), and didn’t want to get up.

I did, however, get about 150 words done in bed last night, on a strange experimental piece for a contest about “sex and chocolate”, using AppleWorks. I discovered I soundly hate AppleWorks. See, I’ve trained myself to hit “save” about every 2 seconds. Anytime I pause. Sometimes more than once, if it’s a long pause. It’s completely automatic. Well, AppleWorks asks if you really want to save, and then asks if you want to write over the file that already has that name. Stupid!

I had an e-mail from Ken this morning that may have solved the problem, though. If I’m not connected to the network, Word should work fine. The problem is when there are two Words open with the same serial number, apparently. I still think that’s stupid. But at least now I know I can work around it, and that I have Word on the laptop.

I’ve done nothing writing-wise yet today. I ran a bunch of errands—chiro, financial guy, car dealership, B&N, and grocery—then came home and shoved pills down various cats’ throats, paid bills, copy edited, and fed myself (twice, actually). Now it’s 5:30 and I’m feeling overwhelmed again. I think I’m still overtired. Too much to do…

Barnes & Noble disappointed me, I’m afraid. Of the 7 books I was looking for, I walked away with 2, plus 1 order (somehow cheaper than if they’d had it in stock? I wasn’t clear. But it will be delivered to the house, which is handy.). I got the latest Kristine Grayson (Kris Rusch’s romance pseudonym) and a requested gift for my mom, and ordered the latest Kris Nelscott (Kris Rusch’s mystery pseudonym). Of the other things I was looking for, one isn’t out in paperback (which I didn’t realise). One, by an OCW friend, is backordered (but they never had any in stock, apparently. My friend says there’s definitely a problem at B&N and her editor is looking into it).

I’m feeling better overall. A hot cup of mint tea and a hot shower (not at the same time, of course) can do wonders. And the fact that I answered a bunch of e-mail and cleaned a bathroom floor also helped.

Meanwhile…it’s raining now. Apparently it’s going to be a long, heavy rain. It’s possible that nobody will come to sewing (one person has cancelled). If they do, I’m going to suggest handsewing in the nice dry living room, with Eddie Izzard or something on DVD…

Well, three folks showed up for sewing. We all stayed inside and consulted/planned, and drank Black Mtn Liqueur. Not a bad evening overall! Cat’s up in Vta tonight so I’m on my own. It rained quite hard for awhile, but now seems to have stopped (at least to the point where I can’t hear it). Oh, and one couple came for sewing but didn’t see the sign…so all they did is leave herbs on my front porch! What sweeties!

I wish it had rained during the day, after I’d come back from errands. I miss rain sometimes, and grey days. Yes, weeks of grey is painful, but sometimes I want a grey, misty day, with rain pattering down. For comfort. For inspiration.

Well. I had planned to do an Imbolc/Candlemas ceremony tonight, but time got away from me and now I’m very sleepy. Tomorrow. Early tomorrow, in fact. A good way to start the day. I’ll think about it as I drift off to sleep tonight.

I’ll see you on the morrow…