Things I don’t want to do today, but have to:

1. Grocery shop, because there’s an ice storm coming in today that’s supposed to last all weekend, and I don’t want to be without food. Blech.

2. Take a shower, like right now, because I can’t go to the grocery store looking like this. Blech.

Things I don’t have time to do, but I really want to:

Write the proposal for the next demon hunters book. I’m knee deep into and running behind on Born To Be Wild, but I laid awake last night thinking about the demon hunters book proposal. I think I might have to start multitasking. :hide:

*yawn*

The holidays are officially over. My book has been released. No more excuses. It’s time to get back to work.

I have two books due in a relatively short period of time. I can feel the deadlines breathing down my neck.

Last night I stayed up late until I finished a chapter. I figure if I can do a chapter a day on the Berkley book, I can finish that one up in about 15 days. Of course I have to factor in days I can’t write, like days I have to go into the office and weekends and such. The Samhain book I’ll slip in when I can, since it’s a novella and a lot shorter. (Can you feel the sense of hyperventilation here? :chair:)

Also did my year end income and expense worksheet over the weekend because I pay estimated taxes each quarter. Always a depressing moment. And the IRS eats my lunch every year. Damn them. They are evil and must be destroyed.

So. It’s back to the weekly To Do list:

1. Write at least 5 chapters of Born To Be Wild.
2. Start novella.
3. Do 4th quarter taxes. :hide:
4. Figure out 2007 Goals plan (No, I haven’t done this yet. It’s still early, right?)
5. Continue to promote Surviving Demon Island (Have y’all bought it yet? – See, that’s promotion! :cheer:)
6. Think about bookmarks and other promo for Wild Wicked and Wanton

Eeek! Okay that’s enough of a list.

What’s on your To Do List this week?

Chey tagged me with a mememe that isn’t easy (I hate when I have to think….)

So here goes

Five Crazy Things About Me:

1. My house is a cluttered mess. I am not a neat freak. Yet I can’t stand having dishes in my sink. Drives me nuts!

2. I have a complete and utter aversion to pantyhose and will never, EVER wear them again. No doubt due to spending countless years in the corporate world, which I do not miss and won’t go back to. No pantyhose. I’ll tan my legs and will go pantyhose-less with a suit (I don’t really ever want to wear a suit again, either, but I will if I have to), but you aren’t getting me in pantyhose ever. Never never never!

3. Biker dude says I fuss way too much about my hair. Like all the time. I worry that it looks like crap, and he says it looks ‘fine’. (Of course, ‘fine’ to a guy could run the gamut from ‘Looks awesome babe’ to ‘Your hair looks like shit, woman’…so maybe he just needs to learn better adjectives and then I wouldn’t fuss over my hair so much :neener: )

4. Chey used this one and I will too. I can’t multitask my writing. One thing at a time or my brain implodes. Really inconvenient too, because I’m multi-contracted and sometimes deadlines overlap. :dammit: Which means I might need to be writing one book, revising another and working on copyedits for another. And I can’t do them simultaneously. 😥

5. I am completely paranoid and an utter basketcase about my writing. Just ask anyone who’s had writing conversations with me. They’ll confirm this. (For confirmation, see Angie, Mel, Shan, Mandy, Lara, Larissa, Steph, Jackie, Colleen….oh wait…this list is getting too long. Just how many people have I told about my writing neuroses anyway? :chair:)

I’m tagging Angie (who won’t do it, I’ll bet, but I keep tagging her anyway :neener:), Mel, Shan, Mandy, Lara, Steph, Larissa, Jackie and Colleen.