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Felicity Pulman, Heart Attack, I Morgana, Janna Mysteries, NaNoWriMo, painting, Reading, recovery, Shalot, stress, writing
Here we are reader, almost half way through January 2015 and I have to say my life has been hectic since I finished NaNoWriMo in November. Most of December was taken up with preparing for an audit for our business. With new laws and expectations, I ended up needing to rewrite our entire business policies and procedures as well as implementing a lot of new strategies. The audit was the week before Christmas and we passed with flying colours. So then it was time to get ready for Christmas. Shopping, cooking, present wrapping and cleaning.
We made it through the week between Christmas and New year with little to do and prepared to enjoy the break. I started back into my daily work schedule, decided to paint the interior of our house, started painting, it was all looking good.
Before
After
And then the MOTT had a heart attack.
After the angiogram
As you can imagine, this has taken it’s toll on Miss Muse, she took off and hid in the archive box and wouldn’t come out. So I spent a good majority of the last 2 weeks at hospitals, doctors offices and trying not to freak out. MOTT is fine, out of hospital and preparing to annoy me for the next 8 weeks until he is cleared to resume driving a commercial vehicle.
But, I am taking the opportunity to write while he is running the phones and chasing loads. I need to write a minimum of 30K in the remainder of January, so I can get my ms to Felicity Pulman for her perusal. After being fortunate enough to win a mentorship with the awesome author of “A Ring Through Time”, “The Shalott” Trilogy not to mention the “Janna Mysteries” and her latest release “I, Morgana”, I certainly did not want to blow the opportunity. So from now on reader, I will be writing like a wild thing.
If all goes well, I’ll share a snippet with you soon. So enough about me, what have you been up to? Have you ever read any of Felicity’s books? What did you think? I loved the “Shalott” series, and have “I, Morgana” on the top of the pile beside my bed.
paulabeavan 
So glad to know that the MOTT is doing well and it was a relatively mild heart attack. I’m sure you have tons of instructions on diet and exercise and no stress (while manning the phones and chasing loads across the country!).
Best luck with the writing. I’m really glad you get some consolidated writing time. Take you computer out to the trailer and write. It’s quiet out there and the bed is comfy. Of course, it is summer there, so it might be extra hot. Well, you can say you sweat for your craft. And I know you will come in on time.
Love the cupboards. The kitchen looks awesome. That’s one of my favourite colour combinations. You did good and the bench looks lovely. I was lucky to get a largish kitchen with lots of cupboards and tons of bench space. I use one whole side for baking and the other side for food prep. Nice. Unfortunately we are renting, so can’t paint the cabinets. Still, I can go look at yours and dream.
Hi, and thanks. How’s your writing going? And yes I love the colours too. We went to the beach on New Years Day and I wanted to move to the beach, we can’t, so I decided to make our country cottage into a beach shack! 🙂
Well, it looks wonderful. It is always nice to update your colours. It makes things look so fresh. I’ve done that a couple of times. I bet you feel like you have a whole new kitchen.
The writing is going slowly, a few pages at a time, but at least it is going forward. I’m about halfway done. Now I just need my detectives to catch up with the murderer before anyone else dies. They would like that, too.
Give Dave a hug for me. How is he doing? Hope he doesn’t get completely bored and restless. But it must be nice to have him home for an extended period of time since he is gone so much. If he lets you write, you’ll be golden.