Today I did the taxes. Well, I gathered up a bunch of numbers, lined them up, and even put some of them on an Excel sheet. This was not the way I wanted to spend my day but it's almost the middle of February and the job has to get done. I'll deliver the pile to my tax person one day next week. I'll give her a call tomorrow.
This morning I finally managed to open the frozen shut patio door so I could top up the birdbath. Almost as soon as I got back inside I noticed that the water was starting to freeze. If you look closely at the part next to the snow you can see the crackly surface of the freezing water. Brr.
It started snowing around 10am and hasn't stopped yet. It's that tiny flakes kind of snow that's pretty treacherous to drive on. Of course, I met friends for lunch so I had to be out driving in it and as I left the restaurant I heard a lot of sirens and soon discovered an accident. There were police cars, a rescue squad, and a tow truck. As I passed they were helping an elderly lady onto a gurney. She looked pretty shaken up but was able to walk so that was good. I had planned to stop at the grocery on my way home for bananas but it was too slippery so I just motored on home driving like a little old lady. I'll get bananas tomorrow. After the snowplows have done their job.
I did manage to sit down and draw today's gratitude journal page on THE day. I started to draw a sun but then realized that the day had been uniformly cloudy so there's a circle in my clouds. Just pretend it isn't there, okay?
After supper I finished the Two Alpacas Hat. I thought I'd run out of yarn so I didn't add any length to the body but I could have because there's a little yarn left. Dang it. Now I'm out of knitting again. I'll have to dig out some yarn again, wind it up into cakes/balls, and cast on another hat. I'm in a hat mood, I guess. I found a pattern in my library that calls for the weight of yarn I want to use. I've got some llama in a nice khaki color or maybe navy blue. I'll decide which one tomorrow when I've got them in my hands.
I spent a little time reading a manuscript. Not the third Seaview Series one but the one I think I want to work on next. It's calling to me and I can barely resist. Instead of reading the Seaview one I did the taxes and tried to figure out how to work an Excel sheet. I did figure out how to make the program add a column of figures so I didn't have to do it by hand. That felt pretty good. I can do a few things on Excel and am determined to learn more. Of course once I learn something I don't need it for a long time and then I forget. Sometimes it's a real pain being me.
I realized this afternoon that I need to start working on the blurb for the third Seaview Series book. I haven't given it a thought and it's a big, hard job so I'd better get my mind working on it. I got the second version of the cover back today and it's much closer to what I envisioned. I asked for a small change and hopefully it'll come back just right.
And DD got to go home from the hospital today. Hooray!
--Barbara
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