Oy

Oy. Yes, it's been a while since I've been here, blogging. Not sure why, though some of it has been because I've been working myself hard, trying to make up for the fact that, last year, it seems my little business grossed more money than I've ever earned in my life before--except nearly half of it went to subcontractors and, in fact, I personally earned less than I did during the next-highest grossing year since I've been in business. Something is wrong with this picture.

Anyway, tonight, I'm procrastinating, big time. And it's insane, I have plenty of work to do, I want to get it all done, there's nothing wrong with me except I can't seem to get my head into work mode. Maybe it's because of the aforementioned "working myself hard"? I dunno. I just know that I'm trying not to kick myself, but I really can't stand it when I get like this. I want to be more active, doing things to get them done and out of the way so I can do the next thing that needs doing. Or, ya never know, at some point there'll be time for some leisure.

Actually, I shouldn't complain about that. I took last Friday off. I even went so far as to use my vacation message for my main email account. A first! I met an old friend for lunch, which was fun. Then I went to the first appointment with a new PCP. Now, doctor-shopping, which is what this was, is one of my least favorite things to do, but as these things go, this was pretty painless. I even like his scale, it seemed to think that I had lost 4 pounds or so, which is patently ridiculous. My clothes tell quite a different story.

Speaking of stories. No, I haven't gotten any more writing done. But I did start a new project and I'm having a lot of fun with it. I'm creating a double acrostic. I'm using a friend's book and I've picked a quote and I'm trying to make it work. And it isn't, so I'll probably have to find a different quote, but I was planning on doing that, anyway. But not until I've spent a lot more time with this one, seeing what's possible. I'm learning from the process, anyway. I would love to find some software that would let me do this on the computer, though. Maybe I could create something with a table in Word, which I'm sure would be onerous to do, but if I could get it done once, then I'd have the template and that would be worth the trouble. But first I'm going to look around the Web, see what's out there.

This is something that I've been thinking about for a while and, somehow, I just finally got started with it. I hope I finish it and I hope I sell it to Will Shortz.