The Flu

I missed blogging yesterday. I missed spending the morning with my grandson. I missed a lot of things yesterday. Why? Because I spent most of the previous night dozing on the bathroom floor, too sick to crawl to bed and most of yesterday sleeping in that bed. Today, I have rejoined the land of the living - but not sure I want to think about food yet.

What amazes me is that for someone who's life is uncluttered by a regular outside the house job, how much I have to catch up on. There are several hundred e-mails to go through, things to get ready for my chat today (and the ones tomorrow and Sunday), a couple of files to upload, edit and get sent - all the stuff I was going to do yesterday - and now have to do today which crowds out what I needed to do today.

And all I really want to do is crawl back into that bed and pull the covers up and let the world go by for another day - or so.

But that's not how life operates. I have responsibilities and I will meet them. Everything will get done with my usual efficiency.

*Then* I will crawl back into bed and pull the covers up and let the world go by. :)

Birthdays: Paul Heyse, Lawrence Sanders

Tips and Teasers: Stop pressuring yourself. Very few writers can write brilliantly from page one. Go ahead and write “junk”. You can come back and edit later.

Thought for the day: "Leave out the parts readers skip." – Elmore Leonard.