by Mel | Oct 2, 2007 | Life
Sometimes everything feels like hard work. Revising. The day job. Exercising. Keeping all the balls in the air. Sometimes the only thing to do is keep your head down and keep slogging and try and remember that at some point it will feel easier again. One damn foot in...
by Mel | Sep 29, 2007 | Life
Apparently my machine still works and I can still sew. This is not perfect and the cutting is mostly to blame but hey, I think it would make a nice cushion front or something…..or I could do it again and have a back… The colours are prettier in real...
by Mel | Sep 7, 2007 | Life
I did go back to bed. Ha! But did not really nap long. Boo! However, I have gotten up again, I have cleared the ottoman (becoming astounded at how much stuff can live on an ottoman in the process), I have moved stuff from the ottoman to other spots to be cleared up...
by Mel | Aug 1, 2007 | Friends who rock, Life
I’m working five days this week. Admittedly so I can take an extra day off next week but still, after six months of working four day weeks, it feels like a long way to the weekend. And a busy weekend at that. I think maybe the muse is sulking at the prospect....
by Mel | May 11, 2007 | Life
It’s been a slow writing week. After finishing the scene that would not end last week and getting close to 60k, it seems the brain has decided it needs some ‘okay, what next and how the hell do we wrap up all these threads’ time. I sat down to write...
by Mel | Jan 3, 2007 | Life
I’m back at work. Which involves me having to get up earlier than my lapsed-back-into-natural-nocturnalness holiday self appreciates. And said self really doesn’t appreciate it when I arrive home to find my cat lying on the couch, apparently watching the...
