‘Fess Up Friday
For today only (I hope!) a special edition of ‘Fess Up Friday called “What I have been doing instead of writing my novel.” It goes a little something like this:
Doing the real estate thing. We’re looking at houses and this an incredibly time consuming task. You’d think that it might be limited to a couple of hours on the weekend or something, but you would be wrong. There is the general house looking thing that can stretch into three or four hours (ugh), then there is the sorting through emails about properties, then there is the speculating about this neighborhood or that neighborhood, and then there’s all the thinking about houses and comparing houses and the list goes on and on and on.
In short, it has taken over my life.
And I am not terribly happy about it right now.
But enough about that. I have also been cleaning out our house just in case we find our dream home and need to sell this place. I made some mighty fine progress on the hall closet last week. It turns out that we actually have a floor in there. Unfortunately, that is only a small dent in our clutter-filled home, but since we have no dream home on the horizon, I’d say we’re doing okay.
I took the boy cat to the vet this week. I have to brag on him for just a moment. Anyone who knows me or has read this blog has been subjected to the saga that is Mr. B’s health problems. The short version is that he had IBD. The treatment for the IBD gave him diabetes, which we treated with diet and insulin. That eventually gave him hyperglycemia and indicated that he was diabetes-free. But he still had the IBD. For a while there, we were making vet trips pretty much every month.
On the last visit we settled on a food trial plan for Mr. B. The food was expensive, but worth it. Especially since Mr. B has been puke free for about a month now (knock wood). The vet says that this kind of progress may indicate that we can stop the food trial and just keep him on the special diet. I’m very excited about the prospect. I love my vet and the staff, but I’m perfectly happy to not see them monthly. Keep your fingers crossed for continued kitty health.
Anyway, that’s some of what I’ve been doing instead of writing. At least, that’s the more interesting portion of it. Running continues to go well. And I’m slowly but steadily working up to a 9500 Singstar score for “Torn.” Achieving that may be my biggest accomplishment this summer.
Happy weekend!
