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So many of you want to be writers, or seem to be interested in what I do on a daily basis that I thought I’d tell you. Really tell you, so here goes.

Alarm 6:00 AM -Ouch, because cough from yesterday has persisted. Chest tight, tired, but too full of nervous energy to sleep or even lie in bed. Must get up. Jon, my husband, is up and dressed first to fix breakfast and help do the first morning call to our daughter, Trinity, to rise and shine. I’m a little slow out of the gate this morning. Trinity passes in hallway and her outfit doesn’t quite work. I suggest a different jacket. We end up with her changing everything but the shirt and the head band both a deep shade of pink, now paired with black jeans, black shrug, and boots. Perky Goths get more color choices to break up our black, but it does take a bold Perky to do pink. *laughs* Trin will also offer me advice on outfits, mostly shoes. She’s liked shoes since she was tiny. We are perilously close to the same size in shoes and the rest will come eventually. I’ve told her my New Rocks are never to be borrowed, but we can negotiate other things. The rule, when it becomes pertinent, is if any of my clothes leave my closet without my permission then all borrowing privileges are revoked. She knows I mean it, because I seldom say anything I don’t mean. It makes things clear.

Finally downstairs, and huddling over fresh tea. I huddle over that every morning. The cold just makes the huddling a little more hunched. Morning Tweeter & Facebook hellos. Check out a limited amount of on-line comics, or funny sites. Limited to get me to desk sooner. This morning Devil’s Panties by Jennie Breeden, and Oglaf. The last is very definitely not safe for work, no really, depending on the rules at your job full frontal nudity of men and women could get you in serious trouble so save Oglaf for at home, unless your office has our rules, which is, frontal nudity not really a problem just don’t share with co-workers who don’t want to see it. Jon had the website Ugliest Tatoos up, and that’s a trainwreck that’s hard to pass up. Morning funnies done, first tweets and messages done on the kitchen computer. Breakfast sausages which we get once a week now that new nutrition plan has realized it does not have enough protein for this little carnivore. In fact I’m allowed toast with organic nut butter, too. Need to look over revised colors of the latest Anita Blake comic. Only question left is Bert’s hair; is it too blond? Everything else all fixed and lovely. Check. Bottle of water, another cup of tea, and my briefcase and it’s off to the office. The commute totally rocks since I just walk through the walkway in our garage to the other side of the house.

Jon walks me over since both our offices are over here. It means we can blast our music without bothering everyone else. Music for me this morning is Shinedown, which we saw last Friday live in concert. Very cool. Cool enough that I bought an album, which for me is pretty cool. Jon puts on hot water for more tea before retiring to his office. A few more tweets and facebook, and now I’m doing this blog. Had to cancel a dentist appointment because of the cough, not a good mix with drilling teeth. *shudder*

Looked over to-do list and had to message Jon to make sure he had taken something off of my list, for sure, since it’s due tomorrow. What? UK page proofs for Bullet since it’s being simultaneously in UK and United States. Now editing two chapters that I took from Bullet, which is the June 2010 Anita Blake novel, to be in this new novel, the 2011 Anita book. Jon messages me back that he forgot to tell me that the page proofs are on his to-do list, but they are, he has contracts for me to sign. I tell him bring them up, he does, and while I have my computer wizard with me I ask him to help me save some images and quotes that I’ve found. All done, he’s taking the contract to our comptroller, and I’m finally alone and theroetically can get to work. What was I doing? Oh, that’s right, editing the two chapters to make sure there are no mentions of Bullet’s plot that doesn’t work with the new book where the chapters are being placed. It’s very rare I have three big chapters that get to change books with so little reworking even in the same series. So, nice when I can add about a hundred pages to a book so instantly.

Still not working on new book. The comic WIPS, work in progress, need to be gone over so the artist, the wonderful Ron Lim, can stay ahead of the deadlines. I have now checked Tweetdeck again, which means I need to change desks. My second computer has no access to the internet so I can’t be tempted. The cold makes me sluggish and less likely to be displined. Gotta do better than this. Evil, tempting, internet.

Have realized this blog is just another way for me to procrastinate today, so enough. I’ve edited the chapters, sent off numerous comic notes, still have the lettering to double check, but now time for lunch. This is just the morning, a not atypical morning actually except for the cold/cough. Now rinse, shampoo, and repeat tomorrow.