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Today feels like Saturday, but not in a good way. Jon has the flu, as in the real flu not the stomach viruses that we all normally call the flu. Flu is a cough, fever, body aches, tiredness, and some other symptoms, but nothing like a stomach virus. Learn something new everyday; though we actually learned this yesterday.
It’s sleeting here and we’re supposed to get anywhere from seven to ten inches of snow and sleet today, so the schools are closed. Trinity is still asnooze in her bed upstairs. Jon is, too, because sleep is one of the things you can do to get better faster from this thing.
Darla is staying home today, part weather, and part that she’s been tapped for reading the page proofs of BLOOD NOIR. Jon and I did the last go around. Darla and I did the one before that. I’ve given her a list of things to mark so I can go back over them mostly research stuff to make sure I put it all in, and got it right. Page proofs are do this week in New York.
Weather is keeping everyone else home, too. Some have kids that are suddenly off school, and for the rest I’m just saying, stay home. It’s not worth it in this weather. Of course, the roads aren’t that bad right this second but it’s been sleeting off and on, and now the snow is starting to really come down. The wind has picked up and is driving it sideways, and all I can think is that the snow is drifting to the ground like a car drifting sideways. (Maybe cars really will become a hobby for me; I’m certainly thinking about them enough.)
I’m drinking the first cup of tea of the day. The dogs are huddled around my feet wondering why I haven’t fed them yet. It’s a week day and they know the routine. By seven they are usually fed, but like I said, it’s sort of the weekend schedule. So the puppies can wait until I’ve had a cuppa.
I’m having trouble letting go of my schedule as it falls to ruins around me, one of the downsides of being morbidly organized about work is that when the organization doesn’t go as planned it really bugs me. But I’ve still got Merry pages to do; I’m over two hundred pages in now. Yea!
I’m going to finish my tea and watch the snow come down. I’m about fifteen to twenty minutes away from supposedly being at my desk, but there’s no school today, and my hubby is sick, and no one else is here to tend the dogs. Soooo . . . I’ll drink my tea, feed the puppies, leave a note for the kiddo telling her to get cereal, and hopefully get to work by 8:30. It’s a goal.