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I am writing this in a windows document so Jonathon can transfer it, because my long blog was eaten, except for the title. God, I hate technology when it doesn’t work. You’ll get a shorter less breezy blog because I’m frustrated now, but here goes.
I walked into the office and had a tremendous feeling of dejavu. Hadn’t I just done this? Well, yes, as a matter of fact, I had. I owend myself a page of my five count after dinner last night. So up I went, though frankly I was tired and discouraged. All day and not even the five page minimum. At 10:30 that night I was finished. No, it did not take me four hours to do a page, thank Goddess. It took me four hours to do twenty pages. Yea!
But as often happens when I’ve had a late and productive night when I hit the office first thing in the morning it feels like I just finished and now its all to do again. But that’s okay, because I’m making progress. I’m finally back to the main outline. Though some of the stuff that I did last night were things set up in book one of Merry, A KISS OF SHADOWS. So cool to finally be getting to it. Also, one reason I’m not discouraged is that I only have to do five pages today. That’s it, just five. I can do that. If this were an Anita book I might have hit a stride of twenty pages a day for a week, or two, or for the rest of the book, but that’s Anita. It’s like having two very different children, the method that works with one, doesn’t work at all with the other.
By the way, we solved the mystery of why three different heat sources couldn’t keep the poor crabs warm. Someone had opened the window directly behind the tank. Just a crack so it wasn’t visible at a glance, but when we had a few days in a row of forty degree nights, the crack was enough. The window is hard to shut and latch, but . . . well, anyway the mystery is solved. Poor crabs. We set Trinity up a five gallon aquarium, and let it set empty until it had a couple of days of seeing what the temperature range on it was, I mean it was probably the window being open, but just in case, we wanted to be sure. The temperature remained a degree or two, no greater fluxation. So last night we bought guppies, all boys. Pretty colors and tails, and we won’ be overrun with baby fish. The tank is lovely, and if you would have asked me if the purple and red gravel would have matched the pink wavy plant, or the green-tailed mermaid, or the green and gold pagada, I’d have said, no. But it’s beautiful, and all the colors work well together like a bank of wild flowers in the summer sun. Colors that only nature would think could match but work beautifully. I’m glad I let Trinity pick her stuff out, and didn’t inflict my views on her. Though it took will power on my part to not do it. Now I’ll alert Jonathon, and he’ll post this, hopefully anyway. Either way I know it’s saved, and we can try again later.