last night was the launch event for our theatre company's november show, which i thought would be super fun to join... but it turned out the rehearsal venue is 6+ miles away and i have no car so yeah. also 7-10pm on a thursday? 10pm? heck we only did 9pm for sweeney todd
also makes sense i guess with family coming over in oct, liz coming over in aug, and all the stuff i have to finish writing hahaha so i'll miss a lot of rehearsals too. i also don't like hitching a ride with someone, i feel it's inconvenient + if i want to go home right after but they still wanna socialize, i have no choice lol
okay today has been... i don't even know. the day just went by and i think i was only half-awake for most of it if not cooking and doing chores. hahaha! i'm going to try to do some writing now. tags will most likely resume tomorrow (not that i did much today past some tfln replies)
i... might do this with my hotel fen and monster ridge proofs and maybe do a giveaway after 👀 like for my birthday, when the trilogy is complete. i'll annotate them all hahaha
OH I DIDN’T REALIZE TOU WERE ANNOTATING THR PROOF I SIGNED AND SENT YOU! MWAHAHAHA I MAY HAVE TO BRING MONSTER RDIGR WITH ME SO YOU CAN DO BOOK TWO TOO
okay so remember i said was bummed about not being able to join the november musical? welllll another theatre group just announced their summer show, and our director from sweeney's directing - and he just DM'd me the announcement notice!
he pulled me aside one time during sweeney rehearsals and asked if i'd still be here around 2024 but he can't tell me what the show is yet, and i guess this is it???
i'll still have to audition, and i hope the rehearsal venue's the same one as where we had our rehearsals for sweeney (which is likely, bc that's the said theatre group's homebase) but i'm feeling hopeful about it!
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i might have to ask you to buy the US versions for me and bring them when you come so they match, for some reason book 1 here is US but books 2-5 are UK edition
it's been a busy week, i'm even missing a scheduled post for today (jolene's blog) but instead of panicking and cramming i'm just going to do a recap post and resume next week.
work's starting to ramp up bc of my new role so i have less time to write and do author things in general. (i still refuse to touch family time so lol)
i just finished creating one for the monitoring of my new team's user acceptance testing activities and it's so pretty and saves so much time from having to provide periodic status updates
it's just not real time, or at least this particular dashboard i created, but it's still a lot less effort than creating pivot tables and sending "here's the status as of end of day xx/xx/xxxx" emails. AND SO MUCH PRETTIER.
i'm not complaining, got and now hotd has always been that way so i knew that going in, it's just so clear having switched between the two shows hahaha
i was also telling hubby how merlin managed to tell a good story without hardly being as graphic as got. which is... my point with my writing i guess haha. feelings and emotional impact matter to me more than blood and gore and all that
hilariously, it's obvs where hubby's bias is. he fell asleep through today's ep of hotd - but not a single ep of tlou he's always been a zombie apoc guy hahaha
help my husband just showed me a secondhand online bookshop that delivers for free (in the UK) regardless of how little you buy and i'm looking at all my faves that are under £5 all
Discord is rolling it out slowly. I got my notif to change it last night just before I crashed for bed. From what I heard, they’re rolling it out based on when people joined discord? 🤔 so you should see it soon
anyway last night hubby and i talked about attending morning service today (at 10am - the church here isn't like home where there are masses every hour). guess what time i woke up? 9:59
i made breakfast while he cleaned the floors of our living and dining rooms, and now it's almost half past 11 whut lmao why is time so fast now that i've moved away???
i've been fairly consistent with my "morning routine" though - which, while having coffee, involves doing the necessary insta and twitter engagement activities, and getting my duolingo quests done (when i'm not trying to win a night owl chest or advance in the night owl level)
okay this book is still living up to being super cute, or maybe i just really like second chance romances hahaha being somewhat of a second chance romance gal myself lolol
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our house somehow manages to retain the cold but hubby and i went out for lunch and we're like, oh this heat 🫠 stay hydrated! we might grab a gelato after this late lunch just because hahaha
happy tuesday friends! and just like that, we're officially summer here. second night being terribly warm, and to think three nights before i was still wrapped up in my go-to fleece robe lol
anyway, doing some reports and dashboards and inventory-ing something at work today, hoping to do some reading on the side. i have 2 fics to read, and a few chapters of the book i have to review by... monday next week.
and hopefully my reading will activate my writing brain and let me churn some words today. i do plan to get back to working out (i keep saying this, i have to finally do it /shakes fist) so that'll take up my supposedly writing time after work and i'll have less time to write lol
Oh good because here the stores were like, you’re gonna have to hunt because those versions were old and special. So I was currently trying to find anyone that had them here lol
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ooh thanks, but i got them all! they're shipping them piecemeal (maybe depending on which branch has them on stock?) and i'm waiting for the last one to drop under £5 hahaha
Hahaha yeah, usually when they come piecemeal, it’s because different wear houses or branches have them but woo for finding them all. Because those covers are just so much prettier as a whole too. Like why did they not stick with those
off work, did chores, now i have 30 mins before i have to cook and disappear for the rest of the night lol i really want to write but i also need to work out so... i probably should work out.
i was about all fired up to write then this email comes and i deflated a little lmao we're not like... living paycheck to paycheck (thankfully) but between this and my job still up in the air until the contract thing is settled...
guess that means putting off the purchase of some more recording/streaming equipment lmao i was eyeing a few little things that should help with marketing/promo stuff in the future
anyway, i will finish these current writing projects for now, then figure out what to do with my others. i mean, in terms of scheduling etc. i might need to take a break so i can work on freelance stuff that i can actually earn from lol
(she also wants me to do the audio of her first book, which was why i thought to purchase some new stuff, but i can also really just use my current gear. just have to set things up.)
yesterday was very productive! i pretty much got to do most things i wanted. i'm not expecting the same today but i have a chapter of book 3 to finish, and bits of the short.
three 1-minute planks for now but i think i can do 5 of them next time and onward since it didn't seem too tiring (except for my arms being sore from carrying the groceries yesterday lmao)
it's sunday, the day in the week when my body just seems to reset, so while hubby woke me up at 8am and my alarms an hour earlier, i've spent the last 2 hours just having coffee and zoning out
thanks friends! just done spending time with the fam back home and doing chores so time for a shower in this hot weather and then hoping to finish these last 2 scenes
And XDDDD
I can definitely do that for you!!!
being somewhat of a second chance romance gal myself lolol