rolanni | In which adulting is overrated (Reply)

Sarah has taken her vacuum and gone off into the frigid sunny day. It is now mine to put the house back together and to get with my list of Adulting Tasks.

While Sarah was here, I tinkered with what I wrote yesterday, found it mostly good, and pasted those sections into the WIP, which now stands at!

A whopping 114,775 words.

I'd like to say that I'm in the home stretch now, but i may be deluding myself. I need to sit down and count scenes. But not right now.
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I have done All of The Adulting. I have typed "Sharon Lee and Steve Miller" so many times I feel like a high school girl decorating her notebooks with the name of That Boy She Likes.

I daresay there is still more adulting that will catch up with me next week. For instance, I'm not really quite sure how I'm to pay off this "loan" for the new doors. However! It's interest-free until September, so I have Some Time to figure it out.

Funny story there. My contact at Andersen Windows wrote in answer to one of my questions, and added a PS: "It took me a minute, but I remember reading your books at my library when I was a kid. Thank you for being part of my childhood."

And on that note, I am done for the day. I may -- I plan! -- to take refuge in the WIP tomorrow (except for 2:30 when I'm supposed to have a Zoom call with a visiting nurse? I wonder why. And also -- is it a visit if it's a Zoom call? Well. I'll either find out or I won't.)

Everybody have a good evening. Stay safe. I'll see you tomorrow.

Oh. I am remiss in my reporting to Tali's Fan Base.

Tali is still working on finding her Best Role in the house, but today, I think we had a breakthrough. Despite her dislike of having people type through her ears, she sat on my lap on two different occasions while I was doing the most stressful bits of Adulting.

Also, I had missed picking up a stuffed bunny this morning. In the course of her rounds, Sarah found it, and put it on the edge of the bed. I had occasion to sit down on the bed. Tali jumped up to be with me, looked at the rabbit, judged it was infringing on her space, but, instead of knocking it brutally to the floor, she picked it up by the ear, carried it over to the other side of the bed and then came back to snuggle against my knee.

Yes, it was almost unbearably cute. And also much appreciated.

G'night.