When it rains it pours. Deadlines never seem to spread themselves out, they all seem to want to crash down together. I swear they wait outside until there is a big enough gang of them to really mess me up.

Reminds me of that old saying, “I try to take it one day at a time, but lately several days have attacked me at once.”

Fiction Therapy is launched. We sent out an opening offer to edit the first 2500 words for people and the response was great. I’ve read all the submissions and got half of them edited.

Then I hopped on my mountain bike (first time this year) and cycled a few kilometres to the post-office at the 7-11 to pick up a parcel. It was our new business cards – for all our businesses (I think Perry and I deserve some sort of over-achiever award!).

We changed the formatting on the cards for PaperBox Books and added colour to the logo. My SNB Consulting ones were already coloured, but I needed to change the tagline since I’ve changed focus. Then there were the new cards created for Fiction Therapy. WOW, they look sharp. Oh and there were cards for Perry’s Project Management Consulting company too.

We upgraded the card to a glossy finish and it really makes them look great. The colours just seem to pop more. I can’t wait to start giving them out.

Tomorrow I have to finalize the landing page for our Short Story Contest via PaperBox Books. There are going to be some great prizes, so keep an eye out. I’ll be uploading everything for July 1st.

Oh and somewhere in there I have to find time to finish writing the new ending for my novel ‘Hiding in Plain Sight’. My editing group are going over it on Monday, so I need to give them something to critique… funny how that works eh?

Start to finish today has been a great day.

Even though I didn’t sleep the best last night, I was up on time and ready for action. Apparently, that mid-evening coffee last night, wasn’t a good idea after all.

First, I was able to implement some coding fixes for the PaperBox Books website that I found while testing the new website for Fiction Therapy.

Then, it was off to meet one of my partners in crime to scope out locations for the Kick-off for NaNoWriMo.org. Yeah, yeah, we know it’s not until October 31st. But if the crowd last year was anything to go by, it’s going to be a full house (so we need to make sure we find a big enough house to put everyone).

Next, it was a side trip to the Purdy’s Chocolate Facility near the 29th Avenue Station. We told ourselves that the walk to the chocolate factory and back would burn most of the calories we were about to consume… we know we’re wrong, but we’re chosing to ignore that tiny little fact, so please let us!

Then it was off for a sugar induced conversation at the weekly write-in… well at least we all had our computers open to attempt to write. The conversation seemed to be a little more odd than usual and considering our usual conversations….

Now I’m reading a webcomic that I coerced a friend into letting me see. (seriously, I figure if he mentioned it, he really wanted me to see it so it was just a matter of twisting his rubber arm). Again he’s utterly failed at being horrible.

Then it’s off to bed. After all that walking today, I’d better sleep well. Gosh knows I need my beauty sleep.

Today is Saturday and the weather forecast is great. There will be sun and it will be warm. Actually, I’ve already been outside to water my garden this morning and while it’s still cool, you can tell it will be nice.

So I think I’m going to take the day off. Well mostly.

I have to finish the final bit of coding on the Fiction Therapy website so we can upload it and a have a few other odds and ends to do, but none of this should take me long.

Then I’m hitting my deck with a good book and relaxing.

At least I hope I can relax. I’ve tried to read this Jeffery Deaver novel a couple of times already. While he’s one of my favourite authors, the writing in this one just isn’t as good. At first I thought it was just because I’ve been doing so much editing lately, that my perception was skewed. Which really upset me. I’d hate to think I’ve lost my ability to read for pleasure.

So I went back to some of his other books and there is a definite difference in quality. Whew!

So today, I’ll ignore the prose and dive into the story. The plot looks intriguing, worthy of another attempt.

Failing that, I have a few other books on my shelf I haven’t read yet.

Hip Hop Workout – Take 1

I was downtown last night for a Meet-Up on SEO. The topic was link building which is important for me at my other business SNB Consulting Services. The Meet-up was great as usual. I learned a few new tricks and tracking tools that will really come in handy when I wear my SNBCS hat.

I don’t go downtown much anymore so I arrived early and wandered around. While browsing I found a Hip Hop Workout video. Since little brother took the Wii Fit back East with him, I’ve been looking for something else ‘fun’ to do. I love to dance and I’ve never learned to hip-hop so I figured it was worth the money to give it a shot.

Things I’ve learned.

Hip-hop moves are a lot like belly dancing. I took a belly dancing course a few years ago and still incorporate some of the moves into my workout schedule anyway so this was a huge plus.

The warm up is great. By the end of it I was feeling pretty confident.

Spins are hard to do on a carpeted floor. It will take some work and maybe a bit of ingenuity to do them.

Lunges are easier, but the girls on the video are doing lunges so low their chins are practically touching the floor, that will take some work.

The music they used was great, it was just a base beat with a counter beat thrown in to keep it interesting. When I gave up on the hip hop lesson I kept the DVD playing and did some of my other exercises to the beat. It’s a half hour workout so I can time my workout without having to constantly monitor the clock. It’s a win/win.

Eventually I’ll be able to do the whole routine and be stylin’ out on the dance floor.

Oh wait, I’ve always been a good dancer. I come from a dancing family. I had an aunt and uncle both taught tap and jazz and my aunt also taught Hawaiian. I was that cute little 3 yr old on the stage. Now I can pop-it that much more.

I’ve been putting it off and I cannot any longer.

This afternoon will be devoted to doing some of the backend changes I need to do to several of my websites. Well mine and those of my friends. There is back-upping and updating to be done. Not, my favourite tasks, but I like scrambling for data after a crash even less.

Truly it will only take me half an hour to do it all, I’m not really behind, but I’d rather be doing housework… and for those of you who know me, you know how much I hate housework so you can tell how low this rates of my fun things to do list.

ok – I’ve procrastinated enough, time to get moving so I can move on to the really fun things… especially since the sun is starting to peek through the clouds.