Dance practise was cancelled last night, but that’s probably a good thing, because Ken spent hours and hours on the UK taxes again. But, it’s done and will be e-mailed off today. A total of 2.5 single-spaced pages, a 1-page cover letter, and pages and pages of supporting documents. Sheeyit.

I spent yesterday afternoon finalising the text for our holiday newsletter. I was going to wrap presents while I watched “Charmed” but I realised we were out of tape; Ken brought some home for me. After dinner, he went straight to work on the tax stuff and I wrapped and wrapped, and boxed. I have to do labels for a couple of boxes, and get one gift certificate, and then I can mail stuff. I’m still waiting for some mail-ordered presents to arrive, so I think all our out-of-country friends will have to wait until the New Year. Mail is slow enough to foreign countries that I can only imagine how long it would take during the holiday season.

Okay, so we’re semi-packed for the trip to Arkansas (at the stage where most everything is piled on the bed, waiting to be put into the suitcase). I’ve copied some files to the laptop (for some reason, I’m good at answering e-mail when it’s a text file on the laptop. It’s probably more writing avoidance, though…)

Speaking of writing, I’ve made a new deal with myself. I need to write every day. Every day, dammit. And I’m going to, for the rest of the year. The minimum is 250 words. While my goal on most days is 2500 words, I think I get daunted by that number. Thus the minimum. It’ll keep me in the habit, and keep me from shuddering at the Excel file full of blank cells where word counts should be. Overall, my goal is to finish BH this month. Part of me wants to say “It’ll be hard, what with more copy editing, and all the stuff we have planned during Ken’s 2.5-week vacation, like the library renovation and Twelfth Night outfits,” but I won’t. Because it’s _not_ hard, for crying out loud! I have about 31K to write and 20 days to do it in, which comes out to 1550 words/day. That’s about 1.5 hours of my time. I can do that.