Sunday, I had what came pretty close to a perfect day. A truly happy day.

But let me backtrack. For the last week plus, Ken has been out of town. He flew to Atlanta, spent a day helping out a friend of mine with some work that needed doing on her house, then headed off to be there for my niece and my sister. After that, he drove my mom home (she winters in South Carolina, and had drive from there to Atlanta) and then took care of stuff in upstate NY, like getting her brakes fixed, getting her set up with real Internet (she’d been on dial-up up ‘til now), defrosting her fridge, etc.

Yeah, he’s awesome like that.  🙂

The plan was that he’d fly from there (well, from Burlington, VT, because the local airport is tiny and flying from there can be crazy-expensive) to Oregon last Friday, where he’d do the last few tweaks on a motorcycle he was rehabbing, pop in to a work customer, and then sometime during this week ride the bike home in preparation for selling it.

Except, on Friday, he got to Burlington and they blinked in confusion and told him that his flight to JFK had been delayed such that he not only couldn’t make his connection to Portland, but the next flight to Portland available was Monday.

And he said, screw that, I’m going home. So Saturday evening, I got to pick him up from the airport, and after a stop at our favorite hole-in-the-wall Thai place on the way (amazing food, amazingly cheap), I got to bring him home.

He crashed pretty much as soon as we got home (jet lag, etc.) and so got up before me on Sunday, which meant Grimoire didn’t stomp all over the bed crying for me to get up and feed him at o’dark early (which he does even though there may be food in his bowl downstairs , because I don’t know WTF). So when I got up on Sunday, after a rare night of full sleep, I went down and found him in the TV room and cried “You’re here! It wasn’t a dream!”

‘Cause, yeah, I miss the shit out of him when he’s away, y’know?

So we had breakfast and whatnot, and I did some admin work, and then I headed off to Thousand Oaks to hook up with the most wonderful Christine, and there was hugging and squees and eating and gabbing and even a little writing. She gave me a lavender plant for my birthday, and I vowed not to kill this one.  😉  I mostly brainstormed and researched for an anthology story, and ended up with two ideas, both of which I’ll probably write.

I stopped at Trader Joe’s for a couple of things on the way home, and when I got home, Ken and I threw the water bottles in the car for refilling. But first we went for a long and glorious walk on the beach. Talk about refilling the well.

Once home again, I finished up a copyediting job and sent it off, and prepped the next job, and set up my schedule for the coming week.

Of course, the best laid plans, and all that. (Cue Eddie Izzard and mice plans.) Ken and I had dinner and watched some TV, and I think I got to bed around 1 am, and then at 5 am Grimoire decided to yark on the bed and floor, which involved Ken cleaning up while I went downstairs to get yet another comforter (this is the second time in a couple of days that we’ve had cat puke on the bed, hurrah. I think his new food isn’t agreeing with him). I didn’t sleep well after that, and spent most of yesterday in a brain fog.

Thankfully it was an admin day for me, which takes a different sort of brain power than writing, so I managed to muddle through. Although republishing 10 short stories and 2 collections (more on that soon) meant my right hand and arm were kinda sore by the end of the day. Unfortunately, all of this also meant I didn’t get to the new copyediting job…

With this job, I have three CE jobs back-to-back, which means none of them can slip more than a day. This coming weekend is my birthday, and I’d hoped to take the weekend off (Friday night through Sunday night), but now that’s looking less likely. I’ll see how the week progresses and how efficiently I’m working through my scheduled projects (two novels, a couple short stories, the CE job, etc.), and reevaluate towards the end of the week.

Phew! At least I had trouble sleeping again this morning, so I was up an hour and a half before the alarm, and I’ve done some more publishing work, and now I’m going to…write, I think.

Let me leave you with the song has been going through my head the past couple of days: Chris deBurgh’s “At the End of a Perfect Day.”  🙂