On Tuesday, I was back at it for part of the day. I did not get as much done, however; I started on a couple more chapters, adding things, taking things out, and correcting errors. There remains a lot of the old text, some of it going back to when I wrote the story for Nano. For those sections, I have to rewrite or delete things.
The same day, I also worked on one the cat scratching post that I've been dealing with for a while but still have about half of it left to wrap with rope. I was exhausted and had to stop. Wednesday, I paid for it in spades. I sat on the floor to work on this thing and my back was sore from stretching. My legs, knees, and hips took a beating, too. I alternated between stretching one leg out and bending the other and sitting Indiana fashion. I enjoy sitting this way on the floor but forgot my old bones do not.
I haven't decided if this was cheaper than buying a new one, but I don't think so can the long run. The rope was a 40 foot roll for $3.50. I have used three roles as so far. I have one rolled left but I think you will need two roles. So, it cost of roughly $17.50 of rope. I had to buy a glue gun because someone "borrowed" my good one and never returned it. And I needed glue sticks to glue on the rope. If I had it to do again, I'd probably go with an application glue but it would be so messy and since it is winter, I have no circulation to do that in the house safely. You can see I still have to finish it, but I'm pleased with the results. I learned a lot doing this and will be better at it if I do it again.
They covered this post in a "fabric" for the cats to scratch. I have another one I bought when I got my cats. This belonged to Chaz and lasted about 5 years, but he eventually shredded the fabric at the top. I thought about buying another, but they're nearly $70 each now. Each of the two I bought cost about $50. I suspect when the second one becomes worn out, I'll be covering it too.
And now it is 2:30 a.m. on Thursday. Yep. I went to bed about 6:30 p.m. and read for a till about 7 p.m.but I was in so much pain I could hardly move. I've had 5.5 hrs sleep and woke at midnight. Ugh. Not quite enough sleep, but I'm not sleepy now and rather than rolling around in the bed, I got up. I've done some updates on the computer and finished writing this post I started yesterday.
Yesterday I looked in the backyard and thought my pond was drying up and was concerned about the fish dying. Just kidding. We've had so much rain it looks like a pond out there. Then heavy wet snow showed up and further exacerbated the problem. Last night it rained again.
And that's the week to date. Hope you're all having a good one. I'm going to be working on the book again. I'd love to get this one completed in the next month and have someone read over it! We'll see how it goes. I've been here before.
So much to do and so little time.
