It's still chilly here in the Bay Area, probably the longest its been this cold (mid-40s overnight and reaching only the mid-50s during the daytime, often with a sea breeze making it feel colder) in a long time. Our winters do get chilly, but never for this long, and not without several days of nonstop rain. Not that I'm complaining, just that this kind of weather tends to turn me into a sloth these days! 

On the plus side, I've been getting a lot done both at work and at home lately, which is a nice change from the Q4 EVERYTHINGATONCE stress I usually get. On my Friday-Saturday shifts I managed to get to and finish a lot of the "I'll get to it later" report paperwork I usually never have time for, and now the bookkeeping office finally looks a lot less messy. And over the last few days, I've been catching up on not just house errands, daily words, blogging and book revision, but even a bit of frivolous music library nonsense, all without feeling stressed out about it! I'm certainly going to make use of this time while I have it!

We're close to finishing the Christmas shopping for the most part, we just need to gather the last packages coming in, wrap up a few things, and mail them on their way. The post office is a bit more of a walk than normal from our new place, but thankfully there's a cheap parking lot the next block over that never gets completely full during the day. All told, it's been a rather laid back season this year, and that's fine by me. Even though our numbers are up in a good way at the store, it's not as chaotic as it normally is. Although I'm sure the next few weeks are going to see an uptick enough to change that...

Hope everyone's having a good week!

Ah yes. We're at the back end of this cold where I'm feeling marginally better, but my lips are chapped, my sinuses are still blocked, and I just want this to be OVER. I'm also annoyed that this came to me just a few days after I'd pulled my neck muscles somehow and had to deal with the pain for almost a week. Basically some part of me has been feeling like sh*t since late January. I'm not sure if I caught this from being in an enclosed courtroom for jury duty (even though I wore my mask 95% of the time), or one of my managers who also had a cold recently. BLEH! 

But yes, I am slowly on the mend. I've been taking Airborne and Sudafed and Advil when needed and attempting to keep rested, though waking up every hour on the hour last night because my throat was bone dry from breathing through my mouth wasn't helping. Hopefully I'll get some more rest tonight. I also have tomorrow off to take it easy!

So what else have I been up to lately? Well, I've started up on the 'remaster' of A Division of Souls and it's coming along quite nicely. Mostly just some cosmetic fixes and further editing, but nothing major to work on. At least not yet, anyway! I don't believe I need to do any, but I'm preparing myself just in case. I've got two chapters down so far, which isn't bad for a week and a half's worth of work. That means I should be quite on schedule for the September rerelease.





Hope everyone has as good week ahead!