First, happy Veteran's Day. Yes, technically it was yesterday, but today was the day off/holiday. Most schools in my area were in session today and hosting ceremonies and remembrances.
I'm posting this a bit late because I swore I'd written a blog and emailed it to myself to post from work. I got to work and looked in my inbox. No blog. I went home, checked my outbox. No blog. Maybe I didn't write it.
I'm currently mailing out books. I swore I sent one out to Nick Kenig, but the more I think about it, maybe not. I'm sending another just in case. I think I'd written the card so many times in my mind that I thought I'd done it--but in reality, I hadn't. I did delete the email with his address, but perhaps that was a mistake too.
Do you get like that sometimes? That you swore you've done something, only to realize you really haven't?
For example, I swore I put the name Kathleen Kennedy in my book Nine Months' Notice (on final edits). I've looked all through, but can't find it. I'm going to have a friend look. It would simply be a one line reference. If you find it, let me know what page.
Perhaps my mind is slipping. Maybe it's simply overload, but I'm learning that, too, is normal. I guess I've been so wrapped up in reading reviews, sending out books, working on manuscripts that I can't remember what I've done and what I haven't. The brain really does toss out a lot of information if you don't store it properly. Right now I'm dumping everything that's not essential to breathing.
I just returned from a jounalism teacher convention in Philadelphia, so that's taken a bit out of my routine. While I was gone, some switch on my refrigerator fried, so I lost everything in the appliance. I used yesterday to clean the entire inside so it's like new. The repair is done--$121 dollars later.
Cheaper than a new fridge. I'm also sensing the "what if" premise for another book. I'm being a glass full person here. Maybe stress causes the mind to forget.
So speaking of, my website finally got updated and so did my blog. I don't think I've said that lately, so feel free to check them out at www.micheledunaway.com and www.micheledunaway.blogspot.com
Nothing fancy, but there are some new pics and such.
Michele
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Michele, so sorry to hear about losing everything in the fridge. At least you were able to repair it instead of replacing it.
Yes, sometimes (a lot of times) I get on overload too and I'll think I did something but I'm not sure. I learned from working at the office where there are too many things to remember to make notes on my day planner. It's like a mini-vacation for my mind. I write down what I've done and what I need to do and I don't have to remember those things.
There have been a number of times I thought I had done something and I had'nt. I think the more you think about something the more you believe you have already accomplished the chore.
Sorry about your fridge!
Updated websites are always great :)
It is quite normal to forget with that workload :)
I just started keeping an excel spreadsheet with a column for everyone in the family of what needs to be done or calls that need to be made once that is done I color code it, its all in one place so it makes it easier for me
Even pics is an upgrade... I am going to go check it now!
I sometimes find myself in situations where I feel a certain familiarity with an action or person... Even if it's something I've not done before or someone I haven't met. A friend of mine once told me that they read somewhere that the feeling of deja vu means you're living your life how you're supposed to. I wonder if that's true... :)
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