Want to know a little secret? Publishing–like most things–gets a little bit slower in the summer. Especially over things like the Fourth of July weekend.
Sure, usually I’m neck deep in writing or rewriting something at this time, but this year I actually have a few days between when I’ve turned something in and when I’ll get the notes that tell me what I need to do next and so I’m doing all those things that I probably should have done months ago. But haven’t.
Like getting the oil changed in my car, having someone come fix the broken window in the dining room, and hiring a plumber to come install one of those gizmos that give you instant hot water in the kitchen so that I won’t spend half my life standing at the sink, waiting for the water to get hot so that I can wash a single pan.
But this got me to thinking: Hmmm….if the plumber is going to be here anyway… And if I’ve always hated my leaky faucet… And if I miss the days of being able to lay a cookie sheet flat in the bottom of my sink…
So yeah. Things have started to, shall we say, snowball.
But not too badly! I mean I’m really trying to be good. I haven’t knocked down any walls or ripped out any cabinets. I’m just going to do the hot water thing. And the sink. And a faucet. And sometimes the faucets come with little soap dispensers. Oh, and maybe one of those little drinking fountain water filtration things.
But that’s IT!
I swear.
Really I can’t do any more than that because I’m having a hard enough time just on the faucet thing alone.
I think I have it narrowed down to two.
This…
Or maybe this…
Or maybe one of the nine million others I have bookmarked.
Really, it’s a good thing I’m absolutely forbidden from venturing farther from the sink.
-Ally