ILONA ANDREWS

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  1. Tomorrow. Get it together tomorrow. Today, drink tea and stare at the pretty tree. ( Raises cup in solidarity.)

  2. That’s how I feel about work today. I need to get it together even though the program I am running to get the data I need doesn’t want to get it together.

    You are in good company, Ilona. 🙂

  7. Yep, working on getting it together. One week left before Christmas break and …. nope, not together yet!

  12. Totally understand as so many extra distractions this time of year. Don’t be too hard on yourself.

  15. This is my poor daughter almost everyday. She is so wrapped up in getting it together, she misses half or more of whats being said. We are working on it slowly. She will get there one day.

  16. It only took me fifty years to learn I can’t do it all. Have to take off some stress. Order groceries, delivery, or what I need such as asking for help. Let someone else clean house twice a month. Make appointment with doctor for discussion ( did that today). Take care of yourself.

  18. Every. Day. Just breathe. Take a break.

    Whatever you guys write, we love. The passage might be longer, but we always get great things from you guys.

  20. Oh dear. Yes. Ugh ?.

    Good luck, and do whatever you need to do to not feel that way (for me it took a month in rehab and 15 years without alcohol, and I’m STILL not all there).

    *hugs* ?

  22. Happy News – Anne Bishop posted an excerpt of Wild Country. Patti Briggs finished her next book but they won’t be published together next year, it’s late. Oh well, no stress about which one to read first. 🙂

    Yep, should have made sugar cookie dough this morning. New client starting tomorrow so no time the rest of the week. Oh well, fewer calories, but the fudge is yummy!

  24. This has been today. Except at 1am something I sent out a note cancelling my 10am meeting, so I got to do it in relative solitude.

    (Anyone have thoughts on living in Chapel Hill in particular and NC in general?)

    • Sorry, it’s been over 20 years since I lived in Raleigh, so I’m sure it’s changed a bit. The state overall is beautiful; lots of trees. Every once in a while you’ll get an inch of snow that will stop everything, and the occasional hurricane. And this was apparently a record-setting wet year for Wilmington. (As it was for the DC region, where I am now.)

      • You going to be working at UNC? I think it’s supposed to be a beautiful campus, too. Probably a bit more expensive to live near campus but there are lots of smaller towns a little bit further away that would be more affordable.

        • Being within easier access of mountains and the ocean would do wonders for my state of mind. Everything I’ve heard so far is good. …and it looks like there are reasonable closer in options. (I *hate* longer commutes, and tend to end up with schedules that just don’t support them.)

          …this is all hypothetical at the moment. A friend had been talking to the head of the department, and called up to congratulate me on my work… and then saw about the new job evaporating on no notice, so he decided to try to recruit me. This led to us spending a truly ridiculous amount of time on the phone (most of it discussing science, but hey, he is a long time friend and we hadn’t talked me maybe a year) and now, assuming his at home version of his budget isn’t out of sync with his actual budget, I have an offer to go do bio-mimetic robotics at UNC. I haven’t even checked in with a lot of my contacts yet – I really have to get this particular set of revisions out first* – but it’s a good fit, whether or not it’s what I got with? Totally different area of robotics, but that’s not bad? (He’s been off working for the Air Force, and just got offered a professorship.)

          * I feel like this has been my refrain for months. Generally speaking, they aren’t the same revisions?

  25. When its not working . . . It is not going to work
    Getting it together is the every once in a while magic word bridge that makes it work.
    (so you don’t have to scrap it & start over) SKIP
    the get it together. Concentrate on the other side THEN
    get back to getting it together

    In the meantime veg in peace, cause what you’re doing right now is important to maintain clarity?, that’s my story & i’m . . .

  27. The last 3 days have been a Monday and I am still trying to “get it together”.
    I am gonna have to give myself a break because a friend and I work different schedules and she (bless her) is stressing me out with her wants and she works days and I work nights. I know that she means well but arghh!
    I have to apologize to her for not being able to make this happen.
    Deep breath… cup of hot tea … this too will pass and not be world ending.
    How do we all drive ourselves nuts like this over the “big” holiday season?

  31. I’m very nervous to admit this. I’m sort of cruising right now. Except for a few food items that have to wait, I’m DONE with Christmas shopping. Finished stocking stuffers this morning. Did I mention I’m DONE? Every major thing, and most minor things are DONE! I’m living in fear I’m forgetting something. Or, another crisis with the house will appear. I’m just going to sit here a while and…..de-stress.

    • Me, too. Mailing out kids’ last package should shake loose the custom dice tower coming from Alberta. It’s the way of the postal system.

  32. My mantra is “keep moving. Keep moving”.

    Because if I sit down I’m going to finish the book I started last night… And won’t get anything done for the rest of the day.

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