Yes, I’m late (what a surprise) organizing photos of our Galapagos trip. Getting sick the first week home didn’t help. I didn’t really do much of anything last week. Most days I was too dizzy (a weird kind of vertigo) to leave the house. I did manage to begin uploading short videos of the Galapagos Islands to my Facebook page. Pop on over and check them out (look under Photos and then Videos to find them most quickly). While you’re there, go ahead and click “Like.” It’s painless!
I won’t be posting the videos to the blog (most likely) or my website so please visit Facebook if you want to see them. Stories and photos will appear on the blog as promised.
I wanted to get photos from my sister-in-law and brother-in-law (who got some great underwater shots) before beginning organizing. As soon as I have them all done, I’ll start with the blog posts. In the meantime, please know I’m thinking about it. Yes, thinking is requiring a lot of my focus lately. Just sitting here and thinking doesn’t require a lot of energy.
I spent the beginning of this week organizing the household. There’s a lot to do before Eldest Son comes home in a month. Youngest Son is now living at home for two back-to-back co-op work terms. It’s great to have him home, and even greater that he has a job and is gone during the day, because now I have some precious writing time until E.S. and his girlfriend move in.
When I left for South America, I was in the middle of writing an especially hot short story for Penny (see Blog Legend on the right sidebar if you don’t know who Penny is). So it seems like perfect sense to finish the story before E.S. and G-1 return (Girlfriend 1 – no, he doesn’t have two, but he’s the oldest so she’s G-1. Y.S.’s GF is hereforthwithtofor G-2). I don’t know how successful I’ll be, however, because I have two June deadlines for two Cindy projects (which I don’t feel like revealing right now…come back later), and I must get to them first.
While I was in Ecuador, I received my author copies of the Greek BORROWING ALEX. I’ll post the cover and a loose translation of the Greek title tomorrow. It’s so weird to see my book not only in another language but another alphabet. Between the Japanese version of HEAD OVER HEELS and the Greek version of BORROWING ALEX, I’ve yet to see a foreign version published with our alphabet (German, French and Spanish publishers, feel free to contact me to rectify this). (Other languages also and always welcome!)
I always find it takes me a week to get back into the swing of things after I’ve been away. It doesn’t matter if I’ve only been away a few days for a conference or I’ve been 3 weeks in South America. The same amount of stuff seems to pile up. I’m starting to clue in that I might as well always leave for 3 weeks at a time. Alas, our next big adventure likely won’t be until 2014, when we plan to visit the Aussie relatives.
How do you get back into your regular routine after being away? I just want to close my eyes and dream of the Galapagos.
