To Do, Two

Update: My daughter's school called around noon to report that my poor sweet girl had thrown up and was running a fever. Ah well. I can at least report that by then I'd made some serious headway on the chapter revision and even cleaned! the! bathroom!, so hopefully I'll be able to regain my momentum once this third, and hopefully final, round of winter stomach bug plays itself out. By the way, since I took the photos (below) this morning, the temperature outside has risen from 7 F to 40 F; seasonal change is indeed in the air.

Since I didn't manage to get back to blogging yesterday, I'll do both my reporting on yesterday, and today's list in this post.

As anyone who knows me may have expected, I didn't deliver on my list, but I did get work done. In other words, making and posting the list motivated me to work, but on somewhat different things than I'd decided needed to be done. (I'm not sure if my problem is that I can't stick to my stated goals, or that I come up with the wrong goals.)

What I said I'd do//What I did:

• Revise the introduction of the chapter that I plan to send out as a writing sample with my book prospectus//I started revising it, but then had a "brilliant idea" that required a detour into re-reading a rather lengthy book chapter that did, in fact, help me think through some important things for my own chapter, which I then began to apply to the chapter, though I didn't finish the introduction as hoped.
  
• Print out what I have of the prospectus and take notes on precisely what I have left to do/I printed out the prospectus and...that's it; I printed out the prospectus.
  
• Clean the upstairs bathroom/Uh, I baked a loaf of bread and tidied up the living room (i.e., picked up stray tinker toys, books, and blocks; which is decidedly not, as I'm sure Suzanne would agree, equivalent to scrubbing toilets)
  

OK, so now that I've destroyed whatever credibility I may have had in this new list-making venture, I will nonetheless try, try again with a list for today. Today, I will:

• Finish revising the introduction
• Read through prospectus and make detailed list of what still needs to be done, and do at least one thing on that list
  
• Clean upstairs bathroom!

For being such good sports for actually reading this far in so boring a post, I give you the following photographs, which I took this morning after dropping my daughter off at preschool. (I think today, the first day of spring, might actually be the last opportunity for photos like this, since melting should commence tomorrow.)