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METRICS
New Words: 1927
Chapter One – Ten total: 26,804
Chapter Eleven – Twenty total: 30,397
Chapter Twenty-One - Thirty total: 38,399
Chapter Thirty-One total: 4510
Chapter Thirty-Two total: 3466
Chapter Thirty-Three total: 3868
Chapter Thirty-Four total: 2047
Chapter Thirty-Five total: 2313
Chapter Thirty-Six total: 2202
Chapter Thirty-Seven total: 3704
Chapter Thirty-Eight total: 1848
Chapter Thirty-Eight retyped additional words: 29
Chapter Thirty-Nine total: 3218
Chapter Forty total: 3151
Total words for first draft: 125,550
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: Finished Chapter Thirty-Nine and shunted the second half of what I wrote into Chapter Forty, since it only has two rough draft pages. Now it won't feel like a tacked on after-thought. Then when I got home I needed to wait on my dishwasher and ended up finishing Chapter Forty.
Fave line: "It's like living in a giant aquarium."
What Else I Accomplished Today: Ran the dishwasher, and completely avoided working on the office clean-up.
What I'm looking forward to: Rest of the month: I'm hoping that I'll finally be able to afford what I promised myself I could buy after I paid my car off back in March of last year.
What I'm not looking forward to: The actual CLEANING I have to do. Plus sorting through the sewing remains and finishing the inventory of the fabric stash as I repack it. I'm down to the office and the living room. If I can chip away at the office for the rest of the week, I can spend all weekend on the living room.

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METRICS
New Words: 864
Chapter One – Ten total: 26,804
Chapter Eleven – Twenty total: 30,397
Chapter Twenty-One - Thirty total: 38,399
Chapter Thirty-One total: 4510
Chapter Thirty-Two total: 3466
Chapter Thirty-Three total: 3868
Chapter Thirty-Four total: 2047
Chapter Thirty-Five total: 2313
Chapter Thirty-Six total: 2202
Chapter Thirty-Seven total: 3704
Chapter Thirty-Eight total: 1848
Chapter Thirty-Eight retyped additional words: 29
Chapter Thirty-Nine total: 4036
Total words for first draft: 123,623
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: Typed more on Chapter Thirty-Nine, found a better spot to put in what Babs did to help so tomorrow I'll need to edit what I had put in earlier that doesn't work as well.
Fave line: "Uncle John found a subway?"
What Else I Accomplished Today: I cooked and cleaned the kitchen after I did it. I didn't clean in the office at all, but we can't have everything.
What I'm looking forward to: Rest of the month: I'm hoping that I'll finally be able to afford what I promised myself I could buy after I paid my car off back in March of last year.
What I'm not looking forward to: The actual CLEANING I have to do. Plus sorting through the sewing remains and finishing the inventory of the fabric stash as I repack it. I'm down to the office and the living room. If I can chip away at the office for the rest of the week, I can spend all weekend on the living room.

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METRICS
New Words: 664
Chapter One – Ten total: 26,804
Chapter Eleven – Twenty total: 30,397
Chapter Twenty-One - Thirty total: 38,399
Chapter Thirty-One total: 4510
Chapter Thirty-Two total: 3466
Chapter Thirty-Three total: 3868
Chapter Thirty-Four total: 2047
Chapter Thirty-Five total: 2313
Chapter Thirty-Six total: 2202
Chapter Thirty-Seven total: 3704
Chapter Thirty-Eight total: 1848
Chapter Thirty-Eight retyped additional words: 29
Chapter Thirty-Nine total: 3172
Total words for first draft: 122,759
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: I could have gotten more typed, but I got distracted. I'm also considering shifting some of Chapter Thirty-Nine to the woefully short Chapter Forty. Don't know how to do it yet.
Fave line: "Selina, did you plan on a dead body being down here?"
What Else I Accomplished Today: Hemmed one pair of pants, and it was pulling teeth to make me do that.



I've turned my entire living room into an invisible corner as long as that means I don't have to touch sewing again. Which means I have to, I still have repairs to the Victorian Blue and two more pants to hem.
What I'm looking forward to: Rest of the month: I'm hoping that I'll finally be able to afford what I promised myself I could buy after I paid my car off back in March of last year.
What I'm not looking forward to: The actual CLEANING I have to do. Plus sorting through the sewing remains and finishing the inventory of the fabric stash as I repack it. I'm down to the office and the living room. If I can chip away at the office for the rest of the week, I can spend all weekend on the living room.

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METRICS
New Words: 269
Chapter One – Ten total: 26,804
Chapter Eleven – Twenty total: 30,397
Chapter Twenty-One - Thirty total: 38,399
Chapter Thirty-One total: 4510
Chapter Thirty-Two total: 3466
Chapter Thirty-Three total: 3868
Chapter Thirty-Four total: 2047
Chapter Thirty-Five total: 2313
Chapter Thirty-Six total: 2202
Chapter Thirty-Seven total: 3704
Chapter Thirty-Eight total: 1848
Chapter Thirty-Eight retyped additional words: 29
Chapter Thirty-Nine total: 2508
Total words for first draft: 122,095
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: A little bit of typing, since I spent the writing time on other projects.
Fave line: "The gardeners wouldn't like that."
What Else I Accomplished Today: The kitchen is reset. And since I had to get tools out of the kitchen, the back porch is reset now.



What I'm looking forward to: This weekend: I think I can finish the reset clean up of the kitchen and hopefully the office. And hem the new pants. Rest of the month: I'm hoping that I'll finally be able to afford what I promised myself I could buy after I paid my car off back in March of last year.
What I'm not looking forward to: The actual CLEANING I have to do. Plus sorting through the sewing remains and finishing the inventory of the fabric stash as I repack it.

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METRICS
New Words: 592
Chapter One – Ten total: 26,804
Chapter Eleven – Twenty total: 30,397
Chapter Twenty-One - Thirty total: 38,399
Chapter Thirty-One total: 4510
Chapter Thirty-Two total: 3466
Chapter Thirty-Three total: 3868
Chapter Thirty-Four total: 2047
Chapter Thirty-Five total: 2313
Chapter Thirty-Six total: 2202
Chapter Thirty-Seven total: 3704
Chapter Thirty-Eight total: 1848
Chapter Thirty-Eight retyped additional words: 29
Chapter Thirty-Nine total: 2239
Total words for first draft: 121,826
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: ARGH! I had to retype Chapter Thirty-Eight because I goofed-up and deleted the done version on the flash drive thinking I had already transferred it to the hard drive thanks to opening the hard drive copy and making a minor change and throwing off the last modified date. Changes I had added I had to recreate from memory, so I didn't end up typing that much more in Chapter Thirty Nine.
Fave line: "And if the Riddler or Bane found this potential back door?"
What Else I Accomplished Today: Laundry, primarily, and chipping away at the kitchen.
What I'm looking forward to: This weekend: I think I can finish the reset clean up of the kitchen and hopefully the office. And hem the new pants. Rest of the month: I'm hoping that I'll finally be able to afford what I promised myself I could buy after I paid my car off back in March of last year.
What I'm not looking forward to: The actual CLEANING I have to do. Plus sorting through the sewing remains and finishing the inventory of the fabric stash as I repack it.

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METRICS
New Words: 550
Chapter One – Ten total: 26,804
Chapter Eleven – Twenty total: 30,397
Chapter Twenty-One - Thirty total: 38,399
Chapter Thirty-One total: 4510
Chapter Thirty-Two total: 3466
Chapter Thirty-Three total: 3868
Chapter Thirty-Four total: 2047
Chapter Thirty-Five total: 2313
Chapter Thirty-Six total: 2202
Chapter Thirty-Seven total: 3704
Chapter Thirty-Eight total: 1848
Chapter Thirty-Nine total: 1676
Total words for first draft: 121,234
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: Got a little bit more done on Chapter Thirty-Nine.
Fave line: "So go get the options Lorry has thought up. Then he won't feel like you're avoiding him again. And you're staying in bed all night tonight. I'll tie you down to make sure."
What Else I Accomplished Today: Actually posted to DUF and LJ. After last year's barely posting, that is an accomplishment.
What I'm looking forward to: I'm hoping that I'll finally be able to afford what I promised myself I could buy after I paid my car off back in March of last year.
What I'm not looking forward to: The actual CLEANING I have to do. Plus sorting through the sewing remains and finishing the inventory of the fabric stash as I repack it.

2014 My Year in Fic

2014 Fiction Word Count

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First off, sorry about not posting 2013's My Year in Fic last year. Second off, the health epiphany technically falls under 2015 so you'll find it discussed in my goals for the upcoming year. Third off, don't have one so let's move along.

Stories I Finished:

The Dark Knight Rises: Weapon of the Shadows finally got published.

Part of the Night: The One Rule is finished on AO3. I'm still editing it to post at the Library and FF.net.

Stories I Didn't Finish:

Right after I posted the last chapter of The One Rule, I started on its sequel story The Wayne Legacy. And since I vastly underestimated the word count to scenes ratio, I didn't get finished with the rough draft or move along to another story.

My favorite story this year: The Wayne Legacy.

Story most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion: Actually, once the jerkbrain chemicals finally subsided (see below), all the stories have gotten great responses in 2014.

Most fun story: The Wayne Legacy, I've been having so much fun Nolan-izing the Batman canon.

Stories I wrote that I never thought I'd write: The One Rule even though I probably named it in 2013. But I rewrote over half of a whole movie.

Hardest story to write: The One Rule because there were still scenes from the movie to transcribe into my story. I should probably rewatch the Dark Knight Rises and make sure I didn't damage the DVD with how much pausing I did.

Biggest disappointment: That I forgot to post 2013's My Year in Fic.

Biggest surprise: Health assessment (see below).

Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would, less, or about what you predicted? I almost made the word count goal but on just two stories. I thought I would have more stories for that amount of words.

Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them? I really don't like posting WIP and will never do that again.

Did you meet last year's goals?

• First draft of Strix: Forget the Sun -- Nope, never touched it.
• Second draft of Stellar Gift of Death -- Nope, never touched it.
• Post TDKR: Weapon of Shadows -- Done.
• Post Part of the Night: the Wayne Legacy -- Finished the rough draft January 1, 2015.
• Rough draft of the next story in Signs and Portents -- No rough draft but I did outline the story.
• Post in Blank weekly -- Yeah, that didn't happen.

Do you have any goals for the coming year? January 1st I finished The Wayne Legacy's rough draft and looked around my office for what to tackle next. "Stellar Gift of Death's edits" and then I cringed waiting for the jerkbrain to start attacking me for letting that project go for so long.

All was blissfully silent in my head.

And I was absolutely flabbergasted. Don't get me wrong, I've been worried over the ferocity of the attacks to myself, the anxiety over submissions to the point where not working on original fiction was easier, and the growing thin-skinned-ness I've had over fandom wonk that used to roll off my back. I poked again. "Edit to a second draft and hire an editor for ebook publication." Nothing from the jerkbrain amid the excitement to be back in that universe again. Now it is possible to combat one's jerkbrain, but I haven't done any of that work. I just wrote fanfiction and started dietary changes that I detailed in Intentionally Left Blank: Hot Bod Third Try. The last time I remembered a jerkbrain outbreak was around September 4, 2014, when I was only fourteen days into the program.

The other piece of the puzzle was stumbling onto Epbot and reading her archive. This part from her A is for Agoraphobia post jostled back to the surface when I thought about how weird it was for my brain NOT to be screaming obscenities at me.

Next, I went to my doctor for a check-up. (Ergo that Halloween blood draw.) Since this next step will undoubtedly cause me more anxiety, I need the peace of mind that comes from a current clean bill of health. Not only that, there are several deficiencies that can cause increased anxiety: deficiencies of magnesium, potassium (both of which were critically low for me in the past), B vitamins, and even calcium.

Some of the same deficiencies I got worried about after reading Drug Muggers. Then after an A+ visit with my endocrinologist (which deserves its own blog post), the question crystallized in my mind. Was my jerkbrain and the submission anxiety 95% biochemical?

I may never know for certain, but it is extra incentive to keep up the good work on the health front if it means less derailment from what looked like I needed to start seeing a psychologist for if I ever wanted to publish. So since I don't have the jerkbrain screaming at me, I got ambitious for 2015. New Year, New Goals: Have You Made a Plan Yet? from Writers Helping Writers led me to making a one-page business plan for 2015. So the goals from that are:

• Reach 130,000 words in the stories in Zy's Universe. I already have 106,931 words in Stellar Gift of Death and Words of Parting and they both need heavy editing along with Blue Man on the Porch (which I can't find a word count for). I also have pegged two more short story ideas to help reach that goal.
• Submit a horror short story to an anthology. I ran across this opportunity at a con last year, so I'd like to give it a shot if I haven't missed all the deadlines already.
• Finish The Wayne Legacy
• Finish the last story in the Signs and Portents series
• Post 12 updates to Facebook
• Post regularly to Intentionally Left Blank
• Make changes to the BookWorm's Library

2013 My Year In Fic

2013 Fiction Word Count

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I wrote a lot this year, but I'm not sure how many projects I actually finished. But given that word count, I'm upping the amount I want to write to 140,000 for 2014. Edit: And then I never finished this post and never published it, so you're getting it now.

Stories I Finished:

Signs and Portents: Meanwhile in Gotham City finished writing and posted. It's a nice stopping point for this series as I try to figure out what I'm doing with Man of Steel.

The Dark Knight Rises: Weapon of the Shadows was finished, but I'm still working on cleaning it up for posting.

The Atsejhkigom language for Zy's Universe. It gave the Perfect Girl headaches, so it's only right to note that here even if it's background work that doesn't count as a story.

Stories I Didn't Finish:

Strix: Forget the Sun: 2013 derailed my plans to finish the first draft. It's waiting for me to pick it back up.

Part of the Night: The One Rule is responsible for derailing 2013, but I've learned some valuable lessons writing it.

My favorite story this year: Weapon of Shadows, it was supposed to be a short story and then it ballooned into a novella.

Story most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion: Strix: Forget the Sun because it couldn't even hold my attention long enough to finish it.

Most fun story: Part of the Night: The One Rule because I don't think I've ever fixed so much canon in one story before.

Stories I wrote that I never thought I'd write: Part of the Night: The One Rule because I broke my cardinal rule about posting while writing the story. Consequently, I found out there was a reason I gave myself that rule in the first place.

Hardest story to write:

Biggest disappointment:

Biggest surprise:

Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would, less, or about what you predicted?

Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?

Did you meet last year's goals?

• Short and sweet: indie-publish an ebook. I don't know if it will be Stellar Gift of Death or Strix: Forget the Sun that I've started writing, but that is the one official goal for 2013. -- Yeah, that didn't happen. Neither original story reached a state of publication.
• Unofficially, I have lots of projects to finish, but I don't want to put any pressure on myself that will make Perfect Girl flip out and ignore all of it. And I keep accumulating fun writing time as reward for getting chores done that I don't use. I need to build using it into my schedule somewhere. -- I wrote 137,979 words so I found the time in my day.

Do you have any goals for the coming year? Writing including Blog posts: I shunted off the original work again, despite having a productive word count. That's okay, I'll pick it up for 2014. Blog posts I wrote and typed and never posted (as you can see by the post-dated post I've been posting today). I can post daily--see Discipline Under Fire--so I don't think posting every week is an impossible task. So Tuesdays will be my blogging day and I'll compose in Blogger's editing window, so I won't gather typed posts that I don't post.

Three writing projects at once is too many. I never should have let the Muse team up with the Perfect Girl who thinks everything must be done as soon as I think of doing it. However, bouncing between two projects hits the sweet spot. Rather than concentrate on meeting a word count--even though I will track it--I'm making a list of what I want to work on for 2014.

• First draft of Strix: Forget the Sun
• Second draft of Stellar Gift of Death
• Post TDKR: Weapon of Shadows
• Post Part of the Night: the Wayne Legacy
• Rough draft of the next story in Signs and Portents

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METRICS
New Words: 1126
Chapter One – Ten total: 26,804
Chapter Eleven – Twenty total: 30,397
Chapter Twenty-One - Thirty total: 38,399
Chapter Thirty-One total: 4510
Chapter Thirty-Two total: 3466
Chapter Thirty-Three total: 3868
Chapter Thirty-Four total: 2047
Chapter Thirty-Five total: 2313
Chapter Thirty-Six total: 2202
Chapter Thirty-Seven total: 3704
Chapter Thirty-Eight total: 1848
Chapter Thirty-Nine total: 1126
Total words for first draft: 120,684
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: Got a great start on Chapter Thirty-nine and posted Chapter Thirty-Seven. I have a buffer again. WOOT!
Fave line: "I have a target. Alfred refused to have it in the house and I refuse to light up the grounds when I want to practice archery at night."
What Else I Accomplished Today: I cooked before all the ingredients went bad. However I didn't clean my mess of a fridge. It's been that kind of week.
What I'm looking forward to: I'm hoping that I'll finally be able to afford what I promised myself I could buy after I paid my car off back in March of last year.
What I'm not looking forward to: The actual CLEANING I have to do. Plus sorting through the sewing remains and finishing the inventory of the fabric stash as I repack it.

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METRICS
New Words: 1347
Chapter One – Ten total: 26,804
Chapter Eleven – Twenty total: 30,397
Chapter Twenty-One - Thirty total: 38,399
Chapter Thirty-One total: 4510
Chapter Thirty-Two total: 3466
Chapter Thirty-Three total: 3868
Chapter Thirty-Four total: 2047
Chapter Thirty-Five total: 2313
Chapter Thirty-Six total: 2202
Chapter Thirty-Seven total: 3704
Chapter Thirty-Eight total: 1848
Total words for first draft: 119,558
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: I finished typing the rough draft of Chapter Thirty-Eight, but I didn't think it was that short. :/
Fave line: "He didn't approve of how I applied his philosophy. But it worked. I set out to create a symbol to inspire the people of Gotham and now they have embraced it."
What Else I Accomplished Today: Check book finally balanced and I did not freeze. Considering that the freeze line went all the way to the Gulf of Mexico today and I had to go to work, I consider it an accomplishment.
What I'm looking forward to: I'm hoping that I'll finally be able to afford what I promised myself I could buy after I paid my car off back in March of last year. I still don't know if I can do that or not because I have to pay the bills. :p And I think this is the weekend I planned on going to friends' so I cannot clean if I'm not home.
What I'm not looking forward to: The actual CLEANING I have to do. Plus sorting through the sewing remains and finishing the inventory of the fabric stash as I repack it.

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METRICS
New Words: 1748
Chapter One – Ten total: 26,804
Chapter Eleven – Twenty total: 30,397
Chapter Twenty-One - Thirty total: 38,399
Chapter Thirty-One total: 4510
Chapter Thirty-Two total: 3466
Chapter Thirty-Three total: 3868
Chapter Thirty-Four total: 2047
Chapter Thirty-Five total: 2313
Chapter Thirty-Six total: 2202
Chapter Thirty-Seven total: 3704BR> Chapter Thirty-Eight total: 501
Total words for first draft: 118,211
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: Finished Chapter Thirty-Seven and started Chapter Thirty-Eight. Now that I have all forty chapters written in rough draft form, finishing this up will go much quicker.
Fave line: "If anyone else shows up, we have all left the country. I don't care who it is."
What Else I Accomplished Today: "The Seven-Step Business Plan for Writers" article is finally printed out. That involved way too many steps in order to get a readable printout. It's going with me to the doctor's appointment tomorrow so I can work on the steps.
What I'm looking forward to: Balancing the checkbook. I'm hoping that I'll finally be able to afford what I promised myself I could buy after I paid my car off back in March of last year. :p And I think this is the weekend I planned on going to friends' so I cannot clean if I'm not home.
What I'm not looking forward to: The actual CLEANING I have to do. Plus sorting through the sewing remains and finishing the inventory of the fabric stash as I repack it.

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METRICS
New Words: 399
Chapter One – Ten total: 26,804
Chapter Eleven – Twenty total: 30,397
Chapter Twenty-One - Thirty total: 38,399
Chapter Thirty-One total: 4510
Chapter Thirty-Two total: 3466
Chapter Thirty-Three total: 3868
Chapter Thirty-Four total: 2047
Chapter Thirty-Five total: 2313
Chapter Thirty-Six total: 2202
Chapter Thirty-Seven total: 2457
Total words for first draft: 116,463
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: Got a little bit of typing done.
Fave line: "That is the voice of never again experience."
What Else I Accomplished Today: Odds and ends grocery shopping.
What I'm looking forward to: Balancing the checkbook. I'm hoping that I'll finally be able to afford what I promised myself I could buy after I paid my car off back in March of last year. :p And I think this is the weekend I planned on going to friends' so I cannot clean if I'm not home.
What I'm not looking forward to: The actual CLEANING I have to do. Plus sorting through the sewing remains and finishing the inventory of the fabric stash as I repack it.

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METRICS
New Words: 1031
Chapter One – Ten total: 26,804
Chapter Eleven – Twenty total: 30,397
Chapter Twenty-One - Thirty total: 38,399
Chapter Thirty-One total: 4510
Chapter Thirty-Two total: 3466
Chapter Thirty-Three total: 3868
Chapter Thirty-Four total: 2047
Chapter Thirty-Five total: 2313
Chapter Thirty-Six total: 2202
Chapter Thirty-Seven total: 2058
Total words for first draft: 116,064
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: Typed more on Chapter Thirty-Seven.
Fave line: . "I had to switch cars at Wayne Enterprises to lose the paparazzi. Now I understand why the Brits do that balcony waving stuff."
What Else I Accomplished Today: Bathroom is done, kitchen is done enough to function, and I never even touched the office, living room, or sewing.



Here's to hoping I wake up with some energy to do housework before leaving for the paying job tomorrow.
What I'm looking forward to: Balancing the checkbook. I'm hoping that I'll finally be able to afford what I promised myself I could buy after I paid my car off back in March of last year. :p And I think this is the weekend I planned on going to friends' so I cannot clean if I'm not home.
What I'm not looking forward to: The actual CLEANING I have to do. Plus sorting through the sewing remains and finishing the inventory of the fabric stash as I repack it.

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METRICS
New Words: 1041
Chapter One – Ten total: 26,804
Chapter Eleven – Twenty total: 30,397
Chapter Twenty-One - Thirty total: 38,399
Chapter Thirty-One total: 4510
Chapter Thirty-Two total: 3466
Chapter Thirty-Three total: 3868
Chapter Thirty-Four total: 2047
Chapter Thirty-Five total: 2313
Chapter Thirty-Six total: 2202
Chapter Thirty-Seven total: 1027
Total words for first draft: 115,033
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: Finished the rough draft on January 1st. All I did was play a computer game and write. Then I realized that this series took about a year and a half to write.



I blew the 2nd on blood work, HTML coding Chapter Thirty-Six, correcting the Italian in "Forgiveness," and editing One Rule. So I finally started typing Chapter Thirty-Seven today January 3rd.
Fave line: "Sorry we screwed up having her in the Regency Room, Alfred."
What Else I Accomplished Today: Three hours spent cleaning the kitchen and I'm only half done. :p Seriously, it is the half with the pantry, which I also cleaned out and got rid of food I can't eat. And I also uncovered the table again.



Non-stop rain is what stopped me from relocating the cardboard boxes and various recyclables to the porch or car, which is making the mess in the middle of the room now. The half that is left to do is dishes, which shouldn't take long once I can actually reach them and move the dishwasher around.
What I'm looking forward to: Bathroom, living room, and office are still on the deep clean list. The hall needs a reset from the laundry, and I haven't touched the sewing mess, which I must do to hem the new pants I bought for Christmas and to repair the Victorian Blue Dress before packing it. Yeah, right I'm looking forward to all that.



Okay, I'm looking forward to the clean house at the end of all that.
What I'm not looking forward to: The actual CLEANING I have to do. Plus sorting through the sewing remains and finishing the inventory of the fabric stash as I repack it.