Productivity

Today turned out to be be productive in a number of ways.

First, I shipped a book to the nuns in Cleveland and a package to Mama for Mother's Day. (Hope it gets there on time. For some reason, even first class mail from here seems to take a week or more to get to Whitehouse.)

Second, I finished the Elijah book! Of course, now I have to let it sit for a day and then re-read and do a final edit before shipping it off to CreateSpace for them to have a look-see. After they make sure that it is properly formatted, they will send me a proof and I will check it out and so on. Still, it looks like it may actually be on the market by the end of May. Before the first day of summer, at any rate.

Third, I finally swept the leaves (and much of the dirt) out of the garage. It looks much better, and with luck the leaves will be decaying out there now and not being blown by the wind into the garage, since the weather finally lets us leave the door open most of the time when we are home.

Fourth, we opened the windows to air out the house. Again, thanks to the the weather!!! Of course, it is supposed to rain for the next few days, but at least we had a beautiful warm day to get the winter mustiness out.

Fifth, I actually had the time and energy to get in some exercycling!

Sixth, since Tom had been working hard at the railroad and getting the gardens at our house in shape, I made a wonderful salad for dinner, with roast chicken breast, lettuce, tomatoes, red bell peppers, carrots, green grapes, walnuts, dried cranberries, feta cheese, kalamata olives and seasoned croutons. Because it was such a warm day, we ate out on the deck.

Seventh, I got to watch The Big Bang Theory.

As London Tipton says, "Yay Me!"
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Pop culture reference for those who need it: London Tipton is a self-absorbed teenage heiress character played by Brenda Song on Disney's The Suite Life of Zack and Cody and The Suite Life on Deck.