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I think I have to get used to short blog updates because once the baby is here, that’s all I’ll have time for. What I’ve been doing lately:

Writing 2+ hours/day. My “goal” is to work on on my book 10 hours per week. It doesn’t sound like much, but it’s about all I can handle with everything else going on.

What else is going on? Hmm. Just stuff. Like physical therapy 2x/week, OB appt 1x/week, two writers’ groups (and reading and critiquing for those groups), tutoring, trekking to the city 2 days per week, and birth prep stuff like reading the umpteen books I’ve bought, doing prenatal yoga (which I’ve done just once since my wrist surgery), buying baby stuff like diapers and diaper pails and a mobile and Ugly dolls (I LOVE Ugly dolls). Another nesting thing I’ve done in the past month and a half is to create two disaster bins in case there’s an earthquake. I’ve spent a lot of time running errands to buy things for my disaster bins. In them are:

MANY cans of tuna (way more than I will ever want to eat if there’s a disaster)
Cans of chicken
Trail mix
Energy bars
Soups
Corn and beans and rice
Lots of pasta
Pasta sauce
Cat food
Can opener
Baby formula
Diapers
First aid kit
Pepto Bismol
Alcohol
Hydrogen Peroxide
Toilet paper
Paper towel
Hammer, screwdriver, duct tape, knife
Hand crank radio
Hand crank flashlight
Hard hat, dust masks, work gloves
Tent
Sleeping bags

I forget what else is in there. I know I still need to add spare clothes, although I don’t have any that fit me right now. I also have a Red Cross disaster backpack in the car, a flashlight by the bed and extra batteries for the flashlights in the kitchen. And a new fire extinguisher. This “short” blog post isn’t all that short. I’ll start another …

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