View from the Funny Farm
In the 1988 movie Funny Farm, Chevy Chase and his wife move to the quaint little town of Redbud in upstate New York so that he can retire and write the great American novel. Of course, nothing goes as planned, crazy hijinks ensue, and Chevy spends more time looking out the window at a squirrel than he does writing.
I can so relate to this.
The hubs and I relocated to the southeastern tip of coastal Georgia last month. We're still unpacking.
A major move is one of the top four most stressful events a person can undergo, even if it's a desired relocation. I can attest to this personally. I had grandiose expectations of getting the house completely unpacked and organized in a week upon returning from two back-to-back conferences: World Horror Con and the International Aquatic Fitness Conference.
Yeah, that didn't happen.
What did happen was the internet service that was supposed to be installed never was. And then the major plumbing line from the clothes washer started backing up into the house and a pipe under the sink burst and we had to get a plumber out pronto! And the heat pump on our A/C froze up because the previous owners never changed the filter and THAT had to be fixed. And the state of Georgia sent me a threatening letter that I better go get my vehicle registered with the state or they'd sic the police on me. And our year-old puppy broke house training and I was constantly mopping up pee puddles around the house. And one of my ball pythons got burned on the heater in his temporary habitat and I had to spend quite a lot of time just finding a veterinarian within a 60-mile radius that even saw reptiles.
And meanwhile through all of this, I couldn't find what I needed when I needed it because all of our stuff was in boxes. I'm tellin' ya, it was enough to drive a person to the funny farm.
But somehow over the past six weeks, we've gotten mostly unpacked and my office is now set up and I was able to go through all of the beta reader comments on my YA novel and began an outline for the 2nd round of revisions.
I'm far behind the original plan of having 2nd revisions completed by mid-June, but there was really nothing I could do about it. Unpacking and organizing takes time. Lots of time. Certainly more time than I ever anticipated.
Now if I can just get that squirrel to quit playing in the tree outside my home office window, maybe I can get some writing done. Ha! Yeah, right.
I can so relate to this.
The hubs and I relocated to the southeastern tip of coastal Georgia last month. We're still unpacking.
A major move is one of the top four most stressful events a person can undergo, even if it's a desired relocation. I can attest to this personally. I had grandiose expectations of getting the house completely unpacked and organized in a week upon returning from two back-to-back conferences: World Horror Con and the International Aquatic Fitness Conference.
Yeah, that didn't happen.
What did happen was the internet service that was supposed to be installed never was. And then the major plumbing line from the clothes washer started backing up into the house and a pipe under the sink burst and we had to get a plumber out pronto! And the heat pump on our A/C froze up because the previous owners never changed the filter and THAT had to be fixed. And the state of Georgia sent me a threatening letter that I better go get my vehicle registered with the state or they'd sic the police on me. And our year-old puppy broke house training and I was constantly mopping up pee puddles around the house. And one of my ball pythons got burned on the heater in his temporary habitat and I had to spend quite a lot of time just finding a veterinarian within a 60-mile radius that even saw reptiles.
And meanwhile through all of this, I couldn't find what I needed when I needed it because all of our stuff was in boxes. I'm tellin' ya, it was enough to drive a person to the funny farm.
But somehow over the past six weeks, we've gotten mostly unpacked and my office is now set up and I was able to go through all of the beta reader comments on my YA novel and began an outline for the 2nd round of revisions.
I'm far behind the original plan of having 2nd revisions completed by mid-June, but there was really nothing I could do about it. Unpacking and organizing takes time. Lots of time. Certainly more time than I ever anticipated.
Now if I can just get that squirrel to quit playing in the tree outside my home office window, maybe I can get some writing done. Ha! Yeah, right.
My new office: a bigger room and a larger desk!
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