Arrgh. It’s times like this that I look at my To Do schedule before the end of the month and wish I had children, because they would be teenagers by now and I could at least get them to do the cleaning and laundry.

• Photograph lots of new jewelry, put on Etsy site
• Pay bills and balance checkbook
• Finish manuscript editing for a friend
• Finish video editing for another friend
• Haul all the laundry upstairs and put it away
• Clean the house from top to bottom (a major undertaking as it’s a disaster area at the moment, we have five cats and I’m the only one who cleans)
• Put up Christmas decorations
• Finish Behind the Iron Cross, get off to agent
• Finish Cross Current, get off to Evernight
• Do ebook/paperback cover for client, format book interior
• Update website for another client
• Make character doll for customer
• Do food shopping, including cat food
• Rake leaves in front yard (I may have Ramón do this)

I hesitate to say I need minions because one time someone did offer to assist me, but I think he was thinking more of office work and I need more of a jack of all trades.