Some Days are Amazing

I read an entire book yesterday. Not just an entire book: Eileen Rendahl's Un-Bridaled, which is 322 pages long. I started it in the morning, probably around 9-ish, and finished it a little before 11:00 p.m.

That's not really amazing. I'm a fast reader. People used to get disgusted playing Jeopardy! with me on the Sega because I read the questions so much faster than the rest of them. (I know. Sega. Dates me a bit. Imagine if I admitted we had an Atari and a Colecovision when I was a teenager kid!) Lots and lots of people can read a book in a day. My daughter does it every day of the week!

But what is amazing is all the other stuff I did during the day:

• Proofed six marketing pieces

• Critiqued a 59-page short story

• Did an administrative job for a client

• Completed three loads of laundry

• Folded and put away two loads of towels

• Edited 2 chapters of Fight or Flight

• Wrote 3+ pages of The Light of Redemption

• Attended a one-hour chat at TKA

• Took Number Two and one of her teammates to soccer practice

• Read a 31-page contest entry and completed the score sheet

• Various and sundry household things, like cleaning the litter box, feeding the animals, cooking and eating lunch and dinner

• Exchanging IMs and e-mails with colleagues

I've had busier days, I'm sure you all have, and I'm not really bragging, despite my high sense of accomplishment. What really amazes me is that a day like this can happen, yet rarely does. Usually, if I spend any time in IM or not ignoring my e-mail, I get far less done. My editing and administrative work always takes priority over the writing, and tends to derail me. Even if I make use of down time like soccer practice (which I did yesterday), it's still less productivity than I would have had in the same time frame without being at practice.

So what is it? Is it that Mercury going direct freed something? Is it that I got more disciplined and focused? Is it a weird space-time thing that makes it stretch at the whim of a higher power?

Who knows? Or cares. I'm just going to aim for the same thing today. Here's my list:

• Blog

• Finish administrative project, phase 1

• Take Number Two to the orthodontist and go to the library, comic book store, and grocery store

• Edit three chapters in Fight or Flight

• Work on my Romance Wiki

• Write some new pages on The Light of Redemption

• Judge another contest entry

And may you all have amazing days!