Well, maybe not so dire. But shifts and changes are afoot.
After a lot of years of entangled and co-hosted websites, Shawn and I spent several hours over a few days earlier this month and split out the hosting of our websites. The result should be no different on your end — it’s all behind the scenes stuff; digital redirection — but if there is something you cannot find, give me a shout.
Unfortunately, one of my sites, Views of Victoria is rather messed up — partly my own fault as I let my domain lapse after many years — and is still down for the count. I have a replacement domain, and I want to rebuild the site as WordPress instead of Drupal, but it is waaaaaaay down my list of priorities so that isn’t happening any time soon. I got this blog up and running (big thanks to Shawn for troubleshooting the problems we encountered), and moved my basic intro/overview (and edited that today). In addition I have my main business site, my craft site, and my writing site all functioning. For now, that’s enough.
Priorities have been in constant flux of late — I find myself juggling rather a lot. February was all but consumed by the Victoria Tool Library crowdfunding campaign. Adding dating into the mix complicated things, as you might expect, but also the Year of Yes: coming up, I am auditioning for a role in a play (this Wednesday), the first time I’ve had to pick a monologue and rehearse, and at the beginning of May I will be reading some of my old diary entries at Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids.
For April I have signed up with CampNaNoWriMo to revise my manuscript for Undead. I printed all 142 pages (which only jammed my printer twice) so that I can make notes by hand offline and revise fresh. I can’t remember where I read it but someone had suggested the best way to revise was to type the whole novel in again, from scratch. If for no other reason than it will make for easier word-count tracking, I may just do that.
All things considered, my life right now feels like one giant schedule — to the point that when a few things fell off my list this weekend and I was left with two full days to myself with nothing in my calendar, I was a little giddy (and subsequently avoided doing a couple of small-but-important things. They’ll get done this week.). Don’t for a moment imagine I am complaining, though. My disruptive, too-many-balls-in-the-air, schedule-crazy life keeps me quite happy.