That’s what I wish the keyboard would do after I’ve had a brilliant storyline run through my head. If only it would do the work for me. I don’t have time during the day to actually get “real” writing done because I’ll only just start and one of my children needs/wants something and then I lose track of where I was going. I need to be able to get into it, which is why I mostly write at night.

However, I haven’t been writing much due to a friend visiting (her mother passed away and she was coming for some downtime, caring and rest after looking after her for the last few weeks) and us trying to buy a house. That was my secret. We bought a townhouse. Apparently I already wrote about trying to buy it so if my MIL already read this she never told me on the weekend when we surprised her by taking her to see it. LOL. However, it’s ours. I’m so excited. It’s as large as a house 2100 sq ft, is on a cul-de-sac and backs on to greenspace. What a relief it will be to get away from these horrible neighbours of ours. Hopefully there will be no repeat of these kind of people at our new place. After talking with several people who live in the area it seems we’re safe.

You may wonder how buying a house forestalls writing. Let me tell you, my friend, how much paperwork is involved in buying a house when you are self-employed. You practically need every piece of paper, but your birth certificate! And then they only take some of the income, not all and blah, blah, blah. When they asked for my first-born I put my foot down. Anyway, back and forth it went for almost ten days while we sent more stuff and waited for paperwork from the strata board that arrived five minutes before close on the day before subjects were to be removed. That left us overnight again, because of course no one at the bank is going to stay late to look at it. If I could have said “make it so” to my mortgage broker that would have been good. Finally, it was all approved and I promptly burst in to tears.

Yeah, um, I don’t handle that kind of stress well. Hence the reason no writing was done and lots of lemon drops were consumed. I thrive on good stress, deadlines, etc. I used to do really well in business because there are always deadlines and I loved it. But anything to do with major personal finances, real estate, life changes stuff, really sends me for a loop.

So, this story is still in my head and needs to be written… “make it so” computer!