Update

Ouch, it's been a long hiatus; I apologise. It's sorta been a "When you want to do something, when you know you should do something, and "Life gets in the way." It's been a lot of doctor appointments, revising some chapters and inventing others. I've long known that I wasn't through: I needed to add some chapters that I hadn't even written one word about. I've re-written the entire long version of the original Around the World charter flight with Air Canada. I've also written a very long version of a chapter all about jewelry-making because I suddenly realized I had never discussed how I got started, how I plucked up courage to apply for a studio in an Arts Center in Kelowna, and now I'm organizing a chapter about the health care system in Canada. a subject I have longed waxed poetic about but not actually backed it up with one written word. In the meantime I ordered a set of stainless steel cabinets for the patio so that I could transfer all my jewelry machines out to locked cabinets and do the messy work out there. It has taken my handyman over two weeks to assemble them due to missing or incorrect parts, but it is almost finished and looks very elegant. The Engage Life Director told me yesterday that my and my neighbor's patios are the most beautiful in the entire complex. (Of course, the blossoming roses have something to do with that!) I had a serious problem with my good right eye suddenly start blurring, and the retina specialist diagnosed a burst blood vessel. then over the last weekend it worsened and I got an emergency appt. with him. They discovered that the retina had not changed, but that my eye was SO dry that it couldn't focus. Needless to say that I was so relieved, I've been dumping lots of little Refresh bottles in it, and already notice some improvement. Arizona's most famous cartoon, reprinted often, shows a skeleton lying on the desert with the comment "But's it's a DRY heat!" over it. So, the book. Anything accomplished on it? Yes, and No. Yes, because I completed re-numbering the chapters in chronological order, or at least as best chronological order you can do on a bunch of memoirs which are random thoughts. Memo to prospective Memoirists: Keep everything you write in just ONE file. Then you can move them around, up or down and it's easier for your copy editor. I have mine spread all over the place: Documents, Downloads, Memoirs, Libre Office, backup disks labeled D and E, etc. Try to move each chapter from one of the files to the only one that works on your Editor's computer and "Houston, we have a problem." But, she's at least reading all the manuscript and will soon call me to have a long conversation on what she thinks about the Content. (I see weeks of revision in the works...) On Wed. May 19th, I'm having my first jewelry class in my apartment. Instead of making something, I'm doing a Polish and Repair session, something people have been asking me to schedule. It seems like no one here has heard of silver polishing cloths, so my Ionic polishing crockpot will have a busy day. But maybe I'll pick up some new customers that way.Talk to you soon. I mean it. Love, Janice