Margaret Mayo Romance Author

I’ve recently changed to Microsoft Office 2007 – have I told you this before? I find some things work better than the old edition and some don’t, but I’ve got used to the word processing side of things.

For the last two days, though, I’ve been working on a spreadsheet and I found this very different – certainly not so easy. I’ve actually been tearing my hair out – no, that’s not true – but you know what I mean. Why won’t it do this? Why won’t it do that? How do you this? How do you do that? Do you know, I much prefer reading instructions from a book than using their on screen help.

Does anyone else think the same way?

I’ve heard from my editor – just as I was starting my paperwork! She likes the first half of Blake & Kara’s story, but the second half needs some work doing on it to make it stronger. I’m leaving it, though, until everything else is in order. If I don’t I can see the jobs never getting done.

We’ve had some terrible downpours of rain today and our electricity went off for a few minutes – luckily I’d just saved the work I was doing on a spreadsheet. Because we live in the country we often have power cuts, usually only lasting a few minutes, sometimes seconds, but it can be annoying when I’m working on my computer. I’ve got into the habit of saving my work every few sentences. But you can bet your bottom dollar that if I forget to save because the muse is working well then that’s the time the electric will go.

Life is back to normal. If it ever is normal! I have a mountain of paperwork to cope with – the main one being my annual accounts which I’ve kept putting off until I can put them off no longer.
And while we’ve been enjoying ourselves with our grandson the weeds have sneaked back into the garden – so that’s another job to be done.

Also – I’m still waiting to hear from my editor. In one respect I want to hear, in another I’d like the time to get all my jobs done.