Friday was wacky.

Wacky, I tell you. And so is my mood.

All these months I've been writing, writing, writing, typing merrily away knowing my deadline was coming (Friday the 14th) and then when it got here, suddenly there was nothing in the world I wanted to do more than go back through the manuscript like a crazy person, rewriting things.

I'm still doing it, and Friday has come and gone. I made the deadline -- yay -- but now my brain is paging back through the manuscript in my head, tsking and muttering ominous comments about tenses, tones and adverbs. 

So it isn't over yet. I'm actually glad about that.

Anyhow, it was also a really good, if not slightly absurd day.

I discovered a lovely little feral cat has moved her three adorable feral puffball kittens into my outbuilding. (Never try and tell me the universe doesn't have a sense of humor.) And the timing is just about perfect, as tomorrow I begin baby-sitting four teen-age ducks.
 
Now:

Feral cat with new family outside who is always hungry + four young ducks who huddle on land with their heads tucked under their wings = no sleep for me, EVER. 

And yet I'm really looking forward to having them here. It will tickle me no end, watching them paddle around on the pond.

My family's coming up to celebrate my birthday and I cannot wait. I'm so excited to see them. My boyfriend came home with two enormous hanging backets full of flowers for me to kick off the gala weekend and I think this is going to be a very interesting year.

So I have tons of stuff left to do but tonight, in excellent slacker form, I spent my spare time in the studio rescuing baby mice from the housecats. Apparently they haven't had much experience with giant, hairy, slavering felines (they are babies and kind of "Which way did he go, George?" mice) and don't understand that running out in front of cats is a very risky endeavor. Happily, my reach is longer than theirs and so the cats were thwarted and the mice live to see another sunrise.

The asylum is peaceful. Good night, you guys. I'm out of here.