Countdown to leaving

It’s only six days until I leave for Dallas and the RWA National Conference. Over the next five days, I have to:

1. Make the first foray into coloring my hair
2. Get a haircut
3. Paint my toenails
4. Pick up the gifts for the speakers at the PRO Retreat
5. Pack
6. Finish and turn in a freelance editing job
7. Update my Web site
8. Read my agenda packet for the RWA board meeting
9. Prepare writing plans for the next few months and talking points for meeting with my agent
10. Make sure my laptop is loaded with all the files I need while away
11. Write — Yesterday, I turned in to my agent a first chapter for a new project requested by an editor. I’m going to continue working on that this week since I know I’m going to be largely away from the computer for two weeks. At least, I won’t be on the computer long enough to write.
12. Get plenty of sleep and exercise
13. Re-watch Harry Potter movies 3 and 4 so that Mary and I can go see HP 5 while I’m visiting her after the conference. Yay!
14. Do my blog post on the Wet Noodle Posse blog tomorrow
15. Get my eyebrows waxed
16. Update and charge my iPod
17. Charge the camera batteries
18. Walk around the house approximately 897 times to make sure I’m not forgetting to pack something
19. Some advance work on the August issue of the Wet Noodle Posse e-zine
20. Go over my script for the PRO Retreat and my lines for the skit I’m in at The Golden Network’s party. I’m a bartender in a spoof of James Bond movies, and I have to wear a fake mustache.
21. Pick up and pack the rental car

That’s really not as bad of a list as it looks. I’d be willing to add “celebrate the sale of my first book” should the need arise.

I’ll be blogging from the road again, bringing you tidbits from my travels and the conference.

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