Nibbled to death by temporal ducks

Yeah, it was that kind of week. Between wedding planning (OK, at this point more like wedding fine-tuning), a couple of nights out, and that project I’m helping TYG with, the time just dissipated (a friend’s unrelated and ongoing emergency didn’t help either). Plus such minor annoyances as my dental insurer’s continued inability to complete the claims for my last couple of visits.
I think that may be one reason I seemed to work so slowly this week. Or perhaps it’s that I’m sleeping normally for a change: I may have grown dependent on getting one eHow done in the middle of the night and having an extra hour in the day to use on other stuff.
Be that as it may, a good week:
•My contributor copies of More Scary Kisses came in, as noted previously. I look forward to seeing what the rest of the anthology is like.
•I checked my budget today over lunch and I’m actually ahead of my money goals for the month. So now I can make up for all those expenses last month by redepositing to my emergency account.
•My writing group was really pleased with I Think, Therefore I Die. I’ll go over some of their suggested changes next week, then send it off in June (submissions have really lagged due to all the extra duties. I’ve got three or four that I should already have sent somewhere).
•My rewrite work on Impossible Takes a Little Longer is progressing nicely. I’m debating whether the parts I’m still dissatisfied with will require a major fix, and if so, what it is. Just tightening up the writing (these bits haven’t changed much in 15 years, and my style has improved) or something more fundamental?
•No Good Deed Goes Unpunished finally works plotwise—I even managed to shift the villain’s exposition place to a setting (and another character) where it doesn’t seem implausible or slow up the plot.
•Savage Magic, my Doc Savage’s daughter/Jim West’s descendant crossover is shaping up too. I still need a better climax, but the story is progressing nicely and the magic gets weirder and stranger with each rewrite (I consider that a plus).
All in all, satisfactory. I must remind myself (and am doing so as we speak) that if I get that much done and the work is good, berating myself for being slow is unreasonable. I’ve done well. Time to relax and enjoy.