Whew! I just hit you and everyone else with lots of content related to a study skill book. Typically, about 95 percent of the work I put into an article ends up on the cutting room floor. Sometimes the content isn’t right for the publication or sometimes the information is tangential. Most often, cuts happen because I produce 4,000 word drafts than have to get cut back to a more internet-friendly 1,400 words for people who read content on the cellphones. Luckily, I have newsletters and blogs where I can write what I really wanted to write. Makes me happy.

You know what also makes me really happy? Selling books. I just sold two first edition Dickens books that I found in a hoarder’s stacks. I paid less than $1 and sold them for $1,200 to a nice gentleman from Florida. Yay.

Here’s another happy thing. After I take those books to the post office, my work responsibilities are done for the day. I’ll go for a run and get my nails done for tonight’s date night with the hubby. I might even go Full Girlie and put red hearts on my door. I’m actually really psyched for this afternoon. I’m going to buy myself flowers, and then let Steve buy myself flowers.

Do you celebrate Valentine’s Day?