tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463471462522424732.post1676042452558833357..comments2024-03-05T20:07:08.232+00:00Comments on The Kitchen Bitch Ponders: The HoursErylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06008344023000459577noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463471462522424732.post-79977715628099963122007-12-05T01:31:00.000+00:002007-12-05T01:31:00.000+00:00Orion ~ I will do both, take a snap of your book o...Orion ~ I will do both, take a snap of your book on the shelves of the bookstore and buy a copy and read it. And what is more I will boast to everyone I know that I (virtually) know the author! <BR/><BR/>Pat ~ You have such a fertile mind!Eryl Shieldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01818102006775827503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463471462522424732.post-71326616299245554542007-12-04T09:08:00.000+00:002007-12-04T09:08:00.000+00:00I can''t help wondering if the boiler man thought ...I can''t help wondering if the boiler man thought he'd got lucky when he saw you in your dressing gown. Maybe he lost interest when you were fully clothed?Pathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01529798893653033970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463471462522424732.post-40604122080589515612007-12-03T23:32:00.000+00:002007-12-03T23:32:00.000+00:00Alooooha!My book LOTTERY will be out in the UK (He...Alooooha!<BR/>My book LOTTERY will be out in the UK (Heineman /Random House) the first week in January 2008- in less than a month! It's on the Waterstones site and The Bookseller did a nifty interview with me-<BR/>It would be highly cool if you could snap a photo of my book in a bookstore there!!! And of course extraordinarily cool if you picked it up and read it!<BR/>Well re: ten hours flat...um...I procrastinate a lot - does that count?ORIONhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01534064935115027523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463471462522424732.post-27791783942940282032007-12-03T22:52:00.000+00:002007-12-03T22:52:00.000+00:00Orion ~ Hello, and thanks for coming all the way o...Orion ~ Hello, and thanks for coming all the way over from Hawaii, where the sun is evidently shining!<BR/><BR/>You'd work for ten hours flat out? That would be impressive. I tend to work in four to six hour spurts.<BR/><BR/>Now I must come over and see you.Eryl Shieldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01818102006775827503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463471462522424732.post-64931199995346886902007-12-03T16:33:00.000+00:002007-12-03T16:33:00.000+00:00OMG how come I never knew about these blogs!! I ca...OMG how come I never knew about these blogs!! I came from Easy Writer...<BR/>I do so know what you mean. I love 4 am and seeing is slowly get light and writing like a fiend.<BR/>My only problem now is New York is 5 hours different and UK is 10 for me in Hawaii and when my editor's call it really messes up my routine LOL!<BR/>If I had my way I'd sleep from 11pm to 2 am then work from 2am untill noon - eat lunch then sleep until 6 pm...<BR/>I promise not to tell you the temperature here - that would be mean.ORIONhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01534064935115027523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463471462522424732.post-6244439016546252032007-12-02T23:19:00.000+00:002007-12-02T23:19:00.000+00:00Carole ~ Are you sure you'd wake the whole househo...Carole ~ Are you sure you'd wake the whole household if you got up? Give it a go I dare you... You could tiptoe to your writing room and quietly scribble away... I know, these things are easier said than done.<BR/><BR/>Kim ~ Crikey, you've tried it all! <BR/><BR/>Mary ~ You actually get up to see the girls off to school? Some mothers are so impressive, I stopped doing that the minute Bob could take himself when he was about 9 or 10. After that I might just manage to get up by the time he was due home... OK I wasn't quite that bad.<BR/><BR/>I love lying in bed and thinking too, best in the mornings though, I like to linger over waking: dozing, thinking, dozing, thinking, and could probably do it for hours. At night I like best to lie on the couch in my study with a notepad catching my thoughts before they evaporateEryl Shieldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01818102006775827503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463471462522424732.post-80223792869358596952007-12-02T21:13:00.000+00:002007-12-02T21:13:00.000+00:00I sympathize. Our central heating isn't 100% eithe...I sympathize. Our central heating isn't 100% either, and I have endless trouble making my schedule fit my family's.<BR/><BR/>Lately, I've been doing the same thing: staying up until the wee small hours, then sleeping only a little and having to drag myself out of bed way before I want to, to see my kids off to school. All told, I might get 5-6 hours of sleep.<BR/><BR/>When we were running our business, we had to get up as early as 6:00 and go to bed as late as midnight. The one thing I truly missed was lying in bed and thinking -- something I have always loved doing. Now, I almost over indulge.Mary Witzlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06458299046574564155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463471462522424732.post-80929190937060837632007-12-02T17:10:00.000+00:002007-12-02T17:10:00.000+00:00I used to be a night person, then I was a morning ...I used to be a night person, then I was a morning person, and now I'm a for-one-hour- after-a-coffee-twice -a-day person.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, I have a solution to your problem - you need to move to Florida: warmer climate and 5 hours behind the UK, so would fit in perfectly with your natural sleep rhythms.Kim Ayreshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02656677501116622953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463471462522424732.post-71984503066557952982007-12-02T13:24:00.000+00:002007-12-02T13:24:00.000+00:00I have the exact opposite reaction but don't handl...I have the exact opposite reaction but don't handle it as well as you. I can go to bed at midnight or later, but wake around 3am, sometimes 3:30. But since I don't want to wake up the house, I lay still, thinking all these thoughts, wishing I would get them down on paper, resenting John for being such a light sleeper and letting my best hours slip away from me. By 8 in the evening I am as dull as butter knife. The most productive thing I do is stare at TV and wish I was a night person.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03828426520214270655noreply@blogger.com