ccra meeting

My contributor's copy of "The Country Connection" came in the mail recently, with my article, "Leave No Trace". I got paid for a cartoon as well as my article!

Selling cartoons could be another source of freelance income for me, hm...





My CCRA meeting yesterday went better than I expected. Two people from the CCRA showed up at my tax lawyer's office: the fellow who had originally contacted me, and his supervisor. The interaction was much more courteous in person than it had been over the phone, much to my relief.

As I figured, questions mostly focussed on the sale of Inkspot and my work in the U.S. I have to dig up some more documents and invoices, but so far (knock wood), everything seems to be going smoothly.

Instead of going to the cottage with Jeff early next week, I'm opting to stay home and do more audit stuff. I'm hoping to get this all over with as soon as possible so I can get back to my writing (which I've had to put on hold for now).

Our friend Helen (who writes as "Anton Lerchner" in Blatherchat :-)) stayed with us last night; she'll be going up to the cottage with Jeff. She brought me a very cute Whistling Clanger to match the one on the t-shirt she bought me for my birthday. When you squeeze his tummy, he gives an eerie little tooting whistle:





I'm finding that running is helping me deal with the frustration of putting aside my writing to do audit stuff. I've started to do it in the mornings; I suspect this time of day will be cooler once summer hits, too. I've set myself a time limit of about an hour, and turn back (no matter where I am) when I reach the halfway point. This morning I ran pretty much the entire way since it was colder outside than I had expected, and running kept me warm. :-) This morning, my halfway point was the beginning of the Martin Goodman Trail on Stadium Road:





Jeff and I are seeing Spiderman this afternoon! I was skeptical when I first heard about the movie, but the trailers look pretty good. Plus I like Tobey Maguire. Have a great weekend, everyone!