A luxurious bath for me

This is perhaps the most tedious thing I have ever done.  Seriously, transcribing these emails addresses is boring, like massively boring, stupendously boring, boring like watching paint dry or grass grow, like make your teeth ache boring! But I am happy to say I am making progress.  I have found a great website that lists every newspaper that is published in the United Kingdom and has them listed by tab in alphabetical order.  I am finished up to “H”, tonight I intend to do “I” and “J”!  And the list is really coming along so all this boring effort is paying off.  Once I finish with the UK, it is on to the United States. I started mistakenly thinking that the newspapers in the UK would be easy and quick to finish; I cannot imagine what it is going to be like having to do the US.  I found a similar website which lists them in the same way so at least I know what I am getting myself into, trouble and more boring pain for sure.  But since I decided to start this journey and do it all myself, no one promised me that it would be all sunshine and roses.  I also sent an email to Lesley to tell her I haven’t forgotten about her; I still need to go through all the photos and decide which ones I need her to touch up so they are publication ready.  And now that I have started on the press release list, I have started to think of all sorts of other things to do: where can I get contact information for magazines, television programs, how to use the net better to advertise, can I get someone to have me on their show to talk about the cookbook, do I need to do email campaigns, commercials, YouTube videos?  So many things to do and frankly it is distracting me from actually putting the cookbook together.  I have told myself to work on these types of activities until Feb 11 when we leave for our vacation in the Dominican Republic.  Oh, did I remember to tell you we are going away for a week of sun, beach, all you can eat (always bad for me, since I want to put myself on a diet and in training for a charity cycling race in June for the Heart and Stroke foundation, oh more news to share) and general relaxation.  I know we are spoiled with all this travel but I am going to take a notebook so I can work on the cookbook and record my thoughts while we are away.  But between returning from the holiday and the end of the first week of March, no work on this kind of work and only focus on completely the inside of the cookbook.  Without it, all this other work is kind of pointless.  So tonight I am tackling the next two letters in the alphabet and then treating myself to a long luxurious bath and an early bed.