Finding the Time… | Diana Orgain

Confessions from a dummy

Okay, I’m feeling a bit technologically STUPID right now.  I have been behind in recording the next chapter installment of Bundle of Trouble for my website. (Many reasons/excuses) but today the house was quite…my husband was running errands, kindergartener in kindergarten, 2 year-old at grandma’s and 9 month-old (Yikes! yes, 9 months already) napping. I grabbed my M-Audio Microtrack Recorder (Scott Sigler recommended and approved) and was ready to go!  Not only would I record the next chapter installment of Bundle of Trouble but also maybe a promo and the first chapter of Motherhood is Murder to post on my website.  I go to turn on the thing and the message says “Hold switch active” – which I read as “Hold switch to activate” so I keep holding the button and the message just stays the same. I try three different times and figure “Oh, the battery needs to recharge!” I’m extremely disappointed – what with the house quite and tons of caffefine coursing throught my veins (I’m out of regular coffe – but I have expresso beans…and a machine…so why not make make a nice double latte. Ooooh but it’s so good – why not have two?) I plug the M-Audio recorder into the computer and proceed to slash and hack my way through my to-do list.  Yippee!  Caffefine and quiet do work!  I’m emailing, posting, tweeting, updating and breathing – still breathing – and breasing my way through the morning. My husband has returned with the kindergartener (now working on a sticker book) and baby is awake and pulling himself up on things. Still some semi-peace as the 2 year-old wrecking machine is still at grandma’s. I...