A Productive Day

Yesterday I:

finished reading the Australian Short Stories book (all my cobbers should read it!)
went to work
helped my soon-to-retire mom buy a suitcase
bought groceries
did the dishes and cleaned the bathroom
made a salmon dip for Saturday's BBQ
made a salmon dish and some bulgur rice for supper
baked a gooseberry cake
finished scrapbooking the photos of our trip to the States

What does all that have to do with the novel, you may well ask. Well, even more importantly, I also:
Drew up a shortlist of agents and printed their submission guidelines.
Revised revised revised in a desparate bid to have the best First Five Pages possible for submission to said agents.

I'm still on nine pages. If I can just get it down to six...