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A Bit of Daily Babble ...
No writing today. At least, not so far. *grumbles*
I made up my mind that I was going to change things for myself. Period. So, my new "schedule" was as follows: take the kiddo to school, come home and work out (every other day exercise = taking Fae walking), write. Then, after at least an hour or two writing, I could do other things: errands or whatever. The point being that I feel I need to treat writing as something more important. That way, the people around me will also treat it as important, eventually. Well, that's the plan, at least.
So, Monday and Tuesday, things went great.
Monday, I had to tutor ... so I did that, then headed off to Panera, where I got in two good, solid hours of writing. Then, I came home ... wrote a bit more until it was time to pick up the kiddo. And then even managed to do a smidge more that night. I can't really write much at night, generally, because it's too much of a rush with making dinner, getting the kiddo's bath and bed stuff done, and doing stuff like laundry, etc. Not to mention getting interrupted every ten minutes by either the kiddo or hubby. But I tried, at least.
Tuesday, I dropped off my kiddo at school. Then I went home and worked out (20 minutes on my Precor -- I'm starting small because I'm WAY out of shape). After that, I headed upstairs to my office, and wrote. I managed to get in a couple of hours, although it was kind of a slow writing day. I put in the effort, but didn't feel I had a ton to show for it. Eh. Some days are like that.
Today ... the plan kind of fell apart, mostly thanks to the stupid GS cookies. I am so, so, so ready for this thing to be DONE already. And my troop has really screwed things over. They've been switching and trading among themselves and only telling me after the fact, so it's been impossible to keep track of everything. I had been dreading trying to figure out the final accounting because I knew it was going to be a huge hassle. And so I had put it off and put it off and put it off and ... (well, you get the idea).
So, today I dropped the kiddo off at school, came home and took Fae for walkies. That was good. It was a pretty day, and we had a good time. She was even pretty well-behaved -- a little bit of a spaz, but, hey, this is Fae we're talking about here. What else could I expect? We walked for about 30-40 minutes. Then I came home and had some errands to do for hubby. I had to drop off his dry cleaning and pick up some medication he had forgotten at his doctor's office. And I grabbed some lunch while I was out. I came home, ate lunch, and started in on the cookie stuff.
zOMG ... Four hours later, I still wasn't all the way done. Seriously, this was such a mess trying to recreate what everyone had done with their cookies and their money. It took forever. And then it took forever to add up all the money I had and get it ready to take to the bank tomorrow. Once that is done, I have to go on the tracking website and update all of this crap. @_@ X_X
I finished the cookie stuff (including sending emails to people who haven't paid yet) just in time to make dinner. Headed downstairs and made kiddo's meal first. After that was done, I made dinner for myself and hubby. He was running late coming home, as usual. I made migas and fruit salad for dinner, though -- so it was pretty good! Lots of chopping, but it was worth it.
And now I'm sitting here on LJ. I just got kiddo out of the bath about 10 minutes ago, and she headed downstairs to watch one episode of the Backyardigans. After that, I'll put her to bed, and then I'll be "done" for the night. Well, not "done" done, as I'm still doing laundry. There is always laundry. And other house things. The never-ending job, I swear. >.O I was going to try and write, but I'm tired. And my brain is all foggy-feeling. I'm going to take a hot shower and then see how I feel. Maybe I'll manage to write before the day is totally over. *hopes*
I made up my mind that I was going to change things for myself. Period. So, my new "schedule" was as follows: take the kiddo to school, come home and work out (every other day exercise = taking Fae walking), write. Then, after at least an hour or two writing, I could do other things: errands or whatever. The point being that I feel I need to treat writing as something more important. That way, the people around me will also treat it as important, eventually. Well, that's the plan, at least.
So, Monday and Tuesday, things went great.
Monday, I had to tutor ... so I did that, then headed off to Panera, where I got in two good, solid hours of writing. Then, I came home ... wrote a bit more until it was time to pick up the kiddo. And then even managed to do a smidge more that night. I can't really write much at night, generally, because it's too much of a rush with making dinner, getting the kiddo's bath and bed stuff done, and doing stuff like laundry, etc. Not to mention getting interrupted every ten minutes by either the kiddo or hubby. But I tried, at least.
Tuesday, I dropped off my kiddo at school. Then I went home and worked out (20 minutes on my Precor -- I'm starting small because I'm WAY out of shape). After that, I headed upstairs to my office, and wrote. I managed to get in a couple of hours, although it was kind of a slow writing day. I put in the effort, but didn't feel I had a ton to show for it. Eh. Some days are like that.
Today ... the plan kind of fell apart, mostly thanks to the stupid GS cookies. I am so, so, so ready for this thing to be DONE already. And my troop has really screwed things over. They've been switching and trading among themselves and only telling me after the fact, so it's been impossible to keep track of everything. I had been dreading trying to figure out the final accounting because I knew it was going to be a huge hassle. And so I had put it off and put it off and put it off and ... (well, you get the idea).
So, today I dropped the kiddo off at school, came home and took Fae for walkies. That was good. It was a pretty day, and we had a good time. She was even pretty well-behaved -- a little bit of a spaz, but, hey, this is Fae we're talking about here. What else could I expect? We walked for about 30-40 minutes. Then I came home and had some errands to do for hubby. I had to drop off his dry cleaning and pick up some medication he had forgotten at his doctor's office. And I grabbed some lunch while I was out. I came home, ate lunch, and started in on the cookie stuff.
zOMG ... Four hours later, I still wasn't all the way done. Seriously, this was such a mess trying to recreate what everyone had done with their cookies and their money. It took forever. And then it took forever to add up all the money I had and get it ready to take to the bank tomorrow. Once that is done, I have to go on the tracking website and update all of this crap. @_@ X_X
I finished the cookie stuff (including sending emails to people who haven't paid yet) just in time to make dinner. Headed downstairs and made kiddo's meal first. After that was done, I made dinner for myself and hubby. He was running late coming home, as usual. I made migas and fruit salad for dinner, though -- so it was pretty good! Lots of chopping, but it was worth it.
And now I'm sitting here on LJ. I just got kiddo out of the bath about 10 minutes ago, and she headed downstairs to watch one episode of the Backyardigans. After that, I'll put her to bed, and then I'll be "done" for the night. Well, not "done" done, as I'm still doing laundry. There is always laundry. And other house things. The never-ending job, I swear. >.O I was going to try and write, but I'm tired. And my brain is all foggy-feeling. I'm going to take a hot shower and then see how I feel. Maybe I'll manage to write before the day is totally over. *hopes*