It feels very hot in my house right now but I'm avoiding turning on the air conditioner. I'm hoping that it will either start to rain soon or a breeze will start coming in the windows to cool things down. I'm not a big fan of the air conditioner and even though it can be helpful on the really, really bad days I try not to turn it on too much.
So I've worked on a few articles, tried working on one of my story ideas, and enjoyed some time with my family in our backyard. All in all this has been a good weekend so far.
Right now I'm installing Open Office 3 beta so I can try a few new extensions that will come in very handy and I want to help the project out. Open source software is awesome and I'll do anything I can to help spread the word and make it better. Although I haven't made the switch to Linux yet I'm seriously considering it.
I hope you all have safe and enjoyable long weekend, or what's left it anyway.
It feels very hot in my house right now but I'm avoiding turning on the air conditioner. I'm hoping that it will either start to rain soon or a breeze will start coming in the windows to cool things down. I'm not a big fan of the air conditioner and even though it can be helpful on the really, really bad days I try not to turn it on too much.
So I've worked on a few articles, tried working on one of my story ideas, and enjoyed some time with my family in our backyard. All in all this has been a good weekend so far.
Right now I'm installing Open Office 3 beta so I can try a few new extensions that will come in very handy and I want to help the project out. Open source software is awesome and I'll do anything I can to help spread the word and make it better. Although I haven't made the switch to Linux yet I'm seriously considering it.
I hope you all have safe and enjoyable long weekend, or what's left it anyway.
As much as I love writing and want to be a success..hell if it would pay my bills I would be happy...I'm lacking in motivation again. Perhaps it's because I feel stalled. No matter how much time or effort I try to put into things I still seem to come out lacking. I'm rapidly approaching my thirties and the need to have a stable life is increasing.
I want the freedom of knowing at the end of the month everything will be paid. I want to have kids someday and I hear that takes money...you know so they can have food and clothing.
So right now I'm trying to figure out if I should move on and not waste anymore of my precious time or keep trying. I need motivation or a sign...or something to help me figure out what the hell I'm doing.
Perhaps this is a phase but it seems to keep popping into my head more and more. When I talk to my guy about it he's supportive, and I love him for it. But I he's a little biased.
I just feel sort of lost right now.
The highway near my house was re-named the " Highway of Heroes" because when one of our troops die, if they're going between Ottawa and the Toronto area, they are brought home on that stretch of road. People will go and stand on the overpasses and even stop on the side of the highway to watch and pat their respects as they are driven past.
Yesterday was one of the days when one of these events occurred. I had been out of the loop news wise so when I went to go grab some dinner I didn't realize what was happening at first. All I saw was a line-up of cars and some flashing lights from firetrucks.
Then I saw all the people standing there and I knew. Then I saw firemen standing on top of their trucks watching for the the procession, to show support for a fallen solider and their family. Someone who knew what they were getting into and did it anyway. I support the troops, alive and dead, and I paid my respects too.
It doesn't matter if you support the war or not, that's not the point. It's the people who go there anyway and give up their lives for what they believed was right. So many of the people who are anti-war seem to forget about that.
As much as I wish for a world where we no longer kill each other, I know it may never be...so please support our troops, both past and present..alive and dead.
My sleeping pattern is way out of whack. Last night I dozed off for like an hour at 6am while working at my laptop. That's all the rest I've had for two days now. My insomnia hasn't been this bad in years. That's probably why I haven't updated in a few days. I'm not doing anything except reading, editing, and writing. Oh, and watching far too much television again. I'm a sucker for the court shows it seems.
On a brighter note the sleep deprivation is opening up some of my creativity. I was talking to a friend who is also a writer and he says it does the same sorta thing for him too. The only problem is I end up having to go back and edit huge chunks of things that either don't make sense or that run on.
And before this blog post ends up running on I'm going to go.
My home office is a mess. It looks like a book bomb went off in there and I can't find anything. I have no clue how this happened either.
So I guess I'm going to be spending the next couple of days trying to re-organize everything so I can find my research files ( I'm old school and keep actual paper files as well as digital ones), and anything else I need or want to find in there.
It's not as easy as you might think. There are three of us that share the office right now so there is a lot of stuff to go through. It's also a pain in the ass because I really need one of my files so I can work on the story I'm trying to re-write.
And people think a writer's life is easy...
I'm both a gamer/geek girl and a crafty girl as well as a writer girl so I spent most of the weekend away from my precious laptop to spend a little time on the other joys in my life.
So while I watched a marathon of Ghost Hunters International I battled a giant ball of tangled yarn so I could make a case for my Nintendo DS. I'll admit the ball fought a brave fight but in the end I won.
An added bonus of taking time away from writing is that when you're not trying so hard to figure out whatever problem you're having it seems the answer will just float into your mind. This is yet another thing I've heard many times before but I still end up putting pressure on myself and getting frustrated. Maybe I've learned my lesson and I now have a new case for my DS.
Nothing too note worthy happened today but I'm trying to post daily so here I am trying to blog.
Thankfully it seems my mp3 player is now fixed thanks to my tech guy. He had to take the hard drive apart which was no easy task. I have no clue exactly what the problem was but now it doesn't matter, my music is back and that's all that matters.
I ended up spending the whole day running around doing errands. I ended up buying a small cork board for myself at this great dollar store near my house. I also got a few things for some craft projects, paid bills, picked up a few odds and ends, and got stuck in a massive rain storm.
By the way dollar stores are great for office supplies. I go through notebooks, paper, pens/markers/highlighters, white out, file folders, and various other small office things like water so buying them at the dollar store saves me a lot of money. Just make sure that the stuff is good quality.
Besides taking advantage of the fact it's not supposed to rain and finally taking care of the jungle that is my backyard. I'm going to be reworking one of my novel ideas. I have to plot it all out again and then hopefully this time it will flow a little bit better then last time I tired writing it out.
I've never been good at letting my ideas go. They become like my baby that I have to nurture and help grow. It might sound silly but it's true.
I forgot to post yesterday like I had planned. I've been working like crazy to check up on a few things and I guess blogging sort of slipped my mind.
I think I'm coming down with a summer cold and I hate it. I feel all yucky and stuffed up. My allergy medication makes it a little hard to concentrate so I'm working at a much slower rate. I actually stared at my screen and zoned out for almost half an hour before I remembered what I was trying to do. Hate when that happens.
So there really isn't much to blog about I guess. I'm looking forward to the weekend and my other half had his vacation time next week so hopefully we'll do something fun. I like to take a little time off when he does so that we can hang out, and also so that he doesn't feel ignored when I'm working and he's not. It's one of the downsides of working from home.
Well I have an article to finish and I don't want to bore anyone so I guess that's it.
