5 posts tagged “daily grind”

I've spent most of the weekend focusing on personal stuff and very little work has been done on my current work in progress. Which I guess is fine, it's driving me crazy and I'm on the verge of killing off one of the main characters because they're bugging me. I'm getting like nowhere on it.

So back to my personal stuff. I now have most of the things needed for Thanksgiving, no last second shopping spree looking for a turkey the day before for me this year. It's a record that we're ready like two weeks ahead of time. Sadly this year we won't have our usual guests but I'm sure it will still be a nice holiday.

I'm working on finishing off the gift I'm making for my guy because our anniversary is very very soon. I still can't believe we've been together for so long.  Soon it will also be a wedding anniversary, in a couple years anyway, and I'm still a little confused about if we'll celebrate being together from the start or from the time we became officially married. I guess it doesn't matter.

Speaking of the wedding, I've been looking at dresses again. There are so many that I like, it's a good thing I have time to narrow it all down. I'll also have to wait until I'm back in shape and try them on. Just because it looks nice doesn't mean it will look nice on me. I have decided I'm not going to go with a strapless dress because I'm not a huge fan of them.

The rest of my time was spent doing general running around paying bills, groccery shopping, and the oven is now officially fixed.

Tomorrow I'll tackle the cleaning so on Monday I can focus on my story. Perhaps the time away will cause me to look at it with new eyes and some of the problems will be resolved.

I spent the morning trying to finish all my housework so I can spend the rest of the day and maybe even the rest of the weekend working on my current project. I'm one of those people who sees something that has to be done and it distracts them from what they're doing.

But I also ended up cleaning up my laptop's desktop, changing the wallpaper, and then adding my current desktop wallpaper as the background image for my twitter account. I'm now in the process of clearing out some of my bookmarks. There are a lot of them that aren't needed anymore or don't work. Plus I'm sorting them so that all my research sites are together, my writing, and so on. Makes it easier when you're looking for a specific site.

I've been trying to eliminate the clutter in the hopes that it will make me more productive.

For some reason every time I try to launch StorYBook it crashes my laptop. It's kind of odd because it worked fine a couple days ago when I last used it. So I'm not sure if it's a laptop problem or a software problem.  I'm gonna have to ask my tech guy to look at it.

In other news it's pretty windy around my place right now. We had make sure everything on the back deck and front porch that could blow away was either put in the shed or secured. I've learned my lesson when it comes to high winds. So I guess soon the rain is going to come. Which is fine I guess.

I was planning on working and then having a mini movie marathon with the family tonight.

Now I just have to figure out what to make for dinner.

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.