4 posts tagged “life”
On Saturday the most difficult month of the year starts for me. I will have to balance home/family, work, and writing a 50,000 word novel while also finding time to sleep and eat. My guy will probably take the time to work overtime because he thinks I won't even notice. I do notice by the way but I'm focused, it's one of the things he loves about me so he can complain too much. He's very supportive though.
I had planned on having my Christmas stuff done by now but I don't. So I guess I will have to find time to do that as well. I do not want to be stuck shopping in December in crowded malls, plus I have to mail a few of our gifts and I don't want them to be late. Cards are easy as least. We can do those fairly quickly then mail them off on Dec. 1st.
Anyway, as supportive as those around me are it's still going to take a lot of balance to deal with everything. You can't avoid bosses, or ignore everyone else around you without making them lose patients with you.
Except for a minor cough and a runny nose I seem to be over the flu/cold I had. Which is a huge relief with it being Thanksgiving weekend. I can also focus on writing and all the things I love again. When I'm really sick I'm too cranky to really enjoy anything except movies/television and nice big mugs of tea due to my lack of concentration. Perhaps the medicine has something to do with that.
I'm going to try working on this blog over the weekend. There are lots of links I want to add and I noticed my NaNo word count widget isn't showing up properly so I need to see what's going on with that.
Other then that I'll be spending time with the family, cooking, and baking. Should be a nice weekend.
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...
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.
