So this morning as I sat drinking my coffee I made a ridiculously long to do list. I guess that because I don’t have any pending work at this time, I can get things done around the house. Mmmhuh as my old friend Violet would say in a tone of disdainful disbelief.
I’ll probably actually get to the computer related items on the list:
- blog entry
- order CD for Ella
- Check work email
- buy vacuum (?)
- update calendars
- scan pics (30 minutes)
- check doctor appt vs wrestling schedule
- check freecycle
- freecycle 1 thing
I’ll also do the grocery shopping (because we are out of half & half and eggs) and exercise (because I use half & half in my coffee and eat eggs), but I probably won’t get much else on the list completed which is a shame because the Christmas tree is going to spontaneously combust any second.
The cats claws will probably need to wait as will the water filter and laundry.
Cool, one to do item finished, 19 to go.
I’ve not gotten much of anything done today. I worked a little, then played the rest of the day. It’s cold outside, and cold in all parts of the house except here in the attic where Clare and I holed up all day.
She’s working on her research paper in which she gets to use the F-word a few times. It is a paper on censored books and she read The Handmaid’s Tale. I read it years ago and don’t recall the F-word in it at all. But I was not a 16 year old at the time.
Dean was a grump much of the day – the bank messed up and we now have to pay a few late payments on bills that were not paid on time.
Andrew had wrestling.
I’m the only slacker of the bunch!
What’s that saying: In for the something out for the something else? Oh – In for the penny out for the pound? In for the penny in for the pound? That’s gotta be it!
Whatever it is, it is what I thought about when I chose to write this post right now instead of work on my work-for-pay stuff. I am monumentally behind in my “files” and have made some probably poor choices recently like the Hiptop Halloween Hunt yesterday and Costco the day before. While there are some valid reasons I’m behind, I really should be concentrating on those files rather than on writing novels and blog posts.
That said, I’m glad I’m back and doing some of this posting on a daily basis. I miss writing – copying text from PDF and Word files and pasting it into an HTML editor may sound like a blast, but it’s not as fun as you may think. It can be mind boggling tedius and it sapps the energy from my brain, making me want to do nothing but watch television at night.
So, to get back to the title of this post, I figured I’ve already gotten behind in my work, I might as well get this post for today done.
I wrote over 800 words on my NaNoWriMo novel this morning - I had no idea what I was going to write about until I actually started writing. Now I’m kind of excited to find out more about my characters and the plot. I’m pretty sure I know where it is going, but it keeps changing in my head.
The kids have today off and I was supposed to go to a free 508 conference in DC, but because I’m behind in work and because the kids are home, I figured I’d not go. I went last year and the section I attended was nothing more than a commercial for Adobe.
Ok, enough procrastinating. Off to copy and paste and format.
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