Gakked from torra because I'm really antsy tonight and need the distraction, lest I give in to guilt and not stay home from work tomorrow.

( The Writing Process Meme )

Up for work at 6am + walking an unplanned-for five miles at 9am + unexpectedly having to fill in for the cashier at 11:30am and processing 700 kids through my line in 2 hour's time + getting home and cleaning like crazy + calling a friend whose son is (still) in the hospital and asking how his (second) emergency surgery went + trying to track down ( Read more... )

Okay. So this past week didn't entirely go as planned.

In fact (aside from Thanksgiving Day itself, which went surprisingly well) I can safely say that I would SO MUCH RATHER have been working.

( Here's why... )

Okay. I wasn't planning on mentioning this yet because I'm a little afraid of jinxing myself. However, I'm so darned happy about it that I finally thought, what the hell?

Somehow, despite the total crap-fest that has been the month of October (at least for me), I managed to have an epiphany last night. A writing epiphany! This resulted in my ( Read more... )

I would so, so badly like to write today. Right fucking now, as a matter of fact.

My problem? First off, it's too damned hot. I've come to the conclusion that I can't get anything substantial written until waaay after midnight, which seriously fucks up my mornings and leaves me feeling like shit the rest of the day. Until after midnight, anyway, ( Read more... )

Gotta write gotta write gotta write.

Thanks to Torra I have a whole new plan for (the dreaded, the loathed, and the agony-inducing) Chapter 5, so I should really get started on it already. The problem is that I keep getting icon-distracted. Or maybe it's some kind of subconscious procrastination thing where I'm letting myself get icon-distracted ( Read more... )

So. Not such a good day at work on Friday. I considered writing about it, but in the end decided that I'd dwelled enough already. As it was, I still ended up stewing over it for the entire weekend. Luckily things are better now, probably I overreacted a bit (hard to believe, I know) and, barring any unforseen and unfortunate developments in the ( Read more... )

Well, I'm finally getting some Christmas shopping done. ::wipes brow::  And if you happened to hear a weird choking sound earlier this afternoon, that was just me trying to swallow a $17 shipping & handling charge from Amazon.

Really. I never spent this much on gifts until my niece and nephews were born.

Still, I'm feeling so much better today ( Read more... )

I feel like shit tonight.

Christmas is bothering me more than it usually does. I hung a string of lights in my window over the weekend and had to resist the urge to tear it down again last night. Looking at them in the darkness of my bedroom reminded me of doing the same thing five years ago ... ten years ago ... of funerals and misery and the ( Read more... )

Okay, I think the move from Yahoo 360 to Livejournal is now complete. ::phew::

I tried to resist, but it was inevitable.

And now that I've spent all my time finishing that up, I have no good reason to avoid writing any longer.

Damn.

Okay, I haven't actually been avoiding it. I've just been giving myself a hard time about it. The problem is ( Read more... )