That Monday Feeling...
It's always hard to settle back into routine after time off. This weekend was particularly wonderful, for many reasons - for one thing, on Saturday afternoon Patrick and MrD dropped me off at Borders with strict instructions NOT to do any work, no matter what! - and then didn't come back for me for four hours. Poor me, abandoned in a bookstore with nothing to do but read and eat...oh, who am I trying to kid? I was in heaven. I drank tea, ate chocolate, drank an elderflower pressé, read a whole book, read another...and, yeah, I also broke down, bought a notebook and made some notes for Kat3. But still! That was only for half an hour out of the four hours. I still (mostly) followed the rules! And it was all completely delicious...although by the end I was going into serious baby withdrawal. I needed my baby back in my arms!
(I also realized that parenthood has Changed me in more ways than I'd known. There was a tiny 5-week-old baby wailing across the café from me, and rather than feeling either of my pre-parenthood reactions - (a) easily ignoring him, or (b) feeling grateful that the crying wasn't my problem - I had to fight the strong physical urge to run across the café, scoop him up onto my shoulder, and walk him around until he was happy again! Luckily, I managed to talk myself out of it, so as not to be (a) kicked out of the café/arrested or (b) proven a total psychopath. But, WOW. That never used to be an impulse I had to fight, in the old days!)
Today Patrick's back at work, we're back in our normal routines...and I've realized that I need to throw out the first 18 pages of Kat Book 3 which I'd written back in January. Sigh. I really, really wanted to be able to keep them with only mild revisions...but they start in the wrong place, and I know it, and that's going to bug me until I do something about it. I've been planning to get a wordmeter for the duration of the write-a-thon, but since my first day of work consisted of deleting 18 pages, my wordmeter would have to show negative progress. Oh well. Maybe MrD will decide to have a really long nap this afternoon and the wordmeter will appear after all...
How about you guys? How are your Mondays going so far?
(I also realized that parenthood has Changed me in more ways than I'd known. There was a tiny 5-week-old baby wailing across the café from me, and rather than feeling either of my pre-parenthood reactions - (a) easily ignoring him, or (b) feeling grateful that the crying wasn't my problem - I had to fight the strong physical urge to run across the café, scoop him up onto my shoulder, and walk him around until he was happy again! Luckily, I managed to talk myself out of it, so as not to be (a) kicked out of the café/arrested or (b) proven a total psychopath. But, WOW. That never used to be an impulse I had to fight, in the old days!)
Today Patrick's back at work, we're back in our normal routines...and I've realized that I need to throw out the first 18 pages of Kat Book 3 which I'd written back in January. Sigh. I really, really wanted to be able to keep them with only mild revisions...but they start in the wrong place, and I know it, and that's going to bug me until I do something about it. I've been planning to get a wordmeter for the duration of the write-a-thon, but since my first day of work consisted of deleting 18 pages, my wordmeter would have to show negative progress. Oh well. Maybe MrD will decide to have a really long nap this afternoon and the wordmeter will appear after all...
How about you guys? How are your Mondays going so far?