First, thank you SO MUCH to everyone who left me a writing prompt to work with this upcoming week! I am excited and eager to get started knocking out some new work this week
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I absolutely can NOT tolerate heat well either. This morning, an hour ago, I walked the dogs and chatted with my neighbor for maybe ten minutes and I came back inside and almost had to shower. It is so freakin humid that you are absolutely drenched when you come in. I have no idea how humid or hot it is there but I can imagine that anywhere these days without a/c is a nightmare. I hope you get the pool filter fixed today and a/c soon too! <3
It's been crazy hot. It got to 109, I think, yesterday. Today was just in the 90s, so that actually felt tolerable. It's humid sometimes, but we get little tiny thunderstorms here and there lately that sometimes help. Wish it would rain really hard just once though. Yesterday was a weird day. It was SO hot, and it felt like it was going to rain all day but didn't. Heat lightning started in the evening, then outside turned orange. Not sure why, but that happens here every now and then. It just gets really, really orange. And my head was pounding and the energy was just weird, so I felt much better going and passing right out.
109 is ridiculous! also, most of the time when it rains here in the summer, the rain just turns to steam and it's even more humid. maybe look into window a/c units, maybe just for a bedroom? that way you have at least one place to escape to. also, i'd think they would be on clearance now. <3 you so much and i hope summer flies by!! feel better!!
Oh, I definitely want some AC units! We have three, but one stopped working last year, Josh managed to fix up the other two, but now they're not working this year at all. I'd have bought some, but we got so behind with the vet bills, Josh's teeth problem, and a surprise trip. We're still catching up from all that. We're lucky if we have gas through the week ATM, but that's one huge reason why I'm trying to buckle down on my writing right now!
That quote from the book really got my attention, too. I'm such a perfectionist that I've balked at even the idea of writing a first draft. I've planned a few books out in the past, but have been stopped by the idea that I could never write it the way I want to anyway so why bother. Giving oneself permission to be a bad artist is freeing indeed. Hemingway said, 'The first draft of anything is shit.' We need to stop being so hard on ourselves!
Your comment that you are being "mindful" again really stuck a cord with me. That word describes how I've been becoming more and more since starting the AW course. It seems like before I was always just racing as fast as I could to get my current task done. Nose to the grindstone kind of thing. But I've noticed so many things that I wasn't noticing before.
Because of my becoming more mindful, I've got a new idea for a novel (one that actually doesn't involve a lot of heavy research, which is a first for me I think! lol) that might be a fun NaNo project. :)
I think the mindfulness thing counts a lot. At least for me. I'm glad to hear that things are resonating and working well for you! I've been musing over NaNo too, but I don't know what I want to tackle this year. What's your idea?
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Your comment that you are being "mindful" again really stuck a cord with me. That word describes how I've been becoming more and more since starting the AW course. It seems like before I was always just racing as fast as I could to get my current task done. Nose to the grindstone kind of thing. But I've noticed so many things that I wasn't noticing before.
Because of my becoming more mindful, I've got a new idea for a novel (one that actually doesn't involve a lot of heavy research, which is a first for me I think! lol) that might be a fun NaNo project. :)
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