Ken left at something like 4 am today to meet his mom to go
look at some historic train that’s in the area for only today. Clearly I didn’t
go with him, mainly because he and his mom enjoy having time together like this
(he’s an awesome son!). I was originally planning to go to Isles Anniversary,
but a forecast of morning rain and a high of 58° made me re-think that plan,
plus, you know, work. Workity workity work. I haven’t been very productive—I’ve
been feeling like warmed-over crap, really, with the mental/emotional/creative
energy of something that has pretty much no mental/emotional/creative energy (I
was going to say “a fruit fly” or “a wombat” but who am I to judge how much
mental/emotional/creative energy those things have? If wombats had opposable thumbs,
they might paint wombatly masterpieces, for all I know. Hm. Okay, how about the
mental/emotional/creative energy of a lukewarm cup of tea? That’s pretty
accurate, actually.)
Where was I? Right, I haven’t been very productive, although
I’ve been chipping away at things, slowly. I have a couple of bad days and then
I have an okay day, and I’m trying to learn not to turn the okay day into a day
where I frantically try to catch up, exhaust myself, and have more bad days. So
yesterday I focused on copyediting and personal/home/SCA email, and I did a
mound of dishes and assisted Ken with dinner (shrimp scampi over wholegrain
thin spaghetti along with roasted brussels sprouts NOM).
I slept in today, by which I mean, I had a headache for part
of the night so I stayed in bed longer than I might normally have. It’s mostly
gone now, anyway. Thus far I’ve eaten shrimp scampi for breakfast (do not judge
me) and done an hour’s worth of copyediting. Next on deck:
- drink protein shake while sitting outside with kitlings and reading the second Castle book, Naked Heat
- eat a banana
- go for a run/walk
- shower, probably have a snack
- finish a short story
- do another hour or so of copyediting (I need to have this one done before Thanksgiving, and we’ve got a busy few days leading up to Thanksgiving, so I want to get ahead)
- get another short story uploaded
- promo recently uploaded stories
- watch videos on how to design books in In Design, because all I’ve ever designed in In Design are booklets, and they’re different. Argh.
- eat dinner (possibly more shrimp scampi, or maybe a caprese sandwich)
Damn, that looks like a lot. We’ll see. Don’t want to overdo
it and feel like a lukewarm cup of tea. (That sounds like bad poetry.)
And I need to get back into the habit of writing down (and
maybe posting) my Done Lists….
