Archives for November 2017

Yesterday was pretty good, though not quite as expected. I went for my run, and was a little lazy so there was quite a bit of walking in between running. After two weeks off I’m only slowly coming back to it.

Beforehand I had realized that I couldn’t upload the next podcast episode because with the firefox update the ftp-extension I was using was no longer working. I did find an app, though, and instructions on my web host’s site were clear and findable, so a few minutes later I was happily uploading. And it even went faster than before. Phew! I had anticipated hours of frustration.

And I changed the theme on my author blog. I’m still not entirely happy but this one is at least working.

Then we made lasagna. And found that we had run out of butter. Which meant that I went to the supermarket again, and also bought a dozen other things that we had run out of. Which meant that I wasn’t helping with the lasagna, which meant that we had lunch rather late.

Then I did all.the.dishes for half an hour.

I had planned to spend two hours on the boy’s furniture in the afternoon, to write shownotes for the podcast, and to write thousands of words on the novel.

Instead I spent four hours on putting the bed together, then had dinner, and then managed to write a thousand words before falling asleep.

Well. Today there will be the publishing of the podcast, some more work on the boy’s room, and I hope to write all.the.words.

So yesterday was a very good day for a change. I had gotten enough sleep, I managed claning the house in time, I even tackled the dreaded bathtub which hadn’t been cleaned in so long that I can’t even remember, and looked really filthy, I helped making delicious pizza, I taught all afternoon, and I even wrote 900 words in between students in the afternoon.

The problem was that 900 words was not quite enough. In order to finish NaNo I will have to write 3,000 per day.

In the evening the boy and I watched another really excellent Star Trek TNG episide (Sarek), and another very good „How I Met Your Mother“-episode, and then it was time for me to go after the word cound for real.

I am very happy to say that I actually did write 3,000 words all in all. Phew.

Now I only need to do the same again today.

Today there will be running, and lasagna, and we’ll be putting the boy’s bed and desk together, and my husband will fix the shelves to the wall, and then the boy can move his things upstairs. Finally.

There are also plans of watching more Star Trek tonight. Instead of going out and seeing a live concert. Which makes me extremely happy. I always feel weird when I prefer to stay home over going out but right now I need rest and sleep and time alone to recharge (and time to write) more than I need stimulation, and seeing people, and listening to new music.

The listening to new music might happen anyways because there has been noise about listening to some Brahms tonight. Maybe „Saturday music listening for the whole family“ is becoming a thing.

Yesterday I had another day of feeling really tired and not up to much in the end, so I decided to just go for a walk instead of a run. We had several people come over around lunchtime, as well, which made the day a little less predictable.

I did manage to record the new podcast episode. I keep forgetting that that’s something that costs energy too, podcasting is like performing after all.

I only had one student to teach, so that wasn’t strenuous at all.

In the evening I was so tired that I actually went to bed right after dinner (without doing the dishes). I turned the lights out at nine and manged to almost sleep eight hours.

No words.

I’m hoping to be a little more energetic today.

There will be the cleaning of the house, I will help my husband make pizza for lunch, I will teach quite a few students, and I hope to watch an episode of Star Trek and go to bed early. I know. Exciting!

The other thing that I’m all happy about is that my husband and I decided not to go out and see a concert tomorrow. I’m really looking forward to staying home.

I am hoping to find some time for writing today. The day is pretty packed, though.

As planned I didn’t go for a run yesterday but instead spent two hours putting IKEA furniture together. Two shelves and a chair. Now there’s only the bed left, and the top of the desk. We’ll do that on Saturday because I need an extra pair of hands for that. I am sore everywhere. I can’t recommend not exercising for two weeks, and follow that by hours of carrying and lifting and using a screwdriver and a hammer.

Today I want to run, record a podcast episode, teach two students, write all.the.words, and go to bed early. In fact going to bed early might be a new life goal of mine.

Yesterday at least I managed to get two new scenes written. In the end I actually fell asleep while typing which tells you how tired I am. Yesterday or the day before I told my husband about my epiphany that getting to the roots of my health problems will take ages, and we both felt rather discouraged afterwards. Part of me is wishing for a magic pill that restores my energy. I sincerely doubt that will happen, though. And before the magic pill (which probably doesn’t exist) there are standing multiple doctor’s appointments, and each of them will mean weeks of waiting.

The good thing is that that means I get to take matters in my own hands. Finding way to manage my energy better will surely be a good thing, magic pill or not.

Which is just a long and convoluted way of saying that as of now sleep and rest have been given higher priority, and winning NaNo has moved a tad down. I’ll still try but I won’t lose sleep over it. The novel will be finished when the novel is finished. Typing while falling asleep is not helping.

So yesterday I was somewhat less tired which was nice.

As I already told you I spend most of the morning waiting for the IKEA delivery. It came during my husband’s breakfast, and the two of us carried everything upstairs after he was finished.

Which left me enough time to do errands and grocery shopping. Tea shop, health food store, and supermarket. And then I started putting the dresser together. It took me most of my spare time yesterday but now it’s done.

Which meant there was not much time left for writing. I do have a day job as well, and with the whole furniture-building that was enough for the day.

In a heroic effort I wrote about a thousand words after dinner and dishes, and then fell asleep fully dressed while reading. I need to change that, this is a terrible habit. It would be so much better to change into pajamas and brush my teeth first. So that when I find myself sleepy I can just sleep.

Today I woke up too early again. I could hear my mother-in-law upstairs, maybe she woke me up. And I am so tense about the absence of writing that I couldn’t fall back asleep. Of course I didn’t use that time to write.

Today there should have been running but I think I will put some bookshelves together instead. There will be lots of teaching, and some writing. I hope. Also I’ll be doing laundry. Exciting times…

If it weren’t for the writing yesterday would have been a great day. I went running again for the first time in two weeks, and it made me really happy, and I did some laundry, and helped make lunch, and taught a lot of students, so all in all a good day.

But writing went exceptionally slow in the morning, and then I never really got around to write some more, and in the evening I was so tired that I just called it a day and crawled into bed.

Interestingly I woke up too early this morning, and am still feeling like crawling back into bed. And no, I don’t think this is normal, or due to how long I’m sleeping in the night. But I’ll have to wait a few weeks for my next doctor’s appointment to figure that out.

Today I will spent mostly waiting for the IKEA delivery. It’s supposed to arrive some time between 7 and 2. I do know that they won’t arrive at 7 because it’s now 8 in the morning. I am carrying the dreaded phone around me all morning because they’re supposed to call shortly before arrival. The best thing for me woul be if they came some time between 9 and 10 but I bet I’ll wait and wait, and then they’ll either arrive right in the middle of lunch, or even a little later. And I won’t be able to go grocery shopping because I’m waiting.

Of course I will spend the time waiting writing away adding to my word count. Of course.