Going to bed on time was awesome and I definitely should do it more often. I woke up from m alarm with the best intentions and then – picked up my phone. So no morning pages, yoga or meditation. I was actually pretty slow all through the day.
I had breakfast and knitted a bit, then wrote my daily blog post, started a load of laundry, did the breakfast dishes and waited for my husband to make lunch. I did open the manuscript and started the new novel for the third time, then got stuck again.
Lunch was a family favorite, pasta e fagioli, but sadly the beans were a little undercooked and there was not enough salt:
And yes, these are real life photos and not very pretty. Also, for some reason my husband always fills our plates at the stove and carries them over to the table. (My mother insists on putting the food in serving dishes and setting them on the table so that no one needs to get up during the meal. And it’s looking prettier than having pots on the table. I like it better when I can decide my portion size myself but my husband really loves feeding people, so we let him.)
After that my husband was in a really good mood. He talked about visiting Naples next year. By train. I mean, I like train travel but a 12-hour train ride with my husband who gets claustrophobic is not on my bucket list. When I did travel to London by train I spread it out over two days. (Shoutout to my sister for hosting me for a night on my way there and back.)
I took a little break anyways but since I had told a friend I’d be in the online Zoom office to write in the afternoon I was there at three. I was the only one there for the whole two hours but well, I tried. And I wrote. I think I started over for the third time (not quite sure) but I finally got a beginning that works. It’s still a bit wonky and I’m not sure if I want to tell the story from different POVs or not. I think I’ll do dual POV but there might be three? And I kept changing the main character’s name. But then I did manage a little more than 1,000 words. Which makes me 5,000 words behind still. ::shrugs::
I did delegate hanging up the second load of laundry to the boy but neglected to have somebody do the dishes for me. After two hours writing I had my weekly check-in meeting with a bunch of writers. It was a lot of fun and very motivating, so I did stay for 2 1/2 hours. The rest of the gang then stayed on to talk about cozy fantasy which I find a fascinating topic but I decided it was time for dinner.
So I ate some toast and read at around 8, then sat there playing Solitaire on my iPad over and over and over until I finally did the lunch dishes at 11, started writing this post and went to bed.
Wasting those two hours felt really awful and I would have preferred to go to bed earlier but I couldn’t make myself.
Today I’ll do the usual Sunday things and write some more, I hope.
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