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December 28th, 2010
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| Well, it's that time of year again. As I did last year, I'm going to go over how I did on last year's resolutions before setting my goals for the coming year. ( Resolutions 2010 ) And, of course, on top of ALL of that there's the small matter of completing my OU degree! If I actually manage to achieve everything here, I'll have had a gosh-darned good year, I think... | ||||||
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March 31st, 2010
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| Not sure what I've done to my neck, but it hurts. *sulks* On the up side, though, I've got all my baking done, and my hair cut *AND* made a good stab at the recipe pile. I think the plan now is to do an hour's worth of writing and see where I am. Projects for that hour: 1) Red Rain chapter 6 2) Rough Justice 3) Sekrit writing project pt2 4) Red Rain chapter 9 None of them need that much to wrap them up, it's just a case of getting down to it and, in a couple of cases, stopping being so damn AFRAID of finishing! So, Write or Die time, I think. 15 minute bursts should see me sorted. | ||||||
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| Once more I have Things To Do, but at least this week I'm not waiting for people to show up so I can do them on my own timetable. The main thing today is getting my hair cut (I know; I lead an edgy life, what can I say?) as that has now reached ludicrous lengths (it's almost long enough that I could do a frelling Lady Godiva through central Bristol...!) and getting it trimmed back to a length just below my shoulders will make it a lot more manageable - and should make the summer (assuming we have one) a little more pleasant. Drawback is that the place I'm going to get it cut (cos it's cheap and you can't really screw up "make my hair three or four inches shorter please") is a first-come-first-served sort of place, so I need to try and be out there when it opens. *pauses to check opening hours* Looks like 9:30, so I have a little time. PHEW. Once that's done (and I've run a couple of errands on the way home, too) I have several rounds of Easter baking to do and a tonne of writing. I also ought to tackle the recipe heap so that that's tidied up and I have cross stitch that needs to be finished. Hm. Might spend this evening in front of my TV with some CSI DVDs to accomplish that last... Right. Time to crack on. I need to be out of here by 9am, which means I need to be washed, dressed and showered and I need to wash up before I do even that much. Updates later. | ||||||
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March 22nd, 2010
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| All the furniture has wented (err, by which I mean, all the furniture we were getting rid of; we still have chairs and tables and such!) and I've now been round and vacuumed up all the dust bunnies and paint chips left behind; I've also dealt with the rest of the houseworky stuff, AND I've got a good start on preparing dinner. Go me. Oh, and I also did the work-work stuff too. My aim now is half an hour or so of chilling out, then a concerted effort at getting some writing done. Pretty sure that this evening is probably going to entail quite a bit more furniture moving as we put the house at least slightly back to rights. Not sure how to rights we're going to bother with, though. I know that whatever we do (or don't do) it's not going to please the cat who has been thoroughly irritated by our shinanigans in the last couple of weeks. Hate to tell her this, but it's only going to get worse, culminating in a visit to the vet and probably some kitty valium! | ||||||
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| Well, another week, another day off and another day (probably) of vacuuming. The problem is, I can't really get a start on any of the houseworky tasks because I'm waiting for people to turn up to take away several items of unwanted furniture. I'm also not sure how much writing I can get done for the same reason. It's very hard to get the concentration flowing when you know that at any moment the doorbell's going to ring and people are going to be moving wardrobes down the stairs... Having said that, though, I think writing is what I'm going to try and do. I have any number of stories that I really, REALLY should get finished and/or get caught up on while I've still got the chance. I've also got to look into mobile internet and I might be doing some work-work while I'm waiting, too. (Yes, I know it's a day off, but in view of knowing I'll have to leave early tomorrow, I don't mind doing a couple of hours of work today in lieu!) Right. Plan, I think: Writing: -Isard's Grip - A half an hour on Write or Die should see to this. Yay. -Red Rain - Chapter 6 is one scene from being done; chapter 9 is two scenes away from being done; getting a start on chapter 10 would also be good! (chapters 7 and 8 are done already - yes, yes, I am writing way out of order again *sigh*) -Hammer to Fall - One and a half scenes from being done (though it may yet require editing when Red Rain finally wraps up) -Wild Flower - Prologue is half a scene from being done; the story plan is about half done Cleaning: -Kitchen -Bathroom -Living Room -Upstairs (last two depend on what furniture actually goes; they might, instead, involve me destroying things - have to see) Cooking: -Zest orange -Juice orange -Chop chicken -Chop parsley -Measure ingredients for pilauf -Cook pilauf Work-work: -Write frontend page for P And all this is going to need to be done without running on coffee as I'm trying to scale back my caffeine intake again. *sigh* Right. Time to make some tea (yes, I know it still has caffeine in - there's vastly less in white tea than there is in black coffee!) and crack on. Expect updates through the day! | ||||||
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March 10th, 2010
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| Ow. Ow. Ow. I think I'm going to be sitting down for an hour or so as my back is now killing me. On the upside, though, I have managed to achieve quite a bit.
Right. An hour of writing coming up, I think. It would be nice if I could manage to both finish off Isard's Grip AND post a new instalment of Soaring Eagle... | ||||
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Right. Windscreen wash, bathroom and vacuuming. Deep joy... | ||||
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| The hardest part of any list is knowing where to start with the dang thing. I shall be going out in about half an hour (which will take care of the out & about stuff); it's really a question of what I'm going to do in that half an hour. Writing, I think.
So; half an hour on Write or Die and we'll see what I can come up with... | ||||||
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March 9th, 2010
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Okay. Day off this week is Wednesday and there is a LOOOOOOOOOT of stuff that needs to get done. Thus, a list.
Couple of things already crossed off and it's not even Wednesday yet! | ||||
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Okay. Day off this week is Wednesday and there is a LOOOOOOOOOT of stuff that needs to get done. Thus, a list.
There. Should keep me busy! | ||||||
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March 1st, 2010
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| So, this is day five of bed rest and I'm seriously bored by it all now. I really don't do 'ill' terribly well and the trouble is that as long as all I do is lie here and...well...do nothing more exertive than type (witness what I'm currently doing), I feel okay. The moment I try to do anything else - like change DVD, visit the bathroom or make a cup of coffee - I start to keel over again. Which sucks royally. Whatever this is, it's quite clearly slightly more than a regular cold. From the wiki description (yes, I know), I do wonder if it's perhaps bronchitis which, if so, probably means I have another week or so of my lungs trying to escape and there really isn't a great deal to be done about it because of it being a virus rather than bacterial. Bleh. I will say that I think my ability to focus has improved since Friday, which at least means that (assuming I can sleep tonight) I should at least be able to work from home tomorrow. (Preeeeeeetty sure the boss isn't going to want me in the office with a cough that makes me sound like I'm only inches away from death's door!) Given that ability to focus, I might try doing some writing shortly - I have a story due on Saturday that I haven't even put finger to keyboard on yet, and that's never mind the stuff I was supposed to be working on last month that I didn't manage to wrap up. On the other hand, the idea of writing makes me feel guilty because if I'm well enough to do that surely I should be at work. And clearly I shouldn't be there. And again, bleh. I also have to admit to having gotten thoroughly bored of my DVD collection. I don't have the focus for anything new and/or too taxing, which rules out the stack of films I've got and leaves me cycling through my box sets. So far, I've gone through seasons 2-5 of CSI (which would come under the heading of too taxing but for the fact that I've seen most of the eps enough to know what happens well enough not to worry about dozing off mid-way through!) and made a good stab at DS9. Robin of Sherwood is a possibility - but that just brings back memories of sleepless nights from last May and I'm not sure I'm ready for that yet. Airwolf is too noisy; ditto The Unit. 24 isn't something you can dip into and Kung Fu and The Shield are still too new (I have about half the eps of each still to watch for the first time). NORMALLY, this would be the point I reach for Star Wars, but unfortunately, my current DVD player is R2 only and my original trilogy DVDs are R1. Again: bleh. So, SO hope I can do some work tomorrow. Now, excuse me; my lungs are making their next bid for freedom. | ||||||
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January 31st, 2010
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-Clean bathroom -Vacuum downstairs -Ironing -Tidy desk -Tidy cross stitch bits -Record video for J -Make dinner -Shower -parcel for G -parcel for L Before I tackle the ironing (which is the biggie task left), I'm going to have a quick sit down and put together the two parcels and have a bash at the video. | ||||||
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| Lots of stuff to get done before I sit down for lunch, Babylon 5 and cross stitch... -Clean kitchen -Clean bathroom -Vacuum downstairs -Ironing -Clean cat litter -Tidy desk -Tidy cross stitch bits -Record video for J -Empty dishwasher -Make dinner -Put on laundry load -Shower -parcel for G -parcel for L Obviously, not necessarily in that order! So. Time to get cracking. | ||||||
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January 16th, 2010
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| I've actually completed one of my NYRs! Namely, the great CD import drive. I now have imported pretty much every CD I own, with the exception of some compilation discs (I have a serious amount of overlap on some of these!) and a couple of novelty CDs (don't ask why I possess The Black Lace Party CD). Said CDs are also all (pretty nearly) boxed up and labelled - there are a handful still roaming loose, but by and large these are the ones I'm most likely to want to play in my car at some point between now and moving house. So, uh, yeah. Done. PHEW. | ||||||||
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January 6th, 2010
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| We have somewhere in the region of two inches of snow, with more falling as I type. So, SO glad I'm not at work this week! And, if I can stop turning myself into a hormonal puddle (don't ask) I have just four simple tasks for the day ahead (well, I do now I've cleared the snow off the porch): -Vacuum upstairs -Start cataloguing the x-stitch patterns -Make up a vat of spaghetti sauce -Work on FD Given that FD's my only writing project today, I think what I'm going to do is take myself, my coffee and the vacuum upstairs, then settle for a couple of hours' quality time with the laptop. Do the vacuuming by way of a break, then do another hour before lunch. With a little luck, that should see me with a completed and revamped chapter two and a good start on chapter three. That does, of course, mean prying myself away also from JF... | ||||||
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January 5th, 2010
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| I was within sight of home. The weather couldn't have waited another five minutes, could it? *sigh* Why yes, yes I have just shlepped home through the falling snow, how did you guess? Ugh. It's now stopped, but I'm generally suspicious of the weather's intentions and I strongly suspect that there's more from where what fell on me came from. Lots more. Have I mentioned how badly Bristol does snow? So glad I don't have to drive anywhere! Today's tasks are going smashingly (considering I've been out of the house literally all morning!) -Tidy bedroom bookshelves -Tidy DVDs -Work on Red Rain/Learning to Fly series - it's tempting to cross this off, cos that's precisely what I've been doing this morning (at the library!), but I'll be doing some more on this later -Work on Freya's Daughter - again, got a chunk of the thinking for this done this morning while waiting for the bus, but not enough to let me cross it off. The plan for after lunch is to have a hack at the two tidying tasks and then sit down with FD for the rest of the afternoon...assuming that I don't promptly go and conk out on my sofa through vastly too much fresh air... | ||||||
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January 4th, 2010
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| Not QUITE as productive an afternoon as I'd maybe hoped for - it was still better than I feared! -Prep food for dinner - eggs are hardboiled; can't really do too much more until 5pmish -Work on Isard's Grip - This is my task for this evening -Work on Freya's Daughter - Only managed to put finger to keyboard for about 1000 words which is, in the scheme of a novel, peanuts. BUT. I have got a few things straightened out in my mind so when I sit down with it tomorrow (assuming I'm home in time for me to sensibly do that!), I should be able to just get on Got most things crossed off, then, which is good, and I'm in a pretty good place to tackle what's left. *does a little dance of success* While I'm here (and given the early start I'm going to have tomorrow), I'm going to write up my tasks for tomorrow, which are as follows: -Prep food for dinner -Tidy bedroom bookshelves -Tidy DVDs -Work on Red Rain/Learning to Fly series -Work on Freya's Daughter As I mentioned, it's a much shorter list as I'm spending a chunk of the day in the library doing research, but with the state of my bedroom at the moment, I simply HAVE to include some work in there in an effort to try and get the room back under control. Right. Time for a cup of fresh coffee and then I need to tackle the cooking stuff so that I'm ready to start making the meal when mum comes in. | ||||||
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| Well, it's half an hour or so before lunch and I've had a pretty productive morning so far. -Box up the CDs imported over the weekend - Just about to start this -Prep food for dinner - eggs are hardboiled; can't really do too much more until 5pmish -Tidy office -Tidy bedroom desk -Work on Isard's Grip -Work on Freya's Daughter -Vacuum downstairs - Once the CDs are boxed, that's the next trick I've also, not that it was a "task" exactly, squeezed in half an hour's exercise, and set myself up for one of Wednesday's tasks (I'd be doing it tomorrow, but tomorrow I'm aiming to spend a chunk of time at the library, so I probably won't get much done around the house), namely cataloguing my assorted cross stitch patterns so that I don't have to spend hours thumbing through my magazines and books looking for what I'm after. So, all in all, not too bad. It's just possible I might even be able to get a crack at the office before lunch - which would be ideal, as that would mean after lunch I could get straight on with the writing stuff (if this sounds like procrastination, it isn't; as of this moment, I can't sit down at my laptop as both it and the chair are under about six inches of junk!), but it depends on when my stomach starts demanding lunch! | ||||||||
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| You'd think I'd have taken this LAST week, but no. I worked through the Christmas week and, instead, am off this week. Go figure. Today's tasks are as follows: -Box up the CDs imported over the weekend -Clean the kitchen -Prep food for dinner -Tidy office -Tidy bedroom desk -Tidy sewing box -Work on Isard's Grip -Work on Freya's Daughter -Deal with the laundry -Vacuum downstairs It's quite a long list, but most of what's on it shouldn't take me too long - providing I don't get sidetracked by shiny things, or the cricket, or stories that I'm not supposed to be working on...! Right. It's 9am. Time to get cracking. | ||||||||
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December 26th, 2009
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| They say that life is what happens when you're busy making plans and BOY has 2009 lived up (or down, depending) to that and I have a feeling that 2010 is, quite possibly, going to match it. For one thing, I know that we're incredibly likely to be moving house at some point during the year, and there are other things that may impact on life in the new year that I'm not going to talk about (cause hey; public journal), though if they come to pass, you'll get to hear about it. With that in mind, I'm incredibly waffly on whether to even bother with resolutions this time out, given that the chances are, I'll end up not meeting (m)any of them. On the other hand, if I think positively, who knows... So. ( Resolutions 2010 ) And that, I think, about does it. PHEW. | ||||||
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