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Midsummer cleaning, etc.
Jun. 26th, 2007 09:45 amBetween Thursday and Sunday I washed at least 11 loads of laundry. All but one got put away. There is no longer a load in each of two baskets, three loads in the hamper, one in the dryer, and several all over the floors. Hallelujah!! I also cleaned the master bathroom and vacuumed the entire house. I still need to wash sheets and rugs, and do lots of other things. Eventually.
I have written one page of my new novel. Gotta start somewhere. I'll do some more today.
My mood has significantly improved since Midsummer Day. Don't know if it's the light, the fact that I'm finally writing, the enzymes I've started taking, or what, but I'll take it. I'd just like to know how to prolong it. Even after 11 years here, it's tough for me to bear the reality that summer shows itself in no more than fits and starts before July 5th. Maybe when I'm old and gray (as opposed to just old, like I am now) we'll move back down closer to the 40th parallel. For now, there's too much I'm unwilling to leave behind here just over the 45th.
I've accumulated well over a dozen new books (some from the library) in the past few weeks. Somehow, I need to find time to write, work in the yard, keep cleaning the house, cook more often, and read all these books, almost entirely between the hours of 9am and 4pm. Don't expect to see me online much.
Yesterday I put together most of a 4-page newsletter for my homeowners' association. It doesn't suck. It's amazing what you can accomplish when the standards are ridiculously low (I started with several other associations' newsletters, and jeebus do they stink) and you're willing to be mediocre. My standards for my fiction are, I'm aware, very high. Sometimes that's paralyzing, but sometimes it's motivating.
Also, baby season has begun. One of Maggie's classmates got a new brother Saturday morning, when his Mom gave birth at home, in the hot tub. My friend L has been having contractions since Saturday. She's got a special situation -- a large cyst in her abdomen may be slowing (or even preventing) the progress of her labor. At the moment, the doctors want to "wait and see." I know several women due to have babies in August. If we can get through the next four months without deciding we want another infant of our own, we're golden.
That's all for now.
I have written one page of my new novel. Gotta start somewhere. I'll do some more today.
My mood has significantly improved since Midsummer Day. Don't know if it's the light, the fact that I'm finally writing, the enzymes I've started taking, or what, but I'll take it. I'd just like to know how to prolong it. Even after 11 years here, it's tough for me to bear the reality that summer shows itself in no more than fits and starts before July 5th. Maybe when I'm old and gray (as opposed to just old, like I am now) we'll move back down closer to the 40th parallel. For now, there's too much I'm unwilling to leave behind here just over the 45th.
I've accumulated well over a dozen new books (some from the library) in the past few weeks. Somehow, I need to find time to write, work in the yard, keep cleaning the house, cook more often, and read all these books, almost entirely between the hours of 9am and 4pm. Don't expect to see me online much.
Yesterday I put together most of a 4-page newsletter for my homeowners' association. It doesn't suck. It's amazing what you can accomplish when the standards are ridiculously low (I started with several other associations' newsletters, and jeebus do they stink) and you're willing to be mediocre. My standards for my fiction are, I'm aware, very high. Sometimes that's paralyzing, but sometimes it's motivating.
Also, baby season has begun. One of Maggie's classmates got a new brother Saturday morning, when his Mom gave birth at home, in the hot tub. My friend L has been having contractions since Saturday. She's got a special situation -- a large cyst in her abdomen may be slowing (or even preventing) the progress of her labor. At the moment, the doctors want to "wait and see." I know several women due to have babies in August. If we can get through the next four months without deciding we want another infant of our own, we're golden.
That's all for now.
