A Light Through the Darkness

Decided not to go to Walmart last night, and the bank didn't have any deposit envelopes. *sigh* Given the way my night was going, I promptly gave up, went home, took a LONG, HOT bath and went to bed.

Today started off HORRIBLY.

I did get to clean out my car, and still couldn't find the cell phone. Minor meltdown, relieved by promising myself that I would get ahold of SIL when I got back and would find out one way or the other if I had to get a new cell phone. Then went to the bank - and found that I had forgotten both debit card AND checkbook. Went into bank and deposited money.

Went to Joann's and got gorgeous burgundy fleece for argus7hills's Father Christmas coat for Saturday. No hunter green, bah. But the burgundy is beautiful, and I got white silky furry fleece to do the trimming with. Matching thread and we were good to go.

Checked at the D'Angelos I had stopped at on Saturday, on the off-chance that I'd dropped the phone there. Nope.

Back at home, got a hold of the SIL - yup, the phone is on an extended vacation in Maine. *sigh* If you've called me since Saturday, well, I won't get the message until maybe Tuesday. Just so you know.

Got the jacket cut out (except the sleeves, which is tomorrow's project) and the gores pinned. Was home for a bit during lunch, and argus7hills tried it on - fit wonderfully! Yay! There will be a marathon sewing session tomorrow. :)

Tonight is writing. I got almost 3k done yesterday at the hospital during my transfusion, so I want to get some more done tonight.

Oh, and jaylake has a great article on discipline in writing. Check it out.

Oh my goodness. Talk about a PILE of presents! You can't see my living room table any more. :)

Talked to Verizon today - our DSL modem is in transit! Hopefully, it'll be here tomorrow and then I'll be able to use my computer again! I cannot WAIT! Once the DSL is in, I'll upload pictures so y'all can see. I had fun Black Friday. And there's more coming. *insert evil cackle here*

And Comcast is still being awful. They sent me a bill with wrong information - including charging me for HDTV equipment. What? I have a 20" tv - and it's DEFINITELY not an HD model! I told them I wasn't paying a damn thing until they fixed it. I'm supposed to get a call back on Wednesday. We'll see.

Plans this week:

- Hit the gym twice more (went yesterday - go me!)
- Write 5k (1k per day) on Seasons
- Finish ornaments for Donna
- Clean out my car

More later.

This means that you cannot run for four days on approximately 10 hours of sleep, and drive for 6+ hours at a time. Just so you know.

Well, I have officially taken a recovery day today. I called in sick to work, because well, my hair hurts. That's how tired I am. And that's after a 3+ hour nap when I got back from dropping the car off at o-god thirty 7:30 am this morning in Northwood, so it could get a new timing belt.

I stopped and got stuff for dinner, came home and said, "I'll just take a two-hour nap." At 3.5 hours, I hauled my ass out of bed, found my cell phone and gave up. Literally. Called in and told them I would be in tomorrow. Then stared at the tv for 10 minutes before I realized it wasn't on.

Oh, yeah. Definitely NOT a day to be in work.

So here's my list of what I would like to accomplish today. The only critical one is Number 8. For obvious reasons.

To Do List:

1. Update LJ
2. Do at least 2 hours of editing on vampire book
3. 1k in Seasons
4. Balance Checkbook
5. Start Rhiannon's character sheet
6. 1k in Dreams
7. 2 summaries for June
8. SLEEP!

ETA: Got a few things done. Also got about 300 words in Seasons before I crashed. But today, I'm rarin' to go! Go me!