A Light Through the Darkness

I get to fence today! Of course, I haven't fenced in almost two years, thanks to a medical condition that we're still not sure what it was, or why, but I've been released from my durance vile (aka, not fencing) and I'm off to practice in 45 minutes! I'm so excited! But there are still things to do today,and it's a pretty long list, so I want to make sure I'm on task when I come back.

To do today:
- Morning pages
- Do dishes
- 3 loads of laundry
- Put away laundry in the dining room that's already folded
- Make Pork and Stuffing Casserole for the Week
- Roast Beets - no, beets went bad, because I forgot about them. *sigh*
- Make Shephard's Pie for the week
- Make Apple Crisp Pie for the week (maybe)
- Make bread
- 250 words on Last Rites
- Fencing Practice
- Make 22 balls of Garlic-Parmesan Butter for Crown
- Make 22 balls of Honey Butter for Crown
- Clean off dining room table

In no particular order, of course. Now, time to finish my tea and go do the dishes.

Today is my first day SD (sans Donna) - hopefully I'll be okay.

I'm uber-busy today, so I need to post my list. Right now, I'm watching Numbers on the DVR, finishing breakfast and getting ready for my day. Here's my list to do:

1. Empty my car from Harpers
2. Get 2 loads of laundry done
3. Vacuum the downstairs
4. Do the Dishes from Harpers (not many, but it's hard to wash dishes with no water)
5. Clean off living room table.
6. Make dinner (caprese salad, roasted garlic marinated steak and something starchy)
7. One crit for DII (trying for one a day - we'll see)
8. 500 words on Magic Chapter
9. Start Prologue
10. 1 favor for Gabriella
11. Email Chrystie Terry
12. Update my Calendar

Lots of stuff. Getting busy now.

Getting a start on my To-Do list...

- 5k on Dreams
- 5 chapters on Revalations
- Editing essay for NaNoEdMo
- checkbook
- bills
- get car from work

Good thing I wasn't planning on doing anything else tomorrow. *insert eyerolling here*

Edit One: Well, it's 10 pm on Saturday and damn, I got a lot done! Now on to the actual writing! :p

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.

And hold her and rock her and everything!

Did I mention I have a six-week-old niece and she's ADORABLE?? :) We gots pictures too, but I'll get those later.

So, on the to-do list tonight:

1. Set up October writing sheet and figure out September totals and YTD totals.
2. 20 pages of critting on Bike Week
3. Character sheet (Shaitel) for Broken Wings
4. 1K on Dark Moon Seasons
5. Find a good baked french toast recipe
6. do shopping list for the week

Guess I'd better get cracking.

ETA: Just need my 1k on Seasons. And it's only 1 am. I can do this in an hour! I can!

Mental Note to self:

Do not take NyQuil on the night before you actually want to get up before 1 pm in the afternoon. *sigh*

I'm so used to having the caffeine in my system slow down the NyQuil that I didn't stop to think what would actually happen when I took it, without the caffeine.

Soooo, needless to say, I did not get everything done that I wanted to today.

I did get Ekk's knife mailed to him, and got dinner made (which meant I got the grocery shopping done). However, I didn't make it to the gym, nor did I get the laundry picked up.

So that's on the schedule for tomorrow.

To write tonight:

1. Character sketch for Rhiannon (Broken Wings)
2. 1k on Dark Moon Seasons

That's it. If I can do that, I'll be happy.

ETA: Well, I finished Rhiannon. And forgot to drink any caffeine today, so I'm crashing and sleepy, and heading to bed. But I got Rhiannon done.

Go me!

Got lots to do this week - with Harper's next weekend, I need to get all our stuff in order! And make more ornaments! And finish that bottle!

Oh yeah, and I need to write! :p

So here's the list for today:

To do today:

1. Balance checkbook
2. Reassemble Dreams to the new outline
3. 1k on Dreams
4. Print out contract for Wings and get copies made/notarized/sent out
5. Fold laundry and put away
6. Get more quarters
7. Buy a new watch

I'll update later.

ETA: Well, I got the checkbook done. Am going to fold laundry now, hence the update. Then it's off to Kinko's, since I'm out of ink, and then the bank. Then work. I'll write when I get home.

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!

Today's to-do list:

- balance checkbook
- do bills
- summaries for June
- do some research for Broken Wings
- work on the Elephant House
- lay out the website

Bleah. I need about ten years to catch up. Really.

Off to the slave mines...