Writing exercise #3: 15 minutes
Jan. 3rd, 2009 10:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arathreelOnly fifteen minutes today. I don't want to take the time to do twenty. That sounds wrong. I think it is more that my wrists hurt a little from just doing twenty last night and I don't want to suffer through another twenty, but I still need to do at least fifteen to meet my goal. Or maybe on weekends I will just always do fifteen and twenty all week long. That makes some sense, right? I'm still kind of making up the rules as I go along.
Speaking of rules, I would love to finish my novel this year. I wrote it during NaNoWriMo but there is still so much more editing to do and switching around chapters and adding snippets here and there where I just wasn't "inspired enough" to do so at the time. And it has been about two years since I've looked at it, so I feel like I can actually come back pretty fresh and clean and then have my awesome book written. And I will publish it through lulu since I really like lulu a lot. And anyone that wants to order a copy can just go to the website and buy it up. But I will have to ask around and see if some people would help me edit it. That's going to be crazy. I think I'm going to print the whole thing out because I'm able to edit a lot better on paper than on the screen. I make stars and arrows and cross things out and use all my editing notations. So I think, at some point, that is exactly what I will do.
I will not go to kinko's. We did that for our wedding pamphlets and printed out way too many. And it cost a lot of money. I will just print at home.
I still need to finish Chris's awesome birthday present and get that all printed out and organized. It is going to be so cool. I really think he will love it a lot. And since I'm bad with time lines, it will be fun and discombobulated, just like living with me! I'm pretty cool like that. Really able to make things fun in that manner.
Laying in bed last night, we talked a lot about having children and how much fun it will be. About how we will take them to the hall of Science in NYC and be kids with our kids. Because then it doesn't look as lame. And how much fun it will be to teach them that giving is the best gift, and have them help pick out gifts for mommy or daddy. And then have them watch the faces on Christmas morning. I really want to teach my kids good values. And it is hard because we really have to think which values are the good values that we want to instill in our children, and then, how do we go about doing that? It seems like it is going to be rather difficult, but I'm willing to give it a shot. It will be fun. And an adventure. Especially since Chris said he isn't sure how many kids he wants. I thought two but, really, until you have them, you can't say "this is a good stopping point". It is like if you had never eaten sushi before and go out and order two pieces and think that will be enough. If you eat one and don't like it, you will feel bad for ordering the second. But if you eat two and want more, you almost feel guilty about having to order more.
Or you don't. It is a bad analogy. I'm bad at thinking on my toes like this. But I'm sure you understand what I'm talking about. I don't want to force myself into a limit because then I will feel hypocritical if I break the limit. And so, we just know we will have children and don't talk about amounts. It is too difficult to think in that manner.
Chris is trying to decide what kind of beer he is going to start up in brewing next weekend. He's really getting into this brewing thing. I hope, at some point, he staggers it enough that we can have a batch done every month and start aging or bottling or whatever you do at that point. I'm really hoping that he can do that because honestly, having a batch of mead every other month would be awesome. Even if I am pregnant and unable to drink it, it sits well and will wait for me. But it would be nice to bring to events or maybe even just have at home to share with others. I know I have a few people in mind that I would love to share some of our home brew with. Some people I might end up gifting it to. I don't know how Chris feels about things like that. I don't know if he likes when I give away things like that or not. I mean, for Christmas he made me ungodly amounts of awesome tastic root beer, and I ended up giving some of it away to people. Like my two brothers love root beer, so I gave them a bottle of each of the types he made. He shrugged when I told him I was doing it, but I wish I knew how he really felt. he told me it was mine to do what I wanted with, but still. I don't want him to feel like I'm giving it away because I don't like it. I'm giving it away because it is really good and I want to share the amazing of it with everyone.
My fat cat is not as good as my other cat at balancing delicately and precariously on the very top of a pillow as she tries to sleep on the wool blankets. She kind of makes everything sink badly back to the ground. And it is a little sad. She needs to lose weight just like me. maybe she and I should do DDR together. That would be a hoot. Or Chris should make her play with the laser pointer while I'm doing DDR. 15 minutes of exercise for both of us. That should work. Though I doubt she would be a fan of it. After about two minutes, she is panting up a storm, poor thing. So instead I've started regulating their food. They only get a certain amount every day and they are eating more wet food. I'm trying to do the catkins diet for my larger girl as I've heard it actually works really well.
And now to get ready to head out to Kinderhook. We will play games. It will be good.
Speaking of rules, I would love to finish my novel this year. I wrote it during NaNoWriMo but there is still so much more editing to do and switching around chapters and adding snippets here and there where I just wasn't "inspired enough" to do so at the time. And it has been about two years since I've looked at it, so I feel like I can actually come back pretty fresh and clean and then have my awesome book written. And I will publish it through lulu since I really like lulu a lot. And anyone that wants to order a copy can just go to the website and buy it up. But I will have to ask around and see if some people would help me edit it. That's going to be crazy. I think I'm going to print the whole thing out because I'm able to edit a lot better on paper than on the screen. I make stars and arrows and cross things out and use all my editing notations. So I think, at some point, that is exactly what I will do.
I will not go to kinko's. We did that for our wedding pamphlets and printed out way too many. And it cost a lot of money. I will just print at home.
I still need to finish Chris's awesome birthday present and get that all printed out and organized. It is going to be so cool. I really think he will love it a lot. And since I'm bad with time lines, it will be fun and discombobulated, just like living with me! I'm pretty cool like that. Really able to make things fun in that manner.
Laying in bed last night, we talked a lot about having children and how much fun it will be. About how we will take them to the hall of Science in NYC and be kids with our kids. Because then it doesn't look as lame. And how much fun it will be to teach them that giving is the best gift, and have them help pick out gifts for mommy or daddy. And then have them watch the faces on Christmas morning. I really want to teach my kids good values. And it is hard because we really have to think which values are the good values that we want to instill in our children, and then, how do we go about doing that? It seems like it is going to be rather difficult, but I'm willing to give it a shot. It will be fun. And an adventure. Especially since Chris said he isn't sure how many kids he wants. I thought two but, really, until you have them, you can't say "this is a good stopping point". It is like if you had never eaten sushi before and go out and order two pieces and think that will be enough. If you eat one and don't like it, you will feel bad for ordering the second. But if you eat two and want more, you almost feel guilty about having to order more.
Or you don't. It is a bad analogy. I'm bad at thinking on my toes like this. But I'm sure you understand what I'm talking about. I don't want to force myself into a limit because then I will feel hypocritical if I break the limit. And so, we just know we will have children and don't talk about amounts. It is too difficult to think in that manner.
Chris is trying to decide what kind of beer he is going to start up in brewing next weekend. He's really getting into this brewing thing. I hope, at some point, he staggers it enough that we can have a batch done every month and start aging or bottling or whatever you do at that point. I'm really hoping that he can do that because honestly, having a batch of mead every other month would be awesome. Even if I am pregnant and unable to drink it, it sits well and will wait for me. But it would be nice to bring to events or maybe even just have at home to share with others. I know I have a few people in mind that I would love to share some of our home brew with. Some people I might end up gifting it to. I don't know how Chris feels about things like that. I don't know if he likes when I give away things like that or not. I mean, for Christmas he made me ungodly amounts of awesome tastic root beer, and I ended up giving some of it away to people. Like my two brothers love root beer, so I gave them a bottle of each of the types he made. He shrugged when I told him I was doing it, but I wish I knew how he really felt. he told me it was mine to do what I wanted with, but still. I don't want him to feel like I'm giving it away because I don't like it. I'm giving it away because it is really good and I want to share the amazing of it with everyone.
My fat cat is not as good as my other cat at balancing delicately and precariously on the very top of a pillow as she tries to sleep on the wool blankets. She kind of makes everything sink badly back to the ground. And it is a little sad. She needs to lose weight just like me. maybe she and I should do DDR together. That would be a hoot. Or Chris should make her play with the laser pointer while I'm doing DDR. 15 minutes of exercise for both of us. That should work. Though I doubt she would be a fan of it. After about two minutes, she is panting up a storm, poor thing. So instead I've started regulating their food. They only get a certain amount every day and they are eating more wet food. I'm trying to do the catkins diet for my larger girl as I've heard it actually works really well.
And now to get ready to head out to Kinderhook. We will play games. It will be good.
