Well shoot. I really need to edit that episode because a new one's gonna be published TOMORROW and oh my goodness what a mess.
I also need to find time to get Chaos some regulation pants. So that promises to be "fun".
I'm going to do everything I can and hope the windows align. Hope the money lasts. Hope for deliverance (cha cha cha).
I seriously have to get my shit together.
Beloved goes back to work, so I'm re-entering my goal of hitting 72K by Friday. I know I haven't done shit all about that goal for like two weeks and it also doesn't matter if I can't find beta readers to clean it up for publication.
I have done all the things I should be doing except my 750 words. Which almost defeats the purpose. Whoops.
I will be getting on with that as soon as I'm done with this.
What I'm
Read more »A kitty's due to have some jabs today. Mayhem also wishes to get some underpinnings we can get for cheap. So today promises to be... hectic. Especially since he's due to work potentially soon after the underpinnings shenanigans.
Boy insists on wearing a hecking huge winter coat to conceal his uniform and I SWEAR he's gonna get heat stroke or something because Aussie summers SUCK. But of course he swears he's fine and doesn't need me fretting and oh my gosh, he's
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It's school time again and Mayhem is entering his last term. Hopefully he's still looking for part-time work to help fill the family coffers.
It's not his fault that the job market is so scarce. Late stage capitalism sucks major balls. Content creation for pennies on the hour might be all that he has, poor dear.
It's a Cleaning Day, and a Patreon Day, and I'm trying to do all my other nonsense... so yeah. Busy 'Nutter.
I'm
Read more »Tomorrow, at one in the firkin morning, Toasty is doing an art livestream. This is interesting for me because I'm going to be USELESS on Monday. Which, I might add, is also a grand unfuckening because the cleaners took a holiday this week.
I did initially try to keep the household organised, but the usual entropy has asserted itself because I went down with the lurgi.
Ugh.
It's going to cost me $300 next week and I am not sure whether or
Read more »Today is a public holiday. This means that it's a gamble as to whether anywhere at all is open for business.
The goal for my novel this week is 114K, which means at the end of the week, there will be two left until I reach the end. I am definitely taking a week to myself before I start the serious work of an actual planned trilogy.
Yikes.
Each book has to be a complete story, but not quite complete. They also
Read more »My Friendo's funeral is happening soon. Not too soon, just... soon. There's probably going to be three days of radio silence or a reasonable impersonation thereof. Frankly, I'll count myself lucky if I can keep the Instants going out.
So much to do in-between.
My car is having coolant issues, so I have to do something about that. The Doctor's office gave me the number for Q-Tax, and I have to do something about that... I have to pack...
At least now,
Read more »Chaos starts swimming lessons, this week. I'm 1000% for. Anything that could plausibly save my little darlings' lives gets my vote. Since the lessons happen on Wednesday, that's moved up her tuck shop day to Tuesday.
That's happening this week.
The TangleBag(tm) now has starter walls. It's quicker to do the walls than it is to do the base because trebles are no longer involved. I've gone through three circuits since yesterday and it's starting to look like a wibbly wobbly
Read more »Pick any three. I'm blaming the carb feast my Beloved brought home for Valentimes. We're belaying the actual good food for tonight because like literally everywhere was booked out before we even thought of it. So Beloved brought home cheesecake, chocolate, ice cream, and macarons and we binged MacGuyver and ate a lot of crap.
Perfect couple's night IMHO.
Tonight, we're headed off to Hoggies for a belated Valentimes
Read more »I got a lot to do, of course. Another unfuckening of the house. Another Instant. Another 500 words. Another TAZ flash fanfiction.
Maybe I really am writing like I'm running out of time. Given the way the world is increasingly funked up, headed for assorted disasters - do you blame me?
I only have this life and I'm past my family average halfway point. Barring accidents and whatnot, I have my own lifetime left. Less than that.
If nothing else, I should
Read more »I give myself too many projects when I'm bored. Then I run out of time to do them because I overcommit to things. Then I burn out and get depressed and don't do any firkin thing.
It's a cycle. I'm trying not to ride it downhill this time around.
HAM only works when you have uninterrupted half-hours to do things. It's great for my day structure when there is no structure. When I gotta organise myself around other shit... it's not so
Read more »I remembered... then forgot... that today was the Cleaning day. On the plus side, I got all my writing done in good time. On the minus side... I spent a majority of the day fretting about the cleaning.
I'm not up to doing anything on my pet projects, yet and that's okay. Working out my time windows is part of the process. Re-enforcing HAM is definitely part of it because fretting about time is one of my biggest ways to waste time.
Read more »Mayhem went back to sleep three times this morning. He's going to need an early night tonight or he won't be prepared for school tomorrow.
Lad's in for some interesting times.
Meanwhile, Chaos is raring to go. I last saw her in her uniform and last heard her doing a giggle run up and down the hallway. She's all ready, already. Hooray. It's my dear darling Eldest who has to take a dose of personal responsibility.
He's going to get a lecture.
Read more »I've probably caught up with everything. I have this last year's worth of Instants collated into the anthology and all I have to do yet is adjust the cover and transform it into the right kind of document and then link all the footnotes.
Which means upgrading some important software so that I can actually do the footnotes without having to transport my document to another computer and fart around there.
"All". Yeah. Things get complicated when I set out to do
Read more »It's the penultimate day before I take the long-arse journey back home. Richer for experience and poorer for cash [eh. Whaddayagunnado] but definitely a happier person for all the experiences.
I now know how to pan for gold. Got bupkiss but the experience, but I know how to do it. The trick is not spending a fortune in the chase for the mother-load. That ship done sailed more than a century ago.
The PLN, such as it is, is to be certain
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