Monthly Archives: January 2011

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At this moment

it’s night time. I’m tired. It took me about 15 tries to type the title of this post correctly because first I couldn’t get the A in At to be capitalized, and then I couldn’t get the letters in moment in the right order.

The girls are sleeping. Thank goodness. We have a cold going around our house, and they’ve had stuffy noses and whiny selves all day. (I almost wrote whiny faces, but that would be kind of mean. And I don’t really blame them for being whiny, it just got really old.) But we did run around doing errands all day long, and they did a great job, so I hope they sleep well tonight.

I’m almost done writing  a 50,000  word story. I’m just past 40,000 words. It’s long and rambly and has weird Lovecraftian elements to it, which were not anticipated when I started. But it’s been enjoyable to write, which I can’t necessarily say about other things I’ve written.

I’m trying to work out in my head how to schedule all of the purging and packing of things in our house that needs to be done, because if you didn’t know, we’re moving! Our lease here is up, and we found a house to rent which is wonderful and beautiful and I can’t wait to move. :) It has 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, a big living room, lots of windows, a backyard, lots of trees around- seriously, anytime I’m around it I keep thinking I’m somehow in Boulder Creek.

(To get the Boulder Creek reference, see below)

I’d post a picture of the house we’re moving into, but they took them down when we signed the lease. But trust me, it’s awesome. And I’m excited. We move mid-February.

I’m tired. Did I mention that before?

I have to come up with something fun to do with Tiny tomorrow while Z goes to a birthday party. It has to be fun enough to offset that Tiny’s not going to the party, while at the same time not being so fun that Z feels bad that she didn’t get to do it. Oh, the games we play. But I’m excited for Z, it’s her new friend who she totally adores. After all (ok, almost all) of her friends moved this summer, I was praying that more girls her age would move in, and two completely adorable little girls have moved in that Z just loves. (I’ll admit that I was also praying that I would like their moms, and I do! Hooray!)

I think I’m calling it a night.  What’s going on with you right now?

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At this moment

The girls are in bed for rest time. I’m doubting that naps will actually happen, but hopefully some rest will.

I really should be getting my writing done for the day, but I’m not.  Did you know I’m writing a 50,000 word novel this month? Why, you ask? Heaven knows. I get talked into some crazy things. Although, if you want to get technical about it, I may recall that in this case I was the one talking people into it… but let’s not get all detail oriented at this point. I’m up to 10,3000 ish words at the moment, which is ahead of where I need to be to finish on time- about a day ahead, which is making it hard for me to summon the will power to do that same days worth today instead of just sit back and coast. (I know, I know, I’ll do it. Sheesh.)

I’m really unmotivated today, I think I’m coming down with something. I just can’t summon up the energy to do anything. Although I did sort through all of the toy bins today and put everything back where it goes, as well as clean the kitchen and vacuum, so it’s not like I’m laying around eating bon bons. And I’m really not eating bon bons because I’m trying to stay away from sugar, the sole exception being hot chocolate because it’s dang cold out.

I’m kind of completely obsessed with the idea of making a quilt inspired by The Darjeeling Limited, one of my favorite movies ever. It’s set in India and is gorgeous, and the colors keep popping in my head and they need to go somewhere.  I spent a portion of this morning collecting pictures that had the colors and patterns I’ve been imagining, would you like to see?

If you click on that it will take you to a bigger version. I just love the aquas and the oranges and golds with the fuschias — so so pretty.

I have a bunch of projects to do, and I’m tired and don’t want to work on any of them.

I watched Live to Dance last night and highly enjoyed it- some really really good stuff. And even when it wasn’t fabulous, the “experts” were really nice about it, and it was pleasant to watch.  I’d link to some of the numbers, but they don’t seem to be up anywhere.

I think I’m going to go take a nap.

What’s going on with you at this moment? (Hopefully it’s more exciting than this!)