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Mar. 14th, 2015 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI wrote about 500 words yesterday, but I think I'm going to have to delete most, if not all, of it. It's a meandering inner monologue, and that's a bad way to start a chapter. Maybe I can save it and use it later. The character in question has far too much time to think and no immediate prospect of his situation changing. He's better off than he was before the story started, but things still aren't particularly good.
I do have to decide, for this story, how I want to resolve one of the plot threads. It needs to be resolved, at least in part, magically, and I have a choice between a ritual//spell and some sort of mystical object. I'm not really satisfied with either option. They seem both too easy and too inconvenient-- Too easy because either would resolve the problem quickly and without the effort I think the problem merits. Too inconvenient because both of my main point of view characters are currently very limited in mobility. One's confined to a cell, and the other has been ill and can't walk. I'm trying to come up with a third option. Maybe a quest? But I'm not sure that the character who has the problem realizes that it is a problem; I don't think he'd be motivated enough to go on a quest. He has a lot of other things to do that he would consider much more important.
I've been playing a lot of solitaire as a way of procrastinating writing. It's difficult because solitaire can also help me clarify my thoughts in preparation for writing. I just have to get myself to stop playing it at some point and start writing.
I managed to do Sit and Be Fit four times this last week. That's generally my goal. (I can't do it on Thursdays because it's right in the middle of the time while the cleaning lady is here and I'd be in her way.) I can tell I'm out of shape because Sit and Be Fit tires me out. It didn't used to. I want to get to where Sit and Be Fit is easy again and then add Body Electric back in. I suspect Body Electric is better for me. I just don't think I can manage it right now.
Scott worked 3 a.m. to 7 a.m. today. He went to bed later than he ought to have done, given that. I think he was really hoping they wouldn't need him. He did the grocery shopping on the way home. His arrival at home woke me, but I stayed in bed for a while. I got up right about the time he climbed into bed to nap.
Drat! That's what I forgot to put on the grocery list-- jello and claritin. I might have enough claritin to get through the week, but I also might have to send Scott back to the store mid-week. The jello is easier to do without, but it does make a nice dessert that Cordelia enjoys. We've got some orange jello, but Cordelia has stated firmly that she will not eat a single bite of that because she doesn't like orange. Scott is a little put out that she didn't tell him that before he bought the orange jello.
I've started trying some of the teas in the Stash samplers I bought a couple of months ago. I opened the green tea sampler first, so those are what I've been having. I tried the pomegranate raspberry green tea and liked it quite a bit. I also tried the goji berry green tea (I know I've had some form of goji berry tea from Stash in the past; I just can't remember if it was this one). That was okay. I'd drink it again, but it didn't knock my socks off, so I probably won't buy more. I'd consider buying more of the pomegranate raspberry green tea. Today, I tried the white tea green tea blend. I wasn't particularly impressed. It wasn't awful, but I think, for how it tasted, I'd want more caffeine as a reward.
Scott and I have another Netflix DVD to watch. It took longer to arrive than I expected. We sent the previous DVD back on Monday and didn't get this one until Friday. Usually the turn around it a day or so faster. This is another DVD of Leverage, the last of season four. I don't think we're going to get through the show in time to keep up with Mark Watches, but we'll get there eventually.
I do have to decide, for this story, how I want to resolve one of the plot threads. It needs to be resolved, at least in part, magically, and I have a choice between a ritual//spell and some sort of mystical object. I'm not really satisfied with either option. They seem both too easy and too inconvenient-- Too easy because either would resolve the problem quickly and without the effort I think the problem merits. Too inconvenient because both of my main point of view characters are currently very limited in mobility. One's confined to a cell, and the other has been ill and can't walk. I'm trying to come up with a third option. Maybe a quest? But I'm not sure that the character who has the problem realizes that it is a problem; I don't think he'd be motivated enough to go on a quest. He has a lot of other things to do that he would consider much more important.
I've been playing a lot of solitaire as a way of procrastinating writing. It's difficult because solitaire can also help me clarify my thoughts in preparation for writing. I just have to get myself to stop playing it at some point and start writing.
I managed to do Sit and Be Fit four times this last week. That's generally my goal. (I can't do it on Thursdays because it's right in the middle of the time while the cleaning lady is here and I'd be in her way.) I can tell I'm out of shape because Sit and Be Fit tires me out. It didn't used to. I want to get to where Sit and Be Fit is easy again and then add Body Electric back in. I suspect Body Electric is better for me. I just don't think I can manage it right now.
Scott worked 3 a.m. to 7 a.m. today. He went to bed later than he ought to have done, given that. I think he was really hoping they wouldn't need him. He did the grocery shopping on the way home. His arrival at home woke me, but I stayed in bed for a while. I got up right about the time he climbed into bed to nap.
Drat! That's what I forgot to put on the grocery list-- jello and claritin. I might have enough claritin to get through the week, but I also might have to send Scott back to the store mid-week. The jello is easier to do without, but it does make a nice dessert that Cordelia enjoys. We've got some orange jello, but Cordelia has stated firmly that she will not eat a single bite of that because she doesn't like orange. Scott is a little put out that she didn't tell him that before he bought the orange jello.
I've started trying some of the teas in the Stash samplers I bought a couple of months ago. I opened the green tea sampler first, so those are what I've been having. I tried the pomegranate raspberry green tea and liked it quite a bit. I also tried the goji berry green tea (I know I've had some form of goji berry tea from Stash in the past; I just can't remember if it was this one). That was okay. I'd drink it again, but it didn't knock my socks off, so I probably won't buy more. I'd consider buying more of the pomegranate raspberry green tea. Today, I tried the white tea green tea blend. I wasn't particularly impressed. It wasn't awful, but I think, for how it tasted, I'd want more caffeine as a reward.
Scott and I have another Netflix DVD to watch. It took longer to arrive than I expected. We sent the previous DVD back on Monday and didn't get this one until Friday. Usually the turn around it a day or so faster. This is another DVD of Leverage, the last of season four. I don't think we're going to get through the show in time to keep up with Mark Watches, but we'll get there eventually.
