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the_rckI wrote about 150 words last night. Naturally, I wrote them while I was supposed to be doing something else altogether. Still words, even words on the story I need to finish today. My current plan is to write this, post it, do all of the preparation for the cleaning lady coming, and then write for the rest of the day. I considered writing with breaks to do the chores, but I’m pretty sure that that would lead to me finding more and more things with which to distract myself. I might also take a walk this morning because it hasn’t (according to my phone) gotten hot yet. I’ve been wanting to go to the science center for several days now and just putting it off and putting it off, but that would take a fairly large bite out of my morning, so I don’t know.
I actually set an alarm to get myself out of bed at 7:00 with the idea that the extra time would let me take a walk while it was cool, but I was so tired when my alarm went off that I went right back to sleep because I knew that there was no reason I really had to get up. (Sleep last night wasn’t as bad as the night before, but it wasn’t as uninterrupted and restful as I’d have preferred.)
I’m getting a bit frustrated with Scott. He keeps saying that he needs to be in bed by 10:00, but he does nothing at all to make that happen. He doesn’t start making his lunch or getting ready for bed until 10:30, and often, that only happens because I start getting ready for bed or tell him that he must. I should not be responsible for getting him to bed. He’s fifty not five. When we’re in bed, generally the light on my side of the bed is on (his bedside lamp doesn’t, to the best of my knowledge, actually work, and the overhead light is harder to turn off than my lamp is). He stays up, dinking around on his laptop and watching YouTube videos, until I get around to turning the light off. He never asks me to do it.
I think that we may need to go to bed at different times. I don’t know. Maybe I should try to get up earlier in the morning so that going to bed earlier makes sense? But my most productive writing time is generally after 9:00 and runs as late as I’m able to stay up. If I write on my laptop or my phone in bed, the light keeps Scott awake, so that’s not a workable solution.
I have decided, however, that I’m going to start making Scott’s sandwiches. It takes all of three minutes (I’m not sure why it takes him fifteen most evenings). His lunches are a sandwich, a yogurt, and a bag of carrots. I can have that ready with almost no effort, especially if I make it part of my morning routine. There’s enough time while I wait for the kettle to boil for my coffee for me to make his sandwich and deal with the dirty dishes.
We had two friends over last night, and Scott tried to get a game of Microscope going. Sadly, that needs a good bit more time than we had, especially given that we were trying it for the first time and really had no idea what we were doing. It took us most of the time we had to get our frame set up. (It was during this time that I started writing, so I wasn’t as helpful as I maybe should have been.) Scott’s thinking that he’ll try to come up with some sort of silly role playing scenario that the four of us can play when![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
booniverse isn’t able to run but the rest of us want to do something.
We got our absentee ballots yesterday and filled them out and put them in the mailbox to go back in today’s mail. I considered taking them in myself, but I realized that I really don’t currently have the resources to do that. I need to husband my resources so that I can deal with all of the preparation for the trip. I’m pretty sure that we’ve got enough time for the USPS to get the ballots to city hall by the end of the day on Tuesday.
I actually set an alarm to get myself out of bed at 7:00 with the idea that the extra time would let me take a walk while it was cool, but I was so tired when my alarm went off that I went right back to sleep because I knew that there was no reason I really had to get up. (Sleep last night wasn’t as bad as the night before, but it wasn’t as uninterrupted and restful as I’d have preferred.)
I’m getting a bit frustrated with Scott. He keeps saying that he needs to be in bed by 10:00, but he does nothing at all to make that happen. He doesn’t start making his lunch or getting ready for bed until 10:30, and often, that only happens because I start getting ready for bed or tell him that he must. I should not be responsible for getting him to bed. He’s fifty not five. When we’re in bed, generally the light on my side of the bed is on (his bedside lamp doesn’t, to the best of my knowledge, actually work, and the overhead light is harder to turn off than my lamp is). He stays up, dinking around on his laptop and watching YouTube videos, until I get around to turning the light off. He never asks me to do it.
I think that we may need to go to bed at different times. I don’t know. Maybe I should try to get up earlier in the morning so that going to bed earlier makes sense? But my most productive writing time is generally after 9:00 and runs as late as I’m able to stay up. If I write on my laptop or my phone in bed, the light keeps Scott awake, so that’s not a workable solution.
I have decided, however, that I’m going to start making Scott’s sandwiches. It takes all of three minutes (I’m not sure why it takes him fifteen most evenings). His lunches are a sandwich, a yogurt, and a bag of carrots. I can have that ready with almost no effort, especially if I make it part of my morning routine. There’s enough time while I wait for the kettle to boil for my coffee for me to make his sandwich and deal with the dirty dishes.
We had two friends over last night, and Scott tried to get a game of Microscope going. Sadly, that needs a good bit more time than we had, especially given that we were trying it for the first time and really had no idea what we were doing. It took us most of the time we had to get our frame set up. (It was during this time that I started writing, so I wasn’t as helpful as I maybe should have been.) Scott’s thinking that he’ll try to come up with some sort of silly role playing scenario that the four of us can play when
booniverse isn’t able to run but the rest of us want to do something.We got our absentee ballots yesterday and filled them out and put them in the mailbox to go back in today’s mail. I considered taking them in myself, but I realized that I really don’t currently have the resources to do that. I need to husband my resources so that I can deal with all of the preparation for the trip. I’m pretty sure that we’ve got enough time for the USPS to get the ballots to city hall by the end of the day on Tuesday.
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Date: 2016-07-28 04:01 pm (UTC)I hope you and Scott can figure out bedtimes/schedules. If writing late is what works for you, it would be good to keep that. But I know most couples like to go to bed at the same time, which makes sense too.
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Date: 2016-07-30 04:34 pm (UTC)I think that we will end up going to bed at different times. Before Cordelia, I used to stay up three or four hours later than he did, and that worked okay. That was fourteen years ago, though, so we've all changed.