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Oct. 7th, 2016 12:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckThe cleaning lady managed to get the water out of the tub. Then, when he got home, Scott took about an hour getting the drain clear.
I made meatloaf in the pressure cooker. I had no idea if it would come out at all because we had about half as much rolled oats as I needed. I added some grapenuts, all we had, and some steel cut oats. The steel cut oats stayed a little more solid than I hoped, but I kind of expected that. We were out of bread, and I really didn’t think I was up to smashing saltines or anything. The resulting 'loaf' was rather more apt to fall apart than I was hoping. I only cooked half of the ground turkey. I’ll do the rest tomorrow.
I got some writing done yesterday. This is one story that I think I’m going to have to take an ax to by the time I finish the first draft because the characters dither and dither and dither. They have valid concerns, but they’re not actually addressing them and really can’t while they’re sitting and talking. I just am not sure how to make that stop because my POV character is trapped and can’t leave. She’s only going to know what the other character tells her about what he’s going to do, and right at the moment, he’s the one who will decide where things go. Unfortunately, the best courses of action for him (and her) are things he can’t actually do for one reason or another. I keep finding roadblocks, perfectly reasonable ones, that are keeping me from going to where I’d intended and getting them out of the place where they are now.
I had a period of wakefulness in the middle of the night last night. I was going back and forth between too warm and a little bit too cold, and my brain was racing.
I’ve got a lot of chores today. I need to finish the load of laundry I started last night (I just put that in the dryer). I need to bake bread. I need to cook more meatloaf (which requires washing the pressure cooker stuff. The dishwasher is only 2/3 full, so I’m very torn between running that and washing by hand). I need to take those boxes of the kleenex to the school. I need to figure out who I’m voting for in the non-partisan races so that I can fill out my absentee ballot and send it back.
I made meatloaf in the pressure cooker. I had no idea if it would come out at all because we had about half as much rolled oats as I needed. I added some grapenuts, all we had, and some steel cut oats. The steel cut oats stayed a little more solid than I hoped, but I kind of expected that. We were out of bread, and I really didn’t think I was up to smashing saltines or anything. The resulting 'loaf' was rather more apt to fall apart than I was hoping. I only cooked half of the ground turkey. I’ll do the rest tomorrow.
I got some writing done yesterday. This is one story that I think I’m going to have to take an ax to by the time I finish the first draft because the characters dither and dither and dither. They have valid concerns, but they’re not actually addressing them and really can’t while they’re sitting and talking. I just am not sure how to make that stop because my POV character is trapped and can’t leave. She’s only going to know what the other character tells her about what he’s going to do, and right at the moment, he’s the one who will decide where things go. Unfortunately, the best courses of action for him (and her) are things he can’t actually do for one reason or another. I keep finding roadblocks, perfectly reasonable ones, that are keeping me from going to where I’d intended and getting them out of the place where they are now.
I had a period of wakefulness in the middle of the night last night. I was going back and forth between too warm and a little bit too cold, and my brain was racing.
I’ve got a lot of chores today. I need to finish the load of laundry I started last night (I just put that in the dryer). I need to bake bread. I need to cook more meatloaf (which requires washing the pressure cooker stuff. The dishwasher is only 2/3 full, so I’m very torn between running that and washing by hand). I need to take those boxes of the kleenex to the school. I need to figure out who I’m voting for in the non-partisan races so that I can fill out my absentee ballot and send it back.
