Mary Sisson's Blog, page 51
August 30, 2016
Splat
Yeah, some family business has landed and needs to be dealt with. Hopefully it won't be too bad, but I also have the annual "Are you still allergic to stuff?" visit with the allergist tomorrow, so this week is suddenly looking a lot more dicey.
August 29, 2016
Progress report
After a second night of crap sleep (my stomach seems picky these days) I finally got a good night's sleep and wrote 835 words, plus some editing!
August 27, 2016
Non-progress report
Yesterday was a family day, but then I didn't sleep well last night, so today's just kind of a waste. I'll probably just watch Justified and go to bed early.
August 25, 2016
Progress report
825 words, as well as some editing!
August 24, 2016
Glory, Hallelujah! I have been cured!
I've had a couple of high blood pressure readings at the doctor's office--I've pretty much always gotten white-coat syndrome with new doctors, but this is a doctor I've had for a while, so she was a bit hmmm about it. After tangling with the blood pressure machines at the supermarket (which are free for a reason) I went ahead and bought a home monitor--they're not expensive, and I really wanted to have reliable data. If there's a problem with my blood pressure, I don't want to ignore it and wind up like my brother, but I also don't want to be put on medication just because some doofus almost backed me over in the supermarket's parking lot.
I've been reading up on how to take accurate measurements (do it in the morning before you've had caffeine), plus I've been taking it at various times during the day just to get a sense of what my own patterns are. (At this point, it doesn't look like there's a real problem.)
So after I finally managed to get some writing today, I took my blood pressure. And in spite of the fact that 1. it's the afternoon, and 2. I drank a whole bunch of caffeine to help the writing along, my blood pressure reading was the lowest it's ever been--and I took it twice to make sure!
And, you know, this is what I have been telling people! Like, yes, what I'm doing for the family is very important and meaningful, and yes, there are other enjoyable activities out there--but they're not writing. They're just not. And if you're a writer, there is simply no substitute for the real thing!
Progress report
Did some editing and added about 700 more words. Whoo!
August 23, 2016
All righty!
Things have finally cleared up. Today's not going to work, but in addition to the legitimate time-consuming activities, I've noticed that there's been some procrastinating as well, so: If I don't write tomorrow, I have to blog about what stupid trivial crap I did instead!
August 15, 2016
Yeah, I got slammed
On top of everything, I have to do my allergy shot this week so--this weekend I can start again? I hope?
August 7, 2016
Progress report
Back in business, baby! I went over some of the more recent chapters and wrote 570 words. Whoo!
July 30, 2016
Getting there....
One of the other side effects of traveling so much is that I haven't been doing any of the normal maintenance stuff (health stuff, animal stuff, stuff around the house, the now-inevitable legal stuff) either, so I've been having to dig my way out from under all of that. Let's put it this way: Recently a power surge completely fried the GFCI outlet in the bedroom, meaning I had no electrical power in that room whatsoever. It took me four days to find the time to replace a fucking electrical outlet (which is not a complicated job) so I could stop getting dressed by flashlight.
Anyway, hopefully in a few days I will finally have the time and space to get back to writing! What a miracle that would be!!
One benefit of the travel, though, is that we went to Yellowstone, which means I now have very good idea of what a volcanic wasteland looks like. It looks pretty damned amazing, I'll tell you that.
