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Morning Pages – February 07, 2014

Well, we have a few good writing days behind us now, let’s see if we can continue. Had a good night again at league last night. Put the gears to another GoodLife team unfortunately. Wasn’t a perfect night, we only got 18 out of a possible 19 points, but it’s pretty hard to complain about that. It should move us one step closer to solidifying our position as the number 1 team in the division for year end. Not sure how I feel about that. The good teams I’ve captained in the past, have alway...

Morning Pages Entry – February 06, 2014

Totally late getting to this today. It’s already 10:30 in the morning, and I’m just starting writing. Of course, had to drive Sam to swimming this morning at frigging 5am, which always sucks big time. I’m counting down the days, till I don’t have to do that shit any longer. That girl had better pass her driving test on the first go, or there will be some conflict around this house. Anyways, yesterday was a pretty good day. Did some more reading of the Paleo for Athletes book, and I have a...

Morning Pages Entry – February 05, 2014

So, a bit of a slow start to the day, but let’s see if we can make up some time. Quick yesterday recap. I did seem to get back on track with writing yesterday. Not exactly the fast track, but I did manage to get out 1500 or so words, so that’s not terrible. I would like to have a 10K weed sometime in the near future, but that doesn’t seem to be happening anytime too soon. Yesterday was also another disappointing day on the squash courts, as I lost again in house league to Chris McKenzie 3...

Morning Pages Entry – February 04, 2014

Well, trying to get back on the good track, and yesterday was a step in that direction. Played a bunch of squash, and didn’t eat any junk food for a change. It’s interesting, to see if there’s any creedence to go with my theory about needing other family members around for me to eat better. Like it’s a competition in my head to be the one that eats the good food . . . better than what anyone else eats. Poor sam, devoured a bag of potatoe chips last night, then felt crappy afterwards. Got...

Morning Pages Entry – February 03, 2014

All right, I need to break out of this slump in a hurry. Like starting now. The superbowl party at Tims yesterday was alright, but I ended up drinking beer, and eating more crappy carbs, then I any fool needs. So much junk food, and pizza, and chips, and blah blah blah. Yech. Today, we start getting things in order. I need to do better. It’s going to take me days to get this crap out of my system. And supposedly I’m supposed to be playing squash tonight with David. That’s just not going t...

Morning Pages Entry – February 02, 2014

I’m in a terrible slump for eating these past two days, and I’m not to sure why. I can’t remember the last time I ate potato chips two days in a row. What the hell is that all about. I don’t know, if it’s because I’m on my own with Jessica for two days, or what. Somehow, I seem to be totally out of routine and eating all kinds of crap. Not only eating the crap, but for some reason I also seem to be craving the crap. Potato chip cravings??? That never happens to me. Gotta get back, into a...

Morning Pages Entry – February 01, 2014

Well, here we are in a new month, and it’s my first journal. I’m actually a bit late writing this one, as it’s about 7:30 pm now. Been a bit of a busy day. Karen and Samantha are away at a swim meet in Windsor, and it’s just Jessica and I here at home. Kind of quiet and I have the whole bed to myself, which is always nice, but I got into way too much junk food last night, and that kind of got the day off to a pretty slow start. Not to mention I ended up losing to Eric in a team challenge,...

Morning Pages Entry – January 31, 2014

Alright, today is day 60 of a new morning journal writing streak. Only 40 more days to go I think, until I hit 100. That will be pretty cool. I wonder, how many books I will have published by then. Hopefully 2! That would be even more cool. And, sure, why wouldn’t I? Yesterday was a great day of writing. Did 3259 words I think, using my new pre-plotting method. And that’s an all time best for me going all the way back to the summer. It’s also very encouraging, in terms of getting to my 50...

Morning Pages Entry – January 30, 2014

Well, yesterday was a bit of a hectic day, what with me thinking that my computer was dead in the water, and placed me in a rather annoyed position in terms of being productive for the day, but on the other side, got me a little bit excited about the thought of getting a new computer, which on the other side again had me concerned, since I’m currently generating no revenue and couldn’t really afford it, which on the other side again simply reinforced the idea that I need to be writing, bu...

Morning Pages Entry – January 29, 2014

Well, today is off to one good start, I’ve gotten a good nights sleep, by going to bed a bit earlier the last few nights, and I’m no up and working at 7:30. I should be able to get my morning journal done, and maybe do some plotting on my current novel before 8:00. It would be nice to have say 10 plot points to work towards for the day, and say to write 500 words on average for each plot point. Those would basically be short scenes each. My goal, is to be a little more creative on the plo...