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Morning Pages Entry – June 08, 2014

Freedom is the holy grail being chased at the moment, and that’s a pretty big carrot to dangle in the balance of this writer. Making something so big out of something so small like writing can be as powerful as a paralyzing death ray from an old buck rogers episode. There, now was that so hard? You just wrote something so clever and amusing, and you didn’t really care. No one will read it … likely, and no one will ever care. Probably even if they did read it, they wouldn’t get it, so what...

Morning Pages Entry – June 07, 2014

So, here we are at a swim meet at Brock University, and yesterday, I experienced something that I have several times before, and that is the exhilaration I always get from being somewhere different. I was just so happy and excite to being some where new. I think, it comes from all the times we used to travel in drum corp, and always landing in a different city for a corp show or parade. I experienced it when I travelled for work before as well. I remember the first time I went to Californ...

Morning Pages Entry – June 06, 2014

Sometimes, I think that being less serious and just proceeding with the task at had would be a real advantage. Right now, I seem so unfocused and worried about how good the writing will be, that I’m not getting anywhere with it at all. I haven’t added nearly enough as I had hoped in terms of word count to my existing novel, and it goes to the editor on Monday. Today is Friday, and I’m stuck going to another useless swim meet for Samantha and Jessica. And, we have to go today as Sam swims...

Morning Pages Entry – June 05, 2014

Definitely behind the gun on this one. I have so much more work that I would have liked to get done on this manuscript before it goes to editing on Monday, that it’s ridiculous. Between dealing with this new diet thing, and dealing with Karens welching on the deal, and my own inaction and indecision the past few weeks has put me very behind. It’s ind of unfortunate. I will have to cram as much as I can this weekend to get some things done. Including, having Karen doing the driving, while...

Morning Pages Entry – June 04, 2014

I need to find a way, to make my writing my safe place to go. I need it to become more of a habit. It needs to be my place that even when people in my life piss me off, and treat me badly, that I can go to and feel better. That I can be productive, and create new worlds and people, and I can feel better about myself. Being angry, shouldn’t prevent me from writing, it should bring me back to writing even more, because it’s a place where I can have a real benefit, and make real changes, and...

Morning Pages Entry – June 02, 2014

Well, waking up a bit anxious and in a panic this morning. I have a week left, before my first book goes off to emily for editing, and I really am behind on getting the work done that I wanted done before then. This whole30 is sucking up more of my time then I had wanted it to and I’m not sure where to go next with it. I really wanted to have more content added, so I think I’m going to have to back away from the character sketches, and figure out how to make the novel two books. That woul...

Morning Pages Entry – June 01, 2014

Sometimes, you just need to breathe, and believe in what your doing. Believe, that if you stick with it long enough, and are patient with the people around you, that eventually things will fall into place, and get better. That’s what your always looking for isn’t it? Just for things to get better. They may not be perfect, and they may not be pretty, but as long as things get better, then there’s hope. Hope that you can one day achieve at least a modicum of your dreams. But yesterday, was...

Morning Pages Entry – May 31, 2014

Yesterday, Jessica got to go to Prom with Ryan. They didn’t actually go to the dance I don’t think, but they did go to the pre-prom, out to dinner and then they were going to a movie or something special. It was pretty nice of Ryan to do that for her. He’s a pretty nice kid. I didn’t even see her last night when she came in. I must have been outside putting the new speakers up in the patio or something. That’s sort of cool that I got those setup. I’ve never actually had proper outside spe...

Morning Pages Entry – May 30, 2014

Well, yesterday was pretty busy. Spent a bunch of time in the kitchen making the chocolate chilli, and the ranch dressing sauce for dipping, and the almond flour chicken finger things. And yesterday, was even our official start of the whole 30, today is. But, it did give me a few recipes to get the ball rolling with, that’s for sure. And, they all went pretty well. Everybody seemed to like stuff. The chilli turned out pretty well, and the sauce turned out well enough for everyone to reall...

Morning Pages Entry – May 29, 2014

Started to move towards the whole 30 start. Yesterday, I did a big shop of nothing but healthy whole30 approved foods, and ended up cleaning out most of the cupboards of junky food. The cupboards look pretty bare at the moment. Karen of course had to complain during the process, but Jennifer piped up a few times, and told her to stop. It’s funny how that works. The kids have definitely become strategic pieces when it comes to convincing Karen to do things. They certainly see things going...