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[katallison]

It's started snowing out. They're now forecasting that we won't get the 1-2 feet after all, that it'll concentrate south of the cities, but we should still get several inches, which is fine. I never much mind March blizzards; they're like LJ kerfuffles, dramatic and overblown and flouncy but you know they'll melt away in short order. (November-December blizzards, on the other hand, are like blood feuds, heavy, inexorable, and in for the long haul.)

Project of the Week has been keeping the house clean, after last weekend's big clean-up, and my main discovery (apart from hmmm, this is a lot less work than I thought it would be) is that I have WAY too many coffee mugs. Because if one only does dishes once a week or so, one *needs* a lot of mugs, so that one's pre-dawn lunge for caffeine is not delayed by the need to dig a dirty mug out of the sink and wash it. But now that I'm washing up daily, and even putting the clean dishes away instead of living out of the dish drainer, I may need to move some of these to storage.

Today is a day of huzzah! because the university is closed (spring break holiday) and I have a whole, entire day with nothing to do except watch the snow fall and start inching my way back into writing. Well, that latter is not so much of the huzzah!, maybe, and more perhaps of the eeeek!, because I have been very very stalled out lately with the putting of words on the hard drive. I say "stalled" rather than "blocked" since there's nothing really impeding me, just that I've lost momentum. The daily habit of getting sentences cranked out is one of those Newton's-First-Law things like the daily habit of exercising, or washing the dishes, a whole lot easier to keep going with once started than to start up from a dead stop. But what I'm telling myself is, self, if you can actually keep your house cleaned up for a whole week, getting some progress on that fucking story ought to be *cake.*

Comments

[estrella30.livejournal.com]

I never much mind March blizzards; they're like LJ kerfuffles, dramatic and overblown and flouncy but you know they'll melt away in short order

*DIES*

this is like, the best analogy ever.

*loves kat like WHOA*

[flambeau.livejournal.com]

but you know they'll melt away in short order

*looks out the window* Are you sure? I'm starting to think I'll get to experience the first white Easter of my life.

Also, I am trying to decide if it's more important to mop the floors or to glare my story into submission. Cleaning. Writing. Writing. Cleaning. Choices, choices...

[heuradys.livejournal.com]

It hasn't even started flurrying here, a few miles to the north of you. Not a single flake. Hmmm, you know, that fits the kerfuffle analogy; usually they happen while I'm at work and I pretty much miss them and have to dig my way through them.

And you keep telling yourself if you can actually keep your house cleaned up for a whole week, getting some progress on that fucking story ought to be *cake.* Because I've managed to keep my house cleaned up for whole months now, and haven't written a word since before xmas. It might work for you, though!

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Happy day off, day of writing and snow metaphors and clean mugs.

From many miles away, where I am taking a day off and vidding and watching the rain and have many, many dirty water glasses in my sink, I salute you.

[debchan.livejournal.com]

*sulks* No one has to work but me.

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Awww. ): But we're thinking of you!

[namastenancy.livejournal.com]

Hooray for anniversaries and time off. Since I'm now back in school (A's on mid-terms, thankyouverymuch), I know the feeling of YAY, Time off, Spring Break. Enjoy yourself and don't stress out about the writing; you've had a hell of a couple of months and sometimes you just need the sleeping late, goofing off, watching TV stuff.


Putting dishes away? OhMyGod - I am impressed!

namaste SF Nancy