The wife was up earlier than me for once. I woke up briefly at just after 5:00 AM when I heard her getting up. I figured if she was up, the dogs would be content, so I rolled over ad went back to sleep. I figured I could get about an hour and a half and get up at 6:30 and get the dogs out for their morning walk.
No such luck. The wife didn’t quite close the bedroom door all the way. At just before 5:30 AM Sirocco pushed the door open and came to the side of the bed. He put his front paws on the edge and started trying to get my attention. I woke up, looked at the clock, and asked him why he was getting me up. He wanted attention. Soon he was joied by Major Tom and Magdalena, who also wanted attention. I wasn’t going to get back to sleep after this so I got up.
The rest of the day has flown by. I did a lot of shtuff, but not much of it made an impression. I got some work done, went down a (short) rabbit hole researching air fryer recipes (I started off seeing if you could make quesadillas in an air fryer – you can – and went from there), helped the wife clean up more of the study while sorting things into keep / sell / get rid of piles, had a short afternoon nap, ran to the grocery store to get some mashed potatoes, made meatloaf for dinner, watched an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, and put together my Christmas list.
The only thing I didn’t do was work on my writing. I fully intended to work on the world building for my flash fiction stories, or maybe even write a few, but I didn’t.
I’m procrastinating. I’m good at that.
I’ve also realized that I’m playing the writing game on easy mode for the 50K Word Month Long Challenge. I’ve managed to play it on the hard-mode level and get the sixteen hundred plus (1600+) words each day to get to 50K in one month. This month I set the bar low. 5K words. < snort >
I don’t now if it is fear, or laziness, or lack of self-confidence, or just plain slacking off. I can do better. I will do better.
I’m not going to settle for just 5K words this month. I can beat that. I’ve had 10K word days. I don’t know that I can do that, but I should be able to get more than 5K words this month. A lot more. OK, that still feels like waffling. I’m going to triple it to 15K words for the month.
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