This weekend was a lost cause. It rained all weekend, and that lead to a lot of sitting at computers and sitting on couches.
I can’t really say I didn’t get anything done. I just didn’t get anything tangible done. I did a lot of work organizing the data of my computer. Knitting patterns and other knitting/crochet information mostly. I’m not done by a long shot, but once I get it sorted and organized and therefore useful, I plan to get a USB flash drive to dump it all onto. I still have a lot of work to do on it all, mostly converting collections of images and text into PDF files. It’s going to take forever, but the end result will be worth it. Nothing worthwhile ever comes easily.
Since I’ve noticed that once something gets burnt to DVD or CD, I never seem to touch it again. I’m going to start filing the data I want instant access to on flash drives. One for knitting and crochet, one for physics and cosmology books, and so on. They are becoming ridiculously cheap these days, and since I do plan to get my own netbook as soon as I can convince Lin I must have one, having my data on flash drives will totally make sense. How cool will it be to have all my knitting stuff on one tiny little USB drive? I think it’ll be awesome!
The other intangible thing I did this weekend was a lot of reading and writing. I guess the writing isn’t really all that intangible, but it’s not like it’s all that useful at the moment. I’ve got two books in the works. Yes, you heard me … two books. I hope to have one of them ready to publish by the end of the year. I’m also still working on that cookbook that got sidelined when the oven broke, and there’s a knitting book sitting on a back burner too. So, I guess I actually have four books in the works: two non-fiction, one totally fiction, and one I’d call enhanced reality.
I get bored if I try to work on just one thing at a time, so I always have too many irons in the fire. Not that I know where I am going with this writing thing or how it will all turn out in the end, but it’s exciting and feels like I am on the right track for once†.
I do have to mention one thing though. I managed to get the laundry done before 10 pm last night. Yes, I was not up all night long doing laundry because I didn’t get it started until 10 pm. Go me! Now let’s see if I can manage to do it again next weekend. Maybe I’ll even try to do it earlier in the day next Sunday! Though I have to admit, I believe I will be changing the laundry day. It seems silly to plan laundry day for a day when I know I am going to be totally lazy. I almost never get anything done on Sundays.
There’s only a 30% chance of rain in the forecast today, so hopefully there will be no more rain. Yes, we are still in a drought –a week of rain isn’t going to fix that– but it’s enough for now. The ground is saturated, there’s flooding all over the place, and it’d be nice to have some sunshine for a few days to dry things out. I want to plant the fall garden this week, but I can’t very well do that until the dirt in the garden isn’t a slushy mud pit. Not to mention I personally require some sunlight, because seriously, I get nothing done without a daily dose of sun and my mood is totally in the ditch right now. Bring on the sunshine!
It looks like today will be a typical Monday. I need to go to the store for a few things, bake bread, maybe make cookies, take out trash, do the dishes, and all the usual Monday household tasks. But first … more coffee. The first cup was so good (mocha java with French vanilla cream), I have to have another one!
Footnotes- † It’s beginning to feel silly that I have called myself an artist all these years when really, I’ve always been a writer and storyteller. I’m having to reexamine the role of art in my life, and I believe it will be moving down the priority list. I’ve sold more writing and benefited from my writing far more in my life than I ever really did with the artwork. Which isn’t to say I don’t have some fabulous art projects in the works too. I do, but I think the writing is where I am at now and the thing I should focus on. Sort of sucks to not discover what I should have been doing with my life until middle age. [↩]