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Yesterday was Chris’ birthday, and we were both so chicken-fried that we decided to stay home and celebrate instead of schlepping out to the old house to continue the nightmare known as Operation Peel The Furking Wallpaper The Previous Owners Glued Directly Onto The Sheetrock Dumbfuckers.

For most of the day I had a savory beef stew simmering on the back burner in my orange Le Creuset Dutch Oven that Chris ganked off the floor at the outlet for 60%. I made corn chowder with fresh, organic corn on the cob from the farmers’ market, and a bunch of Spinach Rice Casseroles a la Moosewood Cookbook. Two for a neighbor whose mother died this week, one to eat and one for the freezer. A huge salad. Beer. Friends dropped in to eat and drink and make merry.

Chris wanted Blueberry Lemon Poundcake, so I made one of those as well. All told yesterday I used 27 fresh eggs because we started off the day with a big omelette and bacon. Everything that had egg in it turned the richest gold I’ve ever seen. Nearly orange pound cake!

Yesterday was about the food. We even got to enjoy a few siced Juanne Flammee tomatoes with coarse salt and pepper from our very own garden. And organic roasted red peppers from the market. Mmmm, served with crackers and fresh mozzarella.

Now we’re heading out to deal with that wallpaper.

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I want to write a book. I want to write several books. I have started half a dozen books. One of them, the novel I wrote for NaNoWriMo last November, might even be halfway there. I’m hoping to work on it again this November.

But the rest of the year I lack motivation. So many projects just languishing on the giant hard drive of my G4.

I found a little motivation today while reading Jill Koenig’s post about writing a book at her goalblog. Click on the post titled “So You Want to Write a Book?” in the sidebar. Jill doesn’t seem to have permalinks working on her site.

While I’m proofreading warning labels today, I think I’ll listen to the podcast with book coach Diane Eble. Click on Jill’s link in her post if you want to listen. I can’t get it to translate to my post. Something with Blogger, I suspect.

Anyway, with my newfound career potentially in the crapper because a giant company bought our little company and downsizing looms ominously on the horizon, I’m going to make the time to work on my books. Unpacking, laundry, garden and make-up nookie with my mate be damned.

Kidding, honey.

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Hey all, I’m still alive, just trying to get my body and brain used to being awake at 5:30 every morning, and collapsing into bed and falling fast asleep within 3 minutes of hitting the pillow at 8:30 every night. It seems like 98% of the moments during those 15 hours are filled with such intense brain usage that I have nothing left over for the other 2%—writing is suddenly a chore, not a pleasure.

Let me tell you how much THAT sucks.

But I’m going to keep trusting that it will get better. It’s only two weeks in, and I’m already understanding enough that I have to ask a lot less questions. Eventually I will come home at the end of the day feeling like an accomplished human being, rather than a stripped out husk of a woman who wants nothing more than a martini and bed. But who still has to make dinner, switch the laundry, check homework, argue with a teenager about screen time (again) and then get everybody off to bed. Eventually all of that will have its own rhythm and I will have something leftover for me so I can write. Hopefully in time for NaNoWriMo in November because I really do want to get more work done on the novel.

In the meantime, I hope you’re all popping over to say hey at Blended, With Salt. I’m managing to get some writing done over there. Oh, and in case you haven’t had time to check it out recently, ClubMom is having a little incentive program this month. If you join as a member during September, and sign up for the newsletter to have your favorite ClubMom blog updates emailed to you each day, you get 50 points. The 3 bloggers who get the most subscribers get more money in their paycheck for the month. So show me some love!

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