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Stuff going on:
-- I am now prepping to start on the Decline and Fall project once more, though I still need to work on actually starting in the first place. I've put some index cards in my satchel to work on ideas and whatnot.
-- Congestion has been getting the best of me at night, blocking my ears and waking me up. Must remind myself to take some Benadryl before going to bed tonight. It's all been making me tired and sleepy.
-- Ants! Dang ants have decided to pop in under the kitchen window. Baits have been put out and temporary tape has been put over where they're coming in.

Stuff done:
-- That one shift at my old shop has come and gone with little incident, and yet it laid bare the reasons why I requested a transfer. I have my thoughts about that shift that I'll keep to myself, but I'll just say once again that I am much happier and calmer at the shop I'm at now.
-- Somewhat of a half-lazy Sunday here, in which we did our grocery shopping, followed by a walk to the community garden plot to water and fix a few things, walk over to 9th and Irving for lunch, and enjoy some coffee on the way back. 
-- Laundry completed, shredding caught up. Blog updating as we speak.

Stuff in the future:
-- I have this Thursday off, which will give me a break after two opens and a midshift, though that's also the day when I'm getting the permanent crown put on for that tooth. The good thing is that we'll probably decide what else needs to be fixed.
-- Speaking of taping windows to block ants, I really need to get around to caulking those frames. I've just been too distracted. Now that I've caught up on several other household fixes (did the shower tiles a while back), this should be next.

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Stuff going on:
-- The one midshift for the week has been completed and I have today off, which means that the next three days will be opens. One 8:30am start and two store opens (4am on Friday, and 5:30am on Saturday in which I'm opening my old shop). 
-- Said day off includes laundry and giving the cats more attention than necessary.
-- Finally submitted the request to get reimbursed for the dental stuff, and got an email today saying it was authorized. Yay! This makes further dental work worth the aggravation and pain. I've got another appointment on the 28th to get that one temp crown replaced with a permanent one. We'll see where it goes from there.
-- Making a concerted effort to read more of the physical books gathering dust near my bed. Current reading: Bill Janovitz's Let the Stories Be Told, about the band The Cars.

Stuff done:
-- The garage storage room has been slightly reorganized, as it seems most of it was in pretty good shape to begin with. I merely needed to move a few things such as: the old side table we aren't using towards the door (for Storage of Small Things); the holiday and wrapping stuff in one area, all artwork that isn't currently on walls safely in a box; various boxes of collectibles, tchotchkes and desk cluttering toys placed in one central office box; the remaining boxes of books stacked all together for future sorting. Empty boxes have been broken down and placed in the Empty Box Box elsewhere in the garage. The floor is now a little easier to navigate.
-- Watered the garden and front plots the other day as we've had a warm spell in the city the last few days. Might need to do it again in the next day or so.
-- I finally finished up a few new mixtapes! Woohoo! And I've even got a few more going! I miss making them, as I didn't have the spoons to do so last year. I haven't decided on any titles (series or stand-alone) just yet, as I want them to be just different enough from their forebears.

Stuff in the future:
-- I'll have to find time to go through those last remaining boxes of books to see if I want to save any. I probably don't need them, but it's worth looking through.
-- Restart the Great Longhand Writing Scan Project again. Probably in a few weeks. I think the best idea is to bring up a little at a time instead of a big honking storage bin; that is, go project by project. Finish scanning The Phoenix Effect and start in on the poetry composition books.
-- There's a good chance I might pick up the Walk in Silence (book) project again, in tandem with the more fictional The Decline and Fall of Western Massachusetts. One of the mixtapes I've made recently was for the fiction book, which carries on from its 2024 first volume with several songs from the 1984-1989 era.
-- Semi-related: I've been toying with the idea of working on the latter by waking up the 750 Words site again. No solid plans on that yet, though.
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So what am I going to do on Monday? Go to the dentist to get a crown fixed! Woohoo! Well, it's much needed and long-delayed and part of my long term plan to get some serious dental work done, so I'll have to deal with it. I mean, I'm used to it by now and I think this particular dental office is much better than the previous ones I've been to.

Other than that? Hmm. A visit downtown, a roadtrip to Filoli Gardens again for some horticultural enjoyment, a Costco run, a roadtrip up to Petaluma to visit the in-laws and possibly do a bit of shopping, some house and garage cleaning, but for the most part this is all about just spending some time relaxing away from the Day Jobs and having some fun.

Well, that and work on an outline for the last several chapters of Theadia. I'm at the point where it's needed now...I only have the vaguest ideas of how I can wrap it up, and winging it is not the way to go here. This is just like those last chapters of The Balance of Light way back then...weaving together all those plot threads into something that makes sense and works in the best way possible. And speaking of which, I've also been thinking more about commissioning a cover for this one. I have a few artists in mind that I'd like to contact. There's one I really like that has the book cover background and their style is very impressionistic, which I think would work here. I'm a bit worried that it might cost a lot, but it's something I'm still willing to look into.

But yeah...it's vacation time, so I am really looking forward to slowing myself down, catching up on sleep and hanging out with A and the kitties!
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I've said this in the past, but one of the biggest things I'd noticed when we moved out here to California is how blessed bright it can get on a sunny day! I know it's partly because we're closer to the equator (sort of) but we're also on the coast so there's less particulate in the air (far less than woodsy/pollen-y New England, at any rate). We were walking around the botanical garden and the Inner Sunset earlier and I couldn't help but squint and shade my eyes half the time. Lovely day, however! We got a few miles' worth of walking in, and now we're lazing around the house with the windows open. And yes, I will say one more time that I am extremely happy that we now live in a place with better windows where we can pop them open without a) one of them popping out or sliding askew, or b) one of the cats escaping through it.

Sunday is of course chore day, so the laundry is going, I've paid off a few bills, and taken out the trash. Oh, and I've also bought tickets to The Nutcracker at SF Ballet, which we've been going to nearly every single year since we've moved here! I of course still need to get my daily words done, so I'll do that a little bit later.

Meanwhile, my work schedule this coming week is kind of weird in that I once again don't have that many hours, and what hours I do have are all on the back end of the week, so I have the next several days off. WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF, I TELL YOU. Well, one is to maybe get myself to a dentist as one of my fillings fell out (boo!) and I'm probably far past due for a cleaning. I could go to the one I used to go to, but I've chosen a closer office this time, and one that I think might assist in some of my other dental work I've been putting off for far too long. [Not to worry, I won't go into details. But I do have a health-based account that was set up with my Former Day Job that I've barely touched, so perhaps I can use some of it to soften the financial blow. We shall see.]

Anyhoo! Not going to stress too much these next few days and instead try to get some major writing work done!


Hope everyone has a good week ahead!
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As of 6:30 this evening, the second rewrite/revision of Love Like Blood is DONE!

*exhales*

More rambling about it over at [livejournal.com profile] jonchaisson about this...


Hmm...now what to do...
--work on Can't Find My Way Home outline?
--work on Decline and Fall outline?
--start giving the Eden Cycle trilogy a once-over?
--play around with some of the LLB Universe ideas I had a few days ago?
--slack off and do nothing?

Decisions, decisions...


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(Oh, and on a side note, [livejournal.com profile] emmalyon is going to check on the dental plan stuff while I make plans on which dentist to go to. I already have a list of places nearby taht I can go to, which is good. Or I could sate my curiosity and go to the Ubiquitous Dr. Jang and Associates and see if he really does do that weird smile after every sentence he utters. :p )

Dang it.

Aug. 14th, 2008 01:35 pm
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Well, hell.

So I'm having lunch and I bite down on something hard, and my mind immediately goes "aaah, shit". Not because there was something in the tuna fish I had, but that a piece of one of my teeth just broke off. The front part, mind you. The tooth is on the side, but it certainly shows if I smile. It's sad that that's the first reaction I have, not 'omg what did I eat'. Sure, I'll admit that my eating habits have never been the best, and I grew up eating what amounted to sugar-coated sugary things with sugar sprinkled on it. I've gotten better, but there's definitely room for improvement.

Do I want to blame some of the dentists I've gone to in the past? Sure I do. I've gone to a number of them complaining of toothaches that turned out to be infections that they didn't catch last time, and root canals done ON THE SAME TOOTH over the course of six years or so. And I've had fillings that lasted a mere few months and had to have them redone since they did such a crappy job.

*sigh*

Well, time to look up some dentists. Luckily [livejournal.com profile] emmalyon's health plan covers it.

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