Drunken Owls and Other Delights

Well, shortish at any rate. I've been working Saturday mornings at the shop (part of my bookkeeping duties) but it gets me out at 1pm so I still have the rest of the day to do whatever, even if it's doing errands and whatnot. And considering that our building's washing machine is still not working correctly (it should be fixed this Thursday, last I heard), I spent part of this morning kicking back at the laundromat to do our laundry while A stayed at home to make apple sauce and wait for a package from IKEA. Which alas contained broken items, but they should hopefully be sending replacements soon.

What about the writing, though? Yeah, I've been kind of distracted by other things this past week and hardly got anything done other than some cutting and pasting, but I'm hoping I can rectify that this coming week. Granted, part of last week's schedule contained three midday shifts that didn't provide all that much time for me to work on MU4, but this week's is much better, with only one midday shift and the rest all mornings.

Still, I need to get my butt in gear, because this novel ain't going anywhere without me putting in the work!

As planned, today was the day for me to give the couch covers (and the bedsheets while I was at it) a good washing at the local launderette, so I could put said covers over the new cushions. As expected, all four cushions (two seats, two backs) were vacuum-packed and squeezed into a much smaller box and did the FOOOOP! thing as soon as I opened it! Heh. The end result is that you can definitely feel the difference! Considering the old cushions were almost a decade old, I'm not surprised at all. Side note: I also vacuumed underneath the living room couch, and found a few years' worth of dust, two buttons, two stitch markers, some random yarn bits, and a solitary Cheerio. I may have seen a spider zip away as well, but he was out of my line of sight when I looked again. As long as he's doing his job and snacking on all the other bugs here, he can stay as long as he likes.

As said, the sheets were done as well. We'd bought a new comforter some time ago and I'd forgotten to put on the bed skirt, so this time I threw it on while I let the mattress air out in the meantime. I've just put a new set of sheets on and will throw the comforter on a little later. And I ended my day of cleaning by running the trash, recycling and compost down.

SO! This means all that's left is for me to get rid of the old cushions and the love seat.  I have not yet heard from Home Reserve when it will be coming, but they said about fifteen business days, and that works out to sometime near the end of this coming week. So the plan is:

Once I'll get confirmation that the new chair is coming, I'll schedule a pickup from Recology.  Come to find out, since they're our main trash/recycling/compost company for pretty much the entire city, we get one free bulk furniture pickup per year. Sweet! All I need to do now is figure out how to snake the love seat out of Spare Oom, hook it through the hallways and through the front door, down the elevator (I think it fits...?) and out onto the sidewalk. All I know is that this will entail me moving one of the bookshelves and its contents, two of my guitars, and hopefully nothing else. I don't rightly remember how we managed to get it in here other than that I'd accidentally scraped one of the legs against the wall and you can still see the scar. Oops!

Other than that, I've decided this coming week is the week I Get Off My Arse.

I've been pathetically lazy the last few weeks, and I'll let myself have that, if only because I was still getting used to the new schedule around here. But the time has come for me to get back on the horse again and continue my morning exercises. I'd also like to start up on my planned idea of doing a circuit around the neighborhood on the days we aren't going to the gym after work.  I really need to start moving again, because a) I can tell I've put some weight back on, and b) I'm getting SUPER lazy again. That needs to change, stat!


Hope everyone has a good week! :)

Random Jeremy H. Boob quote? Why not? :p

I really gotta get my ass in gear again. This past week has been a killer at work--not busy, but hellish with the things I had been working on--so a lot of things fell by the wayside, my sleep was pretty much insufficient and I just couldn't get any writing done.

I'm contemplating rewriting Faye's current scene in Can't Find My Way Home because it's just not sounding right. It's sounding very bland and inactive. Sure, she just woke up from about 3 hours' sleep and she's being lazy, but the prose just sounds like crap right now. It's not that long of a scene, either, just her getting up, realizing her situation, and a quick passage of how the people at work are treating her now, now that her boyfriend and his sister blew up half the lab when they jumped ahead in time.

I want to get started with the Angela Death outline too. I've been sitting on that one for the last few weeks. I think this one's going to be one of my shorter stories, but not having an outline isn't helping. I haven't even picked up the story itself in awhile.

Also: Need to do a bit of grocery shopping. Don't need much, as Emm picked up some stuff on Wednesday, but we need some greens among other things.

Also: LAUNDRY. I have a boatload of it that needs doing. Luckily I have quarters, but the temptation is great to get one more roll just to be safe.

Also: Haven't heard back from the apartment management yet, but hopefully sometime this coming week they'll be replacing that broken window in our apartment. Last I heard, they might end up replacing it from the outside, but at the same time I wouldn't mind them coming in so they can take a look at a few other windows that may need to be resealed that seem to rattle a bit.

Also: Am I ever going to do the trilogy website? Stay patient, kids...once I have my shit together, it'll come. I just need to work on a few other things first. The plus side is that I think I might be able to create some fun pictures for banners and backgrounds for the site now, now that I have Photoshop. SWEET!

And on the ephemeral side, I want to get some new icons for this here LJ...and one of these days when I have time, I want to scan some of my Murph drawings and create my own mood pix with them. Plus I want to post on my other LJ today, something of substance. I won't cry if I don't get to it, though.

On the plus side, we got a lot of walking done yesterday, I've caught up on sleep, we've pretty much cleaned up the mess that the building workers caused when they reTyvek'd the outer walls and resealed the window frames (we can actually feel the difference in temperature) on the north side of the building. So this weekend isn't a loss at all. :)

I need to get a LOT done. Time to get my butt in gear. Wish me luck!! :)