Friday, April 17, 2020
I have been a writing Ninja today. I would like to say I have caught up on all my March journal entries today, but that would be a lie. I did complete three of my unfinished entries, and I still have a couple of hours left of writing time today. This week has been a difficult week for writing. I have yet to complete a single day’s journal entry this week. (Why, oh why, did I write those words out loud?) I was finally going to finish completely the first entry in several days, and now I will be completing this entry tomorrow along with the rest from this week.
I wrote the first few sentences for today, and then my peace fell apart. I spent an hour helping my seven-year-old, Mika, with her schoolwork. I cannot trust Mika to do her online schoolwork on her own. I keep catching Mika playing video games instead of doing her schoolwork, so I made her do it with me watching her. Mika is behind for her math assignments, so I made her do two day’s work.
After Mika finally finished her homework, one of my clients sent a request that took me almost an hour to complete. It was still during work hours, barely, and now it is almost time for supper. I quit writing for the day at supper time. I hope to complete a few more paragraphs before supper is served, and I will write the last few paragraphs tomorrow. I was having such a good writing day until I wrote it out loud.
I set today and tomorrow aside to catch up on my journal writing. I wanted to get through at least five unfinished days today and five unfinished days tomorrow. Today and tomorrow are the only days I need to start from scratch, so I thought I could get caught back up in only two days. If I do not take a walk tomorrow, I maty still be able to complete my catchup task. The weather is forecasted to be 60 degrees, but the weather person has said there will be rain in the afternoon, so I will likely wimp out of an afternoon walk.
Mika and I have not taken a walk since last Saturday, the temperature has been too low to get me out of the house other than for my wound care appointment yesterday. Trust me, if wound care could be done virtually, I would sign up in a heartbeat. I seem to get one of the crummiest days of the month each time I have a wound care appointment. Last Thursday was nice, next Thursday is forecasted to be nicer than yesterday. I think the wound care gods do not like my super skin growing power.
Now that I have calmed back down from my annoyance at having my writing groove interrupted, I am only slightly miffed that I will not likely get back to complete the fourth March journal post today. My brain will probably remember those past details better after a good night’s rest. My tired evening brain is why I do not write after supper. My words stop making sense, and my fat typing knuckle makes so many more mistakes. I strike double letters often enough at the beginning of the day.
By the end of the day, I type sentences full of missed strikes and a bunch of vc, io, fg, qw combinations. I get tired of correcting my work, and by the end of the day an i looks like an l which aggravates me because I do not see why spell check puts a red line under a word that looks correct to me. I see phantom spaces and missing periods, and I just blew this document up to 200 percent because I need new reading glasses. I cannot get new glasses because eye appointments are a non-essential task. I have held off getting new glasses because chemotherapy is robbing me of my eyesight, and I do not know how long new glasses will work. I may finally be annoyed enough to spend money on me, and I cannot do it for several more weeks.
My piece of advice to you is to keep plugging on. It is after 6:00 p.m., but we have not had dinner yet, so I did finish writing today’s journal entry today. I am still not going to finish the other journal entry I planned to do because it is after 6:00 p.m., I am hungry!
Until next time,
Susanne
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I have been a writing Ninja today. I would like to say I have caught up on all my March journal entries today, but that would be a lie. I did complete three of my unfinished entries, and I still have a couple of hours left of writing time today. This week has been a difficult week for writing. I have yet to complete a single day’s journal entry this week. (Why, oh why, did I write those words out loud?) I was finally going to finish completely the first entry in several days, and now I will be completing this entry tomorrow along with the rest from this week.
I wrote the first few sentences for today, and then my peace fell apart. I spent an hour helping my seven-year-old, Mika, with her schoolwork. I cannot trust Mika to do her online schoolwork on her own. I keep catching Mika playing video games instead of doing her schoolwork, so I made her do it with me watching her. Mika is behind for her math assignments, so I made her do two day’s work.
After Mika finally finished her homework, one of my clients sent a request that took me almost an hour to complete. It was still during work hours, barely, and now it is almost time for supper. I quit writing for the day at supper time. I hope to complete a few more paragraphs before supper is served, and I will write the last few paragraphs tomorrow. I was having such a good writing day until I wrote it out loud.
I set today and tomorrow aside to catch up on my journal writing. I wanted to get through at least five unfinished days today and five unfinished days tomorrow. Today and tomorrow are the only days I need to start from scratch, so I thought I could get caught back up in only two days. If I do not take a walk tomorrow, I maty still be able to complete my catchup task. The weather is forecasted to be 60 degrees, but the weather person has said there will be rain in the afternoon, so I will likely wimp out of an afternoon walk.
Mika and I have not taken a walk since last Saturday, the temperature has been too low to get me out of the house other than for my wound care appointment yesterday. Trust me, if wound care could be done virtually, I would sign up in a heartbeat. I seem to get one of the crummiest days of the month each time I have a wound care appointment. Last Thursday was nice, next Thursday is forecasted to be nicer than yesterday. I think the wound care gods do not like my super skin growing power.
Now that I have calmed back down from my annoyance at having my writing groove interrupted, I am only slightly miffed that I will not likely get back to complete the fourth March journal post today. My brain will probably remember those past details better after a good night’s rest. My tired evening brain is why I do not write after supper. My words stop making sense, and my fat typing knuckle makes so many more mistakes. I strike double letters often enough at the beginning of the day.
By the end of the day, I type sentences full of missed strikes and a bunch of vc, io, fg, qw combinations. I get tired of correcting my work, and by the end of the day an i looks like an l which aggravates me because I do not see why spell check puts a red line under a word that looks correct to me. I see phantom spaces and missing periods, and I just blew this document up to 200 percent because I need new reading glasses. I cannot get new glasses because eye appointments are a non-essential task. I have held off getting new glasses because chemotherapy is robbing me of my eyesight, and I do not know how long new glasses will work. I may finally be annoyed enough to spend money on me, and I cannot do it for several more weeks.
My piece of advice to you is to keep plugging on. It is after 6:00 p.m., but we have not had dinner yet, so I did finish writing today’s journal entry today. I am still not going to finish the other journal entry I planned to do because it is after 6:00 p.m., I am hungry!
Until next time,
Susanne
Please check out my GoFundMe page.