Saturday morning blithering

[byslantedlight]

'tis s a lovely looking day outside, all blue skies and buds on the trees, but I seem to be having a hard time getting going, so I thought I'd have a ramble and see if that helped... *g*

You know those mornings when you just don't know where to start? And the bits that you do start sort of make you blink? Well I was very good, and when I was woken by five year old wailing (she's five for gods' sake, but she insists on wailing when she wakes up in the morning - not a sunny nature before ten, that one!) I looked out the window at the gorgeous frosty morning and decided I would go for a walk. Be all peaceful, get the woken-by-wailing grump out of my system. Except that I got to the bottom of the hill, and was suddenly assailed by the sound of children shouting, and mother shouting and gawd knows what from the big house up there. If I carried on walking ahead I'd be listening to that for 20 minutes, if I took the footpath to the right I'd still be hearing it for quite some time - the only way to avoid the shrieks of other people's children was to go back. So I did. I was a good quarter of a mile away from that house, by the way - and there was nowhere else it could have been coming from! And it was only just after seven in the morning! Buggers.

So then I was wandering around lj, catching up on threads I'd been chatting in, working up the energy to think of things decently enough to converse with other people (I know, I don't usually let that stop me... *g*) when I came across this beside one of my contributions:

Icon hijack! I want my B/D in leather jackets back, but as it's hijacked on my userpic page too, I suspect I will have to fix that myself. Buggers!

Aaaand... stuff. So I have to go to the post office, and transcribe from a dvd (old play performed in Manchester in the 70s, very cool and quite good for Pros-y research in fact - remember the attitudes - but very time consuming! It takes about an hour to transcribe six minutes of film!) And I should tidy, and I should take advantage of the day and go find somewhere quiet to walk! (Or at least interesting... *g*) Aaaand... stuff. Oh, and I totally have to post about loiteringpalely and the whole zine thing, because I've not done that yet... and I have betas to do... I need some energy back, some motivation to get on with it! Where does that come from, again?

On the bright side, I've already opened me Comic Relief fic, to carry on from where I left off yesterday (I actually have been doing it!) Now I just have to work up the energy to get involved in it... and everything else. Help! Someone kick me!

Comments

[hambelandjemima.livejournal.com]

*kicks* Just get on with it *g*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

LMAO!

Actually, I did! Finished and posted the next section of me wee fic, have just had a cherry almond roll with Larton, and am feeling all satisfied with myself and the morning now. Off to shower and pop to the PO, and then I will no doubt come home do something else wildly constructive...

It's great how good it feels to finish bits of writing, isn't it? Wish I could do that all the time... *sighs happily and wanders showerward*

[hambelandjemima.livejournal.com]

I agree - it's a lovely feeling to finish off a piece of writing. That's why I write smaller pieces even when I've got large projects on the go. Mind you, that's why my WIPs folder is so large *g*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

My smaller pieces all seem to stretch into longer pieces these days - it's almost more of an effort to write less... except that it's an effort to finish anything as well!