Log…what?

What log am I suppose to be on?

I can’t believe this week has flown by like this! But this seems to be the pattern of my life, everything seems to goes in waves. Builds up, peeks and then rolls off a little allowing me to catch up and get ready for the next big surge.

This morning I got up, turned off the alarm, walked into the kitchen and then decided…no, I’m going back to bed. Yesterday was long, I was tired, and unproductive and not eating right which also affects things negatively and its a vicious cycle on that end because when I’m tired I don’t eat right and thus make myself more tired by what I ate. So to say the least…things had finally just caught up with me. When I start to ‘freeze’ all the time and can’t write worth diddly and logging what I’m eating isn’t happening and going to exercise is suddenly a ‘chore’…it’s usually a good sign I need some more sleep. It’s catch up time.

So I did. And though I didn’t sleep soundly or anything I feel great! Those two extra hours really can make a difference sometimes. I did my running at a steady 5.5 speed(no program machine), neither my ankle nor knee gave me any issues and I hit that zone where you can go on forever really quick. I honestly looked down at the distance and couldn’t believe I’d already gone a mile…I thought, Holy Moly, how’d I do that? Is the machine broke?

It felt great! I’m so glad I decided to add a bit of extra sleep to my routine today. Of course there are back lashes. I haven’t written. I found out late that my kids, both the older ones are doing things in church today–12 is playing the guitar and 10 is song leader–and I’m missing it because I didn’t get up early enough. There simply wasn’t time for me to shower, eat and get the youngest(now 4!!!) all ready to go to mass first thing. Now obviously there were some communication issues here — If I’d known about this ahead of time I would have NOT gone back to bed. But I didn’t and didn’t even know until after I’d exercised…thus no way to even switch things around. But alas, what is done is done. But it is an example of why I keep the schedule I do.

Today I’m back on track with things and don’t see my last few days as all failures; I kept to my exercise schedule (which I will record here in a minute) and did a lot of ‘getting things organized’. A process that also needs to be repeated often. I’m constantly learning more about my writing from how I do it to what really works for a story. Its absolutely fascinating to me. Astonishing to me as well at how I just keep ‘learning’ things. You’d think it’d be pretty straight forward, easy and simple…think of a story, write it, sell it. NOPE. Thinking of a story has got to be the easiest part of that whole process! I like it though. *shrug*

Okay I’m off to get my list of things done for the day!

Cole