This week's a wash

Unfortunately, this last goal has not gone well at all. I haven't written since Superbowl weekend. So this is the first serious problem that I've had with my set of goals. It was just hard to sit down at the end of the day and write 1/2 hr when I was already tired, or when I was supposed to go to bed. So I kind of took off the week.

The next goal will be no picking. This past year or so my skin has gotten really rough and my left ear, above the earhole, has a patch that is itchy, and so I pick at it and it gets flaky and bleeds sometimes. Then at night I have a really hard time breathing through my nose when I go to bed, and I can not stand to have my nose clogged up. So I blow, and blow, and pick etc, until I can breath through my nose to sleep. It feels like my septum is deviated again. I originally broke it when I had a 4-wheeler accident down in Utah in 2001. So those are the two things that I will not pick at, starting on the 23rd/24th(?).

Speaking of being tired, night, walt

Weekend Off?

Okay - so I really fell off the wagon this Superbowl weekend. Yesterday I wrote in my blog, and so I'm going to count that as my writing. I really only want to focus on sci/fantasy writing, but I'm going to have to count this. I didn't actually go to bed last night until, this morning at 7:36am. So it happened like this. I didn't take my night-time medication, (ie melatonin, and cyclobenzaprene) so that I could sleep. So I wasn't tired. Then I totally broke my goal of only drinking 30 oz of pop. Yesterday with dinner, I had a second glass of RC Cola. Then at about 11pm I drank the rest of the RC Cola - about 2/3rds of a 2-Liter bottle. Today I've already drunk 2 cans of Cherry Pepsi.

So I watched a bunch of stuff on hulu - I miss New Amsterdam, I also watched the movie "Gamers." It was alright, but a little weird. Yesterday on tv we watched "Johnny Mnemonic," and my dad asked wasn't that kind of a spoof movie. I told him no, but after watching it, I realized that it kind of was - just because it was not very good acting. It actually kind of reminded me of a "Matrix" warm up for him. The storyline isn't that similar, but they share some of the same ideas. Actually Gamer also has some of the same themes too.

To top it all off, I didn't brush my teeth. That's okay though, because I didn't brush my teeth when I woke up yesterday morning either. Or for that matter - this morning I brushed, but not with toothpaste.

So now I'm watching the superbowl, and I tell you what - the Betty White-Snickers commercial is the best so far. Easily.

Peace & I'm Out - walt

(commercials later)

Not too bad

Each time I sit down for my 30 minutes of writing a night, I think that it will be so long. How can I write for 30 minutes. Usually it's at the end of the night because a lot of times I don't get home until 7:30pm or so, and I like to eat and watch t.v. until 10pm. By then, of course, I'm tired already and I just want to go to bed. But I have to write - dang it.

But, it's really not to bad. Once I get started I really enjoy it, and it isn't actually such a pain. In fact it's a lot like tracting was on my mission (or on facebook). I dreaded the idea of going door to door in the domes (apartment buildings) and talking to all those people that I didn't know. However once I actually had done a couple of apartments, then I really liked it and I couldn't really remember what I was afraid of. I would kind of psych myself out of it.

That's actually been a problem since I was about 19/20 or so. One time the girl that I was dating was pretty, as well as pretty much like me. Anyway, we went once to a dance, that was down at the BSU SUB. We weren't really going to meet up with anyone, and we both had a kind of problem with anxiety. We chickened out and went somewhere else.

Alright - peace and I'm out of here. walt

20 Days of "Writing"

Alright Folks - the 20 days of no pop is over, and I had a glass of RC Cola with my lunch. It was pretty good, but I'm not going to overdo it. I've modified the that goal to not more than 30 oz of pop a week. It was really only the first two weekends that I really craved it. And by It I mean caffeine. I've been drinking lots more water, and lots of juice as well.



So on to the next 20-day goal...I'm going to write for 30 minutes a day. I've wanted to be a writer for the last 7 years or so. I've always loved reading, and I stay up on the authors that I do like. A couple of years ago I went to a writing conference put on by Orson Scott Card. It was a two day even for about 30 or so people, but 10 or so of the people got to continue for the rest of the week and did an indepth "boot camp." It was really fun. So I did the 2-day event, but I haven't been able to get into the habit of writing. Info on the writing conference is here.

Talk at you later, walt