For those who know of my phone related woes -- hopefully they're over. I went to Verizon and got a new phone (pictured at left). Let's keep our fingers crossed on this.The family (parents and tios) have come and gone. It was a great little break in the routine. We went on the Pike's Peak Cog Railway and visited Manitou Springs, Estes Park, and Rocky Mountain Park. We had dinner with extended family and ate out at some very good restaurants.
In all, it was wonderful.
They left early on Tuesday and I had asked for all of Tuesday off, so I decided to go snowboarding in the afternoon. I just went up to Loveland Basin, since I was concerned about my knee, full of trepidation. Turns out I had a perfectly lovely time. I got up there in 45 minutes, someone gave me their lift ticket in the parking lot (I lost it somewhere on the mountain, but that didn't matter, since I was already past the point that they were checking for lift tickets), I had zero problems with the knee. That's not to say I didn't fall down a lot. Somehow I'm still as novice a boarder as I ever was. I boarded for about 2 hours, and on the way back home stopped at Costco, where I saw they had The Complete Calvin and Hobbes for $80. Seeing as it's $100 on Amazon, I experienced a rare moment of allowed impluse buying and got it on the spot. I've been working my way through it, and it's all as delightful as I remember.
So you see, I had a good day.
Yesterday I went to see a couple of funky bands at Herman's Hidaway with my friend Kat. She's a lot of fun, and I'm really glad I went, but I'm also glad I got to spend nearly the whole day at home (see previous mention of a visit to Verizon's store).
The only downside to all this fun I've been having is that I haven't been very diligent about writing for NaNoWriMo. Let's see what I can do about that, shall we?
In the meantime, you can read this lovely excerpt on words by John Scalzi from a book he's working on. I can guarantee you that most, if not all, writers have felt this way at one time or another.
3 comments:
I'm so glad you had a good time. sounds like fun and I do so love your phone.
Since you are writing for you this time, I suspect the pace will be different than previous years. You never know when a writing spurt will come upon you :)
You're right. I was plodding along last night (after having procrastinated by doing some household accounting) and all of the sudden, I realized that "hey, this is supposed to be fun, and it doesn't have to make sense." So, my character turned the corner and fell down a rabbit hole (of sorts). My writing speed when I'm just writing to entertain myself is about twice what it was when I was trying to think out a story.
Thanks for the encouragement!
I allowed myself an impulse buy on Friday when I ran to Target for diapers and came home with Star Trek: The Animated Series on DVD. Heh.
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