Thursday, January 7, 2010


Day seven and the discipline has gone bye bye! Today was overwhelming for some reason - I got up early and put a brisket in the new slow cooker. Because that took a bit of jigging, my deario took my doggio for a walk. I went into town and saw clients and my pal Arlo and picked up wool with my gift certificate and saw more clients and read two readers digests in my office! I didn't work on any book, I didn't walk and I haven't sat yet. It's bed time, the brisket was delish and I've spent time on the phone talking to new clients and you know what - I'm going to do one out of three today. I'm going to go upstairs and sit in front of my shrine and possibly forgive my imperfections.

Oh and I ate a frozen chocolate dessert that a dear friend made for my birthday and I hadn't quite eaten yet. Riven with guilt. I did do some hugging and kissing and perhaps I exercised my inner cowgirl.

How about you all - a week into the new year?

9 comments:

Elspeth Futcher said...

Where am I a week into the New Year? My WiP is progressing. I've given myself a deadline. My house is no longer Christmassy but is due for a big clean. I'm not big on the big clean. Guess how this will play out.

Elspeth

Elizabeth Spann Craig said...

I have days where nothing that I *planned* to accomplish got accomplished...but they're still pretty nice days. The Readers' Digests and the chocolate and the brisket sound good. :)

Elizabeth
Mystery Writing is Murder
Mystery Lovers’ Kitchen

Jane Kennedy Sutton said...

There are simply some days when life is beyond your control and the only thing you can do is go with the flow - and eat chocolate:)

Elizabeth Bradley said...

I'm on a roll, I wrote about it in my post today.

Jan Morrison said...

Hi Elspeth - gotcha! I'm big on the big clean but only when it strikes. I really like the clean house, it makes me feel less crazy.
Elizabeth - yep if I'm going to fall - chocolate is where I want to land.
Jane - that is exactly it! I've now had two days of out of control - think I'll regain some of it this weekend. I will definitely sit and walk today - still not sure about the writing.
Elizabeth B - oooh, I'm jealous but I'll get over it! I'm going to go visit you all now!

Helen Ginger said...

It sounds to me like you had a pretty good day and got quite a bit accomplished.

I'm already falling behind in some areas, but ahead in others. Christmas is packed away and I actually got the downstairs floors vacuumed, mopped and waxed - a big thing for one who abhors housework.

Helen
Straight From Hel

Jan Morrison said...

Helen - I packed Christmas away last week, the tree and the dolly shrine too. Today I took my gal to the market where we had our usual(thanks to the step-parenting gods) wonderful time. Then I started clearing the counters in the kitchen. My one is most freaked out about the clutter on them but perplexingly unable to do anything about it. So I did! He is now happy. Not queer as folks!
I just walked the beast - a nice long walk and now the sun is shining a bit. How I long for it! Time to get to work on one or another book.

Jan Morrison said...

The expression is 'nowt queer as folks' - lost a w.

Stacy Post said...

Jan, I try not to set the bar too high in January. If I can pick up the pre-holiday flow, then I feel pretty good. This week, I was able to write a decent amount, so I feel good. But we're only nine days into it. I usually falter around day twenty or so. Brisket sounds de-lish! YUM!