I wonder what it says about my family ...

[apocalypsos]

... that I just put up a sign on my office wall that says, "FUTON GOES HERE!" because my brother called me right after work to warn me that he and my dad were bringing his futon down tomorrow when I'm at work and I want to avoid them attempting to put it in my spare room (which seems to be my parents' current belief about where it's going) or wherever else they might decide to stick it.

Any room other than the bathroom (too small) is a distinct possibility, and I'm not even joking when I say I would not be surprised to come home from work and find it in the kitchen just for the hell of it.

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I'm starting to think the oncoming blue moon has broken my brain, because I don't think I've had a thought or spoken a sentence in the last day and a half that hasn't made me pause five minutes later and go, "... wait, was that even in English?" I think my thought processes started fucking up last night right after I got off the phone with my mom, which explains a LOT.

This is also great since Friday is when I start my 2010 getyourwordsout word count and I'm currently word-vomiting all over the place. Fantastic! Once again I get to start a new year off with coherent thoughts in my head and an incomprehensible geyser of gobbledygook coming out of it.

I figure that it's only a matter of time before I spin in a circle three times and faceplant into the carpeting. On the plus side, it may knock my brain back into working order. The downside is that if I raise my head and see my shadow, it's going to mean six more weeks of belligerent.

It also may mean I'm a groundhog. We'll deal with that possibility when it comes.

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I'm hoping that my paycheck still goes into my account tomorrow. Even so, I'm probably going to be short. I kinda hate the possibility of having to barter with the landlord, but he's a good guy, which is why I paid the whole amount of the car bill rather than pay part of it and put all of my money towards the rent. I trust my landlord more than the car folks, quite frankly.

I'd make a resolution to try and break even financially this upcoming year for a change, but the last time I tried that ... well, I try that every year, and this year I spent two-thirds of the year laid off and stressed myself to medically questionable extremes. (I have been debating going back to the doctor lately, somewhat because I've been a wee bit TOO depressed lately and somewhat because I'm pretty sure I've stressed myself right out of a couple of periods. Fun, that.)

So I'm keeping it simple this year -- here's to making it through 2010 alive, whole and upright.

... and also, as always, I want a pony.

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I haven't written a "status of the writer" post in, what, two weeks? 'Cause it feels like two weeks.

I may write one on Saturday after I've given myself a day to simmer. I took overtime-that's-not-really-overtime on Sunday so look for me to become a bitter whiny hag for the next week. Well, moreso than usual.

Comments

[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

I'm doing Getyourwordsout again this year too. :) I crapped out halfway through last year, but I'm really going to try to be more disciplined this year. :)

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I've only gotten about 175k of the 300k I signed up for, but that 175k includes finishing two first drafts and a few fics, so I can't complain too loudly. ;)

I signed up for 250k this year. I've got six stories that I'm going to try and focus on and hopefully next year I'll get more fic out of the way. I think this year I got maybe five fanfics written, if that, so here's hoping I can crack the writer's block I couldn't shake this year. *crosses fingers*