{"id":736,"date":"2012-03-25T18:39:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T22:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=736"},"modified":"2012-03-25T22:11:02","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T02:11:02","slug":"to-dopersonalwriting-busy-busy-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=736","title":{"rendered":"(to-do\/personal\/writing) Busy, busy, busy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been so freaking busy the past three weeks, I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m coming or going. \u00a0No time to blog, no time to really write (although I&#8217;ve done my morning pages faithfully every day &#8211; 53 days in a row and counting!), and no real time to myself. \u00a0That needs to change &#8211; I&#8217;m getting stir-crazy, and not in a good way. \u00a0I like commuting in with someone (my friend Carolyn and I have close enough shifts that we can share the hour commute in and out, which saves gas for both of us), but that used to be my &#8220;me&#8221; time, and so it&#8217;s gone. \u00a0I need to find another way to get that time in. \u00a0It&#8217;s only two weeks into this arrangement, so I&#8217;ll figure it out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Need to do things today, even after the 5 hour nap I had. \u00a0My house is a mess (per usual, I&#8217;m afraid &#8211; I&#8217;m a pretty lousy housekeeper even at the best of times), I need to take stock of laundry, and I need to make food for the week. \u00a0I&#8217;ve found that doing that on the weekend means I have a bit more time to do things during the week without worrying about food. \u00a0And since as of right now, I&#8217;m in training mode, food (more exactly: GOOD FOOD) is very important.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yep, training mode. \u00a0Argus and I are going to run the Nottingham Old Home Days 5k in September. \u00a0Eek! \u00a0I&#8217;m determined to RUN this one and not walk the majority of it, like the last 5k I was in. \u00a0I&#8217;ll keep you guys updated on my training. \u00a0Starts tomorrow, btw, with running at the gym. \u00a0Gotta see if I still have the Couch to 5k app on my iPod later.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, here&#8217;s the to-do list for today. \u00a0It looks long, but I slept 5 hours, so I have about 5 hours to do things. \u00a0Plan is to be in bed by 11:30 pm.<\/p>\n<p><del>&#8211; Daily Pages<\/del><\/p>\n<p><del>&#8211; Put away dishes in the rack<\/del><\/p>\n<p><del>&#8211; Wash dishes in the sink<\/del><\/p>\n<p><del>&#8211; Make\u00a0Portuguese Stew for dinner tomorrow night (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/recipes\/aida-mollenkamp\/portuguese-sausage-and-bean-stew-recipe\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/recipes\/aida-mollenkamp\/portuguese-sausage-and-bean-stew-recipe\/index.html<\/a>)<\/del><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Fold laundry and put it away<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Pack lunch for tomorrow<\/p>\n<p><del>&#8211; Finish Spells galleys<\/del><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Pack gym bag for tomorrow<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a good start. \u00a0I need to get the dishes going, so I can start the stew. \u00a0Hard to cook in a messy kitchen, and mine&#8217;s a disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been so freaking busy the past three weeks, I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m coming or going. \u00a0No time to blog, no time to really write (although I&#8217;ve done my morning pages faithfully every day &#8211; 53 days in a row and counting!), and no real time to myself. \u00a0That needs to change &#8211; I&#8217;m &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=736\">>>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,12,16,18,8],"tags":[10,7,36,62,63],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goals","category-personal","category-spells-and-swashbucklers","category-to-do","category-weekly-updates","tag-daily-update","tag-life","tag-running","tag-spells-and-swashbucklers","tag-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}