Aaannnnnddddd...

One helping of breakfast later and I'm feeling a little saner. Funny, how HALT works: Hungry? Angry? Lonely? Tired? For me, it's almost always hungry that does it.

Anyhoo, for anyone wanting to know, today is Day Two at the older one's summer camp, and I haven't heard from anyone about anything, even after the vicious thunderstorms of last night, so I'm very excited. I hope I hear only, or at least mostly, good things when we pick her up tomorrow morning.

Today's writing, like every other day's writing, is going to get done (if at all) in between five loads of laundry, two loads of dishes, four bathroom cleanings and the vacuuming of 2,800 square feet of residence. I have no idea how I'm going to accomplish that, because my usual instinct is to forget the housekeeping and do the writing. But there are people living here with me who feel it should be the other way around.

Which brings me to the idea of protecting my writing time. Actually, the appropriate question is, "What writing time?" I write in-between: In-between doctor's appointments, in-between grocery runs, in-between requests for snacks and meals and the need to put something in the dryer and the bathroom gaining sentience and attacking us. I write four or five sentences, and flip the burgers. I write two more, and help with homework. And so on. Of course my work would be better if it wasn't like this. But life has to be lived anyway, regardless of my ambitions. Instead of complaining, I thought I'd make a stab at working it out -- and I have no idea if I will feel this hopeful about it even tomorrow, or even this afternoon. I can only do what I can do, in this moment. For better or worse, that's how I operate because if I don't do it that way, everything spins loose.

So, with that in mind, today's plan is to pound out the rest of the current scene this morning, and then vacuum and do bathrooms. If I can manage that, I'll consider myself very accomplished.

There is another blog I like to read, not for the fabulous recipes, but purely for the author's attitude. Her keyword is Yes. I really like the possibility of Yes. Yes to getting all my stuff done today.