Productivity

Over the last month or so I have been feeling quite unproductive so I decided to try something new and get myself some Ginseng. I took one yesterday and I noticed the effects within a couple hours of taking it. This may be the placebo effect but so far so good. Today I took two (a whole dose) and I’m feeling a lot more focused and productive. I felt a lot like this when I first started taking my Gingko before all the medical crap that caused me to have to stop taking it for a while. I hope this keeps working this time I’m really enjoying the focus factor.

I have been working a lot on my art lately. Partly posting new photos partly networking and also adding lot more new things to my favorites. This has been a huge help to me for I quite enjoy talking to other people. Truth be told I haven’t been feeling very social for quite some time and that’s not a good state of mind for me to be in.

Well that’s bout it for now. Now I want to get to work on writing. This is technically part of the same project but a totally different story so it like starting over form scratch. :p

See ya (hopefully sooner than later),

~Derema~

One Year Challenge (Take Two): Day 5/365… Hrmmm

Today was a mix of boring, productive, annoying and fun. All day I have been feeling a bit annoyed at various little things but that didn’t get in the way of my writing for almost an hour.

Then dinner was fun if a tad bit spur-of-the-moment when it came to how the decision was made. This made me feel a lot better.

That’s about all I can think of that happened today.

I do wonder about something. I know if I post my writing on here it’s classified as “published” but can I write about my characters and/or post bios of them and still have the work it’s self classified as “unpublished?” I would like to know because I’d like to see if I could find someone where I could get an outside opinion on what I’m working on but want to keep it unpublished for now.

With that said I bit you adieu.

~Derema~

One Year Challenge (Take Two): Day 1/365… Restarts

As you may have noticed this is not my first attempt to write everyday for a whole year but I’m going to try to make this work. I think I’m going to try to set some ground rules for myself:
1.) Write everyday even if all you’re doing is checking in.
2.) Post everyday. If you can’t post it on the day still write it then post as soon as you can.
3.) Try not to post about not writing. This is a downer for you so stop doing it.

I’m hoping this this helps me to keep more on task instead of wavering in my daily writing. I enjoy writing like this that’s why I’m willing to start over in this challenge. ^_^

With that said today was an interesting day. Meta got half the day off so I went out to eat with him. Then we had Starbucks and went home. When I got home I started writing and wrote most of the rest of the day. I think I’m back into my grove. Now let’s see if I can stay in it.

The only thing that went strange was my BBQ chicken. It took forever to cook and it sucked in the end. Oi, it looks like my off cooking may be back. @_@

Other than that that’s about it. It’s time fir me to get to bed.

Goodnight,

~Derema~

Day 104/365… Day Two Of Busy

Today was the second day of three that are/will be quite busy. It started with Fal and I waking up and taking Meta to work again. This time we had to take Hoshi (the cat) in for her scheduled bladder surgery. We were told that they were going to x-ray her and see is it had changed or not but it was going to take a while. So Fal and I ate breakfast and then headed to my physical therapy appointment for my foot. The appointment went well thought think I over did it with my foot. >.<

We then went home where we got into a bit of a tiss because I expressed frustration over her taking over one of the characters that I started to work on long before she even tried to start working on her story about a character that is in fact linked with mine. Yes, we conceived the ideas of this universe together but Ivan is MINE I picked him I brought him from a mere thought to “real life.” I gave birth to this child of ours. I started to tell his story. So tell me why do I have to wait for Fal to get done with HER story to complete his story? She tells me that it takes too much time to transcribe what she has wrote about him so I have no choice but to hold off on any details that may be relevant to MY child. Oh but because I chose one man who happens to be connected to many others and she chose another man that happens to be apparently too connected to my character I have no right to be upset? What is this? And I'M the one who's to blame because she's finally on a roll with HER story and I bitched at her for dropping the last project that we were doing together. I have not right to express MY feelings towards what I see as her taking over MY own part of this project. You know what Fuck that. Ivan is still MINE!

OK I'm done ranting. I'll do what I have to do on my own. I already made up my mind.

So during this tiss I get a call from the vet telling me that Hoshi's bladder stone was gone and that needed no surgery after all. It seems that the food that we have been giving her broke it up and she's fine. All we have to do is keep feeding her this soft food that we've been feeding her for the rest of he life. So this was great news! We also got her up to date with her vaccines as well and it cost a LOT less. So I'm not feeling too bad about things again.

That's about it for tonight. Sorry about the long rant I just needed to get it all off my chest. I'll get over it. I guess that's what I get for reading Fal's blog before posting my own.

Tomorrow's the bit surgery day for me. I'll do my best to post tomorrow but I have no idea how I'm going to be.

I'll talk to you soon,

~Derema~

Day 89/365… Stupid Body. >.<

Ugh, I’m getting sick of being in pain. This time it’s my left foot. So now I have to use one crutch to try to keep some of the weight off of my foot but I can’t use both because I can’t put enough weight on my right side thanks to my bad shoulder. And to think this ankle thing is thought to be due to an old injury that occurred when I was in HIGH school. So now I have to go see a foot doctor too. >.<

And another thing while I'm griping about my joints my left wrist couldn't handle the wight either. So I have to wear a brace to keep it from flaring up too much. Oi, I'm falling apart I'm telling ya.

So here's a silly haiku for the occasion… lol

Ouch my body hurts
What the fuck you stupid joints
Fuck this arm and foot

As you may have guessed today has been a bit rough. It wasn't just my body acting up either. The weather was crazy! The wind was so bad that Fal and I had to take a taxi instead of the bus to get to the ER (yes, my foot was THAT bad).

Other than that today wasn't really bad. It was just nuts. I did however, have a good dinner with good company. ^_^

Here's to another day in the life of Derema. I hope you are doing a bit better than I am… lol

~Derema~

Day 77/365… Bad Weather and Good Food

So today was payday and with that comes bills. Or rather the paying there of. And it was COLD and windy out today. So woot I got to fight the weather. >.<

Other that that I spent a quite a bit of time just writing today. It was nothing special just random writing.

Fal also made some kick-ass fajitas. Thank you Fal!

Otherwise I didn't do a lot.

~Derema~

Day 68/365… Mmm Nice Day

Ahh today was again nice. I didn’t write nearly as much today but I was still productive. Fal and I walked for a while and we then arted for a while.

Also for the first time in my life after telling a guy that I had a GIRLfriend and not a BOYfriend I got a reaction of, “Oh, you’re lesbian? That’s cool. I’ve never met a lesbian before.” And this was someone from France! I usually get some sort of “Oh, I bet you just haven’t met the ‘right’ man.” Or “Not ALL men are bad” and so on. This greatly pleases me. ^_^

With that said I’ll talk to you all soon,

~Derema~

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. Marsha Norman

Day 67/365…^_^

Ahh what a productive day!

Today I got not one but THREE loads of laundry done. I also watched a movie with Nikki. Nikki also cleaned out the ferret cage for me and took out the trash. She also did a load of laundry done herself.

I also wrote a page on my story despite being stuck as to what direction I wanted the thing to go in. I also got the chance to write a few words in three other languages other than English… lol

I then had a great dinner with everyone. And am now rather full. That was my day for ya.

See ya tomorrow,

~Derema~

Day 66/365… Writing – I Think I’m An Addict

Today was again full of writing for me. I wrote via e-mail with one of my friends who lives in France. Lately we have been speaking about anything from health issues to Nazis to Swiss food. It’s great to be able to exchange such conversations with people from other countries. That’s where I most respect where the internet has taken us. Thanks to it we are now exposed, often daily, to new information about things that we’d never know if it wasn’t for such freedom on-line.

After my conversation with him I reread and rewrote my story so far. It look me more that two hours to add one page of revision but it was worth it. I then wrote a lot more and added more of the story proper. I’m loving where this is going so far. ^_^

Well, I still have a lot of thoughts about my story running thoughts my head so I think I’m going to try to keep writing.

See ya!

~Derema~

The scariest moment is always just before you start. — Stephen King

Day 65/365… Woo-Hoo

Yet another fun day. I got some more writing done today. I’m really getting into the grove of writing a lot more. I’ve found myself hopelessly addicted to writing lately and that’s not a problem to me… lol

I also had quite a fun day with Meta and then had a good dinner with everyone. I guess I didn’t do a ton of different things or anything but I was still productive. I feel great about that. I gamed a bit today but I don’t feel bad about that at all. I need a bit of a break from time to time or I’ll get burnt out.

That’s about all I have for this. It think it back to writing my story. Maybe one day I’ll actually have the entire book done so you all can read it. ^_^

~Derema~