"Today is D-Day!" Someone wrote that on a message board at work. And I went, "Huh?" Then I remembered it is D-Day. June 6, 1944. HMMM.... yes, I looked that up once cuz I was curious. I didn't know enough about World War II. Man, this is kind of depressing. Enough about war. Pretty impressive, though, right? The invasion of Normandy. Hmm.
Speaking of Invasion (see what I did there?), how awful is it that it was cancelled? That sucks. I thought for sure it would go on. It was so damn good! I love that evil sheriff! He is so Krycek. You know?
Shocking! Anyway. I have no life. That's why I haven't written in here lately. What would I say? Mmmm.... nothing. But really, I thought I could find more nothing to say than this.
I decided to lose 10 pounds. I have to lose 40, but I decided I'd start with 10 and at least fit into these pants I bought last fall finally. May as well! And it seems like a small enough step. Manageable. Then I can eat like a pig again as long as I maintain my weight and don't go up the scale again at least. Easy! Sort of. Well, I'll try it, then I'll see. It is so easy to gain weight when you are skinny. But when you are fat, you can eat all sorts of things and just maintain your weight. Not go up. I love that. Sick, but true. Okay, so food is a hobby of mine. Geez, this feels like therapy.
I've been watching Buffy again. I ran out of stuff to watch. Well, it's summer. No new good TV. So, out came the DVDs. I had been watching Tru Calling, though. Then I got tired of it being just really good and not brilliant. I wanted brilliant! So, back I went to the Joss Whedon oeuvre. I've always wanted to use that word in a sentence.
Hmm, what other not exciting things are going on in my life? Ohhhhhh! I gathered together all of my notes that I've written over the years about novels I want to write and I put them together in a big foldery thing with a clasp. Okay, the clasp is a purple rubberband, but still. Eee! And in the process I started reading my second novel I wrote and it's not so bad. Not too graphic, I mean. It's all about sex. Okay, it IS totally graphic, but I don't care. I mean, I could just edit out the clinical and slang words I use for body parts and suddenly it becomes less crass. More sexy and engaging. Neat! I may publish it. I think it's a good story. Underneath all the steaminess. Either way I think I may start writing a third novel now. Hopefully that will go okay. And maybe I will publish them one after the other. And start on a fourth. And onward into infinity.
I have a book of poetry I could publish too, but I ain't gonna! Nobody reads that stuff. I think it's good, but I'm not gonna write into a black hole, you know? Bah! I'll stick with novels for now. I'm not even going to edit my third book of poems right now. Maybe later. Wow my shoulder hurts. Tension. My head too. I need water. I am stressing myself out.
There's not enough time in a day. I get worn out from work and then I can't write. But I'm going to make it easy for myself. This weekend I'm going to come up with an outline for my third novel and break it down into easy steps. Then I just have to flesh it out really. Easy. The story is pretty much written. The what happens when and how it ends. Hell, it's pretty much done! I just need to actually write it. With dialogue and whatnot. Well, there's a nice way of looking at it. Very encouraging.
Doable. Sigh. I'm tired. I got 7 1/2 hours of sleep. Plenty. But I always want more. I have ice cream. That has nothing to do with anything, but I could go eat it and be temporarily happy and not bored.
See how crazy? So much for that weight loss. Well, I'm waiting 'til the ice cream is gone. THEN I'll start with the weight loss. It's really very easy if you don't mind being bored out of your mind. You have to find other ways to occupy your time besides eating food. Food is so entertaining! Everyone must think so, they always plan gatherings and parties around food. I noticed that cuz I'm a vegetarian and can't eat anything at most of these gatherings. Hmmph. I swear they had a sign at work for a lunchtime barbecue that said to save the chicken and fish for the vegetarians because there wasn't enough of it. ?????!!!!!!! I was hoping I read it wrong. But it really wouldn't surprise me if I hadn't. Let's not go there.Let's also not go to the place where people think I'm a freak cuz I rarely eat vegetables. They say, "But you're a vegetarian." Yuh-huh. And? Few people know how to cook vegetables to make them not taste like crunchy water holders. Or soggy water holders. Vegetarians know how, but I don't know any of them. Okay, vegetarian TV DINNERS know how. There, you caught me! And I don't mean regular microwave dinners that happen to be vegetarian. I mean microwave dinners made by a company that focuses on vegetarian and organic food. Yum! And sure raw veggies are good, but they only sell them by the platter. I'm one. Okay, or by smallish container, but still, it's like, "Would you like carrot sticks with every meal? No? What's wrong?!" Yes, I could happily buy 3 little carrot sticks and be done with it. But noooooo. Yeah, I'm weird, okay, I admit it.....
May I also say, vegetarian or not, people need protein in their meals. So many people are surprised when I don't want to watch them eat a full meal while I have a salad or a bunch of vegetable side dishes. Like I want to be lightheaded for the rest of the day. Pfft! Grrr....!
Okay, somehow I have started off on a rant. I don't know why. I think I'm hungry.
Heh. Oh well. Probably time to eat anyway. Next time maybe I can rant off about the food pyramid. Ooooooo! Don't get me started!Okay, "I've got an unlife, you know?" -Spike, Buffy.
Later.
Chris on 06.06.06 @ 06:38 pm [link]