The rain is one of those good and bad things lately. In all honesty I've always enjoyed a good thunderstorm. The heavier the rain the more I like it. But this constant gloom that has taken Southern Ontario is driving me nuts.
I'm all up for a good gothy gloom, but it's supposed to be spring going into summer. This is the time that I want to feel up and happy and fresh. I want to feel like I'm getting motivated to become an active participant in my life again. I find that being cooped up in the house is not successful for a good start. I've been enjoying getting out of the house if only to take the dog for a walk.
I'm now on page 9 going on 10 of my story. I think I've figured out how to do the dialoguing for now. It may need some re-vamping but I want to get the story written then I'll do the editing. I may need to get someone else to do the editing, being I'm terrible at editing my own stuff. At least my story is fairly light hearted and easy going. It will hopefully be fun enough that someone may actually want to read it. lol. I am not expecting miracles in the writing of it. I know some people who write expect their stories/books/etc to actually make it to some sort of publication. I, on the other hand, am just hoping to finish it. If it ever makes it to something fancy, well then bully on me, but I won't hold my breath for that. So for now I will write the story and leave it at that. Being I am only managing a page to 3 when I write, I think this may take some time... as in I don't really know how long. By math logic if I wrote 3 pages a night it would take me apx 33 nights to make 100 pages.... but I know me. I won't manage 1 page a night let alone 3... and if I do, it won't be EVERY night.
So I'll keep writing and seeing where it leads me.
May 18, 2011
May 17, 2011
The good, The bad, The cranky
So I was totally going to talk about my barbeque... or rainy day extravaganza... that we had on the weekend. And I may still mention it in passing, but first lets talk about other things.
The Good: I have managed to get myself back into my pre-pre-pregnancy pants! I haven't fit in them in almost 2 years now (with two pregnancies and all). Out of the 3 pairs of pants I have that I'm judging I have managed the low cut ones ('cause the belly goes a little over), and now the higher cut with a little stretch. I only have one more pair to go... the higher cut with no stretch. I am hoping that by the end of summer they will be a success too... YAY!
The Bad: I hate laundry! I have realized that I despise doing laundry in it's full capacity. The problem is that with a baby laundry is an everyday thing, and being I haven't been doing it every day I have quite the pile in my basement. I have to say today was a bad laundry day... Vi went through 4 outfits today, spitting up on one after the other, until I gave up and left her with only a diaper and a bunch of blankets for warmth. I also managed to go through 2 pairs of pants and 2 shirts with the joy of being peed on and spit up on... oh the fun!
The Cranky: My DAUGHTER! When a baby needs to poop or has gas and no matter what you try doesn't settle down, the stress level gets higher and higher. Today it took me quite a few hours and I finally got her to stop crying by laying her on me and giving her her bottle till she decided that sleep was better than eating. Then DID NOT move her to burp her, just held her and rubbed her back. What this means is that when she finally slept I could NOT MOVE. If a baby falls asleep in your arms and cries every time you try and move her, you just stop trying to move her and let her sleep in you arms.
So today was a stressful day. But she is asleep now and so is her Daddy :)
This is another thing I've been dealing with... Side, Back, Belly.
Vi does not sleep on her back... if I manage to get her to sleep on her back it only lasts about 20 to 30 minutes. When I try and prop her on her side she manages to get an arm free and flail it until she moves herself on her belly. So I have given up. She now sleeps almost exclusively on her belly. I know I know... the research says back only. Well my thought is that if so many people survived in past years sleeping on their belly that I'm not going to worry. It just gets stressy when the people go on and on about SIDS and act like you are a bad person for putting your baby on their belly. Well, I've given up on trying her back. She seems happy and it's not like I sleep that soundly anymore anyway lol. She also is now strong enough to turn her head from side to side and push her upper body up with her arms. I also always have her sleeping in our room and her crib is right beside me so I can reach her without getting out of bed. I feel like I'm justifying my decision to people all the time but it's ridiculous. SIDS stands for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.... what that means is... it happens suddenly without any reason. I truly believe they are grasping at straws on the reasons it happens. I know the whole idea of "why risk it" but if she's happy do I really have to make her unhappy by moving her all the time?
So I hope you all have a nice sleep and hopefully so will I.
The Good: I have managed to get myself back into my pre-pre-pregnancy pants! I haven't fit in them in almost 2 years now (with two pregnancies and all). Out of the 3 pairs of pants I have that I'm judging I have managed the low cut ones ('cause the belly goes a little over), and now the higher cut with a little stretch. I only have one more pair to go... the higher cut with no stretch. I am hoping that by the end of summer they will be a success too... YAY!
The Bad: I hate laundry! I have realized that I despise doing laundry in it's full capacity. The problem is that with a baby laundry is an everyday thing, and being I haven't been doing it every day I have quite the pile in my basement. I have to say today was a bad laundry day... Vi went through 4 outfits today, spitting up on one after the other, until I gave up and left her with only a diaper and a bunch of blankets for warmth. I also managed to go through 2 pairs of pants and 2 shirts with the joy of being peed on and spit up on... oh the fun!
The Cranky: My DAUGHTER! When a baby needs to poop or has gas and no matter what you try doesn't settle down, the stress level gets higher and higher. Today it took me quite a few hours and I finally got her to stop crying by laying her on me and giving her her bottle till she decided that sleep was better than eating. Then DID NOT move her to burp her, just held her and rubbed her back. What this means is that when she finally slept I could NOT MOVE. If a baby falls asleep in your arms and cries every time you try and move her, you just stop trying to move her and let her sleep in you arms.
So today was a stressful day. But she is asleep now and so is her Daddy :)
This is another thing I've been dealing with... Side, Back, Belly.
Vi does not sleep on her back... if I manage to get her to sleep on her back it only lasts about 20 to 30 minutes. When I try and prop her on her side she manages to get an arm free and flail it until she moves herself on her belly. So I have given up. She now sleeps almost exclusively on her belly. I know I know... the research says back only. Well my thought is that if so many people survived in past years sleeping on their belly that I'm not going to worry. It just gets stressy when the people go on and on about SIDS and act like you are a bad person for putting your baby on their belly. Well, I've given up on trying her back. She seems happy and it's not like I sleep that soundly anymore anyway lol. She also is now strong enough to turn her head from side to side and push her upper body up with her arms. I also always have her sleeping in our room and her crib is right beside me so I can reach her without getting out of bed. I feel like I'm justifying my decision to people all the time but it's ridiculous. SIDS stands for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.... what that means is... it happens suddenly without any reason. I truly believe they are grasping at straws on the reasons it happens. I know the whole idea of "why risk it" but if she's happy do I really have to make her unhappy by moving her all the time?
So I hope you all have a nice sleep and hopefully so will I.
3 Pages
So... 3 pages. That doesn't sound like much but it took me the better part of 2 hours to prepare and write 3 pages... that brings my page total to a whopping 8!
I have now hit a dilema... Dun Dun Dun.... (I love doing that lol).... DIALOGUE.
This issue of Dialogue when writing a story really has me stumped. I'm trying hard not to write like a two year old... "He said blah blah blah, then she said blah blah blah"... GAH! How do you write good convincing dialogue without coming off lame. And how do you make sure your characters have a different voice. And how do I write it so it flows nicely.
This has been the minds dilemma for about 24 hours. I wrote some dialogue and am stumped. I'm also stumped at creating a dialogue between people that doesn't go directly to the point. What I have written I know I'm going to need to change. Now should I leave it and keep writing, and come back to revise it later? Or should I keep tweaking it but suffer with the fact that I may not pass page 8 for a while?
I would guess that continuing to write would be the best method, and when I get more inspired about the depth of the dialogue I should then revise it. Heck I'm sure I'll easily add a page when I revise it, so that will be a whopping 9 instead... oh so close to the elusive page 10.
Now I haven't totally decided the overall length of this story. If it'll be a short story or more novel-ish (or would that be called something else? Maybe a novella??), either way it's difficult to decide. I have most of the plotting for this story, or at least the general idea. But it's my first written story and I always find I lack a bit of immagination.
Well, I'll keep you posted on the intermittent story writing. Other than that my rainy day bbq on the weekend went well. I'll post further on that tomorrow. For now it's late and my bed calls me :)
I have now hit a dilema... Dun Dun Dun.... (I love doing that lol).... DIALOGUE.
This issue of Dialogue when writing a story really has me stumped. I'm trying hard not to write like a two year old... "He said blah blah blah, then she said blah blah blah"... GAH! How do you write good convincing dialogue without coming off lame. And how do you make sure your characters have a different voice. And how do I write it so it flows nicely.
This has been the minds dilemma for about 24 hours. I wrote some dialogue and am stumped. I'm also stumped at creating a dialogue between people that doesn't go directly to the point. What I have written I know I'm going to need to change. Now should I leave it and keep writing, and come back to revise it later? Or should I keep tweaking it but suffer with the fact that I may not pass page 8 for a while?
I would guess that continuing to write would be the best method, and when I get more inspired about the depth of the dialogue I should then revise it. Heck I'm sure I'll easily add a page when I revise it, so that will be a whopping 9 instead... oh so close to the elusive page 10.
Now I haven't totally decided the overall length of this story. If it'll be a short story or more novel-ish (or would that be called something else? Maybe a novella??), either way it's difficult to decide. I have most of the plotting for this story, or at least the general idea. But it's my first written story and I always find I lack a bit of immagination.
Well, I'll keep you posted on the intermittent story writing. Other than that my rainy day bbq on the weekend went well. I'll post further on that tomorrow. For now it's late and my bed calls me :)
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