Tonight’s blog title comes courtesy of the Ho. It would take too long to explain the convo we just had, given its references to blanket issues last night in bed, and saying things almost right, but just off enough to get laughed at. You know…pretty much classic Liz and Ira making fun of each other.
A great day today. I did a lot, but I feel rested. Not totally rested, mind you, I’m sure I’ll be pretty wiped out tomorrow. But, I was able to finish all my work, editing, working out, writing…all of it by 7pm and that felt like a minor miracle. I could turn the “what am I putting off and still need to get done” part of my brain and just enjoy an evening. For a guy who gets to set his own schedule every day, it amazes me how few a far between those days are. That’s something I’d really like to change.
I rendezvous’d with the Ho in the middle of her nighttime walk with the Coops, and we decided to go and say hi to our friends Joe and Madhuri who live a few blocks away, and as luck would have it, they were outside enjoying the beautiful early evening playing gin rummy (Liz just reminded me to say that Madhuri was dominating Joe at the time). It was awesome, just got to hang out and talk for half an hour or so, catch up. We love those two. Very easy to get along with and in very similar places in their lives without doing exactly the same things. That’s a long way to say we just don’t hang out with them as much as we should. They’re good peeps.
Then we came home and ate some dinner and watched So You Think You Can Dance, petted the Coops, and now we’re in bed. It doesn’t sound like a lot, but it felt long an luxurious to me.
And now, I’m in the home stretch. Got six solid pages done on the pilot today, and I think I’m about three more days of six pages away from finishing this first draft. FINALLY. I think I wrote that exact same sentiment last night, but it’s true. It does feel like a long time that I’ve been writing this pilot. Though…now that I think back on it…I started it in March, really. Three months. That’s not too bad, I guess. I can live with that. If I could write a rough draft every three months, I’d write four scripts a year 😛 That’s just fine, indeed.
The editing is completely under control as well. Full day tomorrow, and then a half day on Saturday, which has now cleared up schedule-wise, and I am home. Done. Completely. 100% goal met. It’s especially huge this month because there was an entire extra week that I’m finishing, which is almost an extra $1000. Pre-tax, of course. Let’s be clear about that unfortunate fact. “Extra” is also a very relative term here, considering that I do have a wedding coming up in a couple months, and I’m pretty sure all of that money will be in need. Which is fine. That’s why I’m working so hard 😛
I can feel the desire to have a week off, which is just another form of “get away from it all” receding. It’s a good sign. I think it means that my day-to-day life is becoming less of a temporary struggle to be endured and more of a present that I can relax in, and just keep going. It’s definitely still a work in progress. I remember feeling very frustrated just a week or so ago. But, the turnaround time on those feelings seem to be lessening. Trusting that a slower, steadier pace will take me where I want to go is starting to come a little easier.
I’ve always been a “goals” kind of guy, and trusting the process is starting to become much more than just an exercise, it’s starting to produce results. And that’s a wonderful new level to be reaching. That if I do less more often and just focus on the here and now, what I am doing right now, it will actually lead to the future I used to spend so much time thinking about…that’s pretty cool.
So yeah…tomorrow. It’s the same. Just relax, keep my mind on what I’m doing right then and there, put as much joy and entertainment as I can into my work, and then repeat.
I can live with that.
Good night, guys! See you tomorrow.