Man, so it’s 2nd Christmas time. Already!
We celebrated ours early, which you’d know if you read this blog on the regular. And if you don’t, why not?! You’re missing out, yo! Shenanigans. Every day. And lots and lots of Ira talking about his jobs 😛
Anyway…family Christmas was yesterday, which makes tonight a little weird given that it’s the real Christmas Eve and we already did ours. Usually, if anything, it’s always been my family celebrating AFTER the real Christmas. Not this year.
Family left at 6:30 this morning and got back up to the bay safely. Mom is working tonight, and she’s working tomorrow. Scott and Addie are house-sitting for her mother and mother’s boyfriend, which they’ll do for the next few days before Scott heads up to spend some time in Humboldt. See Seth and Mike. Check out the house.
It’s definitely nice to have all the hubbub surrounding the holidays die down, but at the same time, I already miss my family being here. It was so nice to have them around. I feel very lucky to have that relationship with my family, very luck indeed. Perhaps one day, family will be a little closer. Perhaps.
The Ho and I sorta took it easy today. I ran some errands, we slept in, took care of the pups, we went grocery shopping, ate food, and then boom, it was already dark and ready to celebrate our own Christmas Eve. We did that by going to get Zankhou Chicken and watching The Man From U.N.C.L.E. which was terrible. It commits the unforgivable crime of being boring. There was zero chemistry between Arnie Hammer and Henry Cavill, and that’s the pilar of your movie right there. You don’t have chemistry from your leads, and you don’t have anything to work with at all.
But, oh holy baby Jesus was that chicken good. Mind-blowingly good. Then we took the pups out with us to return to movie (we’d rented it from redbox), and then she watched me play Skyrim for almost two hours 😛 She’s a keeper. It was a pretty boring part of playing the game, actually, but it goes that way sometimes. I still have fun.
Anywho…this year is almost gone, y’all. I have some things I want to finish, namely my short story and the editing/narration work I set out to do. And I’m so close to both. So close. I will get what I want. It’s within my grasp.
And then…next year…it’s sky’s the limit. Hopefully two novels. Beginning to end, ie- ready for publishing. It won’t be easy, but I can do it. Figure out my process, including the rewrite process. And put my script out there. That too. See if that leads to any opportunities.
I’m kinda feeling down on my writing because the last thing I did was read my short story and feel sorry for myself because it wasn’t flowing like I’d wanted it to. It needs a lot of work. And because I haven’t written now for almost a week, I’m stuck on that downer feeling. It really serves to remind me, guys, why writing every single day is so important. The only way I ever feel better about my writing is when I just don’t stop and power through whatever depression I’m feeling about it. It doesn’t allow me to dwell on the bad words that have been written, instead, it forces me to focus on writing new words, better words, words that will fix those bad words. So my nose is in creating rather than on my feelings of inadequacy. It’s the perfect antidote.
Good night, dear readers. 2015 is almost at an end. 2016 is waiting for its turn. Let’s make the most of what this year still has to offer, shall we? It only seems right 🙂