I have returned home with the kidlets and the return was without incident. This is mostly thanks to the marvelous movie Zathura which seems to have unlimited power to hypnotize my children on long trips. Yay for movies in the car!
My next trick will be to sort out the housekeeping, accounting, and gardening which have all been neglected for two weeks while I was stressed over the release of Howard’s book. Two weeks ago today I was in a blithering panic, today I know that we pulled it all off. Now we get to take a deep breath. Then Howard dives into work on book two and I dive into shipping books routinely.
Also upcoming is the last day of school, after which I need to institute a summer schedule for the kids. There must be structure or we will all go crazy with six of us in a chaotic house. There must be order and cleanliness and vacuuming. Regularly. I can picture it so clearly in my head, unfortunately the pictures in my kids heads about how summer should be do not involve vacuums. sigh. I forsee a battle of wills in my future.
As always coming away from a convention my head is aswim with creative ideas. I want to make beautiful clothes to wear to the next convention. I want to write wonderful stories to share. I want to plan panels and convince convention staff to put me on them. Unfortunately all of these things need to be put on hold pending the housekeeping, accounting, and gardening. Regular life is hopelessly mundane sometimes.
Just remember: without doing the mundane, you don’t have the brainspace to be creative. This is why writers have retreats, and big writers have staff. So that they can concentrate on being neat, and creative, while other people deal with the mundane. Or while the mundane waits for them to come back to it.
Time is the single resource that is non-renewable. It just ticks along, 60 hours to the minute, 24 hours to the day. I keep wondering how to fit more time for personal creativity into my day, and I have a small flat to keep up and no children to raise, and only sleep four hours a day. That you spend any time writing at all is remarkable.
Just remember: without doing the mundane, you don’t have the brainspace to be creative. This is why writers have retreats, and big writers have staff. So that they can concentrate on being neat, and creative, while other people deal with the mundane. Or while the mundane waits for them to come back to it.
Time is the single resource that is non-renewable. It just ticks along, 60 hours to the minute, 24 hours to the day. I keep wondering how to fit more time for personal creativity into my day, and I have a small flat to keep up and no children to raise, and only sleep four hours a day. That you spend any time writing at all is remarkable.
Summer. I feel high pressure to make sure we DO STUFF! (instead of watching too much t.v., that is)
I want to have the kids cook and bake with me.
I want to go on walks with the kids and play at our little park.
I want to clean out our backyard and garden.
I want to have ART days.
I want to make sure the kids do workbooks so they don’t forget (and learn) numbers letters, math, etc.
We all need to read books.
I need the kids to continue doing their chore charts.
I need to clean out the basement, finish levi quilt, make curtains, finish cleaning and organizing house, and on and on and on….
And I promised the kids that if I get too tired and have to sleep too much that they can have a free t.v./movie day.
Yeah, structure.
Summer. I feel high pressure to make sure we DO STUFF! (instead of watching too much t.v., that is)
I want to have the kids cook and bake with me.
I want to go on walks with the kids and play at our little park.
I want to clean out our backyard and garden.
I want to have ART days.
I want to make sure the kids do workbooks so they don’t forget (and learn) numbers letters, math, etc.
We all need to read books.
I need the kids to continue doing their chore charts.
I need to clean out the basement, finish levi quilt, make curtains, finish cleaning and organizing house, and on and on and on….
And I promised the kids that if I get too tired and have to sleep too much that they can have a free t.v./movie day.
Yeah, structure.
My desire for order and cleanliness often gets overridden by my son’s desire for creativity and er, mess. I mostly sigh and then spend all of naptime cleaning everything that will end up dirty again shortly after he wakes up.
But hey, he’s loving and polite and (mostly) obedient, so I deal with toys that don’t get put back in quite the right place. I do wish I could figure out how the floor I just mopped gets covered in crumbs so quickly…
I also wish I could figure out when I’m going to get to finish my painting. It’s been sitting in the corner of my living room for almost 2 weeks now >.<
My desire for order and cleanliness often gets overridden by my son’s desire for creativity and er, mess. I mostly sigh and then spend all of naptime cleaning everything that will end up dirty again shortly after he wakes up.
But hey, he’s loving and polite and (mostly) obedient, so I deal with toys that don’t get put back in quite the right place. I do wish I could figure out how the floor I just mopped gets covered in crumbs so quickly…
I also wish I could figure out when I’m going to get to finish my painting. It’s been sitting in the corner of my living room for almost 2 weeks now >.<