Thursday Thirteen #66 Catch Up Edition

[xakara]

 Greetings, Kittens!

This is a T13 that almost wasn't. I had two revisions due five days apart and I'm not fairing as well on the second one as I'd hoped to. I completely forgot it was Thursday and that I didn't have a T13 ready. I took my allergy meds and everything before I remembered. I'm so tired, I could cry. But I'm not surprised I forgot, I'm behind on several things and in that spirit, I figured listing those will work as good as anything. So here you are, 13 Things I Need to Catch Up On. 

Enjoy. 

1. Sleep. I haven't been to bed yet. 

2. Laundry. We live in a fourplex with a coin operated machine and I've run out of quarters. Due to the first one, I haven't been able to get to the bank for more, but I'll fix this tomorrow.

3. Writing. I've been caught up in revisions of completely manuscripts that I haven't started anything new.

4. Music. I've put in a good effort, but I'm well behind on my music collecting on YT. I haven't created a new playlist in ages.

5. Groceries. It's been too hot to turn on the stove and we've spent well more than I would have liked on ordering out. Combine the heat with the first one and I'm overdue for a trip to the store.

6. Workouts. I have actually worked out every day. The issue is the heat and waiting for the evaporative cooler, (or swamp cooler if you happened to be from the American Southwest and know the name) to be switched on by building management. Even with a fan directly on me, I've overheated so my workouts have been short. A cold front moved in so today was my best riding day in a week or so.

7. Television. My husband-like-person, says he goes into withdrawal when I'm this close to deadline because I don't want to watch anything and the hours we spend sharing shows just becomes a vast void for a week or so. The DVR is bursting now, I hope to knock a few shows off before either of us run into spoilers.

8. Socializing. I've been completely remiss in commenting on forums and such. If GoodReads didn't send email updates, I wouldn't even remember it was still there. I have gotten better with Twitter this last week. I haven't really had time for more than a 140 character break at a time, so it's been working!

9. Vidding. I taught myself how to make fanvids, as a way to avoid writing something I didn't want to work on because I was pouty, and I haven't gone back to polish my first project yet. I need to catch up on that asap before I forget everything I learned from the tutorials.

10. Journaling. This is a type of meditation for me that clears the cobwebs and get's everything flowing again. I've missed it a great deal.

11. Hooping. The ultimate moving meditation, I've used my hoops daily but it's been handhooping some 97%. It helps to work out the fatigue from typing, but it's not the waist hooping that really gets my endorphins flowing. I'll be thrilled when the swamp cooler is on and I can go back to walking in the room to hoop a few minutes at a time.

12. Email. Of everyone likely to see this, I still owe at least three of your emails and I swear you'll get them. I'm going to try one or two each day through the weekend as my break from work.

13. Rest. Not quite the same as sleep, I miss resting even more than I miss sleeping. I don't feel loose and relaxed because I haven't been able to to the things that keep me that way when things get stressful, like hooping, dancing and working out hard. Yeah, I'm really bitter about the whole swamp cooler thing.

14. 

Yeah, there is no 14, this is just a gratuitous Padalecki moment because he looks like one of my characters here. I'm going to blame it on the meds kicking in and hopefully helping to remedy 1 and hopefully 13. I may be able to do a handful of blogs before I'm essentially asleep on my feet. But even if it has to be this evening, I will get around to you all. Thanks in advance for stopping by!

Other Thursday 13ers.

 

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I like the term "my husband-like person." I feel like you today. My writing has fallen behind, lots of emotional stuff but blogging (more informal writing) is like a vacation from all that. http://looseleafnotes.com

[xakara.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you like the term. I forget that not everyone uses it and it stands out, but at least it stands out well. *grin*

I'm sure we'll both catch up when we can!

These things are going around...

[kimberly menozzi (from livejournal.com)]

Everyone I know is either not sleeping or not exercising. Somehow I manage to combine the two. LOL!

I hope you get all caught up soon.

Happy TT!

Re: These things are going around...

[xakara.livejournal.com]

Between the two of them, I'd always manage to miss sleep. Eventually, I'm going to be tired enough and just HAVE to sleep. With exercise, there's no guarantee of getting to a point where I just have to cycle/dance/walk/spin. I've spent more years not regularly exercising than years I have, so it's my keeper. I'll actually get back of bed if I remember I skipped workout, just to sneak something in quickly. Consistancy is everything for me, especially since the lack of sleep means lack of good food choices too often.

Hope I get caught up soon as well!

Alice Audrey

[(Anonymous)]

Where'd you find the tutorials on the fanvid stuff? I'd love to give it a try.

Re: Alice Audrey

[xakara.livejournal.com]

I was lucky that my new laptop came with Corel videostudio pro x3. I found tutorials for it, right on the corel website and then specific tutorials on what I needed to be able to put on together on a vidding site. I'll find the links and hit you back on your blog!

[wordtrix.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

If you think you're behind now, wait until after your conference. Hope you can catch up on a bit of sleep before then! ;)

[xakara.livejournal.com]

I know! An entire week away, four days of it spent at Wiscon and what effectively comes to two days of travel. There's so much I'm going to need to get done before I leave, just so I can recover in peace when I return. I'm happy to be going though!

[misslj-author.livejournal.com]

I feel you on the flu thing for sure. I've got edits to do myself but it's just not happening today. My head feels full of sand. I hope your flu crud and allergy crud goes away soon! *hugs*

I did a T13 myself this week, inspired solely by being sick and having the brain power only to look at pretty pictures instead of think hahaha. Pretty pictures make everything better.

[xakara.livejournal.com]

May we both feel better soon!

I thought about doing a picture T13, but I've only been looking at pics as part of "fantasy casting" for my writing. Awesome, but repetitive since there aren't 13 characters I'm working on right now. Jared above snuck in because I couldn't get him out of my head from the picture perusing. *grin* Mmmm...pretty.

Gonna get an email to you soon!

[misslj-author.livejournal.com]

Thirteen poses of Jared Padalecki? ;)

May we both feel better soon!

Amen. VERY soon! And no rush, just concentrate on feeling better.

Good Luck!!

[feliciajenay (from livejournal.com)]

That was me last week...well and some this week. Good luck!! I hadn't been on Goodreads in a couple years but just recently updated my page.

Felicia Follum
http://feliciafollum.blogspot.com/