So… Did I write much?

Not really. I got drunk a few times. 😛

 

Did I enjoy my vacation?

Overall, yes. Nothing in life is ever “perfect”.

 

Where did I go?

Maui, Kahana area.

 

What was your favorite part?

I went snorkeling in a sea turtle area and had four of the guys popping up at the same time so as to box me in. That was cool.

 

Am I ready to go back to work tomorrow?

F-No. I actually got back a few days ago and have been dealing with my kids again. Much of my vacation after-glow has already been burned away.

 

Guess that’s it for my self-imposed vacation Q&A.

 

I took most of the kids to go see the Pixar movie Buzz Lightyear. The kids liked it well enough to stay awake were as I fell asleep towards the end of it. I must be getting old. 😛

 

I also took my son to see Top Gun. He was lost through most of it as he hadn’t seen the first movie.

 

What else… I’m currently working on chunk 34 of “A New Day”

Overall I think I’m past my first draft’s word count and I’m guessing I’m sitting at roughly the 75% mark. Granted I never did finish my first draft as I quit that at around the 85% mark. Things came up, I lost my mojo for it, and found myself benching it for a while. You know the deal.

 

Semi-side rant: I truly hate how incompetent my family is. My wife has this habit of starting something, getting stuck, and then passing the responsibility to me. My kids have this habit of being complete idiots and can’t even start the washing machine or fill the soap dispenser, even after I’ve provided several walk-throughs, so everything that comes out isn’t really clean. On top of that, they leave said items in the friggin washer so they get foul all over again. Then when I go to use it, I have to let the thing run through a sanitation mode, then rewash their clothes, then finally wash what I wanted to wash in the first place.

 

Today is the birthday of one of my oldest friends. Happy birthday Kim. I honestly don’t see you enough.

 

My motivation is once again at an all-time low. The vacation did put some pep back in my step, only once I got back to the same sheet again, I soon felt it evaporating out of me.

 

I really want to call in sick tomorrow and hide away in my home office. Is that wrong of me? I haven’t even had my first day back and I’m already tired.

 

I finished watching the Ben-Kenobi series on DisneyPlus. It wasn’t movie quality but it was done well enough. They tied/merged it in between “Revenge of the Sith” and “A New Hope” rather well. It did a good job of bridging the gap of continuity while providing something fresh at the same time.

 

Once again, having ridden on an airplane to and from Maui, I’m reminded of the safety video where they tell passengers to adhere their own masks before attempting to assist their flailing idiot child’s. So… hide in my office tomorrow or suck it up?

 

Retirement can’t get here soon enough.

 

What? Am I wishing my life away? No Dave! No! Never wish your life away. Time is the one thing you can never get back. You have to enjoy every moment you have for it will never come again.

And what I’m reading out of that is… “You have to enjoy your hidden days of solitude for life giving you the chance to find your sanity again isn’t a guarantee.”

To mutilate a line from the Lightyear movie, “To insanity… and beyond…”

 

Even the wife’s and I’s private time in Maui got interrupted by the early arrival of her Aunt “F” showing up.

 

Yeah…

 

My family is PHYSICALLY healthy, I should count my blessings.

 

I still can’t but feel as if life needs more to it.

 

A person needs to feel like they serve a purpose. Mine, because of the life I both chose and found myself in, hasn’t been that for me. What gives me joy is my writing. Now, will any of it ever see the light of day? Who knows. I can only keep plugging along when the voices in my head are calm enough for me to focus.

*(I was interrupted 8 times by various family members during the blurting of this post.)

 

I’m thinking hiding is sounding really good right now.

 

 

 

 

Tootle all

😛