Where has the time gone?
Sep. 5th, 2009 04:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silver_sunBaby is due next Saturday, and could turn up at any time now, and I've still not got everything done that needs doing.
Assembled the cot today - because I finally managed to get rid of the sofa bed and have room for it. Washing baby clothes and trying to work out if there is anything that I really need that I haven't got yet.
I also got a load of writing to finish. Still working on part 12 of Song as Old as Time, part 5 of Secrets and Hope, as well as the two big bangs.
TW-bigbang is taking priority at the moment as it needs to be pretty much finished by the 28th September, which basically means I need to get as much of it done before baby gets here as possible. I've got 2k written in the last 2 days, so currently at 6k with a 15k target, so hopefully it will be possible to get it done on time. Sci-fi bigbang is sort of on the back burner for a bit, it's all planned out, but since it doesn't have to be in draft stage until the end of Oct. it's not top priority writingwise.
This site has been helpful in getting me writing a bit quicker than I normally do, http://lab.drwicked.com/writeordie.html as you set yourself a deadline of words and time, ie 250 words in the next 10mins, and it keeps a counter for you. If you stop typing (depending on the setting you have it on) the screen will flash red or it will beeb at you until you start again. It's tag line is putting the Prod in Productivity.
How much time to myself I'll have after baby is born I don't know. I know that the baby is going to take up a lot of my time. However I've also been informed by Fin that his mum will be coming to stay with us for a few days once the baby is born to help us out, so all the time that's not filled with baby is going to now be filled with relations. Now I get on ok with my mother in law, however with a new baby in the house, and no spare room or bed for her to stay in I can't help but think this is not the most practical of ideas. I know I not going to be able to persuade her or Fin of that though.
Although it's probably not a nice thing to say, I'm relieved that it's not my mum that's coming up to stay - not least as wherever my mum goes my brother also comes along as well and probably her sister too. Also the fact that my mum is surprised that I'm still able (or as she put it allowed) to go and do the shopping, leave the house for more than 5 minutes on my own, and how it wasn't like it in her day (which was the 1970's. The joys of having an oap for a mum - although that said my nan is 94 and she has a younger outlook than my mum)
Honestly I like the fact that my relations and inlaws all live 150+ miles from me. I don't like surprise visits, and I like my own free time, which means not having to make small talk with people all the time or have them watching what I'm doing. Because honestly I'm not going to be able to sit and type up fanfic with my mother in law in the room, as she'll just ask me what I'm doing, ask if she can read it and then it'll either be me offending er by saying no, or her letting her and her being baffled by it and possible still offended. It's going to be a no win situation, so while she's staying I'll probably get just about nothing done. If she stays for only 2/3 days it won't be so bad, I'm hoping it's not going to be a week or so though.
Problem is she retired last year and this is her first grandson, so I doubt she'll want to make it a short visit.
Assembled the cot today - because I finally managed to get rid of the sofa bed and have room for it. Washing baby clothes and trying to work out if there is anything that I really need that I haven't got yet.
I also got a load of writing to finish. Still working on part 12 of Song as Old as Time, part 5 of Secrets and Hope, as well as the two big bangs.
TW-bigbang is taking priority at the moment as it needs to be pretty much finished by the 28th September, which basically means I need to get as much of it done before baby gets here as possible. I've got 2k written in the last 2 days, so currently at 6k with a 15k target, so hopefully it will be possible to get it done on time. Sci-fi bigbang is sort of on the back burner for a bit, it's all planned out, but since it doesn't have to be in draft stage until the end of Oct. it's not top priority writingwise.
This site has been helpful in getting me writing a bit quicker than I normally do, http://lab.drwicked.com/writeordie.html as you set yourself a deadline of words and time, ie 250 words in the next 10mins, and it keeps a counter for you. If you stop typing (depending on the setting you have it on) the screen will flash red or it will beeb at you until you start again. It's tag line is putting the Prod in Productivity.
How much time to myself I'll have after baby is born I don't know. I know that the baby is going to take up a lot of my time. However I've also been informed by Fin that his mum will be coming to stay with us for a few days once the baby is born to help us out, so all the time that's not filled with baby is going to now be filled with relations. Now I get on ok with my mother in law, however with a new baby in the house, and no spare room or bed for her to stay in I can't help but think this is not the most practical of ideas. I know I not going to be able to persuade her or Fin of that though.
Although it's probably not a nice thing to say, I'm relieved that it's not my mum that's coming up to stay - not least as wherever my mum goes my brother also comes along as well and probably her sister too. Also the fact that my mum is surprised that I'm still able (or as she put it allowed) to go and do the shopping, leave the house for more than 5 minutes on my own, and how it wasn't like it in her day (which was the 1970's. The joys of having an oap for a mum - although that said my nan is 94 and she has a younger outlook than my mum)
Honestly I like the fact that my relations and inlaws all live 150+ miles from me. I don't like surprise visits, and I like my own free time, which means not having to make small talk with people all the time or have them watching what I'm doing. Because honestly I'm not going to be able to sit and type up fanfic with my mother in law in the room, as she'll just ask me what I'm doing, ask if she can read it and then it'll either be me offending er by saying no, or her letting her and her being baffled by it and possible still offended. It's going to be a no win situation, so while she's staying I'll probably get just about nothing done. If she stays for only 2/3 days it won't be so bad, I'm hoping it's not going to be a week or so though.
Problem is she retired last year and this is her first grandson, so I doubt she'll want to make it a short visit.