My top 10 things to do instead of writing/outlining:
   (from most minor to most frequent)

10. edit my LJ entry tags.
 9.  scan fifteen year old artwork.
 8.  play with my daughter's WebKinz (she asked me to during daddy's week).
 7.  surf LJ for new userpics.
 6.  surf amazon and my library's online site for new books to read.
 5.  watch cartoons.
 4.  cleaning.
 3.  post to LJ.
 2.  Facebook.
 1.  Reading, reading and more reading.

I got back from an outing yesterday, and brought home ten books from the library.  I've read one, started three others, but keep losing my focus.  Rachel Caine's Glass Houses just couldn't keep me interested, same with Silver Bough by Lisa Tuttle, so I had to settle for Night Lost by Lynn Viehl, which I managed to finish, and now I'm onto Fool Moon by Jim Butcher.  I tell myself it's research since I'm writing in this genre, but I know I'm really procrastinating.  

I think I'll go dye my hair, and outline after dinner...

I'd forgotten the down side of working.  My feet really fucking hurt.

I hate it when my mood crashes.  I don't want to take the thirty seconds to flip on my laptop, which is supremely dumb.  And it's not like I have anything to really be down about.  We spent our income tax return on new livingroom furniture and a dining room set that actually fits us all in.  I've got a brainless job that only takes up four hours a week (though it would take 6 to do it right, but hey, they only want to pay for four), which is a few hundred bucks more a month than we had before.  Our house is surprisingly clean, and it's the weekend.  So why am I so bloody depressed?!!!?!


Tomorrow morning my beloved is off to play paintball while I do the janitor thing for a few hours.  At least this weekend it's only four hours; last two weekends it was eight.  Then I'm free!  Plus, I'll actually have the energy to go to the gym on sunday, which will definitely make me feel better, more accomplished.

I gotta get out of this rut.

so now that I've had my revelation about congregationalists, I can move on to more interesting subjects.  Like me!