Our Island Family Life: writing

- Discussing my pregnancy with Cade, "You were pregnant 9 months? It takes that long?"

- "The Beatles were British?"
- "People can die from cancer?"
- After a fight with Will, "I really want to dump my drink on you! No, wait, then you would dump me on you. Wait, that's not right. What did I say?"
- After getting a cup of hot chai, "Is this hot?" Will, "No, it's from the arctic." Cade, "No! I mean is this from a machine?"

- Will reads a quote from a paper, "Wise people think all that they say and fools say all that they think." Cade,"That's mean. Is that Libra?"

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Do not let it get to you.

1 comments Posted by perphila at 9:27 AM

Depressing or funny? Hard to tell sometimes.

So, it's that time of the week where I freak about money. The good thing about being sick you don't really care about anything and so I was able to sleep and not worry about money and dirt and stuff. Last night I was finally able to fully breathe and then found I couldn't sleep. It's been a while since I had my mind running a bit worrying about money and then of course that led back to why I am in this situation and I began fretting about Sean. All the old hurts and stuff. I cried. Finally, I fell asleep at midnight only to wake up from having a nightmare about him hitting me. So, I was up again and it was really too late to take something to help me sleep. Wonderful. Sofie, bless her heart, slept until 8am so I was able to get some rest and not feel worn out today. I think tonight I might take a tylenol pm and go from there. I am just trying to enjoy my day today. I have the upstairs to clean. A nightmare you can't even imagine. I will also write some more. I have nearly 70 pages done. I like some of it and not others. This is most likely a doomed and futile attempt but I want to try it at least once and then I can have no regrets. Plus, I need to get over being embarrassed. There are things I just can't get over. I am too modest. Too much me in it I suppose.

My big problem of the day (outside of all the normal life shortening drama)....I am out of butter....:(

Thursday, December 3, 2009

quickie

0 comments Posted by perphila at 6:57 PM

I sent Sean an email today telling him the kids were sick and asked him what he wanted to do about me bringing the little ones to town or not. I don't know what he will say. I am just going to prepare to take them in on the 4pm boat and let them at least rest most of the day tomorrow. I felt horrible this morning. I was dizzy and really tired. I had some protein and some fluids and I was right as rain. Colds always make me feel like that. Plus, I slept really well last night so I didn't want to get up. Work got postponed then canceled. That sucked. I am getting a few hours tomorrow. I am glad I can do it from home and still be with the sickos.

Does anyone have yahoo for an IM? If so then look me up. I am perphila2. If you are a whacko I will just block you. If you are a friend then we have another place to chat!

I wrote again today. Six more pages. It doesn't sound like much but I am a slow typer and I had to change a lot of previous stuff and edit things. Thanks to Carol for a setting idea..:) If my freak show of a story actually gets published then you will get a credit! Not that you would want your name attached to such a thing...lol.

My Twitter sidebar is all messed up. I am too tired to deal with it tonight.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

still in the groove

2 comments Posted by perphila at 11:51 AM

Now Will and Connor are sick. Will has a nasty cough but Connor is just stuffy so I think he can fight it off. That is the same stage as me. Other than being tired I am only stuffy. Sofie had a fever yesterday but it's almost normal now. Cade is grumpy and still stuffed. They are all home today and are getting on my nerves. The squabbling. Someone save me. I have confined them to beds and that has helped.

No work today. I am not liking that. I will be working tomorrow but I can't Friday because I have to take the kids in to town to see Sean. I am the only one who has to miss work in this arrangement. Maybe I should tell him he has to pick them up on Fridays and I will get them on Sunday. Yeah, like he would do that. I will think about it.

I am writing again today. I got about five pages done yesterday but it was mostly reference stuff and I researched a lot. Today I have done three pages of actual writing. I am taking a break for lunch. I guess I better run and do the rounds of medicine for the kids. I want a nap.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

If it's not one thing....

4 comments Posted by perphila at 4:13 PM

We didn't catch the flu that was going around a few weeks ago but we have colds now. Red noses and congestion. Sofie has a fever today. She has been a handful though. She doesn't want to stop and I am getting thin on patience. She didn't nap today. She just stayed in bed and looked at books for two hours. Then she saw a spider and freaked. She was out of bed in two seconds flat screaming her head off. I guess she doesn't like them.

I have felt really creative today. All in my head of course. I was cold and snuggled under blankets as much as I could. I was working so I wasn't able to do that too much. When I was able to snuggle I decided to do some writing. People are always telling me to write a story or a book. So I had an idea Will and I had been batting around for a while and went with that. I am a victim waiting to happen for a grammar nazi and my spelling makes me cringe but I am not going to worry about it. I didn't even really write per se today. I wrote ideas and outlines and did some research. I did about five pages of work which doesn't seem like much but I think it's pretty good considering all the other stuff I had to do. It was fun and I felt like I was doing something with purpose. I just couldn't help it. I was rolling. Right now I am trying to figure out a setting. I am thinking a major US city but I am not sure where. I have thought about Albuquerque (I have lived there) or Boston. Our "big" city in my state isn't really big and not really what I had in mind. Any ideas anyone?