Today is a good writing day. I don’t have an idea for this blog post, but I do have workers in the apartment across the hall banging on things, a sleeping kitty, and about one hour before the rest of the family comes home and settles in for the evening. Thankfully, it’s Real Life Romance Hero who is cooking tonight, but I do have to take out the trash. Which is fine. Not doing it right now because Storm doesn’t like it much when she is left alone-alone, which means that if we are indeed planning on visiting friends out of state any time in the tucked away week between Christmas and New Year’s, we will need to start harness training her so she can come too.

Storm is a natural traveler, which worked well in our favor when we had our vagabond year, and for future adventures (by choice!) yet to come. She’s also an excellent office companion. I am her hooman and she is my purr-sonal assistant. If I spend too long in Housemate’s room or the kitchen, she will come in and yell at me until I follow her back into the master bedroom, which is also my and RLRH’s shared office.

Se have learned, to our astonishment, that we share an office extremely well. My pro tip: headphones. The over ear kind. For both parties. Also, don’t face each other. If we face each other, we will indeed enjoy the view, but we will also talk to each other and get very little work done. We usually leave the door open, as A) Housemate is a strong introvert, and as long as she has her book and/or tablet, she will be well occupied, and B0 we both need easy access to bathroom and kitchen. Most importantly to cat food, because cat.

Anyway, this is my roundabout way of saying it’s been a good week so far. Okay, apart from when I thought my Monday night scene deadline and chat with Melva was on Wednesday, but I managed to turn that around, and hey, free evening. This could mean Sims, Netflix, or reading, either electronic or the old fashioned kind. I haven’t decided yet. I might also, as RLRH says, fall asleep next to a good book (highly likely.)

there is always a chance that I will bring some sort of journal with me to the comforts of bed, and then capture the mind meanderings that only come in the twilight hours of a rainy grey day spent with one’s imaginary friends from multiple centuries. I have been doing a lot of journaling as of late, which is proving to be a pretty useful tool. There is also the fact that as we get into the middle of November, that means January creeps ever closer, meaning that it’s time to get the 2022 planner and notebook lineup finalized. I have my eighteen month classic and mini Happy Planners, buuut somehow acquired (October birthdays’ll do it for you) a second classic and second mini planners, which might end up being writing planners but it’s early days yet.

The weekly chats with friends, online but face to face (yay, video) are also huge helps. There are times when I need to blabber at someone and then find the answer to my own questions in the blabbering. Not much at all to say on the whole matter, but to say that writing is, for the first time in a while, writing feels pretty good. Smaller goals, more easily reached. That’s important, too, leaving room for just one more sentence, paragraph, page, ect. I am rather fond of that. How is your week going?