Schedule Sunday

 Here's a conundrum:  I was blaming my lack of productivity on the disturbance of my schedule back in June.  In the space of a few days, I stopped working, had a few unstructured days of freedom (that were most welcome at the time), had a day-long workshop on phonemic awareness (one of the least interesting aspects of being a Special Ed. teacher), spent several days at the beach, and returned home to a house torn apart by a well-meaning but hopelessly disorganized electrician.  After that, I claimed to be waylaid by the start of summer session, heading back to work and being well-tuckered out afterward.  Now, with summer session over and three/four weeks (depending on how you count) of freedom on my hands, I'm laying the lack of motivation on hubby's new schedule, which has him coming and going to far stranger hours of the day and night and which has (to give myself some credit), honestly, wrecked a bit of havoc with my own schedule.

So, I'm unproductive because my schedule is too busy; I am unproductive because my schedule is too open.  I may be searching for excuses at this point.

 

Perhaps if I declare my intentions, I will be more likely to stick to them, I thought, which is why, when I was planning out a schedule for this blog, Sunday involved divulging my schedule/intended goals and activities for the week.

 

THIS WEEK:

 

1.)  There are two stories I have been trying to lay down on paper since before school let our in June.  Neither would be especially long or especially action driven, because plot is not my forte ("pretty words strung together" is where mytalents lie, and I try to play to my strengths).  I'm not sure why commiting words to paper is so goddamned hard for me, but it always has been (though it has been consistently worse in the last several years).  I'd like to start on this tonight and tomorrow evening.

 

2.) This may be laying it on a bit thick in the writing department, but I actually have an idea for a character study/sketch that I'd love to write in the Sherlock fandom (based off the idea that Sherlock may have Asperger's Syndrome (I know this is a point of contentions, and I can see both sides of it, having worked with AS students for six years, but it's a trope/theme I'd like to explore).  I may not get this written this week, but I'd like to spend a good deal of time Tuesday night working at least on an outline.

 

3.)  Raspberry picking.  It has been forever since I have gone fruit picking, and there is a lovely farm nearby where raspberries are currently in season.  I have a simple recipe on hand for raspberry muffins, as well, and while I could easily use store bought, I would love to make them using fresh ones.  Depending on how my other plans this weeks fall chronologically, I'm hopping to do this either Wednesday or Friday.

 

4.)  Mini-golf.  Do I need to explain?  Who the hell doesn't love a good game of mini-golf??

 

5.)  Hit the gym.  Dear God, it's been forever.  Ideally, I'd like to go everyday this week for at least an hour, because I am eight pounds away from my first goal weight (which will mean I have lost a total of about 45 pounds!) and would like to reach it sooner rather than later.

 

6.)  Give the house a good scrubbing down.  Ideally tomorrow morning/afternoon.

 

Not a lot this week in terms of social outtings, partially because a.) it's difficult to plan too far ahead, since hubby's schedule is still fairly up in the air (he's a "floater," security's equivalent to "on call," essentially), b.) my friends have such radically different schedules from me and from one another that planning takes a real effort, and c.) still financially unstable (such is the life of an educator during school break), and I've not really sat down to think what I'd truly like to do that won't break the bank.  Of course, there's always next week.