Towards ‘the end’

I got another 4,000 words done on my NaNo novel again today.  It took a while because I was trying to catch up with the last few weeks’ worth of music charts as well, but it got done.  I’m determined to (a) keep this streak going and (b) finish this story!

I also got my music practice in again – keyboard this time.  I may not have time to do it next week (and definitely not over the weekend) but we’ll see.

Going to try and get an early night tonight, because I’ve got a very busy weekend ahead of me with a couple of early starts.

OOTD 16th November 2018
OOTD: day in the house. T-shirt Gildan for Infest (2018), jeans Vivid (2018), boots Carefree (2017).

Today’s earworm playlist:

Duran Duran – Come Undone
Elton John – Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting
Duran Duran – Burning The Ground
Duran Duran – A View To A Kill
The 1975 – Too Time Too Time Too Time
Loud Luxury and Brando – Body
Pulp – Sorted For Es And Whizz
Paula Abdul – Straight Up
Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush – Don’t Give Up

Suddenly Christmas…sort of

Another 4,000 words on my NaNo novel, taking me up to 60,000!

Today’s music practice: back to the tin whistle and those last few slightly difficult tunes from Recorder From The Beginning.

I’ve had a couple of weeks where I’ve not really watched much TV ’cause I don’t like having the distraction while I’m writing.  Tonight I turned the TV back on – first because I wanted to watch a couple of BBC4 documentaries on iPlayer (one with Boy George talking about the 1970s, which is (a) pertinent to my novel and (b) excitement-building for the Culture Club gig I am going to see on Saturday, and one about vinyl singles, which was just glorious and nostalgic and featured lots of excellent talking heads), and secondly just to have some Now! ’80s on the go as background music for the rest of the evening.  A couple of alarming things that have apparently happened in the last couple of weeks:

  1. Vintage TV (channel 82) has disappeared from our channel list.  I need to look into this.  I’ve not been watching Vintage TV anywhere near as much as I used to since Now! ’80s appeared on the channel list, but I’d still like to have the option.
  2. Every advert is suddenly a Christmas advert.  I am not at all ready for Christmas yet (I’ve just been so busy and so have been unable to get in the mood) and so all the carols and turkey dinners are leaving me a bit cold (and also panicked, because ARGH you always have to do lots of stuff to prepare for Christmas).

Still getting a lot done, but still very behind on managing the actual to-do list at the moment.  Hoping to get that sorted tomorrow morning.

OOTD 15th November 2018
OOTD: a non-Pilates Thursday. Hoodie Internacionale (2000), vest top Primark (2016), skirt Gap (2007), tights Primark (2017), boots Primark (2017).

Today’s earworm playlist:

Duran Duran – Come Undone
Queen – Bicycle Race
Duran Duran – Rio
Duran Duran – Skin Trade
Leo Sayer – Moonlighting
Alannah Myles – Black Velvet
Arcadia – Say The Word
Technotronic – Pump Up The Jam

Twinkle, twinkle

Another day, another 4,000 words on my NaNo novel.

Also: another day, another old kids’ music book that I dug out of the stack and started going through again (today’s offering: Me and My Piano).  Nothing like being super proud of being able to play through a tune and then noticing from the date written next to it that you first managed to play through it when you were six.  Also, it’s sort of bizarre when you find yourself playing through Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star with actual feeling.

Also: had some actual day job work to do as well for a client, as well as lots of day job admin.

It’s been a fairly productive day on the whole!  Tomorrow there’s no Pilates class, so once I’m back from Slimming World I should be able to get properly into my work again.

OOTD 14th November 2018
OOTD: wearing bright mustard trainers because I can. Hoodie Sonar (2006), Duran Duran classic lineup t-shirt eBay/Fruit of the Loom (2018), leggings Primark (2018), socks unknown brand (2009), trainers Nike (2018).

Today’s earworm playlist:

Queen – Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy
George Michael – Careless Whisper
Duran Duran – All She Wants Is
Arcadia – Election Day
Duran Duran – Girls On Film
The Power Station – Communication
Duran Duran – Last Chance On The Stairway
Duran Duran – Notorious

A creative Sunday

Geth was out boardgaming today, so I took the opportunity to get lots of stuff done:

  1. I finished putting all the stuff I need to scan and shred over the next few years on the new shelves in the study, so we can access the bedroom again.  I also got all the CDs onto shelves.  The study’s not UNmessy, but you can at least move through it easily now.
  2. I got another 4,000 words written on my NaNo novel.  I’m up to 44,000 now!  Two more days at this rate and I’ll have an officially winning novel, although it’s going to be nowhere near done at 50k and I’m serious about aiming for 120k now.
  3. I picked up a book I found in the study the other day called Recorder From The Beginning, which was the book my primary school recorder group used to learn the instrument (so I’ve had the book since the start of Primary Three in 1991), and played it all the way through using my tin whistle (well, nearly – it’s all super easy until the last three pages and then it suddenly gets difficult!).  I want to learn a new instrument or two soon – hopefully in 2019 – and (badly) playing my old ones is helping me to get motivated.

Looking at the last few weeks, I have actually been really productive, but I’ve not FELT productive because I’ve been procrastinating on all my boring daily tasks like housework and accounting and getting through my various lists of music stuff I want to listen to.  Definitely time for a giant to-do list update tonight.

Doctor Who was great tonight!  Strictly was not, because I’m really upset that Danny and Amy went out.  I’m going to go sulk about it for a week.

OOTD 11th November 2018
OOTD: comfy Sunday outfit. T-shirt Cyberdog (originally early 2000s, thrifted from Geth 2014), belt H&M (2017), tights Primark (2017), boots Carefree (2017).

Today’s earworm playlist:

Rita Ora – Your Song
Duran Duran – Serious
Duran Duran – Meet El Presidente
Duran Duran – Rio
Abba – Lay All Your Love On Me
Duran Duran – Come Undone