Summer Fun

It’s been weeks since I’ve posted anything here and I’m starting to get The Guilties.  In order to make amends, I must fill you in what’s been going down in Jen’s World.  Nothing terribly dramatic - no one’s lost a limb or anything, thank goodness.  But I have been keeping myself busy.  I feel like these summer days are flying by in fast forward.  I’m all juiced up on creativity, having really sunk my teeth into a good (I hope) summer novel – my own, which I’ve been steadily working on in earnest.  First draft should be finished by end of August. 

That said, today was a day filled with side-tracks and distractions.  An unexpected visit from a friend this afternoon turned into a full blown barbeque. That was pretty much the whole day of me first serving coffee and cake (he showed up at 2:30 with cake) and then me cooking up side dishes, making salads, etc.  And since he decided to wait for the rush hour traffic to die down, he had my husband take him to the butcher for something to throw on the grill.  It’s now 9 pm and friends are gone, husband is out, dogs are pooped from all the action, the dishes are finally washed, kitchen is clean and I’m totally bummed that I never did get my writing time in.  But hey, he bought the steaks, who was I to argue?

So here I am catching on up on the Big Momma of all distractions for me: the internet.  I haven’t even so much as checked my email more than once a day or posted a status comment on Facebook in days. The TV doesn’t go on until much later in the evening than it usually does.  I didn’t even realize I missed the president speak the other night until the 11 ‘o clock news!  I have been on a serious productive roll these days and I’m actually afraid to come up for air and check my email, as I just know I could spend hours answering posts, checking out Youtube, etc.  Lovely distractions though they are, they do take me away from actual work.

So that’s what’s been new here.  I hope you’re all having a great summer so far.  I’m going to grab another piece of that cake and a cup of tea and launch myself into deep cyberspace.  Tomorrow is another day!