Confessions of Fangirl

I worked a little on my story today which was good. I didn’t add a whole lot but I played with the beginning and smoothed out where I had written the story in two parts. I wrote the second half during a sprint writing session with Reb and without actually looking at the first part that I’d written before I started writing so I was worried that I might have messed things up. It was okay though! There were a couple of things that I had to switch around a little in order to make things work and make sense as well as take out a few repetitions, but otherwise it worked. In the end, I didn’t have much of a word difference for the total count, but things are moving more smoothly and I think that will make it easier to finish it. I think it’s almost done, though, I think it may be part of a “series” of short stories. I wrote one and posted it because it was short. It was complete enough to be a story and I think what I’ve written is just about complete enough for me to call it a story, but I think they’re going to be a few different stories that progress in an overarching theme. Kind of like the books in the Raven Cycle books, each book is complete enough as a book, but in order to see everything come to completion, you’ll need to read them all. Or like a TV season (or sometimes whole show) where each episode has its own story but when you put them together there’s a bigger picture story happening. Like The Mentalist, for example, would have a complete story (usually) each week, but it took them four seasons (or so) to catch Red John and bring closer to that plot.

Of course, I think there will only be a few of the stories and I don’t think any of them will be super long, but I’m looking forward to the rest of the adventure. By then end of it, I hope to have Natasha Romanov and Sharon Carter hooked up. I know I’m usually shipping Natasha with Darcy or Clint or Darcy and Clint, but I like the idea of her and Sharon since I’ve been thinking about the way Natasha was pressing Steve to date Sharon in Winter Soldier (cause she thought “his neighbor” was hot--not her words, but the impression I got) and the way they’re both on the run at the end of Civil War because (eventually) neither of them could go against Cap long term.

Anyway, I’m going to go to water aerobics stupid early in the morning so I need to go to bed. Wish me luck!

I am tired y’all! I went up to go to bed around midnight last night, maybe a little after, and I was getting in the bed when I realized that I still had laundry in the washing machine. If I had left it sitting in the washing machine wet overnight, they would have been awful and smelly today and I would have had to wash them all over again. That wasn’t something I was interested in doing. So by the time I got all my laundry sorted, my teeth brushed, and my other abolusions taken care of, it was around 1 am.

The problem with me being up until 1 am is that I can no longer make good decisions. I always have a hard time making good decisions when it comes to going to bed at a reasonable time, but keep me up that late and it just gets worse.

Anyway, I was just going to add “Kim Reaper” -- a graphic novel about a girl who is paying for college by working as a Reaper who also falls in love with a cute little goth girl -- to my “to read list” on GoodReads. I was looking to see how much it was on Amazon and if perhaps one of the libraries had it. None of the libraries had it, but when I added it as “to read” I noticed that someone's review said that they had gotten a copy of the book through NetGalley. I have a NetGalley account so I thought I’d mosey on over and see if by any chance it was still available to request on there. Not only was it still available to request, it was actually available as a “Read Now”! That’s a pretty rare thing for me to look up a book I want to read and it just be available for me to download and read so I was really excited.

I downloaded and used the “Send to Kindle” option on my phone, but when I opened the file on my iPhone it was just gobbledy-gook. So then I thought I’d try saving it to Dropbox first and then opening the file using the Kindle App to see how that worked. Still nonsense. As I’m fighting with that file, I notice a fic I sent to my Kindle to read that sounded really cute.

At this point, it’s about 1:36 am and I think to myself, welllll, since I’m already up too late anyway, I might as well read this 10,000 word story. Now that didn’t take me too long to read, but it got me all wound up because sometimes super cute fluff after angst just does that to me (admittedly especially when it’s Sterek, I guess they’re just going to be my OTPFAE) so I had to surf the net to calm down. But then once I started surfing, I started thinking about stuff I wanted to look up and…

Well, I ended up staying up until shortly after 3 am. At least, I think it was shortly after 3 am. I don’t know that I can really, rightly say for sure.

So yeah.

And then today I had planned on just doing one of the Couch to 5k things around the neighborhood, but the weather was sort of gross on the way home so I changed and shot off to the gym. It was packed, which made trying to do my routine orderly and quickly impossible. And because I wanted to come home and have dinner, I had to rush a little bit more than I might have otherwise. I still got in a great workout, so I really can’t complain.

Tomorrow is supposed to be really nice, so I’m planning to go for the couch to 5k thing in the morning before work. I work from 11am - 8pm tomorrow so I’ll miss out on the nice weather if I try to go at 9 pm when I get home. Wish me luck!

I guess it’s not really luck I need to get me out of bed in the morning… Eh. Whatever.

I still haven’t made it to water aerobics, but I did make it to my appointment with the nurse at the aquatic and fitness center. She says my goal to lose a pound a month is a good goal that will help me make steady changes that will last. She does think I’ll need to do an hour of cardio three to four times a week in order for me to lose any weight. I’m not sure that’s true, but I guess we’ll see. Going out to California for the birthday celebrations is probably going to put me a bit behind on that unfortunately, but we’ll see how it goes. With the touristy stuff we have going on, I may do enough walking to counteract at least some of the food and booze I’ll be shoveling in my face. Maybe I’ll do a little exercising while I’m there in general. We’ll see.

I miss having the writing challenge thing going. It was a good way to force myself to get a few words out and I think that helped me get into writing some stories too. It’s not like I don’t have 3,295,748 prompts I could work on, including everything from my Avengers BigDamnTable (I still have forty-five or so of those to go). I have several prompt books that I could definitely use to write a little something, something. I don’t know. I guess because those prompts were usually diary like entries it was easy to write about them and get started. I’m sure I could find something to replace it. I’ll just have to do a little research. Of course, it helped that other people were doing it with me. It’s always nice to have someone to be accountable to. And not just that there’s someone who is saying, “hey, have you done this?” but also knowing that someone else is going to get it done and if you don’t get it done then you’re the “weak link” or something. I don’t have much of a competitive streak--if anything I tend to shy away from competition, but I think the concept here is a similar one. Like, who can go the longest without breaking the pattern. Who knows, but it was helpful.

I haven’t written at least a little something every day for the last few weeks, even if it might have only been a couple of words here and there. I’m pretty excited about that.

Tomorrow I have work, but today was a good day off. I’m definitely tired after getting up early for a day off for me to go to the appointment. After that, I ran errands for a bit by myself then had some food. I had to get some stuff down with mom and then shortly after that (and I think another snack) I went for a walk/jog. I wanted to make sure I got my three training  days for the Couch to 5k done for the week. I may have saved that for the very last moment, but I made it. Granted, I’m sure I’ll be short next week, but it’ll be better for me in the long run the more often I can get in the practice of exercising a few days a week.

I also decided I try out some protein smoothie/shake things. Dad has a blender and so I got some stuff to give a few things a whirl. I’m excited to see how things go. They might be terrible, but I might also find some good ones. And they may be able to help me manage my appetite.

I wanted to work on a story or try to start something, but I barely hold my eyes open and I’m definitely going to need a shower in the morning--plus I want to try out the blender in the morning which means getting up even earlier so I’d better head to bed.