Excuse me(ow)

(Blog written at 5 p.m., but scheduled to go live at 11 p.m.)

What a day! I writer's group tonight. I always enjoy it whether I have anything to read or not. And I do have an installment tonight that I'm very proud of.

However, it can cramp my time during the day. I wanted to get some writing done, about an hour in the morning and a few hours this afternoon. Due to my own bungling and a lot of interruptions, I never got down to it.

If you follow this blog, you know I schedue my day, morning-to-evening, minute-to-minute. Since I'm employed, (hoping to sell writing) it's important that I do this. But if something interrupts, then I have to reschedule. It works out better than you're probably thinking.

To start out, I got up late. That happens sometimes. I rescheduled it easily. I got twenty minutes of writing in. By the way, that was my total writing time for the whole day. Then I had to add something to the list, and for the life of me, I don't remember what it was. As soon as I started writing again, my cat wanted attenion. I mean it was right as I typed a few letters.

I know some people reading this blog hate cats or hate reading about them, but I didn't get the animal to ignore her. I knew, at most, she would want to play or be combed for a half-hour. So, I combed her for twenty minutes, and she sauntered into the front closet for her eight hour nap.

Perfect! I thought. Then I saw that with necesseties (software chiming in needing essential updates, I never ignore those. Ice cubes for tea, yes a necessity) I discovered my writing time was gone. All morning I only had time to write up a synopsis for tonight's reading.

Things went similarly in the afternoon, with time pirhaunnas taking small bites out of my work period, until I had only an hour left for work. I decided I needed a rest and lay down, play Sudoku, while listing to a book: Don Quixote.

Why didn't I work on the novel rather than do this? My rule is I blog every day now, and this blog and my political blog (An Arch Liberal).

I can't really blame the cat. I slept in because I couldn't fall asleep last night until very late. Maybe I should take my sleep medicine with melatonin. There's always tomorrow, even though it looks like it might be as challenging as today.