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Jun. 1st, 2024 07:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spryngFirst day of June and I wrote 1400 words this morning and ran a comfortable 5k. This month is off to a good start. :)
My goal, now that the kids are out of school and I don't have to run the gauntlet every morning (getting them up, getting them dressed, getting them fed, & cajoling them to get out the door on time, plus the actual bike 5 or 10 mile bike ride), is to fully take advantage of the extra 1-2 hours I'll have. Ideally, I'll still wake up at 4.30am, but now I'll write until I hit 1000 words or a wall and then go for a run. Crossfit days will be opposite (wake up, crossfit, then write), but every day should have ample time for writing.
assuming nobody in this household gets sick
Which, tbf, is a big assumption.
Plus, there are some other bumps in this month. We plan to go on our weeklong Florida vacation later on in June and also we might be called out of state to a funeral soon. :/ My grandmum is 98 years old and has been slowly declining for the past year; she's been on hospice since last May. The last time I saw her, over Christmas, she didn't even remember me. Last weekend she had a sudden and precipitous decline and has stopped eating and largely become unresponsive.
She's made it clear she's been done and ready to go for several years, and she's made her peace and her children have been able to visit a lot and be near, so it's the best possible scenario. Still, I can't imagine a world without her; she's been the matriarch of our family for all of our lives. I'm just so grateful she got to know her great grandchildren before her decline and they got to meet her. And she made these delightful knitted animals for them they'll be able to carry with them always.
And I'll have all the encouragement and love she gave me, for being a writer, for being a parent, for being me. She really is an amazing person and the world has been better for her being in it.
My goal, now that the kids are out of school and I don't have to run the gauntlet every morning (getting them up, getting them dressed, getting them fed, & cajoling them to get out the door on time, plus the actual bike 5 or 10 mile bike ride), is to fully take advantage of the extra 1-2 hours I'll have. Ideally, I'll still wake up at 4.30am, but now I'll write until I hit 1000 words or a wall and then go for a run. Crossfit days will be opposite (wake up, crossfit, then write), but every day should have ample time for writing.
assuming nobody in this household gets sick
Which, tbf, is a big assumption.
Plus, there are some other bumps in this month. We plan to go on our weeklong Florida vacation later on in June and also we might be called out of state to a funeral soon. :/ My grandmum is 98 years old and has been slowly declining for the past year; she's been on hospice since last May. The last time I saw her, over Christmas, she didn't even remember me. Last weekend she had a sudden and precipitous decline and has stopped eating and largely become unresponsive.
She's made it clear she's been done and ready to go for several years, and she's made her peace and her children have been able to visit a lot and be near, so it's the best possible scenario. Still, I can't imagine a world without her; she's been the matriarch of our family for all of our lives. I'm just so grateful she got to know her great grandchildren before her decline and they got to meet her. And she made these delightful knitted animals for them they'll be able to carry with them always.
And I'll have all the encouragement and love she gave me, for being a writer, for being a parent, for being me. She really is an amazing person and the world has been better for her being in it.
