yay friday!

You know, the weekends DO actually mean something when your significant other doesn't work them, unfortunately/fortunately this means that I can spend heaps of time assignment writing this weekend, interspersed with family oriented fun.
I finished one assignment on.... Wednesday night. About 8pm, it definitely felt good. I spent all of yesterday reading the research required for writing the final of these three assignments and wrote the introduction to it last night. So thats where I stand, my two 4000 word assignments have beginnings, but not much more just yet.
Fridays little one spends at daycare though, so it means I will have the whole day to get into these assignments, and attempt to be as undistractable as possible. I need to have.... well, I'm going to set my goal at 1000 words on my Abnormal and Therapeutic Psych piece, and to add 1000 words to my Assessment of Individual Differences piece. This will leave me with.... 2500 left to write for Assessment.... and 3000 words left to write for Abnormal, and all of the weekend in which to do it.
I am most interested in the Abnormal one, so it would be really easy to just get totally stuck into that and finish it off. Unfortunately the other one is due in before abnormal, which means I have to make sure its finished by Monday for posting, to ensure that it makes it into Massey for it's Wednesday due date - sometimes being an extramural sucks lol.

On a much more happy note though, I am ordering my wedding dress today :-) It is terribly exciting, really it is. It should arrive after exams, and that will be perfect timing really as long as it doesn't serve to derail my nano writing.

Which brings me to the other piece of happy. Yay for member challenges!!! I signed up for this one , and it has gotten me really even more amped about finishing these assignments, because that means I can do some writing!!!! I am so looking forward to getting back into the world I began during SoCNoC and writing the second book (which is really the second half of the first book, but they are quite separate in ways). There are a few things which I know I am going to write about during this challenge, back story, history, important stuff which is going to be incredibly relevant to the second book, so exciting.

Now I just need to finish these assignments....

And it's almost day light savings time as well! Which means that these 620am starts I have begun are going to be incredibly useful for next week. The weather is getting better, it's warmer (at least during the days, nights are freezing at the moment!), it's just such a good time of the year.

Ok, better start on what I should be doing, the sooner they are done, the sooner I can write!!!

one week, too short.

So, I realised this morning that I really only have a week to complete 2.5 assignments. Two of which are about 4000 words, and the other which needs another 1.5k. That's a lot of words, on assignments, in such a short space of time.
I'm not sure I am up to the challenge. I know I can do it, I'm just worried about the quality.
I have had all my research done for ages, it's simply a matter of putting fingers to keyboard and trying to make sense of all the information floating around inside my head. I've never written a 'critical' essay for a psychology paper, so I am a little worried about that. And I have never written a literature review either, more reasons for worry.
But I can't let that worry grow and overwhelm me, and by the gods it's threatening to. One word at a time right? Start somewhere, make it happen, break it down into sections, allocate a certain number of words per section.... I know all the methods for making it seem like a less daunting task, but at the back of my mind I still know that there is a lot to be done, and not that much time to do it in.

one more down..

Still a few to go, but atleast I am getting closer!

Winners

We are! lol, it's so weird, but cool. Got home from picking Ivy up from daycare and Simon up from work and we had a call. We won a brand new dryer from the local four square! They dropped it off within a half hour of calling, it's fantastic!
Our old one died probably two years ago, but it's still sitting in the laundry, so I'll have to do a shift around tomorrow and switch them over, but wow! I didn't think this kind of thing actually happened!
It's been a pretty good day in general, got into my assignment writing today and I am fairly confident I can finish it off this week, along with most of another one by the end of the weekend. Feels good, feels like I am on track.

drunk post

It had to be done some time.
I'm not really drunk, but I have had a couple glasses of wine.
It's so funny, lol I just feel super relaxed and it's been such a wonderful day.
I'm all warm and fuzzy, it's a nice feeling.
Anyways, off to cuddle my wonderful boyfriend, ops, I mean fiance, and watch Bowling for Columbine.

yay!

feeling sooooo much better today.
Decided to hell with everything else, I was just going to chill out and spend some time playing with Ivy and going with the flow, and we've had a really great day. She is so funny, and so much fun, even more so when I'm not occupied thinking about all the other things I should be doing. I am now even more looking forward to summer and just being able to hang out with her and enjoy life (and write lol).
She's still really madly in love with the webcam lol I turn it on and she watches herself do all sorts of things, ripping up paper, jumping on the bed in here, singing, playing, anything lol she loves being the centre of attention. I don't know how many times a day she says to me 'look at me mama, look at me!'.
I'm really just so happy today, lol Simon can text me from work which I love, and he can email as well, which he will probably start doing soon lol like, when his cell credit runs out. I was looking back today on all the emails we used to send to each other, some before we got together and quite a few after. Such good times, lol I miss having that kind of contact with him and am really looking forward to getting it back.
And I cannot wait to be his wife. I am so looking forward to marrying him, to us officially being a family, to adding to that family as well . Bliss.

well

This morning started out terribly, I was a total blithering mess for the greater part of it.
I think (think) I have mostly managed to pull myself out of it, and lets hope that it lasts! As I have said several times today - there is just too much to do to fall apart right now.
I know that what I could really do with is writing, creatively, for even a little while. But I am not sure I can force myself to stop cleaning/doing homework for long enough to write. Maybe later tonight, when the little one is asleep and the house is quiet and tidy.
I always feel like I am putting writing off lately, and I have to keep telling myself that no, it's not really putting it off, it's just that there are other things that need my focus first and foremost. I just hope that's the truth, I really do, and that once all this study mess is over writing can once again dominate my spare time.
I'm pretty sure it's the case, but I guess that is a natural fear to have. It was kind of like my fear after Nano - that I only had one 'novel' in me, that I might not be able to do it again and I was so happy that I proved myself wrong on that one with SoCNoC, and I am sure I will prove it again with NaNo'07.
Anyways, I better go and finish mowing the lawn before it rains.
And the day started out so sunny.