I forgot to do the friday writing wind up. There’s a really simple reason excuse for it: I didn’t write a whole helluva lot this week.

oh damn.

I’m going to start right off saying that I totally fucked the dog on at least one day. I mean, I won’t try to say that I was innocent of all blame. At the same time, I totally was innocent of all blame.

Monday was good. I wrote at home and did the thousand words. Tuesday was also good(ish) and I wrote about 600 words, also at home.

Wednesday I went shopping for fabric to make curtains in my family room (with the express intention of writing at home after the kids got home from school). Zero words. That was totally a fucking the dog day. I didn’t even find fabric and the window remains entirely and utterly curtainless.

Thursday there was a crisis. Dan and I were talking about how we would go buy Jake’s hockey equipment after school and he goes: Ugh. Shopping with the kids. And I went: I can come get you RIGHT NOW and we can go RIGHT NOW and I will write when they get home from school. Hockey equipment: one, writing: zero. But shopping with tired children crisis? Averted!

Friday was the honest to god busy day. Other than the usual ferrying about of children I also had a zillion errands. We were having Dan’s dad’s 80th birthday party that night and I had a ton of stuff to get and then another ton of stuff to clean. I was home ten minutes before our guests. I wore a black dress and after everyone left Dan said that if I was going to wear a sexy black dress all night I better be ready to bend over.

Writing? Whassat?

Needless to say I honestly thought I would make it all up on the weekend. Because weekends are well known to be the time when parents get stuff done without interruption from offspring. You didn’t know that? Oh totally. I wrote three thousand words and build a little ship inside a bottle. While knitting a sweater and reading Shakespeare allowed. Because I don’t want to have stupid children. Obviously.

Summary: 1600 words this week.

Lesson: doing other crap when i should be writing PLUS i will write when they get home from school EQUALS zero

We begin again tomorrow and after I drop Madison and her cousin Sam (am driving cousin Sam) at school I will go directly to place of writing and write AND THEN when I am done ONE THOUSAND WORDS I will do other stuff like go shopping. I want a new bracelet. Silver, I think. And boots. Also, those curtains….