Writing Day #1

I took the day off work to get some writing done. This is part of my "recuperation." Over the next few months, I'm taking a day or two of vacation every week to get a little more sleep and a little more work done on my novel. This will help keep me from wearing myself out during my workouts, too!

I spent the morning sketching out a go-forward plan for the book, and I'm going to spend the afternoon writing. I'm shooting for around 1500 words, give or take. Sometime before sundown I intend to go for a run.

Yesterday's workout (a run) was really crappy, until I told myself to slow down. I'm not eighteen, and I'm out of shape, so there's no reason to think I need to run a five minute mile. I adjusted my pace and was able to keep going for the duration of my workout, and came out feeling good. I've only finished one week of my twelve week program, so why would I push myself? I've got at least two or three more weeks before I have a decent base, and then we'll see what I can do.

And a side note: I just changed the majority of my house over to compact fluorescent. It's amazing how many light bulbs are in a house! I think I've purchased about 30-35 bulbs by now, and I still have 5-10 to go. The compact fluorescent bulbs cost about three bucks apiece, so I've been replacing them as they burn out (and after my old store of incandescents was used up). With the old electrical system in our house, it doesn't take long for the incandescents to wear out. The nice thing? I've been doing this for about six months, and while I've now gone through all my stores of old incandescents, I haven't had to replace one compact fluorescent yet. I frankly don't mind the thirty-seconds it takes for them to come to "full power." They give off plenty of light prior to that, so it's not like I'm fumbling around in the dark. I don't know if our electrical bill has gone down, because in the winter we use space heaters to heat rooms. We'll see once summer hits--by then, I'll have changed over the rest of the bulbs, and we'll have an easy one-to-one comparison between between this year and last year's bill.