I am trying desperately to work on my next book, and I'm finding that with the kids able to climb things, and figure out drawers and doorknobs, dishwashers and dvd players, there just aren't enough hours in the day. I almost wish for the days when they were little blobs that didn't do much! But then, I see their smiley faces and hear them try to speak, and sing, and dance, and I realize that I like them as they are. I just need a way to add a few hours to my day where I'm not too exhausted to write stuff. I have my outline complete for what may be the finale to a trilogy about Hadariah, and I know how I'm starting it, and ending it. Now I just need to fill in all the middle bits. Easy. Right? No. Not at all. I have this going on, and all the festivals and stuff. I also did a really fun interview which can be read here. So things are happening all around, which is very exciting. I just need to learn to function on no sleep, so I will have more time to actually write. Let's just say that caffeine will become my very best friend. (No offense to my humsn friends.)
In other news not related to anything of importance, I have a simple question: Why do children's toys have an adult proof way of assembling them? I recently bought our kids a castle for the backyard. Three adults, and three days later, the darn thing was still in pieces all over the deck! I was ready to tear my hair out in frustration. The instruction manual had pictograms illustrating how the pieces should fit together, but really, a man doing chinups on a plastic wall is not a very helpful representation of assembling something. Luckily, my sister had purchased the exact same thing for my nieces. She was very helpful in coming over to work on ours. To my eternal embarassment, it took less than ten minutes with her help to get ours in working order. Thank you Jodi. You are appreciated very much.
In other news not related to anything of importance, I have a simple question: Why do children's toys have an adult proof way of assembling them? I recently bought our kids a castle for the backyard. Three adults, and three days later, the darn thing was still in pieces all over the deck! I was ready to tear my hair out in frustration. The instruction manual had pictograms illustrating how the pieces should fit together, but really, a man doing chinups on a plastic wall is not a very helpful representation of assembling something. Luckily, my sister had purchased the exact same thing for my nieces. She was very helpful in coming over to work on ours. To my eternal embarassment, it took less than ten minutes with her help to get ours in working order. Thank you Jodi. You are appreciated very much.
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