to do list

Things to do:

• Translate a Halloween story into German


• Decide on Friday's party menue


• Prepare today's English lesson


• Order Playmo pirates for friend


• Fold tons of laundry and put into wardrobe


• Make fresh pizza for lunch


• Tidy up the mind-blowing mess (kitchen, living room)


• Write more Spike/Tara


• Prepare roleplaying adventure for Saturday


• Make half a dozen phonecalls


• Play Final Fantasy X


• Check ebay for cheap PS2 games

Time to do them in: 3 hours.
And since I posted this list here in my LJ I can't blissfully ignore it. Crap!

My life sucks

Halloween party? - not yet planned
Laundry? - still have to fold tons (plus I just remembered that I forgot to hang up the last batch, darn!)
RPG adventure? - not prepared
Pizza for lunch? - almost burned (stupid oven)
Spike/Tara? - wrote maybe 150 words
My AtS5x05 download - at 18% with 14 1/2 hours to go.
Tomorrow (my only free afternoon)? - I'm supposed to go to kindergarten and make a lantern. I hate everything to do with painting or glueing. *whine*

I got a lecture today from one of the neighbors, that I'm not doing my kids a favor by letting them have a Halloween party. I should tap into local tradition and celebrate St. Martin's (whatever that is). Swell.

At least I won an ebay auction for cheap playmo.
Right now I'm waiting for hubby to call so I can pick him up from the train station. Also, I should probably feed the kids. *sigh*

Also, I'm having a crisis of confidence. ladycat777 is a peach, giving me pep talks, petting my head etc, telling me my writing has improved over the past year or so, but right now I feel like hacking off my typing fingers, because I don't like anything I touch. There is this (unposted) Fanged Four scene I wrote two years ago. I looked at it today and somehow I felt like I hadn't really improved one iota. I made a few minor changes to it, but not as many as I would have expected. And my Spike/Tara piece looks too... plotty. Which is ridiculous because it doesn't really have a complicated plot. But the focus is on the wrong things. Ack. Shoot. Me. Now.

I love my hubby

I'm so proud. Mr. Estepheia wrote a Halloween story, and it's ever so cute. *beams happily*
In fact, I think it's so cute, he should get it illustrated and published. But then I'm awfully biased (and happy that way).

When I picked up Toyah from the birthday party she'd been invited to I was told that she was really well-behaved. Oh? Well, lately Toyah and I have been getting on really well, and I keep telling her that she's sweet, cute, pretty, etc and we snuggle and cuddle, and lo and behold, little Miss Ming is rapidly losing her usual obstinacy and acquiring a few social skills. :-)