Forced by a Wizard! ... to organize BAH!

“One will find great difficulties in moving on with one's life, if all she leaves behind her is a mountain of clutter,” the wise old wizard warned.

“The clutter isn’t that bad,” I defended myself, knowing it was a full out lie.

He raised an eyebrow in response; he knew that I knew he knew.

“Okay, so maybe I have my fair share of clutter,” I admitted. “But who doesn’t?”

“That be dreadfully true,” he nodded majestically, as only a knowledgeable wizard could.

“So I’ll leave it and move on to start anew,” my tone was more arrogant than it should have been.

The lanky wizard slammed his tall staff down in between us – missing my toes by a mere inch – with such force his cloak flailed in the gust of wind that was blown in my direction.

“You are inviting your own doom! As well as my own,” he struggled to regain his calm demeanour. “When one leaves clutter behind them to stew and fester it does nothing but follow you, waiting for a chance to rematerialize and seep into everything you do, wherever you go … whoever you touch.”

I calmly fixed the mess the wind had made of my hair. “So, you think I should clean up my clutter before I leave this place? Seems like more work that it is worth, especially when I don’t plan to return here.”

“No I do not think,” he was much more serious than I wanted to deal with at the moment. “I am ordering you to clean up your mess before you take one more step in your journey. Be you fleeing or exploring, your past messes will prevent you from ever being anywhere new.”

I opened my mouth to speak, but he silenced me with a violent wave of his hand.

“No matter the distance you put between you and it!” he turned to head to the pub to wait for me, no doubt. “I refuse to let you poison our journey.” He then left the house.

I watched him head for the town center and sighed – it was going to be a long night!

And so that is why I am cleaning and organizing my room/apartment. Because a mean, old, cranky wizard has ordered me to ... NOT because I want to! So I will put on some music, or maybe a book on tape and attack the mountain that has been building. Wish me luck, I will not re-emerge until all has been finished.

Procrastination

So one think I have learned from the month of November: is that I am still a master procrastinator! For a while there I was worried because I thought I have forgotten how to do it ... turns out I remembered all along.

Today looks like Christmas outside and it's all toasty warm inside. I am sitting here sipping on my tea and trying to put order in my life ... I know ... many doubt it will happen. I have been living in chaos for many many years now and most people who truly know me expect me to always stay that way. I don't think I will ever be truly organized ... but a little bit is coming ... I think this is going to be a good thing.

My goals for this month: Finish "Three in the Morning" and submit it for my publishing prize; create mood playlists; complete 1-2 traveling S's; and be ready for Christmas (which consists of Dec 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 24, 25, 26 & 31. Mind you Dec 12 is anti-Christmas).

Mind you within all that I have taken my November procrastination and upped it big time!

Coffee and Snow ... oh wait ... it's rain

So the other day we had our very first snow fall .. HUGE GIANT FLAKES! I had been up all night (for two nights) with NaNo and was 1000 words from finishing when I looked up out the window and saw these massively huge flakes. It was so magical, but it never stayed on the ground .. too warm. Now all we get is rain rain rain. But that is okay, I have not bought winter boots yet.

Apart from that ... oh the Christmas tree is up, the lights hung around the apartment and the windows and I am slowly coming off my must-have-coffee-now-or-kill-everyone addiction that I put myself into during the month or November for Nano.

Okay well I am off to finish my NaNo story so that it doesn't bleed to death while I leave it hanging for years. Because next year's NaNo I want to start a brand new story.