Accuracy - What the ???????

You have entered a phase where your non-rational thoughts and feelings can float around in your dreams, detached from the specifics of what they mean. Instead of attempting to stuff them back into the rows and columns of linear logic, give them permission to wander through the forgotten corners of your mind.

Oh for Pete's sake.

As if I'm not freaky enough normally, now I'm being given permission by the UNIVERSE to be even freakier!

And isn't the punctuation in that first sentence wrong? Why do you need that comma after the word dreams? I guess it's not totally wrong, but I can't get OVER IT. I'm obsessing about punctuation when I should be giving my dreams permission to wander.

And I'm not sure I want to visit the forgotten corners of my mind. They are forgotten for a reason. I'm sure there's a drunken sorority party that I never want to see again, and a few old boyfriends too. And some clothes from the '80's. Oh, and some really bad hairstyles.

Great, now I'm depressed.

Yes, yes, I know I'm not productive and not confident

You are looking at new ways to live a more productive life, yet lack of confidence could get in the way of trying out your plan. Overcome your own resistance and external blockages will dissipate.

This is not news: I've been the only one getting in my way for years.

So I overcame my lack of confidence today and have an email being sent to an editor with a story pitch first thing in the morning (set up an automatic email so I can't chicken out). The pitch is not fabulous; it's not nearly as good as my book query letter, but I had to get it out. I've been sitting on the idea for over a month.

Just when I think I'm not productive, here's my list of things to do this week:

Submit script for video
Submit story pitch
Visit Shrink
Find book for Book Club
Attend end-of-season synchro party
Volunteer at Son's school
Book Club
Meet with internet radio person
Go to physical therapy
Attend synchro Executive Committee meeting
Get an MRI
Somehow fit writing, cleaning, cooking, mothering, and wifing in between all these assignments

Accuracy/Activity Level - both at 10

Although withdrawing might sound like a great idea, there's so much going on that you probably won't be able to avoid it. You may not even try if you're having a lot of fun. Keep some energy in reserve, for you'll need it later on.

I did try to hibernate today. Was up in my room watching "Enchanted" and got caught with a white mask on my face when my sister, nieces, and boyfriend of oldest niece arrived early. Jumped in the shower while they all played Rock Band, then we all went to Mongolian Barbecue for dinner. Spent the rest of the evening in preparation for the big dance competition that two nieces are participating in tomorrow.

Think I'll go to bed now and keep energy in reserve as I have to do one niece's hair in the morning - two buns on the top of her head. I have experience with one bun; but it's a skater bun. Dancer buns could be a whole new ball of wax. Probably it will end up being a whole new ball of hair.

Couch Potatos - 1, Horoscopes - 0

Break the couch potato streak you've been on by going out and having some fun tonight, whether that means a trip to the mall, the latest movie, or checking out the newest hot spot in town.

Oops.

Can "the latest movie" be interpreted as "a summer blockbuster that I've never seen before"? If so, I'm good. Though I was on the couch when I watched it. And I didn't get to see the end.

Really not looking too good for me, is it?

I did get out of the house during the day. Took Son to the Eye Dr. (he will require glasses in a year, a deficiency inherited from Husband's family genes), then took both kids to Open Skate at the Onyx. We met my girlfriend and her daughter - the amazing 4-year old skater - there. Daughter was giving 4-year old some skating tips. My friend has started a baking business and gave us two dozen pink lemonade flavored butter cookies which barely made the drive home. Son and I decided that Daughter should give skating lessons to 4-year old, whose mother can pay us in cookies.

We stopped at the Baldwin Public Library on the way home so Daughter could meet Lauren Myracle - Young Adult Author - and get her copy of L8ter G8ter signed.

I really wanted to get some work done this evening, but back was incredibly sore after ice rink so I self-medicated and melted into the couch, exactly where I wasn't supposed to be. Sigh.

Will I ever get it right?