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Day Dream


Oct
19.11

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My Horoscope Today:

A terrific daydream helps you glimpse your future.  You envision yourself having a great time achieving one of your life’s ambitions.  See it over and over.  You were meant for this.

And it just so happens that I was having a terrific daydream at work today (which was supposed to have been my day off but whatever…) and it in no way involved me working in retail.

I have various levels of daydreams.  Right now, my daydreams tend to involve me having an actual day off and actually sitting down to do some writing.  Not very awesome, maybe, but still something I’m looking forward to.

There are the fantasies where I’m quitting my job (That’s my retail dream come true.) and there are the ones where I manage to publish a book (notice I didn’t say sell a book.  Just publish it).  Then there are the daydreams where I kick ass like River Tam.  Those are a lot of fun.

But today, right before I read this particular horoscope, I was in a much higher class of daydream.  The kind where I’m a best selling author who has a fabulous oceanfront summer house on Mount Desert Island and takes leisurely walks on the shore while her dogs (the two I have now, plus two Irish Wolfhounds and one papillion) frolic at her side.

It was a great way to spend my morning while I worked my way through the latest shipment.  So glad I wasn’t daydreaming about something lame.  Even more glad to know that I am totally meant for that.

It’s a relief, really.  I was starting to think I was meant to unpack cardboard boxes for the rest of my life.

Anyone have any interesting daydreams they care to share with the rest of the class?

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Doomed?


Oct
13.11

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I don’t wish to seem fatalistic or anything but I don’t see success in my immediate future.  Below is my horoscope for the day.  The first part (like the first eight words) is awesome.  The second part is what makes me think I am so very screwed today.  But don’t take my word for it.  You be the judge…

Your talent, good looks and drive are undeniable, and yet they have no bearing on the outcome of the day’s events.  Your success will depend entirely on your ability to get along with others.

Frak.

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Developing Developments


May
05.11

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Just got off the phone with The Store.  Apparently, I have served my time and gotten off the shit list because I am back on the schedule.  Either that or they’re just really that desperate.  Either way, they scheduled me to work during Big’s agility class this coming Monday.  This doesn’t make me wildly happy.  Just imagine how unhappy it’ll make Big when I have to tell him about how he will not be seeing the object of his affection after all.    Fortunately, I’ll be at The Store (Wait…I don’t think I’ve ever written that sentence before.  I hope to never write it again) and will miss the ensuing temper tantrum.

In other news, I finally got a hold of the Fence Guy after a couple rounds of phone tag.  I was thisclose to leaving a message saying, “Look, I know I told you to call me back at your convenience, but what I really meant was ‘call me back immediately and if, by some chance, you stumble across a wormhole that would allow you to travel back in time and call me even soon, then jump on in because that’s how badly I want you to call me.’”  But he called.  He’s coming out today to measure and estimate the cost of the project.  Good news is, the price of the fencing we want has gone up dramatically.  If we can no longer afford this project, I really think I might cry.  I mean, I know a lack of a fence isn’t one of the world’s great tragedies (no, that would be this year’s American Idol contestants…) and I will most definitely survive.  I’ll just be majorly disappointed.

Speaking of disappointing, I’m into my first week of the Couch to 5K Challenge and I have to say, I’m not loving it.  I’m looking over this plan and I don’t see any time devoted to lounging on the couch.  With a name like “Couch to 5K”, it seems like it should, at some point, involve a couch.  I’ll tell you what I’m especially not seeing.  I’m especially not seeing any block of time devoted to me sitting on a couch eating chocolate chip cookies.  What kind of plan is this?  I mean, the next thing you know, they’ll be asking me to drink protein shakes and eat tofu.  White wine is an evil, evil thing that leads to terrible decision making.  One über hangover and all of a sudden, I’m all “hey, let’s be healthy!”  On that note, I have run/walk a total of three miles so far this week.  And as soon as I finish this blog post, I am adding to that total.

I’m also adding to my list of Awesome Horoscopes.  I received a great one yesterday that I’m going to share with you now.  Considering how I just send out the first group of chapters to my Awesome New CP, thus marking the start of the ritual worrying period, I was glad to read this one.

Here’s the horoscope:

Your work will be a major source of self esteem.  You don’t mind knocking yourself out to do a good job today because, in the end, you know it will matter.  It will be nice to hear the pleased comments.

This is going to be my last post until probably next week.  We’re hosting a party here at Casa Crazy this weekend as The Heather is taking her newly earned degree and abandoning me (some nonsense about true love or whatever) to move on to start the next chapter of her life… I am, of course, just giving you a hard time, The Heather.  You know I’m head over heels happy for you.   So much so that I’m actually going to clean this house.  Starting just as soon as I get back from Day Three of the No Couch Required Couch to 5K plan.

Enjoy the rest of your week, everyone.  See you next time…

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Headaches and Horoscopes


Jan
27.11

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My head still hurts.  I can’t shake this damn headache.  It’s making me rather cranky.  It’s not quite at migraine status yet but I wouldn’t be surprised if I ended up there shortly because this thing sucks and nothing seems to be making a dent in it.

Also making me cranky is my work schedule for next week.  Yesterday (or whenever I last blogged), I said The Store’s inventory is coming.  Well, the date’s been announced.  It’s to be held this coming Thursday, as in a week from today.  This means that my hours have exploded.  An expected development, sure, but still, it makes me cranky to know I’ll be spending the next week counting socks and key chains and tee shirts (oh GOD the tee shirts…there are so many of them) and flip flops because, yes, the company sent us flip flops.

Nothing says January/February in the Mount Washington Valley like a nice selection of flip flops.  They’re your perfect all weather footwear, after all.

So, in other news, the Conway Daily Sun’s horoscopes are continuing their alarming trend of deadly accuracy.  Here’s what was in the paper a couple of days ago:

You are not overly results driven, though in regard to a certain goal, your patience is running thin.  You enjoy the journey, but you still really want to get to the destination.

Hells yeah, I do.  Even if I lately received some compelling evidence as to how much I shouldn’t want to do that.  It came in the form of a blog written by freelance writer, Chuck Wendig, called “No, Seriously, I’m Not Fucking Around, You Really Don’t Want To Be A Writer”.  I highly recommend this article.  It made me laugh so hard, I cried.  Then I cried because what he says is so damn true.  You want to know what it’s like to be an aspiring writer?  Read this.

Life would be so much easier if my big ambition was to be the bestest lunch lady that ever was.  Want a scoop of instant mashed potatoes with that, kid?  Great.

Anyway, here’s what my horoscope is today:

You have a terrific amount of drive, and what matters is how you channel it.  Keep it simple.  If you can stay focused on one task for a few hours, you’ll make a significant difference.

So I’m guessing spending this time divided between Twitter (yes, I joined Twitter.  I’m using the handle AuthorMJFifield if you’d like to follow me.  Sometimes I actually do tweet or whatever it’s called), Facebook and this blog probably isn’t helping me out any, huh?

Back to it…

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Vindication!


Jan
20.11

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Today’s horoscope:

You’ve got a creative project brewing and this takes precedence over things like cooking and housework.  Pizza is nutritious, too, and dirt can wait until tomorrow to be swept out the front door.

This is what I’ve been saying for, like, years now.  And if it’s in the paper, it must be true, right?

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So, What Exactly Are You Trying To Say?


Jan
17.11

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The following are a few of the many quite pointed horoscopes I’ve received recently via the Conway Daily Sun.  I feel like they’re trying to tell me something…but I’m just not quite sure what.

The 30th president of the United States was your sign mate and he said, “Nothing is more common than an unsuccessful man with talent…Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”– Calvin Coolidge

When you pour your creative energy into a project, you are infusing it with magic strength.  Your attention has real power.  This is as good a time as any to start believing in your own talent.

You are  too close to your own abilities to see how magnificent they are.  What you consider crude and unskilled may be a masterpiece in someone else’s eyes.

Some goals just can’t be accomplished in a year or even in five years.  But don’t give up before you get to the goal.  If you believe in it, it will happen.  It’s your belief that makes it so.

Boy, if only these horoscopes could be clearer…

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Without A Doubt


Sep
01.10

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My horoscope today:

You are a self directed person living in a world where everyone wants to tell you where to go, what to do and how to do it.  In order to do something your own way, you’ll have to shut everyone out and do it by yourself.

This horoscope made me laugh because I am sure there’s quite queue of people lining up to tell me where to go (chief among them, my neighbors).  I’m guessing they’re all going to pick the same place and it sure ain’t Disney World.

Jokes aside, I really like the rest of this horoscope because it’s a timely placed acknowledgment of my current feelings on subjects.  I was having this same internal conversation with myself earlier this week and now, here in print, is someone who agrees with me.  I don’t know how the Conway Daily Sun does it but the horoscopes always seem to know.

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Hiatus


Jul
28.10

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I don’t know where the Conway Daily Sun gets their horoscopes but they’ve always been very good to me.  Eerily accurate in a lot of cases so I do tend to listen to them.  One afternoon, I read my horoscope and it ended with “don’t forget to return that library book” which was damn convenient because I did have a library book to return and I had forgotten about it.  Weird, right?

The weirdest/awesomest example I have is a little over seven years old now.  My horoscope ended with the line (and I kid you not) “A friend is pregnant with a boy.”

Very strange, right?  Exceptionally specific for a horoscope, I thought.  But then, two weeks later, my best friend from high school told me she was pregnant. I asked her if she wanted me to tell her the sex of the baby.   I immediately went home and dug through old newspapers until I found the one containing my very dead on accurate horoscope.   She called me some time later, the day they did learn the sex of the baby, and guess what…it was a boy.

The boy is about to turn seven years old.  Happy birthday, kiddo!

Anyway, so like I said before, I tend to follow their instructions.  Seems the thing to do.

So that said, here’s what the stars held for me today:

Get clear about what you are doing, and don’t worry so much about how it will happen.  As you focus on the effect you want to have, the details work themselves out.

This happens to be very timely advice because I have decided to go on a writing hiatus.  This decision didn’t come from this horoscope but seeing this in the paper today kind of let me know that I made the correct decision.  The decision to go on hiatus.

The idea came out of the fact that as of last night, my plan for my WIP involved a fire pit and a box of matches.  153,000 words in the manuscript (thus far) and I hated them all.  Hate them all.

So here’s the new plan:

Stop writing.

No, really.  That’s it.  The theory behind the hatred is that I’ve been focusing too much on it, working too hard, and trying to force something out for the sake of reaching a word count.  The theory to remove the hatred is that if I distance myself from the project for a while (weeks, likely, as in more than one), I’ll be able to come back to it with fresh eyes and a better attitude and more focus and- I don’t know- other things like that.  Renewed creativity.  Less hatred.  Less desire to start a bonfire and roast some marshmallows.  Stuff like that.

So yes, this might be the final nail in the goal reaching coffin but I would rather write a book I am happy with than just write something with the aim of hitting a preset  number of words or a date on a calendar.  So if it takes years (oh please, don’t let it take years), it takes years.  Everything else will keep.

But it won’t take years.

Probably.

So that’s that.  I don’t exactly know what I’m going to do during my hiatus.  The idea of not writing  kind of makes me crazy.  The key will be keeping busy.  Thank goodness I didn’t start Mark’s Harry Potter blog yet.  That’ll kill an afternoon or two.

Two days down…a hell of a lot more to go.

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Healthy Foods


May
04.10

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Here’s today’s horoscope, compliments of the Conway Daily Sun:

You’ll be buoyed by things that are “good for you.” Somehow, this comes about in a way that is not boring to you at all. You’ll even be strangely satisfied by light meals and healthy foods.

Well, that explains why I had to make a special trip to the grocery store today to procure myself a giant double chocolate frosted muffin top. I did, however, wash it down with a glass of fat free milk. That must count for something, right?

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My Favorite Things


Oct
07.09

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Today’s Horoscope:

Our favorite things define us. Reconnect with your essence by making a list of things you love: movies, songs, activities. Not only will you find a renewed sense of self, but you’ll remember again why you love who you are.

Sounds like a good idea, so here it goes:

My Top Ten Favorite Movies

1. Serenity (2005, director Joss Whedon)
2. Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001, director Peter Jackson)
3. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002, director Peter Jackson)
4. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003, director Peter Jackson)
5. Shakespeare in Love (1998, director John Madden)
6. Moulin Rouge! (2001, Baz Luhrmann)
7. The Shawshank Redemption (1994, direction Frank Darabont)
8. Amadeus (1984, director Milos Forman)
9. Dead Poets Society (1989, director Peter Weir)
10. Stranger Than Fiction (2005, director Marc Forester)

My Top Ten Current Favorite Songs

1. Into Dust by Mazzy Star
2. All I want by Ahn Trio
3. Everybody’s Gonna Be Happy by The Kinks
4. Anything, really, from Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog
5. Bodily by Ani DiFranco
6. Anna Begins by the Counting Crows
7. Running Up That Hill by Placebo
8. Sober- Tool
9. Better Man- Pearl Jam
10. Robots by Flight of the Conchords

My Top Ten Favorite Television Shows

1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
2. Firefly
3. Angel
4. Gilmore Girls
5. Battlestar Galactica
6. Veronica Mars
7. Robin Hood
8. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
9. The Colbert Report
10. Supernatural

My Top Ten Favorite Authors

1. Ellen Emerson White (The President’s Daughter Series)
2. J.K. Rowling (The Harry Potter Series)
3. Robert B. Parker (The Spenser Series)
4. Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak, Wintergirls, Twisted)
5. Philippa Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl, The Wideacre trilogy)
6. Stephen Lawhead (The Robin Hood series)
7. Bernard Cornwell (The King Arthur trilogy)
8. Sharon Kay Penman (the Justin de Quincy novels)
9. Cynthia Voigt (the Tillerman cycle, the Kingdom cycle)
10. Marion Zimmer Bradley (The Avalon books)

My Favorite Activities

1. Writing. Naturally.
2. Reading
3. Playing with my dogs
4. Hanging with good friends
5. Watching good movies
6. Mocking bad movies
7. Watching good television
8. Mocking bad television
9. Hiking (even if I don’t get around to doing it very often)
10. Biking (even if I don’t get to do it very often)

So there are a few of my favorite things. Not sure I’m feeling all that reconnected with my essence but I guess it’s a start. If my sense of self is renewed, I’ll be sure to let you know. In the meantime, what are some of your favorite things? You know, if you feel like sharing.

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