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Secondhand Mom: Day 6

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Doing this quick, because I need to go get in the shower so I can drive to New Britain for karaoke with Kate!

Current Word Count: 17,389
Words to Go: 32,611
Cups of Coffee: None.
Hours Spent Writing Today: About an hour.
Number of Breaks Taken: I have to stop now so I can go get in the shower and go out for karaoke!
Number of Characters Killed: None.
Number of Times Writers’ Block Occurred: It took me a few minutes to get into it again. Then I ran into writers’ block and made my main character run into her douchebag ex to liven things up a little. :D
Number of Times I Almost Gave Up: Pfft, please. I just wish I could beat Jess, who is forever ahead of me and probably going to hit 20,000 tonight!
Number of Chapters: 7
Number of Pages: 59
Favorite Character of the Day: Jay

Someone more "Sarcastica" than me?

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Since today is Bloggy Love Sunday and Mother’s Day, I thought I’d give some Bloggy Love to a certain new mommy.

I met Sarcastica when I first left LiveJournal, bought this domain, and started blogging outside of my familiar little LJ ecosystem. I didn’t really know anyone with a real blog (I don’t believe a LiveJournal is a real blog, but that’s another post for another day). I remember stumbling upon the Bloggies while at work and seeing that someone called Sarcastica had won best teen blog.

I liked her right away. Witty, smart, and not just another dough head (as Faiqa likes to say), Sarcastica writes about everything from boyfriends to childhood to coping with MHE. I learned a lot from her, and I don’t think she even knows it. Reading her blog has helped me learn to be my own medical advocate, instead of waiting for doctors to come to me. She’s taught me to be strong even when I don’t feel strong.

She may live quite far from me — Canada! Holy COW! — but I feel that she is a relatively close friend. She’s a great listener, and she replies to comments. (We all know how big a deal that is to me!)

One of my favorite posts is the one about the honesty spell. One of the things I love about Sarcastica’s blog is that she sometimes goes back and writes about her childhood. It was cool to read about her and her friends’ creepy experiences with Ouija boards and spells, partially because I dabbled with the occult myself as a young teenager.

I couldn’t imagine the blogosphere without Sarcastica. She is truly a great friend and an awesome blogger. Sarcastica recently gave birth to a healthy, beautiful little boy, so go say hi and shower her with Mother’s Day gifts!

All work and no play gets me a BlackBerry and no life

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My life is going at the speed of a frog in a blender. It’s almost too much!

I started working two jobs a couple of weeks ago. I am not used to working all day, every day. It’s exhausting! It’s totally worth it at the end of the week, though. I’m actually catching up on things I’ve been trying to save for. Maybe I’ll even be driving the Sunfire soon, rather than my death trap Mazda. I even got the BlackBerry I’ve been dying to have (thank you to Sarcastica for being so patient and helping me get on BB Messenger)!

A couple of days ago, I also partnered my web design freelancing business with my aunt’s web design and print media business, OSC. We will be collaborating on social media websites. So basically, if one of us has a client that needs a website and social media, we will work on it together. I will be working on the social media end of it, be it setting up accounts on social networking sites (MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, etc) or building a site in WordPress. We will be offering training and hopefully will be doing seminars. We have an expo in about a month that we need to prepare for, and we’ve been doing a lot of networking. Needless to say, I’ve been working pretty much non-stop and I could use a nice, long nap.

Somehow, through all of this craziness, I’ve managed to stay smoke-free. I don’t know how the hell I’m doing it.

Of course I have another sinus infection. I have to call my physician in the morning and get some drugs! I thought that by quitting smoking, I wouldn’t get as many sinus infections each year. I guess I thought wrong. I don’t want to go back to smoking, though. I don’t even care that I quit, and I’m glad for all of the extra cash (especially now that Connecticut is hiking up the taxes on tobacco).

The only real problem with all of this working is that I’m starting to feel like I don’t ever do anything fun. I realized the other day that I’ve been much been working non-stop for the last year or so, and that sucks. It’s starting to drain me. I spent most of the day yesterday trying to stop the 

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My only consolation is that today is Wednesday, Friday is pay day, sometime this weekend I am going to get my hair cut, and Julien-K finally released their debut album. Oh, and did I mention that Mike found me the ultra-rare translucent Dr. Manhattan figure? Cool beans.

Unmotivated

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This quitting smoking thing is seriously sucking my motivation.

I talked with Sarcastica on Facebook IM earlier and we got ourselves all riled up and motivated… and I got nothing done.

I talked with Nikki for at least forty-five minutes on the phone, and then let her go so I could get to work… and I got nothing done.

I talked to Mike for two minutes to ask him to come pick me up, then let him go and told myself I was going to get to work… and I got nothing done.

I really wanted to blog about something actually interesting or maybe even witty… but I just can’t think.

Maybe tomorrow.

There are more important things than my swollen throat, Sarcastica!

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Since my throat feels like it’s swollen ten times its normal size, and I know you guys don’t wanna read about how awful I feel, I thought I’d give you a list of three things that are more important than how sick I am right now. Particularly this goes out to Sarcastica, who seems to have a lot of jokes about my current condition.

  1. Diary of a Palestinian Mother is a firsthand account of how it feels to have family on the war-torn Gaza Strip. Laila shows us that there is a lot more going on in our world than we know.
  2. Elizabeth and Katy Hughes give homelessness a face. It’s time to stop ignoring what is happening right in front of our faces. One of our fellow bloggers is living it, but she isn’t the only one. Help Liz and Katy get off the streets, and then help the homeless in your neighborhood.
  3. Ten Thousand Questions gets you to think about things you normally don’t think about. By thinking about the questions posted every day, you get to know yourself just a little better.