Sunday morning through Tuesday morning is my two-day. It is the 48 (or so) hour period when I don’t have to deal with kids or officially even go into the office. This is becoming my passion period. I spent yesterday working on my novel, binging one of my all-time favorite shows, and watching the Giants look absolutely lost without Beckham.
I made leaps and bounds in the novel realm yesterday, because I connected with my partner and she put her heart to the project. If I’m being honest with myself, I stopped writing for personal pleasure years ago. I wrote to get published and I published a lot of first draft crap. This project is different. It is an evolution of the one true project that has lived in my psyche for most of my life and played out there over and again. At some point it no longer needed to find the page, because the imagined version gave me a settled feeling. Knowing her and being with her makes me want to share all of this with her. So I am writing it down. I am figuring it out and she is a part of it.
I am also coming to the end of HIMYM. Feels like the right time and is very reflective of a lot of what lives in my heart. Not much to say about that yet. I’m still thinking it through.
Some Thoughts:
- Brandon Marshall is not the receiver he was. That is to say he is completely shut down by safety help. The Cowboys showed help on Marshall all night and held him to one catch on three looks. When Beckham returns, the three WR combo will be lethal, but it is built based on having that kind of weapon. Without Beckham, the team is in trouble. I very much hope they try to get Landry next season.
- Youth Football can be all consuming–especially when involved with a team that treats it like this is the center of the universe. I got an email yesterday stating that we may or may not have a scrimmage game on Saturday. In other words, I was specifically told to put plans on hold if I want my kid to get playing time. I’m going to see if I can make it work, but this is our last pre-season weekend, and I was expecting to have big fun with the boys. I don’t intend to give up that opportunity.
- My cat, having the appearance of pregnancy, is merely fat.
- Grammar week in my English class cannot come soon enough. I’m going to put out a new schedule with Tuesday grammar workshops, because these papers are trash.