laze away the rainy day

[supplyship]

Hope all the USAers on my flist had nice Memorial Day Weekends! Mine was mostly spent indoors, since it was pretty rainy. :( But the rain enabled me to have a guilt-free WWII movie/The Unit-watching marathon yesterday, so that was good.

Also, Happy Belated birthday to sjhw_tolerance!! Sorry I missed it, Sue, but here's hoping that you had an excellent birthday

Comments

[txduck]

- Bummer about the rain, but indoor guilt free marathoning is always nice *G* we are heading out west in about a month to visit the folks in OR and for whatever reason it tends to stop raining when I visit the PNW... so maybe you will get a dry week then ;)

- Vic was my favorite last night.. the buffalo, the punching... the over all angstyness. The ferg was sweet too... I loved how she made him leave so he wouldn't see her cry.

- sorry no advice on productivity. Mine comes and goes... and somehow when I do have time and should be cleaning,laundry, dishes, etc, I find myself caught making graphics and such.Which granted is a lot more fun, but doesn't really help with the messy house. The kids are out of school for the summer starting next week... maybe I'll just make them clean the house *L*

[supplyship]

-Oooh, is the whole family coming out to OR this time? The girls will be excited, huh! Yes, please come soon with your nice weather! :D

-Yeah, the Vic-Ferg scenes were so great! And when he comes rushing out of the office with the phone, "IT'S WALT!" in a whisper-shout. *hearts The Ferg*

-LOL, I guess I really should have had kids so I could have me a built-in cleaning crew too! ;)

[txduck]

- yep, the whole family this time... even the poodle :)

- LOL.. yeah the kid cleaning crew is good in theory, but sadly they make 90% of the mess and only clean up about 40% (on a good day) so the odds are rarely in my favor ;)

[ziparumpazoo]

In between those times though, I felt like the pacing was off - either too fast or too slow.

I was a little disappointed in the premiere. The plot was lifted directly from one of the novels in the series (Hell Is Empty), which is one of my favorite books in the series, but the storyline needs at least two hours, or a few more episodes to focus in on the elements leading up to Walt's hallucinations and Vic being so rattled that he's on the mountain alone. Ambitious in scope, but they fell short in execution. Otherwise, I loved the beginning with the bison and Walt's "Depends on traffic" comment, and Ferg and Vic and Henry. And even Branch, because there needs to be conflict and the kind he's causing doesn't feel forced or out of place at all. I'm happy it's back, regardless. :)

I'm a procrastinator by nature, but it's been really bad the past few weeks. How do you guys regain focus and drive?Um... lol. I am the worst for being able to self motivate, but what works for me is carrot and stick. But in little steps, like "if I complete

[mrspollifax]

Last night I watched the first two eps of season 1 of Longmire. So I might catch up someday? Hee.

Re: productivity, can you relocate for part of the day? Like to a library or coffee shop with Internet? I find change of scenery to be helpful sometimes.

Or just go with the distraction and write some nice fic. ;)

ETA: oops. Meant to reply to the POST. *waves to zip anyway*

[ziparumpazoo]

Hee... I was just going to remind you that you only have 9 episodes until you're caught up. You can do it!!!! \o/

;)

[supplyship]

Yay, you're watching Longmire!! And S1 is short, so you will catch up fast! :D

OK, relocation - that is a really good suggestion! I'm going to try that tomorrow!

[holdouttrout]

I find myself in much the same situation as txduck--my willpower comes and goes, seemingly on its own schedule. I also like timers set for absurdly few minutes--so, like, I might set the time for 5 minutes and just fly at cleaning to see what I can get done. Then I usually don't want to stop.

But the carrot usually works for me, too--"If I get the dishes done, then I can start a load of laundry too and watch Farscape while it runs."

[supplyship]

OK, I was thinking of trying like 20 minute increments, but maybe I need to start even smaller, and see if I just naturally want to keep going. Because 5 minutes, that is totally achievable. I like small wins! :)

[a_loquita]

That marathon sounds great! We had rainy weather too AND house guests, so yay. /sarcasm

How do you guys regain focus and drive?

Um, lots and lots of coffee???

;)

[supplyship]

They promised us more sun breaks! But Sunday and Monday were pretty much constant rain. :( Man, if I were a weather forecaster here, I would always forecast rain. So then when it was actually sunny, people would be pleasantly surprised!

Hee! Yay, coffee!

[sjhw_tolerance]

Had a great birthday weekend! I had 4 days off, so I celebrated every day. :-)

[supplyship]

Oh, excellent! Did you stay local, or take a mini-vaca? Glad you got 4 days of celebrating in - you deserve it!