- Remember to feed the dogs – must get more food.
- Water the plants and feed the dogs – this will take an hour… Don’t run late.
- Running late – grab a cup of tea, not a coffee.
Coffee = migraine. - Check the dog bowls to make sure you fed the dogs.
- Go to the workshop – turn on the lights and then remember the computer.
No computer = no writing - Go back to the house and grab the laptop – remember the power lead.
- Make another cup of tea and go back to the workshop.
- Check your phone – remember the phone is in the house.
- Fetch the phone – trip over the dog who is sunning herself in the back garden.
- Close the door to the workshop – in the corner of your eye notice a flash of orange.
- Get the cat out of the workshop before you end up with muddy footprints on the…. – oh…
- Wipe down the desk to remove the footprints and shake the mud off the manuscript.
- Catch the cat and pop him outside – get distracted by the Flintstones reference.
- Set up the laptop and turn on the music.
- Sit down and open the word document.
- Get lost in a world of your own manufacture – try not to get distracted by grammar and typos.
- Drink some tea and pull a face when you find it cold.
- Drink it anyway.
- Get frightened to death when a parcel arrives and the dogs start barking.
- Fetch the parcel – yell at the dogs confidently and when they ignore you act surprised so that the delivery man thinks they are trained.
- Take the parcel to workshop.
- Leave the parcel on the side and start writing – keep looking at the parcel.
- Open it – tell everyone what it is on Facebook.
- Start to write – find that you are thirsty.
- Go to the house and make a tea.
- Back at the workshop start writing.
- Get lost in the actions of your characters.
- Drink some tea and pull a face when you find it cold.
- Drink it anyway.
- Write.
- Get hungry and go have lunch.
The organised chaos that is my morning. This post was written in response to the dpchallenge – List Lesson.
Wow, you have a busy day planned! 😀
That is just a normal morning. If only I could get organised it wouldn’t be quite to hectic… But it never works out planned. 🙂
This is my morning too, minus pets but still somehow as chaotic!
I wouldn’t have it any other way. 🙂 Chaos but home.