I tried to post last night, but my husband beat me to the computer and worked on his project until I’d already gone to bed. Luckily, I don’t have all that much interesting to say.

I did recently buy an abs-targeted yoga/pilates DVD, figuring it was something I could do at home and not too much of a hot and sweaty workout for the summer. Well the show is hosted by a man in short shorts sitting amid the sand dunes in some locale I don’t recognize. It’s actually very soothing. So I’ve done the yoga workout twice now and am still having a little trouble with extending my legs up to a 45 degree angle and then bringing them down to the ground and back up again without bending my knees. My stomach isn’t used to that kind of punishment. But, I like hearing the voice telling me that my tummy is like the ‘soft belly of dune’, telling me to relax the skin around my eyes, and let the warmth radiate out from my belly. It’s soothing.

Anyway, I think I pulled something just a little bit last night, but I decided to watch the pilates part of the video anyway. Let me just say that that is going to be an intense 30 minutes. I did some of the initial exercises in the beginner positions and was already having trouble. And I can definitely feel my stomach (my dune belly) today. This week I’m gonna try for 30 minutes of yoga abs every day…and just see how it goes. 100 words a day, 30 minutes of yoga…little by little…

Well, my last ‘day off’ for a while has come and gone, this past Thursday was the last big chunk of time I imagine I’ll have to write for a good long time–at least until the end of August. Mother’s Day Out isn’t over for another week yet, but I’ve been asked to substitute both days, and then my older son gets out the following week. After that it’s two boys 24/7 for three long, hot summer months.

This summer I’m putting them on a schedule: no more mornings and afternoons of ‘I can’t find anything to do…’ I’m actually going to tell them what to do, different ‘centers’ or crafts on different days of the week. I’m hoping that during some of that time I’ll squeeze in some writing time. Usually I need a big chunk of time. It used to be in the afternoon when they’d both go down for a nap, and I’d have a good two hours. Well naps are long gone, but sometimes they’ll play on the computer on with video games for that length of time (although usually not without arguing and tattling). So this summer is a big experiment: I’ll have the schedule, and I plan to keep my computer on and my WIP progress open in case I get just a few minutes here and there. Maybe I can condition myself to work like that. If I can, I’ll get soooo much more done.

I’m still doing the 100 words in 100 days…I think I’m on Day 46 or something, so almost halfway there! And it’s really working for me. I refuse to start over, I refuse to give up, so I’m there everyday, good for at least a quick 100.

Ready or not, summer is around the corner–wouldn’t it be great if I actually finished my WIP??? I think it’d be awesome.