The Best Laid Plans...

THE PLAN

• Get up early.
• Write.
• Achieve stunningly large word count.
• Prepare nutritious and delicious meal for family.
• Spend evening planning tomorrow's writing.

THE REALITY

• Get up at regular time.
• Stumble down stairs to discover pet has thrown up something brown and lumpy on the kitchen floor.
• Clean up brown and lumpy mass.
• Whilst going to throw cloth you used to clean up brown and lumpy mass into the laundry, glance into hallway mirror.
• ERROR. ERROR. Self-esteem plummets to new low. Resolve to: a)Remove mirror, b)Remember not to look at mirror in the morning, c)Wear sunglasses at all times.
• Throw cloth into laundry basket. Idly wonder why children who complain about having nothing to wear are somehow able to achieve Mt. Everest in laundry in a single day.
• Grab cup of coffee.
• Turn on computer.
• Open document holding your manuscript.
• Minimize document so you can quickly check your emails.
• And Twitter.
• And Facebook.
• Make necessary replies or comments on all three sites.
• Now for a few games (just to warm up your brain)
• Children enter room and remind you it's lunchtime.
• Feed and water children. Children retreat.
• Drive one child to friend's house. Whilst in car, realize out of the seven ingredients you need for dinner, you have one in the house.
• Drive to grocery store.
• Buy far more than you meant to.
• Return home and unpack groceries.
• Realize you neglected to buy the six ingredients you needed.
• Decide it's an 'eat the refrigerator' dinner i.e. leftovers.
• Sit back down and reopen manuscript.
• Type one sentence.
• Get up and make tea.
• Drink tea.
• Play a few more computer games.
• Dinner time.
• Watch DVD with various household members.
• Focus on the writing. WARNING: This could be another error - if it's very good, you will be discouraged; if it's very poor, you will be very angry.
• Go to bed.
• Resolve tomorrow you will have a new plan.