I think I’ve hit a mental wall today. Everything seemed fine this morning. I got up on time and went out for my morning walk. I came home and made some oatmeal for breakfast. I checked email as I ate.
So far, everything was proceeding as normal. Somehow, that’s where it ended. It’s now the middle of the afternoon and all I’ve done is surf across the ewaves. I just realized a few minutes ago that I hadn’t taken my vitamins. Then I noticed my sunglasses are still laying on the desk. It’s like I somehow slipped into a no-time zone.
The last thing I remember, I was checking email. I opened my Writer’s Market newsletter. They had a link to regional magazines and I went to the site to check some of them out. I was pleased with the list and started a new section in my One Note to hold the information of the most interesting ones.
Somehow, something, led me from there to the Roadtrips we have planned for the summer and fall. Somehow I began looking at our September trip. I think I was checking dates. Maybe it had to do with a possible submission. I don’t remember exactly what pulled me off track, but I got lost in the forests of Vacationland.
I became engrossed with things to do in Charleston. I did resist the impulse to actually buy Charleston city bus passes, but I’ve got a new folder in my bookmarks with the page for doing it and links to likely hotels along the proposed route from there to Washington and back home. Plus several points of interest in Charleston. I made a folder on my desktop as well, with bus schedules, and a trolley route map. I do love planning Roadtrips.
As I moved on to Mapquest and laying out the route, they’ve added some cool new features to their website. I had to set up a new profile, then I got sidetracked again when I realized the map I had saved there for the July trip to Montana wasn’t right. I deleted the whole thing and re-entered it. Then went to our Roadtrip website to embed the new one and hit a computer glitch.
The map is there on Mapquest in all its glory. They give me the code to put on the page, just a simple copy paste. I did it exactly like always, and got a blank page. In the editor, it shows the code, but the page doesn’t display the map. I wrestled with it for more than an hour and finally gave up when I looked at the clock and realized I’d thrown away a whole day without accomplishing anything on my goals list.
Not catching up on blog posts, or writing Flash Fiction. I didn’t even finish checking my email. My brain feels like a fog bank. I think I need some caffeine, lots of caffeine and sugar. Yes, sugar and caffeine. Chocolate. That’s it chocolate! I need brain fuel. Dove dark chocolate with almonds. Yes. Then back to work.
I need one hundred words that include a reference to a double rainbow. Maybe it will take more than chocolate. It’s way past lunch time. Maybe I need food. Something filling, like a big roast beef sandwich with a pickle. I can write later….
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