Summers almost over

13 Wednesday Aug 2008

Posted by Aurora in Creative Writing, Daily Drivel, Finland, Fun Stuff, Heavy Metal, Metal, Music, My Writing, Nightwish, Random Tangents, Random Thoughts, Randomness, Rock

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bored, Boredom, family, kids, Metal, moms, Music, random, slacking, summer, thoughts, writing

As usual, things fall all to pieces around here during the summer, and this year was no exception. Summer does nothing for my chronic level of procrastination and lack of motivation in getting anything done. Whit will be going back to school in about a week, and it’s left me wondering, just what am I going to do with myself again? School may last for only 6 hours out of every day, and some people think I should be able to accomplish a lot within that time, but if I know me, I’ll probably take the first week or so just to vegitate and catch up on some much needed sleep.

Yes there are a hundred things I should be doing, and probably a lot more that I could be doing. Money being tight eliminates a lot of the possibilities, including returning to school. I think of going back to work on the novel, and just end up staring at a blank screen for hours on end. Maybe it’s just the stress of all that’s happened the last few months, and all the things I don’t talk about here, simply because i don’t know who all really is reading this.

It was nice for part of the summer to hide under a pen name, and not be me for awhile, I got to relax a little and just have fun posting some weird random stuff. Can’t believe I have let my blog go so badly. I miss the old days before I lost my website, or even when I had it back at bravejournal. I used to be so excited about my next post, now I don’t know what is wrong with me.

I’ve got a couple of things to look forward to over the next couple of weeks at least. There is the Nightwish /Sonata Arctica concert coming up on the 4th of next month, doubled with the coolness that my friend Kat is coming clear out from Utah to go with me, and several other friends are going to be meeting us at the show. Even better news is that it is an all ages venue, and my daughter can go with us this year. Hopefully I can borrow a better camera from Jim and get some really awesome pictures this time, instead of the blurry ones I got trying to shoot around people’s heads the last time. It was so wonderful to meet the members of the band Nighwish afterwards and get to talk to them awhile, they are such wonderful people and we are very much looking forward to seeing them all again.

Yes I’m slacking again..

24 Tuesday Jun 2008

Posted by Aurora in Randomness

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autism, bored, Boredom, kids, parenting, second life, slacking, teenagers, winnifrog

It’s so easy to get caught up in all those fun, time-wasting things they have out here in cyberspace. With all the online arcades, second life, and a host of other things to get caught up in, it’s a wonder I ever get any work done at all. The internet is certainly not conducive to productivity in the least.

I have however found a way to convince my daughter to finally do those little things I’ve been wanting her to do around the house that shes been slacking off on too much lately. Letting her have her own second life account has been wonderful in that respect. (before anyone has a cow over this maybe i should mention she is allowed on an hour a day and only with supervision) I do make her play a child avatar, and have arranged for friends to play her online “parents.”

When she does the things she is supposed to do around the house, they reward her with points to spend on her avatar, and take her on shopping trips for outfits, and things she may want for her room in their virtual house, and island, which she has full run of. She is not allowed in any other part of second life unless one of them accompanies her, or I am in control of her avatar.

It may seem like bribery to some, but at least it’s somewhat giving her a reason other than punishment to want to take care of her responsibilities a little better around here. She doesn’t have many but I’m adamant the ones she does have should be done, and get a little tired of being undermined by nosy school counselors and family members telling me that an autistic child isn’t capable of doing them. I believe that is complete and utter BS on their part. She is a lot smarter than people give her credit for, and she knows what has to be done, it is a matter of motivating her to do it, and keeping the nosy busybodies who would coddle her out of it.