musings.

Or, “how to keep yourself occupied when you’re trapped in the house all day.” Either one works. I will probably keep adding things to this list after my foot surgery next week, as I will be largely immobile and trapped in bed until I’m used to using crutches.

I was trapped in the house today because my car is pretty much a piece of crap. Both the starter and the engine are acting up, so I haven’t driven it since yesterday. Tomorrow I will be driving my father’s truck to my job interview and to run errands, and if all goes well I should be the proud owner of a new used car this weekend.

So what do I do when I have no means of leaving the house and there is nothing on television?

• I clean.
• I rearrange the furniture in my bedroom.
• I bake evil pastries and such for the other members of my family (who are also trying to lose weight – evil!) to eat.
• I surf the internet and try to shock my writer’s block into submission.
• I sign up for free trials of things like Netflix and then cancel before the trial ends so that my debit card is not charged.
• I make up phony cover letters for jobs I don’t want and send them to see if I get a response. So far, it’s been 50/50.
• I take full advantage of the On Demand feature of the digital cable and watch reruns of shows on HBO and Showtime.
• I write up character descriptions for the novel I’ve been working on for four years – and then throw them out because they are crap.  This is why only a paragraph has been written for this novel. And by paragraph, I mean two (constantly-changing) sentences.
• And as a last resort, I play The Sims and amuse myself by either locking the Sims in a box until they go crazy and die, or I make households out of one man and three women and I let them fight to see which of the women stays.

I need a job, kiddos. So hopefully the interview with Olan Mills will go well tomorrow. That said, I’m off to bed. I have to get up at 7:00. More will be added to this list later.