LaToya M. Davidson-Perez

I suppose I should just be glad that I’m writing something right this very moment. I had fully intended to do some writing today but go sidetracked by making some major moves on the back end of the websites I host. In addition to moving all of my sites from a hosting service and putting them on with WordPress.com I did the same with my brother’s, my dad’s and my husband’s. In each case they have domains in which they wanted email as well. I use a specific place where I obtain all my domain names. However, it’s been years since I used their overpriced hosting services. However, even with the free tools I’m able to do most of what I needed except for email. I discovered Zoho today. If there are people out there who have their own domains and for whatever reason cannot have email through their registrar or host Zoho’s free service. If you have questions or are interested let me know and I can write about it or simply give you all of the really simple info. The long and short of it is now I actually have an email account using my domain name. In the many years that I’ve had the domain I never have. To be quite honest, it’s because I have so many other email addresses for schools, work, business and Apple. If I really thought about it I wouldn’t be surprised if, with aliases, I had over 10 email accounts.

So yes, for hours today I was doing stuff for others. I did get some work done as well but not what I really wanted to do. I suppose subconsciously I am finding other things to do so that I can avoid the me actually sitting down and starting on my novel. Regardless, it’s been a really great past few days. Yes, even with sleep depravation I think that my mood has been pretty decent. And yes, I really should already be in bed.

I’m almost deliriously tired. That’s the kind of tired where even though you’re exhausted you can’t go to sleep. I am about to leave the office and wanted to write before I headed home and forced myself to get some much-needed sleep. Fortunately tomorrow won’t be an early morning so I’ll be able to catch up on some sleep. I then hope to, in addition to working, get some of my unpublished poems up on my site and start work on my novella.

Today was as busy as yesterday and I feel as though it’s already Thursday given my lack of sleep. I get like this sometimes. I go to extremes. Sometimes I’m just wired and other times I’m just really apathetic. The upside to this period of activity is that I have decided definitively on the title of the novella I plan to write as well as all the primary character names. I even Googled the name of the book as well as the main character to make sure they weren’t already in existence or a famous person’s name. Now it’s just a matter of finding the time to write. That will of course start when I can ensure I have had some decent sleep.

I also have a long list of poems to add to my website. I keep stumbling on more that I’ve never shared and have never even typed up. I have an envelope full of poems. Many of them are written on stationery from a number of hotels and even cruise ships. That isn’t to say that they were composed in these places. No, it’s nothing quite so tantalizing although some were. However, hotel stationery is the perfect size to carry around in my purse or even have on my night stand. It makes it quite convenient when I need to write something down. I still prefer hand writing my poems. It’s been quite some time since I last wrote one and even composed the first couplet to one yesterday but stopped. All the same, I’m really anxious to get them out there.

Quite honestly I should already be asleep. I slept all of 4 hours last night due to being overly excited about a book I’d like to write as well as the Arnold Palmer I was still drinking moments before trying to go to bed. Today was a short day at work. Staff development consisted of us spending four hours in the office. I came home and had fully intended on doing some writing. That didn’t happen. In today’s wee hours I’d repeatedly grabbed my phone in order to jot down a few notes about character names, motivation and plot and had planned to do some actual writing when I’d made it home. Instead I decided to watch a movie with the hubby, This is the End. Honestly and ridiculously, it was time well-spent. If you enjoy watching movies with James Franco, Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, etc. you’ll definitely want to see it.

Afterwards I lay in bed planning to go to sleep. The exhaustion was setting in. However, Kenrick suggested it being a bad idea to go to sleep before 6 pm. He was right, of course. But, as is always the case, even when my body is screaming at me to go to sleep I push through it in order to have myself feel as though I’ve actually accomplished something other than watching a movie. I decided then to continue with my website migrations. I moved my business site, dashingassistance.com from a self-hosted site to WordPress.com as I’d done with my personal site. This transition was far less tricky since it consisted of a total of six text-driven pages. The fun was in selecting the theme. I had to rework it a bit but I think it was for the best. Continue reading “Go to Sleep” →