So, Day 5 huh?

Tonight was a hard write and I believe the quality may have dipped for the bits I have written. After working a long (but quite successful) day at work, I came home and luckily my girlfriend wanted to order in instead of do groceries. Normally I may have stuck to groceries, but not today.

I’ve been tired all night and each sentence I wrote required a break. There was a lot of stretching. A lot of requiring a beverage of any kind. Then… well… what follows after the beverages. My eyelids have been heavy and my laptop screen felt like napalm on my eyes. Even writing this blog post has me wondering how hard I am going to hit that pillow upstairs in my bed.

I hear it… It’s calling to me… TJ, come join us, we have sweet, sweet dreams for you.

Ugh, or I could fall asleep on this couch and wake up feeling like a pretzel. Oh choices, you slay me.

The worst part was I hit one thousand four hundred and nineteen and thought to myself… Might as well make it fifteen hundred. Then I thought to myself, I’m so close to fifteen thousand, might as well go for that! And then every word after that was mind flaying myself onto the next word. Some might ask why I do this to myself. I am still enjoying it, it’s just that tonight I was savour sleep like some winner might admire their medal or trophy after winning. It might be a sickness. Who knows.

Tomorrow is a challenging day. I have to write before work or at night I will lose that willpower after a full day of retail. Even the 500 words I wrote the other day before work helped out tremendously. I think that’s going to be the new attack plan. I think I can, I think I can.

How are you ladies and gents holding up sanity wise? Are you still plodding along like I am? The NaNoWriMo site says I should finish around the 17th of November at my current rate. A few things stand in my way. I have a family get together quite a drive away from my place on my next day off (which cuts down on how much further I can get ahead). Also as of the eighteenth of this month, I have some training I am supposed to attend. After that at some point, my lovely girlfriend leaves for Paris for a week and a half or so. I think I could have this in the bag, but with my sleep deprived state entering delirium, this could be a fight for the ages!

*DING*DING* Round Six, FIGHT!