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I'm bored.  I have a pile of laundry waiting to be washed.  Both bathrooms are filthy and need to be cleaned.  The cat boxes need to be emptied and refilled with fresh litter.  The check book needs balancing and the bills need paying.  I still have not done the morning dishes and there is clutter all over the house which I still have yet to pick up and find a place for.  All three beds in the house need to be changed and made and I still haven't brought the futon cover which Éiden threw up on into the dry cleaners.  The boy's room is slowly but steadily becoming another junk pile and the front porch still has the detritus of winter lying about waiting to be returned to the garage.  Éiden is finished with lunch and wants us to take the car to be washed but it looks as if it will rain any second.  I'm sure I could find at least a dozen more  complaints/jobs not done if I really thought about it.  What I really want to do is take a nap but what I will instead do is tackle the damn, disgusting cat boxes so that the cats don't decide to exact retribution in the laundry. BLAAAAHHHH!

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I'm feeling really very frustrated right now with what I'm writing.  I've been working on my punk memoir for maybe a couple of weeks now and I'm still essentially writing the back story.  I have yet to get into what I really want to write about which is fine.  That's how I've always worked -- I usually write more than I need and then get rid of the excess.  At this point, I really don't know how much of what I've written I'll actually keep.  That's not so much the problem.

The problem I'm having is that I'm stuck in this one section and I really don't know how much of this part of my life I want to include and how much is really necessary and I'm just having a hell of a time getting it down, anyway.  I feel like I keep coming up against these walls.  I start and stutter,  start and stutter, and just can't seem to get into a roll.  Part of me wants to just jump ahead into the section that I really want to write and another part thinks I should keep slogging along with what I'm doing now.  If I jump ahead, I really don't know how I'll come back to what I've left undone because I don't work very well writing non-sequentially.  If I keep slogging through, I'll be frustrated but at the same time, mentally I've been working out different later sections, so it might help those later sections.

Maybe that's part of the problem -- that I'm just not thinking enough about what I'm writing right now.  Perhaps if I stopped what I'm working on at present and set down a rough outline -- maybe even a list of what I want to write about -- it'll help me navigate through this section without so many stops and starts.