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Miscellany
1. I had a mammogram today and it turns out that if you do a mammogram during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, at least at this particular center, you get a door prize! Delivered to me by the extremely peppy front desk person, who was like "I have a present for you!!" and brought me a basket filled with pink items. I picked out a really very nice pink and gold pen.
I'm getting them annually now due to age, and I think I'm doing my next one in October as well, to find out if this is a repeatable occurrence or a one-year-only thing.
(Also, having had a hysterectomy certainly does simplify the "could you be pregnant" part of a medical questionnaire.)
2. There are some fun little "hacks" in FB writer's groups (and similar) for giving yourself a sense of progress as you work on a draft, and I encountered one recently that I'm trying with the current book and having fun with. The original idea was to fill a small container with glass marbles or beads (like the ones that go in flower vases) and take one out and put it into a new container every time you hit your word count increment. The original poster did 100 words at a time; I'm doing 1000, and using dice. I don't know WHY it's turning out to be so motivational to reach into a pile of assorted dice and pull out a random one and drop it into the "done" box, but for some reason it is.
I'm getting them annually now due to age, and I think I'm doing my next one in October as well, to find out if this is a repeatable occurrence or a one-year-only thing.
(Also, having had a hysterectomy certainly does simplify the "could you be pregnant" part of a medical questionnaire.)
2. There are some fun little "hacks" in FB writer's groups (and similar) for giving yourself a sense of progress as you work on a draft, and I encountered one recently that I'm trying with the current book and having fun with. The original idea was to fill a small container with glass marbles or beads (like the ones that go in flower vases) and take one out and put it into a new container every time you hit your word count increment. The original poster did 100 words at a time; I'm doing 1000, and using dice. I don't know WHY it's turning out to be so motivational to reach into a pile of assorted dice and pull out a random one and drop it into the "done" box, but for some reason it is.
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And yay for prizes! Those kind of hacks work surprisingly well too :-D
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Must give these motivational marbles/dice a try. Mind you, I'm not lacking motivation so much as I'm lacking some decent sleep! š„±
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Automatic mammograms don't start here until you're fifty, so I'm still slightly too young, but you can get one through the local cancer charities when you're between 40 and 50 and you've just reminded me that I need to book an appointment to do that, so thank you!
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(Though, at the risk of slight TMI, at my last gyno visit the nurse casually asked, "So have you scheduled your first colonoscopy yet?" and I CHOKED. Fortunately I'm very low-risk for that and there are less interventionist methods that would still work for me. But AAAAAAAA.)
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If I was still writing, I could see that marble idea working!
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Awww. ^_^
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(I need to get another already, I think.)
Also, I find that hack very, very intriguing. OH. I have tiny keys I could use for this.
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Kids love to take things out of the box and put things back into the box. I wonder if that's just a primal urge we have. LOL
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I give platelets regularly and have to answer "Have you ever been pregnant?" every time and probably will until the end. They'd probably make you answer, too! At least they don't make me pee in a cup.