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I am old.

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On the 2nd day of having internet full time here in the Lopez/McEwan household, and of course, it gets fucked up.  Jock has now been on the phone for over two hours, and we finally figured out the disaster!  Apparently, it was my fault.  We don’t know why, but it was my fault.  The internet guy even thinks it was.  Here I was after having written for two hours, scrubbed the entire house top to bottom including the toilet, and lo and behold, I think it’s a good time to go online and check out my emails, and I mess it up!  I simply turned the internet on, entered a password somewhere I shouldn’t have and all chaos breaks loose.

Oh, well.  At least there is Wales to look forward to this weekend.  Swansea, here we come!

And bowling tonight – ten pin bowling baby!  And Sudoku – why yes, I love the adventures of a good Sudoku puzzle.

In five months I have turned from hip LA party goer on the edge of culture to boring 85 year old English housewife who breaks the internet, and gardens.  Yes, did I mention I started gardening for the first time in my life?!  I’m not sure if what I did you could actually call gardening, but I bent over and pulled out some greenery that looked like weeds until my back started hurting and dirt filled my fingernails.  It was glorious.  Man, there were a lot of snails too!

4 Days Left…

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The Parent's House

The Parent’s Home

I’m starting to get that nervous feeling like I get the week before a show opens.  Now that I know I only have 4 days left of lounging about, and in 4 days I will be starting my novel, I’m feeling nervous that I’ll sit down to write, and nothing will come of it.  Just like when a show is about to open, and my biggest fear is that I won’t remember any of my lines.  I’ve thought and thought about this book for the past 4 months, and here we are almost in ACTION time, and I can’t help but feel that thought of “What if I don’t finish it?  Or even worse, what if I don’t start it?”

The truth is, I know I will, and I know it will be good.  I have done so much research, I have laid in bed every night going over and over the plot in my mind, and I have lived it.  How else to prepare?

I will have to find out.  I am also very excited to be starting a life.  We have been in that space between life and non-life for too long that drinking has become off limits.  I think I have so much bottled up inside of me that everytime I have even one drink, I get this incredible sensation to hit something or scream at the top of my lungs – and, quite frankly, this is not a good way to make new friends in a foreign country.

So, writing will become my way of living – through the characters, their thoughts, and their actions.  You better believe, they are going to be full of life, full of heart, and just…well, just FULL – not in the eating constantly way, but in the way that gives someone a rounded existence.  I think just having an objective again, a reason to wake up in the morning, une raison d’etre will be enough to jump start this.  Heck, just living alone will be enough to celebrate with a good opening chapter in my book!

Today is Thursday (half way through Thursday) – just have to get through Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Friday – wake up around 10AM, drink tea, eat apple, go for run. Shower, get dressed, respond to some emails, and watch Music and Lyrics while eating some lunch.  Then what?  Talk to some people on Skype, and hopefully dinner will be ready by then…

Saturday – Jock’s car arrives!!!! Maybe go for a spin? Do some running, and eat take away with boyfriend’s parents.

Sunday – PACKING!!! And more packing and more packing and more….maybe run, maybe be bored, and day dream about the next day of freedom, weight loss and writing…Sunday roast will be cooked by boyfriend’s mother.

I think this is highly doable!!

On another note, what is the UK thinking by monitoring Facebook sites??  Thanks Eileen for sending this – I’m deleting my profile…it’s all a bit creepy for me.

Jock just got back from running, and has all my laundry in his hands (I guess he started a load on his way out?).  He’s so good – and I should be getting back to my boring next couple of days anyway.  Ho Hum.

Theatre, Deal or No Deal and Books

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Here we are three weeks before we move to Bristol. I have started doing research on Theatre in Bristol and have found this great website with detailed descriptions of the current events of Theatre in Bristol.  I found that the writer of Mamma Mia is from there and has just produced a play that opens this month! My major goal is to write of course, but I can’t help but keep up to date on the theatre in town.

Plus, I know there are tons of tv shows that are filmed there (not to mention tons of BBC shows and Deal or No Deal!).

Speaking of Deal or No Deal, I’m trying to get Jock to go on the show.  Ok, I have just been on their website FAQ, and have found out that they are no longer accepting submissions, but at least now I know the process.  See below:

Q13. How can I become a contestant on the show?
Firstly you need to fill in an application form online.
If you are successful at this stage, you will be invited to an audition and awarded a bronze ticket.
The audition is in two stages. If you are selected to go through to the second stage you will be given a silver ticket and be interviewed on camera by a member of the team.
These tapes will then be viewed in a casting session where the producers will choose the final contestants. If you have a place on the show you will be given a golden ticket.

Applications for Deal or No Deal is now CLOSED.

At the very least, we know he has the personality!  Man, I just took the Banker’s Respect Challenge and apparently I’m average!  This is what the quiz had to say about me:

Have the words “must try harder” ever appeared on your school reports? Your profile suggests you may have some aptitude but you have still to learn the subtleties of risk, reward and timing that could make you a winner…. -Blah, blah, blah – How rude is that??  Albeit, yes, things have tended to come easy to me, so I did get the assessment of “trying harder” in my school reports at times, but the grades never showed it.

The average amount that a contestant wins is in the 30,000GPB range, so how great would that be just for opening some boxes.

You can see how exciting our life is at the moment, with me doing research on Deal or No Deal.

Regarding my book, watched a show last night on BBC2 (see the whole show) about how book publishing, writing and selling has been changed in the past decade.  It wasn’t the most optimistic show I’ve seen lately, but I’m focusing more on getting the research done before I start writing, and way before I even think about getting it published.  I think my best bet is to do as much reading as I can in the next three weeks in the genre I’m writing so that when April 6th comes, I can buckle down and have fresh ideas in my mind!  Also, every night I’m going over the storyline in my head before I go to bed…not the best idea to get a good night’s sleep, but certainly helps me cement good ideas in my mind.

Just ordered two books from Amazon.co.uk to start off with: Thanks for the Memories, by Cecelia Ahern and Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophia Kinsella (who wrote Confessions of a Shopaholic).  They seemed to be in the right arena I was looking for, and will be writing in.  Will let you know my thoughts!

At the moment, I found this book called Inconceivable by Ben Elton in Jocko’s closet that is hysterical.  I’m on page 63 so far out of 367 pages, but I reckon it will be a quick read.  Apparently it was made into a film called Maybe Baby that I have never heard of.  Doesn’t surprise me in the slightest considering how few British films actually make it out in America.  I tried watching a classic British film the other night with Jocko called L4yer Cake with Daniel Craig and, his favorite, Sienna Miller, but I understand why they don’t come out in the US…I couldn’t understand ANYTHING they said and fell asleep.  I wanted to understand, I wanted to follow the plot…but there was SOO much going on, I simply couldn’t and got defeated.

I will keep trying…