Progress

        So first let me say that the missing notebook was found.It was not found by me, but it was found and that's all that matters. I tried to recreate what I thought I had written in the "misplaced" notebook in it's absence. So when it was found I wasn't sure if I should  read it or not. After all what if my re-creation was better, what if I changed the story so much that I couldn't use anything I had previously written. So it took me a full day to open the notebook and read what I had written, if for no other reason than it would bug me until I did. Not to pat myself on the back and I know that I was the author of the words and the narrator of the story, but I was impressed with the parts of the story that were before me. It wasn't much different than what I recreated and I was able to merge the two together. So alas I can stop looking for the "misplaced" notebook and get on to making progress.
       I told myself when I started writing again I would devote at least an hour a day to my unfinished masterpiece.As much as I wish that was a possibility, it just isn't. Not because I don't want it, trust me I do. There are so many other things that take up my precious hours each day. I won't give a laundry list here, but trust me my day is full of things that can't be brushed aside so I can write to my hearts content. So I made a deal with myself, I will write when I can for as long as I can. Some days I will be able to make more time than other days. There will be no set limit, but there will also not be any angst on my part if I can't find time every single day. A deadline has been set and I will work to the best of  my ability to meet that deadline. Each time I sit down I add more pages to my story and I know eventually it will be finished. It will be bittersweet for me when that day comes.
        For now I am satisfied with the progress!