{"id":33,"date":"2009-06-03T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T19:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=33"},"modified":"2025-11-09T10:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T17:36:14","slug":"people-prisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"People Prisms"},"content":{"rendered":"

These days I often feel fractured.\u00a0 Like there are so many sides to me I have to take one off and put the another one on\u00a0whenever I move to a new task.\u00a0\u00a0 Less chaotic than a multiple personality and more like a Prism of Me.\u00a0\u00a0 Ooo, I like that… A Prism of Me<\/strong><\/em>…it might make a good book title if I change the ‘Me’ to\u00a0a character name.\u00a0\u00a0 Hmmmmm.<\/p>\n

So the\u00a0‘Teacher’ side has to switch over to the ‘Office Manager’ side back and forth during the day, because I’m homeschooling my Asperger’s oldest and run my mother’s business.\u00a0 Yet, whenever I get into my hot little red car I switch over to the ‘Sexy Cougar’\u00a0side of the Prism of Me, while my favorite songs play on my favorite station.\u00a0 Don’t get me started on what side comes out when I catch the eye of a good looking guy or this blog will end up in the Naughty Stuff section!<\/p>\n

When I get home I have to switch again into\u00a0‘Good Mom’ mode and do the homework dinner routine.\u00a0 If I’m lucky I can force the prism switch again and get into the ‘writer’ mode after all the munchkins are parked upstairs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Oh…not for the blog…lordy\u00a0that stuff just pours out of me…like food poisoning.\u00a0\u00a0 But to get into the writing mood\u00a0I have to entice the muse with the interesting characters and plot lines I’m\u00a0working on.\u00a0\u00a0In other words, I have to read what I last wrote…and that takes time.\u00a0 And time is my enemy because I have so, so little of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And then there is the difficult task of getting the quiet time to plot the action and dialogue in my head.\u00a0 I started going to bed at 9:30 or 10:00 and find myself lying there, eyes closed, plotting and plotting until I fall asleep.\u00a0\u00a0 The only trouble with that is if I don’t rerun it the next day it’s lost.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But I think the hardest part to the writing is finding the time to do the research.\u00a0 Now, since I mostly write about relationships and spend lots and lots of time on the SEX, one would think the “research” would be quite enjoyable.\u00a0 And when I go out\u00a0with the girls to watch the males pick up the females it can be.\u00a0 But the multi-verse worlds I’m trying to create are going to take the type of research involving lots and lots of Internet or library time.\u00a0 And like I said, time is my enemy.<\/p>\n

How?\u00a0 \u00a0you ask…you gullible fool.\u00a0 Here is my typical day.\u00a0\u00a0 Try not to gasp.<\/p>\n

Up at 5:30 (Yes, that’s AM, pick up your jaw!) to go to the gym.\u00a0 Try to make it back to the house by 7:45 to make sure the kids have been fed, medicine has been doled out, chores have been done and\u00a0everyone is dressed.\u00a0 Oh, and unpack my gym back, get coffee, pack up the oldests school books and get my work bag loaded up.\u00a0 Did I mention lunches in all that?<\/p>\n

Drop the\u00a0younger two kids off at school and head to work, where I put in 6 hours of running the mail order business and homeschooling the 6th grader SIMULTANEOUSLY.\u00a0\u00a0 Pick\u00a0up the other two kids at 2:30 and walk them all through homework, while doing what work\u00a0I can on my laptop, or pay bills or sort thru paperwork, etc.\u00a0 Then it’s cook dinner, eat dinner and order the kids about to clean up after dinner.\u00a0 Hallelujah when its time to supervise getting them washed, Pj’d and parked.\u00a0 That’s when I try to entice the muse, or do extra work in front of television.<\/p>\n

Thank the heavens the kids are old enough that all I have to do is threaten and nag them<\/span> issue the orders and make sure they don’t forget.\u00a0 And they’re used to the routine of wash and parked by 7:30pm.\u00a0 I love the electronic television age.\u00a0 (Bad mom?\u00a0 BITE ME!)<\/p>\n

So like I said…time is my enemy.\u00a0 But the good news is moving into my sexual prime seems to also include less sleep.\u00a0 My mind pops awake at 4 or 5 am and I can cat nap until its time to get up.\u00a0 And as long as my eyes are closed, I can write in my head until midnight.\u00a0<\/p>\n

All that on two cups of coffee a day!\u00a0\u00a0 Forties Rock!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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