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Jan 14 2014

Into week 2 :)

Okay, so I am slacking a little this week. I had a day off. I mean come on, it was past busy day yesterday. 10pm when we sat down last night. And I had a whisky, thought I’d be okay as we also ate late, but nope. Bit of a headache this morning. 

So yeah a day off. Not that I seemed to do much. By the time we were up it was already late. Hubby got some outside things done, and I edited for a while before I had my Skype session with EJ, wanted two this week as Chap 10 is a pretty tough one. A huge space battle. 🙂 so fun, but tough. 

Tomorrow I am heading out to the https://www.facebook.com/wellnesscentre.westlancs?ref=ts&fref=ts 

I joined a gym last time only to have to stop because of a sprained ankle. So, I’m trying something different this time around. Mum and I are booked in for a trial and talk through at 10am so I will defo have lots to report from there. 

 

I am hoping it’s a more reactive training that just going to the gym, they use toning machine and do have other treadmills and stuff at the back. So, I think I should be able to get in a good hour, hopefully not each day though, perhaps 3x a week. I guess it will have to depend. I want to make sure I don’t neglect the birds, so it will have to be worked around them, hubby and my editing. Wow, sounds like I will be pretty busy, but I have to make the change, and going back to work should help lots too. 

Mum has plans for Friday so I’m really enjoying my last week off. 🙂 

 

 

Dec 27 2013

Hello :)

Well there is light at the end of the flu tunnel. I did make it out on Xmas day for a little while, but it knocked me for six yesterday and I spent it all in bed again. 

 

There is nothing worse than being ill, and wanting to do things. Then when I was up and ready to take on the world. Skype wouldn’t work and that sucked. Don’t have a clue why. 

Anyway, slept a lot again today and am tired, but have been catching up on some things. Mostly cleaning and getting to grips with things. I haven’t even ventured to see my fish in 7 days. And that is not like me at all. I love my koi so much, but when I am unwell I can’t help but not go to see them in the freezing cold. Luckily hubby has looked after them and kept on top of feeding my sturgeon.

Writing, well have only done my homework, requested by EJ, but today I managed to catch a few read throughs of chapters ahead. So, I’m hoping to be back on form this weekend and for the coming week.

The bad news for me, was after getting myself ready emotionally for going back to work on the 6th Jan, I got my wages and a letter saying they’d given me my accrued holidays, and don’t want me back till the 20th Jan. 😦 I am sad about this because I want to really get back into it all. And kicking the new year off back to work would have done me good.

Oh well, more time to get on with some editing. 🙂 Can’t complain at that.

Fingers crossed for the coming year for us all, I know some of my friends have had a really rough one. The last few months for me, have been pretty tough, but the light there, peeking back at me is fab.

2014 will be so much better.

 

Looking forward to a good start. What do you think you might get up too? Fill me in everyone, been away for a bit, and it’s a lot to catch up on. 🙂  

Speak soon. 

Dawn 

 

Nov 11 2013

A real catch up

I’ve been promising myself I’d do this all week. But I’ve never had the heart of the energy to type it up. So here I am. 

I’ve had a pretty rough time as of late, there are only a couple of things which have helped. My good friends, and pottering about with my writing. (bar the first couple of broken wing, weeks) 

 

I let myself get really worried over my job, the fact that I still have no strength and the arm is sore at night, first thing. So I rang my boss up and arranged a trip down to visit them to chat. There was no way I could drive, attempted a little go again last fri, to no avail. So, mum took me. 

I met the bosses wife, who was really nice. We had a good chat, and I came away (although sad not to be able to go back) understanding a lot more about how things work and why. It was a good move to go in and see them. It alleviated all my fears, and made me feel so much better for doing so. 

Then I re-visited my Doc. I really hate that they don’t know me like they did at my last practice, but they can’t. In a good way, as I was forever at the surgery in Tarleton, She was okay and signed me off work for a while longer. 

So, that left me with my hubby on nights and me feeling pretty lonely. Mum’s just gone on nights too, and my step dad already does work nights. It was a tough week. 

But, with Nano going on, I found great comfort in being around people in chat and online. : ) yet for nanowrimo.

A couple of days, I struggled to write. The first few I managed 6-8k a day. Then I pushed over 40 and hit the finish with over 9k. 🙂 I was really happy. 

This week, has a few things planned. I’m meeting (for real) a couple of the peeps from the group. Always really scary for me because I’m a social hideaway. But, it will put me back into the real world and not the virtual one I’ve been hiding in, so I am looking forward to it. 

Word count as of today is 60.172 🙂 and counting. I have a feeling this one might end up more around the 100k so hopefully come end of Nov it will be finished. 

 

Happy writing, 🙂 

 

Dawn x 

Nov 2 2013

tough week, but there is hope. :)

Hey everyone. 

I think we all get the holiday blues. So being back from Devon was the same for me. As I am off work with my arm being busted the initial build up to going away (seeing as we skint) wasn’t good. And neither was having little cash to do the things we really wanted, but it was nice to be somewhere different. 

Being back home though is pretty depressing, and I’ve suffered this last week more than anything. It’s been evident too, when people ask you ‘you’ve been quiet what’s up’ that normally notice the bubbly person you are. 

So some positive things did happen though. I’ve rung work to see about having a chat to them, return to work interview. And I’m hopeful. I guess we’ll see what they say about things then. Can’t worry over it too much. 

Money has been alright by the end of the month all bills were paid, and we’ve still been able to buy some of the things we’ve wanted too. Thankfully Paul did go full time when he did, or his part time wages would not have covered anything, but we’ve actually had an okay month on the whole. 

 

Yesterday was the first day of nanowrimo. Last year I went into it on a wing and a prayer, this year I’ve had 7 weeks to think about a plot etc, but have been wondering if my arm could hold up to the task of actually sitting down to write. Well the answer to that is ‘nope’. I did write 4386 words yesterday (with the excellent group in our regional chat room doing 15 min word sprints)  but I’m in a lot of pain this morning. Very stiff and sleep last night wasn’t that great either. 

I’m kinda hoping it’s just because I’m not used to it. And that I need to get used to it, it’s good excersise. But I don’t know. It’s just so damned frustrating. There are still things I just can’t do and it upsets me. 

I know cleaning my house is really doing my head in, I can’t do some of the things I want to there, because there is no strength to it. And physio only wants me to work on that from next time if my arm improves. I cannot express how upsetting this whole thing has been on my physical self and emotional one. 

 

The worst thing I’m terrified of falling over again, and scared to actually go out and do things. 

 

😦 

 

But day two of nano is upon me, something that will at least distract me. 

 

Speak soon everyone. And good luck with your word counts. 

 

Dawn x x 

Sep 23 2013

Better day :)

Well today was much better than I thought it was going to be. Still not much sleep even though I went to bed early. It was gone 12pm when hubby came to bed, and then again I had to get up for pain killers, so was awake for a good while. 

 

The baby tank, our Qt hasn’t been looked at by me for a couple of days, and I was keeping a good eye on them till I broke my elbow. So going out there today I noticed a couple of red spots on two of my whiter fish. So there was me, my big pan net, and a floating net trying to catch them one handed. Lucky enough they weren’t too difficult. That wasn’t a good sign either. 

 

Scraped one, near where the sore was, and put it under the scope. No wonder they were sore. Skin flukes. Geeze. So only treatment I had was fluke M so in it went. 

 

Fingers crossed they’ll feel better soon and will be okay. Will keep you posted. 

 

As for everything else, well spoke to the solicitor about the accident I had. It went well, totally honest with her, we’ll see what happens. I just don’t want anyone else to go through this so it’s not nice. 

 

I’ve managed a little editing today, more than I have the last week. So, I’m happier in that sense. 

 

Couldn’t get a docs appointment, so I’ll try again tomorrow. I did however walk into the village and buy some veg soup. So I felt better doing that. Will try and aim to do it every day, then I might not panic over weight gain. Just still need to be careful. 

 

Pain, bearable this afternoon. Fingers crossed it is starting to heal. 🙂 

 

D x x