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May 5 2013

Been a busy week.

I can’t get past this hurdle of intense emotional, financial and weird amounts of stress. I haven’t been able to do much writing or editing, but I’ve done lots of reading and catching up with things. 

This last couple of weeks in total have just been crazy. 

This week, started out a little better. But then on Wednesday kinda went down hill. Both at work and home I broke my van at work, and then my car. 😦 

Came home and mum had been in bed all day, sick. Which isn’t like her, so then worried all day on thurs about her and the cost of our car. 

Friday and mum was no better, I called the surgery to try and get her a doctor out and to be honest they really weren’t interested. Told me some meds to get her and didn’t quite tell her some others. So at least by today she’s feeling a bit better. 

The car cost a small fortune to get fixed, but seems okay now. All fish are good. And Bobby has been out the cage again 🙂 He’s now in his new one although a little tired from all the exercise yesterday. 

Here’s a picture for you all. 🙂Image

He loved my head…. tee hee. Silly Bobby. 🙂 I was a little scared at first but he seemed happy so he stayed there for over ten mins. 

Hope everyone else is good. 🙂 

Speak soon x x 

Apr 22 2013

A quick one…

 

Hi there,

Only a quick update today. Been a long one as I didn’t sleep much last night.

The weekend was good, caught up on some outside jobs with the ponds. I haven’t touched anything in a week, so I had to get out there and see how everyone was really doing. Nice and sunny so it was amazing to be outside for a change.

Sunday as a little bit of a washout.

But —

 

— we’re getting a new friend… a Blue Indian Parrot. A friend of ours bought him last year and has since gotten an African Grey, so can’t keep both. I’ve never had a bird before with keeping a cat. It’s a friendly, young bird. So we should be able to get it to talk quite soon. It needs a mirror and lots of time. 🙂 I can do that, it can sit with me watching me type. lol

 

 

Writing.

I’ve had a good few crits through on ‘scribophile’ along with my coaching, so I’ve let my head settle on where I want to move and change things. I finally felt like I was ready to tackle a re-write. It might take me a while. But I am more confident now about it 🙂

Work.

I went back to work today. A bit tough, it was harder to drive than I first thought. With some pain killers in the morning though I made it just the four hours before I needed more. Eeek. At least my customers were all happy to have me back. 🙂 I was happy over that.

 

So, long day, heading to bed. Hope you are all great.

 

Dawn x x

 

 

 

Apr 13 2013

mmmmm

Well what can I say. The sun is out and I can’t do anything.

Paul has gone off to Banks Car Booty. Which I would have enjoyed but the pain in my knee just isn’t going. Yesterday had to be the worst, although in the morning the swelling had gone down, by the afternoon it was right back out there. Took all evening soaking it in pain killers and a special ‘patch’ for it to ease. I just wish it would go away. The throbbing is kinda okay. But the not sleeping and wobbliness isn’t nice. Every time I stand it feels like my leg is gonna give out and I’ll be in a heap on the floor. It’s scary. 

Writing wise…. well haven’t been able to concentrate to do any editing. So, I’ve been reading instead. This has given me plenty of time for relaxing…. a couch potato I am. I hate being a couch potato… it’s  making me feel like a blimp. 😦 So, not only am I in pain, my heads battering me to death too. Depressed is not the word. 

I always try not to worry over money. We can cope, its not going to be a brilliant month end with me having time off but I guess it had to happen at some point. My body is only human and things happen. I’ll deal with that as it crops up. 

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My fish is doing much better in the QT, he’s lively, his swelling has gone down. (hahah maybe I should get in there with them) and I totally believe he’s going to be right as rain in a few weeks. 🙂 Fingers crossed I’m going to be okay ‘this’ week. 

So more rest and recoup for me. In face I think I’ll head back to bed now. My eyes can’t focus. 

Have a great weekend all.  x x x

 

Speak soon. 

Apr 10 2013

Update….

There have been a good few too many things happening this last week. Mostly fish related stuff and then a few personal things. 

As usual, I will try and structure them all so that I can fill you in. 

 

Koi…. 

 

Catching one of the sick fish on Sat to help treat him. I made the decision to move him to the QT tank that we have. Currently it houses 30 of my ‘baby fish’ so I then also made an even bigger decision to move some of the babies to the big pond. This was an agonizing decision having had a parasite problem. 

 

So, I spent all day on Sat prepping. Taking scrapes of a few fish from both ponds. This was all clear so I just gave the sanke (the sick fish) a really good salt bath before I moved him. This would hopefully get rid of anything nasty still on him, and with a bit of luck help prevent any cross contamination if I missed anything. 

 

Then I tricked the babies into a feeding frenzy and stuck my koi sock in to scoop up who I could sift through. Three big ones then went into the main pond with their rather large parents. Shock for them and I moved the sick sanke into the QT tank. He didn’t seem too happy at first. But today I am very impressed with his recovery and I have high hopes that he will be okay. 

 

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Writing wise. 

 

Wow, what a whirlwind of a few weeks this has been. Since I joined scribophile I’ve made some great new friends. I’ve written a whole new chapter for TSK and I’ve worked like mad to get my own standard up… I am going to be working with E.J again soon and I hope this will still improve everything. I’m actually well into Chapter 10 now on the edits and this is brilliant news. 

 

——————— personal 

 

Yeah, been a sucky week. I don’t for the life of me know how I managed to do it. But I injured my knee yesterday. Getting out of the van at work funny. Or in standing on something curb. I don’t know, but it cracked backwards at an odd angle. Causing intense pain and well the result, even after going to the chemist for pain relief wasn’t good yesterday. The doc seems to think I’ve pulled the ligaments in the right side of my knee. Last night the pain was just awful and I barely slept at all. Today, the pain and the swelling is even worse. Although with resting it, it has gone down some this afternoon. 

 

Work, well I don’t think they’re very happy. I feel as guilty as hell, because I know how they operate as a small company. But, I’m stuck. I can’t drive. It just isn’t fair on me, or the van. I couldn’t change gear by the end of my round yesterday and crunched the gears twice. I never, ever do that. 

I must also admit one of the worst things is, living where I work. Even in the Doc’s I bumped into one of my customers. 🙂 I think he felt sorry for me though, bless him. And yeah, well docs hurt you when they push and prod you in places already sore… enough said. 

 

So rest it is, for a couple of days and see how I feel. I did have a knee brace, can’t for the life of me find it. Think I leant it out, so I’ve ordered one in at the local chemist. I hate, not doing anything… so I guess I shall just have to read : ( 

eeek…. I do hate being like this. I am just hoping there is no lasting damage. The doc already said I might need to go back in for another key hole peek at my knee. Last time they said that…. I as in surgery for three hours and then wasn’t allowed to even walk for 8 weeks after! don’t want to go through that ever, ever again. 

 

😦 

Mar 21 2013

Wed tagging on Thurs :)

Ummm don’t know what happened there… I thought I posted it live. Guess I didn’t. Oops…

Wed….

I sometimes just don’t know where the time goes. This weeks flying by…. eeek.

Problems this morning with my script registrations. So had to sort that out. Funny isn’t it that almost 12 mths ago and they’ve lost my card payment details. Good job Paypal is so organised.

Work, work, work. And it’s been so busy… Can’t wait for next week when we get four days off for Easter 🙂 Yippie… I’ll get some time to catch up on things before the end of the month.

I’ve done as much editing as I can. Almost to the end of Chap 5 now. 🙂 It’s really bad when you’ve taken some time off from the piece and only been concentrating on the beginning. When you actually do move forward, you are thrown back into the world you created with a new vision. It’s brilliant. Thank you E.J. Runyon 🙂

Just been out for a small drink with the other half. Time to relax and a chippy tea… (sod the weight thing… lol.

 

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Thurs

 

What a storming day I’ve had at work. Settling in now. Need to crack on with Chap 5.

 

Catch you soon.

Dawn x x