A Light Through the Darkness

Well, today was my infusion day. The vampires had a new vampire with them - she decided to give my major vein a "rest" and try another vein.

See, it's my major vein because, well, I ONLY HAVE ONE ACCESSIBLE VEIN! My veins are very small, and very deep, and very tempermental. So after she gave me a lovely bruise on my arm (yup, blew the vein with the first flush!), she decided to admit defeat and let a more experienced vampire get the line in.

For those who don't know, I get an infusion every 8 weeks for my Crohn's disease. It's not as bad as it seems - I come in at 10 am, get hooked up to the IV, plug in Merlin and work for several hours (usually until 1-2 pm), then go to work. They feed me lunch (meatloaf with gravy, mashed potatoes and spinach - yum! And chocolate ice cream...) and I can get a lot of work done. It's a good thing.

I got about 100 pgs edited on Tony's novel, which is good, because I'd like to get that back to him before I leave for Pennsic. Unfortunately, I had a major sinus migraine yesterday (thank you, Donna!), so missed a day of work AND a day of writing. Bah.

Tonight, I'm going to go to Walmart and get the walls for the dining fly (once I head home and get my checkbook - did I mention I flew out the door this morning?) and anything else I can think that I might need.

Tomorrow is cleaning and editing and stitching together the last of Argus' tunics (two more to machine stitch, then handstitching to hem, do the collar and add trim) and packing my basket. Oh, and playing with the kittens, who are convinced that we're leaving and NEVER COMING BACK. Talk about making me feel guilty....

Now the book is back to the author with lots of helpful (I hope) suggestions, and I'm cracking open my own WIP again.

Yay!

Editing:

317 / 447 (70.9%)

So close! Bye tomorrow evening, I'll have this in my author's hands.

Then I can write some more. :D

Okay, this is actually the second sweep through the book, so it's not as accurate as it could be, but here's the editing metrics:

211 / 447 (47.2%)

More later this weekend. The book has to be to the author by end of day Sunday, so I've got my assignment for the weekend.

Well, despite an upset tummy that came on suddenly (thanks, Crohn's!), I still got a whopping 3,093 words done yesterday. Go me! That's total, since the Friday night words happened actually Saturday morning (hey, they got counted on my July total, so I'm counting them as Saturday numbers). So here are the metrics for July so far:

( Metrics )

Yup, going for 50k goal for the month. That includes work on both novels, as well as stuff for the web comic and for Virtual Tales. So now, here's the goal for today, since the hubby is off for a couple of days to see friends in Worcester:

( The schedule )

We'll see how it goes. I'm hanging out in FM chat if anyone wants to talk.

Oh! And the Sox won AGAIN! 16-2 in Interleague this year! Go Us!

Met most of my goals - got 1 chapter done on the novel I'm editing, and have sent it off to the author, so he knows what I'm looking at.

Also got a little over 1k done on Dreams - a good night.

Belladonna Dreams

26,847 / 80,000 (33.6%)

Darling:“Or what? The entire universe as we know it will come to an end?” I’ve always wanted to say that.

Sapph was a bit more witty tonight - I'm thinking it might be the wine. ;) We'll see.

Up tomorrow - Ellen finally confronts her. Hee- this is going to be good. I'm pretty much picturing the old "unstoppable force meets immovable object."