Angel fire welled up too quickly for her to control,...
...flooding her veins. It stripped away her concealing magic, gathered where she was most injured, and reduced the pain.
So, not a fantastic week. Not a bad week, but not the best week I've had either. Last week I mentioned I was feeling slow and sluggish. It didn't read like SAD to me, which is more than just being tired. SAD is so draining that all motivation is gone and all I want to do is sleep. I'm easily depressed (and I'm sure some would argue that I'm depressed even when I don't realize it), and my mood in general is down even when I'm not. I can function, fortunately, I just don't WANT to. The tired that hit me towards the end of last week wasn't as draining, but it wasn't a normal, just need some sleep tired either. I wanted to do stuff, just didn't have the energy a lot of the time.
It finally struck me in the middle of this week that it was possibly the return of my anemia. It's been a long time since I've felt that kind of tired, so it wasn't immediately apparent to me. But I'd been off the hormones that keep me from bleeding to death for a couple of weeks, so my body was probably preparing to do all that womanly stuff. Womanly stuff for me = VERY bad. As in go to the hospital bad. Once I suspected the problem, I doubled up my iron pills. Since I started that and have gotten back on the hormones, I've been feeling better. Will stay on the extra iron until the end of this week, and should be pretty much back up to par. I hope.
The end result, though, was a lot less energy to do anything, slower thinking, and a lot of dozing (not flat out sleeping for hours upon hours like with SAD, just napping an hour or two, then being fine for another few hours; the differences in tired sound strange to someone who doesn't have these problems, but trust me, they exist). And a lot less productivity.
Which is fine. End of the year seems to be a bad time to expect to get a lot done anyway. lol
I've had a spectacular year word count and productivity wise, so I think I can afford some not so productive time at the moment. Quite a few things were misses this year, but then this year sucked so bad, I am thankful for everything I DID manage. And a lot of what I did wouldn't have even been attempted without making them my goals for the year. You only fail when you don't try.
Here's how the trying is going so far....
2011 Goal Progress
» 450k :: current count: 573,671
» fin/polish/submit Charms :: ch27
» Mists rough draft :: Notes Draft: 17,714
» submit 1 short/month :: Jan: 2, Feb: 1, Mar: 5, Apr: 2, May: 10, June: 5, July: 4; Aug: 2; Sept: 0; Oct: 12 (+2 poems); Nov: 3 (+4 poems); Dec: 5
» read 24 books :: 36
» 1 new recipe/month :: Jan: 3; Feb: 6; Mar: 11; Apr: 3; May: 4; June: 2; July: 5
» finish Alden.nu MT repairs
» move Journeys to Alden.nu once repair is done
» update Lessons in Writing, Meta, & Journeys once/month :: Feb: L; Mar: L, M; Apr: L, M; May: J, L, M; June: J, L, M; July: L; Nov: J
» domynoes.com fixes
» AM & PM stretch 6x/week :: need to start again
» replace my glasses
I need to start thinking about next year soon. Just don't want to right now. lol
Progress This Week
Word Count:
for the week: 4569
for the month: 22,246
last month: 74,139
this year: 573,671
last year: 868,421
Goals:
» B.C. chapter 26 & 27
» 1250/day; 7500/week
» 1 DII crit
» submit a short
» journals: whysper
» Alden.nu: Lesson In Writing
» post to writersweighin
» Market Finders update
» WCP editing
» reading
» laundry
» beta reading
» web work: domynoes.com fixes
» web work: Alden.nu fixes
» file clean up on My Book
» pick up my meds
Reading List This Year:
» Geist
» Some Girls Bite
» The Stepsister Scheme
» The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
» Friday Night Bites
» Twice Bitten
» Spider's Bite
» Magic Bites
» The Broken Kingdoms
» The Mermaid's Madness
» Red Hood's Revenge
» Firespell
» Changes
» The Summoner
» Song of Homana
» Legacy of the Sword
» Track Of The White Wolf
» A Pride of Princes
» Daughter of the Lion
» Naked Heat
» The Iron Hunt
» Phoenix Rising
» The Piper
» Flight of the Raven
» Hard Bitten
» A Tapestry of Lions
» The Still Life of Hannah Morgan
» The Darkness That Comes Before
» Storm Front (reread)
» Fool Moon (reread)
» Grave Peril (reread)
» Unseen
» Grave Witch
» Summer Knight (reread)
» Death Masks (reread)
» Blood Rites (reread)
Like I said above, not expecting much more this year. I will finish Charms (or at least that's the plan) so I can prep it for betas in January ( still looking!), but I'm honestly not pushing on much else. First, for most of them it's pretty much too late now. If I missed a month or two of updates this summer, that pretty much tanked more than a few of them. Second, Chef is mostly off this week and next. He is looking for odd jobs to do to earn some extra money while the catering company is "down", but that doesn't mean he'll be out from underfoot. The good news about that is that he'll be doing most of the cooking. I've missed him making dinner, and when he gets into the jobs he wants next year, I'll be back to missing it. Gotta appreciate it while I can. ;) Third, the kids are now out of school for the next two weeks. They will definitely be underfoot even when Chef isn't. Long and short of it, lots of interruptions and less likely to get through as much as I usually try to manage.
As a result, goals for the next 2 weeks are going to be short lists.
Goals This Week
» B.C. chapter 27, 28, 29
» 1250/day; 7500/week
» 1 DII crit
» journals: whysper
» post to writersweighin
» Market Finders update
» WCP editing
» reading
» laundry
» beta reading
Extras This Week
» web work: domynoes.com fixes
» web work: Alden.nu fixes
» file clean up on My Book
Yep, that's it! Not a whole heck of a lot there, and I'm still not expecting to get it all done, partly because Charms is the main focus right now.
Anyway, running late today (because of Charms, actually, and a heck of A LOT of dishes), so to do today....
» dishes :: youngest got to do them since she missed doing them on Sunday
» laundry :: started
» B.C. chapter 27
» 1250 words
» post to writersweighin
» Market Finders update
» WCP editing
» web work: domynoes.com fixes
» reading
» beta reading
Okay, running off to get a few other things done! Including breakfast soon.
Kinda nice to already have things crossed off when I start the day. :)
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whysper and done! :: journeys Finding Tools That Work
the chef's wife Cranberry Sauce
So, not a fantastic week. Not a bad week, but not the best week I've had either. Last week I mentioned I was feeling slow and sluggish. It didn't read like SAD to me, which is more than just being tired. SAD is so draining that all motivation is gone and all I want to do is sleep. I'm easily depressed (and I'm sure some would argue that I'm depressed even when I don't realize it), and my mood in general is down even when I'm not. I can function, fortunately, I just don't WANT to. The tired that hit me towards the end of last week wasn't as draining, but it wasn't a normal, just need some sleep tired either. I wanted to do stuff, just didn't have the energy a lot of the time.
It finally struck me in the middle of this week that it was possibly the return of my anemia. It's been a long time since I've felt that kind of tired, so it wasn't immediately apparent to me. But I'd been off the hormones that keep me from bleeding to death for a couple of weeks, so my body was probably preparing to do all that womanly stuff. Womanly stuff for me = VERY bad. As in go to the hospital bad. Once I suspected the problem, I doubled up my iron pills. Since I started that and have gotten back on the hormones, I've been feeling better. Will stay on the extra iron until the end of this week, and should be pretty much back up to par. I hope.
The end result, though, was a lot less energy to do anything, slower thinking, and a lot of dozing (not flat out sleeping for hours upon hours like with SAD, just napping an hour or two, then being fine for another few hours; the differences in tired sound strange to someone who doesn't have these problems, but trust me, they exist). And a lot less productivity.
Which is fine. End of the year seems to be a bad time to expect to get a lot done anyway. lol
I've had a spectacular year word count and productivity wise, so I think I can afford some not so productive time at the moment. Quite a few things were misses this year, but then this year sucked so bad, I am thankful for everything I DID manage. And a lot of what I did wouldn't have even been attempted without making them my goals for the year. You only fail when you don't try.
Here's how the trying is going so far....
2011 Goal Progress
» 450k :: current count: 573,671
» fin/polish/submit Charms :: ch27
» Mists rough draft :: Notes Draft: 17,714
» submit 1 short/month :: Jan: 2, Feb: 1, Mar: 5, Apr: 2, May: 10, June: 5, July: 4; Aug: 2; Sept: 0; Oct: 12 (+2 poems); Nov: 3 (+4 poems); Dec: 5
» read 24 books :: 36
» 1 new recipe/month :: Jan: 3; Feb: 6; Mar: 11; Apr: 3; May: 4; June: 2; July: 5
» finish Alden.nu MT repairs
» move Journeys to Alden.nu once repair is done
» update Lessons in Writing, Meta, & Journeys once/month :: Feb: L; Mar: L, M; Apr: L, M; May: J, L, M; June: J, L, M; July: L; Nov: J
» domynoes.com fixes
» AM & PM stretch 6x/week :: need to start again
» replace my glasses
I need to start thinking about next year soon. Just don't want to right now. lol
Progress This Week
Word Count:
for the week: 4569
for the month: 22,246
last month: 74,139
this year: 573,671
last year: 868,421
Goals:
» B.C. chapter 26 & 27
» 1250/day; 7500/week
» 1 DII crit
» submit a short
» journals: whysper
» Alden.nu: Lesson In Writing
» post to writersweighin
» Market Finders update
» WCP editing
» reading
» laundry
» beta reading
» web work: domynoes.com fixes
» web work: Alden.nu fixes
» file clean up on My Book
» pick up my meds
Reading List This Year:
» Geist
» Some Girls Bite
» The Stepsister Scheme
» The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
» Friday Night Bites
» Twice Bitten
» Spider's Bite
» Magic Bites
» The Broken Kingdoms
» The Mermaid's Madness
» Red Hood's Revenge
» Firespell
» Changes
» The Summoner
» Song of Homana
» Legacy of the Sword
» Track Of The White Wolf
» A Pride of Princes
» Daughter of the Lion
» Naked Heat
» The Iron Hunt
» Phoenix Rising
» The Piper
» Flight of the Raven
» Hard Bitten
» A Tapestry of Lions
» The Still Life of Hannah Morgan
» The Darkness That Comes Before
» Storm Front (reread)
» Fool Moon (reread)
» Grave Peril (reread)
» Unseen
» Grave Witch
» Summer Knight (reread)
» Death Masks (reread)
» Blood Rites (reread)
Like I said above, not expecting much more this year. I will finish Charms (or at least that's the plan) so I can prep it for betas in January ( still looking!), but I'm honestly not pushing on much else. First, for most of them it's pretty much too late now. If I missed a month or two of updates this summer, that pretty much tanked more than a few of them. Second, Chef is mostly off this week and next. He is looking for odd jobs to do to earn some extra money while the catering company is "down", but that doesn't mean he'll be out from underfoot. The good news about that is that he'll be doing most of the cooking. I've missed him making dinner, and when he gets into the jobs he wants next year, I'll be back to missing it. Gotta appreciate it while I can. ;) Third, the kids are now out of school for the next two weeks. They will definitely be underfoot even when Chef isn't. Long and short of it, lots of interruptions and less likely to get through as much as I usually try to manage.
As a result, goals for the next 2 weeks are going to be short lists.
Goals This Week
» B.C. chapter 27, 28, 29
» 1250/day; 7500/week
» 1 DII crit
» journals: whysper
» post to writersweighin
» Market Finders update
» WCP editing
» reading
» laundry
» beta reading
Extras This Week
» web work: domynoes.com fixes
» web work: Alden.nu fixes
» file clean up on My Book
Yep, that's it! Not a whole heck of a lot there, and I'm still not expecting to get it all done, partly because Charms is the main focus right now.
Anyway, running late today (because of Charms, actually, and a heck of A LOT of dishes), so to do today....
» dishes :: youngest got to do them since she missed doing them on Sunday
» laundry :: started
» B.C. chapter 27
» 1250 words
» post to writersweighin
» Market Finders update
» WCP editing
» web work: domynoes.com fixes
» reading
» beta reading
Okay, running off to get a few other things done! Including breakfast soon.
Kinda nice to already have things crossed off when I start the day. :)
~~~
most recent
whysper and done! :: journeys Finding Tools That Work
the chef's wife Cranberry Sauce