Well, what a week.
Yesterday the car broke down, or at least failed to start when I needed to go into work. Thankfully this was fixed in a timely fashion - although not before I'd missed THREE buses, yeah not really even sure how I managed that myself when I live behind the bus stop, and ultimately had to tell work I wouldn't be making it.
Then last night the boy decided to wake up at 11pm coughing so hard he was making himself sick, and then there were other nasty bodily functions going on and a whole lot of wheezing to the point we were so freaked out we took him into the hospital. Which was where we stayed from 6am until just a little while ago. He's a lot better now, or else they weren't going to let him home at all, but he still has to take his asthma medicine every four hours so another restless night for him and us. This unexpected adventure also necessitated another day off of work.
And tomorrow, the icing on the cake. Toffee has to go into the vet's to have a suspicious and seriously gross growth removed from her FACE! The up-side is that the vet is pretty sure it will turn out to be a benign thing, the downside is it's going to cost two weeks wages to do the op and find out for sure. This wouldn't be such a problem if life would actually let me go to work instead of always getting in the way! Incidentally, the vet trip also means an unplanned day off of work now that the boy needs to stay wrapped up warm in the house and the wife needs to stay in and look after the boy because it would be illegal not to.
I'll be lucky if I even have a job left by the end of this week. And if my NaNo hadn't already been dead in the water from week two it would definitely be a bust by now.
That said, here's my word count as of the weekend.
21734 / 50000 words. 43% done!
Then last night the boy decided to wake up at 11pm coughing so hard he was making himself sick, and then there were other nasty bodily functions going on and a whole lot of wheezing to the point we were so freaked out we took him into the hospital. Which was where we stayed from 6am until just a little while ago. He's a lot better now, or else they weren't going to let him home at all, but he still has to take his asthma medicine every four hours so another restless night for him and us. This unexpected adventure also necessitated another day off of work.
And tomorrow, the icing on the cake. Toffee has to go into the vet's to have a suspicious and seriously gross growth removed from her FACE! The up-side is that the vet is pretty sure it will turn out to be a benign thing, the downside is it's going to cost two weeks wages to do the op and find out for sure. This wouldn't be such a problem if life would actually let me go to work instead of always getting in the way! Incidentally, the vet trip also means an unplanned day off of work now that the boy needs to stay wrapped up warm in the house and the wife needs to stay in and look after the boy because it would be illegal not to.
I'll be lucky if I even have a job left by the end of this week. And if my NaNo hadn't already been dead in the water from week two it would definitely be a bust by now.
That said, here's my word count as of the weekend.
21734 / 50000 words. 43% done!