OH YA KNOW!

Seems Scotland and Canada have both been having issues.  Whilst my lil friend across the pond is trying to rid herself of a cold.....I'm trying to rid myself of the tiredness.  Yep been over a month when I feel like I could sleep at any time of the day.  I picture my head hitting the keyboard at work and what would happen if someone walked in to see me drooling on the keys....LOL

Okay, so taking vitamins now....went to the naturopath store and picked up special lady vitamins for women hitting the meno time.  Between the hot flashes and the snappy comments...I guess I'm trying to overcome the issues. 

Menopause...who the heck came up with that name.  It's a pause in the monthly cycle that makes you an absolute weirdo.  Standing in the grocery store at the cashier and you feel like stripping naked since your body just soared three hundred degrees.

Or at night when you're just about asleep, exhausted after your 12 hour day and you feel the heat start from within.  You lie there thinking....just sleep it'll go away, but it doesn't.  Sometimes I swear I'm about to spontaneously combust.  (do I buy an extinguisher, I wonder?)  Then the times when you finally drift off and in the middle of the night it comes again....(screw the extinguisher....I need me a fireman I think)

So life has been a little odd this past month....on top of that I came home to deal with many problems after my trip.  Out with the old roomie...clean and organize....and look for new one.  It'll be interesting to get to know Ashley...yep, she moves in Sunday.  Friendly, kinda funny and light hearted...oh to be 25 again with the energy they have.  Luckily she's agreed to help with snow removal....so very grateful for her youth.

It's late in Canada and time for sleep.....I'm off to set every fan I have on the full setting and crawl into bed to try to sleep.  It's -20 here....sheesh ya wouldn't know it.

If you've smiled or smirked (because you're one of the meno women) leave a comment!  Wish me luck in getting sleep....LOL

Plans they are a changing...

The last two weeks have pretty much been a write off and I think I've lost about seven writing days. Ieve made up a couple but boy theres plenty more to make up

The challange us usually to write 50,000 words in a month but the challange at the minute is to write as much as possible to catch up whilst managing my health at the same time. The sommon cold has re infected me twice in quick succession and we are on something like day 18 of feeling unwell. Hopefully whats left is the residual couch, leading to a slightly adjitated asthma condition, which I thought I had a handle on but apparently not....

Unusually this bout was bad, very bad and ment many days in bed, many early nights  and just too much time lost

Now I hope even though we are heading fast and headlong into winter that its the last of the cold bug for a while fingers crossed and it will help me get back into the swing of writing because I'd just got to a major plot twist and I am desperate to put it down on paper.... dont expect me to surface for a few days LOL  

Nano Challange - Week one and a bit

Well after a week and a wee bit - 9 days I should be around the 15,00 mark and Im a few thousand shy due to a bad cold that basically rendered me completely useless for a few days. For me not to write a thing is pretty bad but thats what went on. Why is it I catch a cold just after things are getting a bit better LOL Always the same !!

Now im in catch up mode. I have just under 1500 words to catch up to be running equal to where I should be so here goes, because I am enjoying this story even though its taken a few twists that I didnt envision and its not going along the same lines as I first expected ... but then thats the art of fiction it can go anywhere !!

Nano Challenge - end of day 2

So this is the end of day two of the 30 day challange. 1667 words a day and at the end of the 30 days, I will have a 50,000 novel. Note the I will not I might have. I did this last year and out of it came the Blackpool book and it was a fantastic achievement so here I go again with this years book...

This year has been about getting old stories re written and out for the public to enjoy. Ive got 3 books out this year so far with 1 more, fingers crossed, before year end. Only 1 (Blackpool) was a completely new write so the prospect of writing something new was a little daunting... so glad Nano came along when it did.

it will help me get back into teh swing of writing about new characters, new ideas and fulfilling the ideas I have had floating around my mind for years.

At the start of this I wasnt sure which project to do, a romance novel set in Cyprus or a comedy (kind of) set in an average IKEA superstore. After seeking advice and listening to it, IKEA won and thats the one I am writing.

So we are two days in and so far so good, I am about 50 words over the two day target and its progressing . Im happy with what ive done which is important because I cant edit this till ive got through this challange. Im trying to keep an eye on what I write, keep the editing to a minimum afterwards cos its not my favourite bit

I would have done more today but the old fingers are stiff and the joints playing up, limiting how much I can sit and write. Hopefully tomorrow will be better !!

Onwards - only 46640 words to go LOL