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the_rckI finally added up my writing numbers for September and October (and the first four days of November). There are some words that didn't end up counted because I did major editing that added words but neglected to record my starting count to compare it to the end count. I'm not going to guess at those because, if I didn't try to keep track, I obviously didn't care very much.
My count for September was very low, the lowest all year. I didn't even break 5K words and ended with 4660. August with slightly more than 11K had been my previous low. October was about 80 words more than August, so it wasn't much better. I'm pretty sure that having the impetus of![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
weissvsaiyuki helped a lot because my November word count is already 3774. I'm pretty sure that I can better the September word count before we hit month's end.
My year to date count is a little bit over 150K words which is twice the goal I set for myself. Almost half of that is Amber related stories and slightly more than a third of the total is 'other stuff.' Almost 2000 words were on Auguries of Innocence. All the rest of the words were Weiss Kreuz stories.
I slept well for about three hours last night then woke, feeling too warm and just rested enough that falling back to sleep was hard. I was actually overheated enough that, in spite of the house temperature being about 60F, I couldn't always tolerate a sheet. I ended up taking a Halcion and then sleeping fitfully for a few hours until Scott and Cordelia got up. I must have gone back to sleep after because I remember dreams about convenience stores with hotel rooms that only had water on Fridays, one of those things that my waking mind would never come up with.
I dragged myself out of bed around 11:00, I think (can't remember if the clock I looked at reflected the time change or not), because I knew that my headache would keep getting worse if I didn't eat and have some caffeine. It was bad enough that I took an Amerge right away and kept the lights off in the living room for a couple of hours. I've still got nausea, but the pain is mostly gone. Well, the headache pain. My general pain levels have been nasty since the middle of the summer and getting pretty steadily worse. None of the specific pains are much past a 5, but they add up to much more than that in terms of how I feel, whole body, maybe a 7.5 or an 8.
I'm pretty sure that, when I see my doctor on the 13th, she'll simply tell me that I need to find a way to get more/better sleep and refer me to PT for specific problems.
Something that's I've noticed, though-- Every time I stop the Halcion, even for a day, my IBS gives me trouble. I'm not sure if that's increased anxiety/lack of sleep or if it's that the Halcion has just enough of a constipating effect that things become normal. It doesn't seem to relate to what I eat or don't. I ought to be tracking all of this stuff so as to have numbers, but I've been too exhausted to keep up with anything of the sort.
Scott and Cordelia went to see the Thor movie last night. I told them to buy tickets in advance, and they didn't and also didn't try to arrive early, so there was only one ticket left. One of Cordelia's friends had a ticket, purchased in advance. The other didn't. I'm not sure if she went with them to the place where they ended up seeing the movie or not.
The choir fundraiser that was scheduled for today ended up canceled due to weather. They were supposed to rake leaves all over town, and it's been pouring for two days, with occasional lightning to make it unsafe instead of just miserable and almost impossibly difficult. This means that both days next weekend go to that fundraiser instead of just Saturday. They'll start at the high school at 10 a.m. both days and keep going until all the houses on the list have been dealt with.
My count for September was very low, the lowest all year. I didn't even break 5K words and ended with 4660. August with slightly more than 11K had been my previous low. October was about 80 words more than August, so it wasn't much better. I'm pretty sure that having the impetus of
weissvsaiyuki helped a lot because my November word count is already 3774. I'm pretty sure that I can better the September word count before we hit month's end.My year to date count is a little bit over 150K words which is twice the goal I set for myself. Almost half of that is Amber related stories and slightly more than a third of the total is 'other stuff.' Almost 2000 words were on Auguries of Innocence. All the rest of the words were Weiss Kreuz stories.
I slept well for about three hours last night then woke, feeling too warm and just rested enough that falling back to sleep was hard. I was actually overheated enough that, in spite of the house temperature being about 60F, I couldn't always tolerate a sheet. I ended up taking a Halcion and then sleeping fitfully for a few hours until Scott and Cordelia got up. I must have gone back to sleep after because I remember dreams about convenience stores with hotel rooms that only had water on Fridays, one of those things that my waking mind would never come up with.
I dragged myself out of bed around 11:00, I think (can't remember if the clock I looked at reflected the time change or not), because I knew that my headache would keep getting worse if I didn't eat and have some caffeine. It was bad enough that I took an Amerge right away and kept the lights off in the living room for a couple of hours. I've still got nausea, but the pain is mostly gone. Well, the headache pain. My general pain levels have been nasty since the middle of the summer and getting pretty steadily worse. None of the specific pains are much past a 5, but they add up to much more than that in terms of how I feel, whole body, maybe a 7.5 or an 8.
I'm pretty sure that, when I see my doctor on the 13th, she'll simply tell me that I need to find a way to get more/better sleep and refer me to PT for specific problems.
Something that's I've noticed, though-- Every time I stop the Halcion, even for a day, my IBS gives me trouble. I'm not sure if that's increased anxiety/lack of sleep or if it's that the Halcion has just enough of a constipating effect that things become normal. It doesn't seem to relate to what I eat or don't. I ought to be tracking all of this stuff so as to have numbers, but I've been too exhausted to keep up with anything of the sort.
Scott and Cordelia went to see the Thor movie last night. I told them to buy tickets in advance, and they didn't and also didn't try to arrive early, so there was only one ticket left. One of Cordelia's friends had a ticket, purchased in advance. The other didn't. I'm not sure if she went with them to the place where they ended up seeing the movie or not.
The choir fundraiser that was scheduled for today ended up canceled due to weather. They were supposed to rake leaves all over town, and it's been pouring for two days, with occasional lightning to make it unsafe instead of just miserable and almost impossibly difficult. This means that both days next weekend go to that fundraiser instead of just Saturday. They'll start at the high school at 10 a.m. both days and keep going until all the houses on the list have been dealt with.
