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Hi I haven't remembered to post an update in a few days how is everyone? :D :D :D

Migraine and back pain took my entire weekend (migraine on friday, worrying about lingering effects on Saturday and back pain was all Saturday and Sunday) so Monday and Tuesday were spent triaging what didn't get done yesterday yay. Good news, I finished the Social Justice Vampire Sean Bean story! Bad news, edits and prep and more edits still did not get done so I'm going to be continuing that into a Camp Nano session where I try to write an entire novel yaaaay. Better news, the novel and one of the novels in edits are one of the few things that just goes flying out of my fingers, so this might be vaguely possible.

Also the Vampire Sean Bean thing, which now needs a title dammit, is going to turn into a romance comedy novel as soon as I can figure out a central conflict. Possibly that central conflict is "I'm too old for this shit." Something for me to think about.

Over the next week, where I have family coming over on the first week or so of Camp Nanowrimo, jury duty to report to on the first of the month, and capoeira classes to still go to. And a roda on Saturday and I think I'm going to decline because by that point I may be evented out and need to frantically catch up on writing. YAY. Fortunately this weekend the only thing that's happening is a pokemon challenge that will only take as long as I feel like walking. Plus I'll be downtown for capoeira class, land of a thousand pokestops, so it shouldn't take long anyway.

Picked up the guitar for the first time since last ... Thursday, I guess, because when I came home I was still migrainy and back pain is not conducive to anything but staying very still and regretting when I have to change positions. Don't Fear The Reaper is getting a bit faster, Wish You Were Here is still giving me fits partly because I'm tired, I think, and partly because I'm going faster than I should be. And I have since discarded Under the Bridge because the fucking tabs are wrong and I need to learn the scale first, and picked up Fortunate Son because it got stuck in my head. After a discussion with Uncle Elf Lord about how no one freaking listens to the lyrics of certain songs like that, like Born in the USA, etc, and end up using them for their jingoistic propaganda. Meanwhile CCR and Bruce Springsteen and anyone who's listened to the songs are all "Excuse me WHAT are you trying to say here?"

Oof. I haven't had a chance to play with the watercolors since I attempted to use them while migrainy, that didn't work too-too well but I also wasn't trying to do much, just practicing how color goes down with them, so that's not awful. I may make some time in the next couple of days. My dental cleaning was rescheduled for tomorrow morning, what fun, but at least it's only a cleaning. I just have too much going on in the next ten days and if someone tries to add one more commitment to my stack that isn't taking me out to dinner for a brief hour or simulwatching something nice, relaxing, and not requiring brainpower I may have to hit them with something large and heavy. Like a car. Or my foot.

(Capoeira class was fun though! I worked hard, I'm getting better.)

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I am so goddamn tired. I went to bed last night later than I should have because of various reasons, including being stubborn about learning the opening riff to Fortunate Sons even though I'd already practiced everything else. Then for no goddamn good reason I woke up at 6.30, after capoeira and the longest day of the week, after going to bed late, and I never got back to damn sleep. I am full of wooze. I did, however, remember to find a printable blank tab sheet so I can maybe finally start working on Under the Bridge Goddamn You Online Tab Writing People Why Are You So Fucking Wrong.

Ahem. Look, I have opinions, damn good relative pitch, and stubbornness. I'm not even sure Fortunate Son is right but I can't quite play it fast enough to play it with the music and compare. Give me a week or two.

I did get home and I managed to get through a spa night without hurting myself by being tired, which is nice. I got paid, ordered a couple travel sizes/less expensive rice polishing powders for exfoliants, some drugstore brands of other things I'm wanting to experiment with, so I have beauty taken care of for a while. We'll see if this new moisturizing and cleansing routine takes care of various small breakouts, possibly clogged pores, dry patches of skin, etc. I need to remember to start with one set routine that I have enough products to go through for a while, do it for a couple of weeks, see what happens after that, repeat. Science! It works, dammit.

And then it turned out I didn't get any writing done today, which... argh, I could feel more like a failure at being a responsible professional but I'd have to work at it. I've been getting stuff done! Just not nearly as regularly or as quickly or often as I'd like the past, what, since the migraine? Last week I think, I was feeling like I was getting things done. This week, only sporadically. And today, not at all, and I know it's because I didn't get enough sleep last night but ugh.

Along those lines though I guess I'd better stop complaining, wrap this up and get up to bed. At least the next thing I have isn't till Monday. If I'm very lucky they'll have the message up the night before saying "don't bother." If I'm less lucky I'll go in for a few hours, they'll pick a jury, I'll get sent home. It'll probably take all day again though. This time, definitely taking a better lunch and some painkillers in case I get another splitting headache.

Ahem. I was going to bed. Definitely bed.