I hate being sick.

I went to the doctor on Wednesday... I was feeling like crap because I woke up with a sore throat. It felt like my throat was swollen→ I couldn't swallow without it hurting. It even hurt just to touch my neck... and I felt like I was burning up→ I thought I was having wicked hot flushes.

It turns out I have a viral infection, and a low-grade temperature. So now I'm on even more medication. God, I'm sick of taking medication, but I know I'd feel worse if I didn't take it.

Though the doctor was happy that I've lost 4kg (8.81lbs) this year started at 90kg (198.41lbs) and now I'm 86kg (189.59lbs) only 11kg (24.25lbs) to go until I reach my goal weight 75kg (165.34lbs)... when I started this whole thing 16 months ago I started at 106kg (233.68lbs)... so in that time, I've lost 20kg (44.09lbs).

The good news is I finally got 1st edits on The Lines of Marsden 4: The Trail of Red Roses so I'll be starting on them as soon as my head stops pounding, and I can stand to look at the computer screen for more than five minutes.

Why is it?

1) Why is it when you think you have everything under control something comes along to kick you up the arse and throw a spanner in the works?

2) Why is it when you clean your house (declutter) you always end up with a bigger mess than when you started? And always find things that you have no clue why you even have them?

3) Why is it when you have to do something that's good for you, you procrastinate and always put it off?

4) Why is it that new story ideas suddenly jump into your mind at 3 A.M. and won't leave you alone until you get up and write them down?

5) Why is it you can search and search for something, and the moment you no longer need it you find it sitting right out in the open?

6) Why is it if you have cats in the house they think they are the rulers of the whole household, and we live only to serve them? 5A.M. every morning Robson believes it's time to get up and he needs his breakfast.

7) Why is it when my mum is watching the tennis do they have to screech (not all, but some) every time they hit a ball? That noise drives me bonkers.

8) Why is it that my character in my current WIPS keep changing the storylines on me, making me go back and re-do whole sections?

9) Why is it so hard to reconnect with people on social media? I really need to get back into this so I can work on the whole self-promo thing.

10) Why is it already feeling like 2020 is flying by? We're almost at the end of the first month.

Busy, busy, busy...

This week I have a bloody full schedule ahead of me. It started Sunday. When I finally got the mowing done between rain showers. We aren't getting decent rain, but it keeps drizzling.

Yesterday, I have to go out and do a bit of trimming in the front garden. The clouds are building up again, so I got a little rained on.

Yesterday, I had a visit from my granddaughter this morning and I had to cook her some sausages, apparently, she needed them and a drink of Coke no sugar. So that's what she got. She stands on a chair out in the kitchen with me and helps me cook (and by help, I mean she talks to me while I do all the work→she's not quite 2 after all).

Today, I have to go to the hospital with my daughter as she is having a baby scan where we find out the sex of the baby, and I'm getting the ballon thing done so they can do the baby reveal. As both she and her partner want to be surprised. So I have to get the technician to write it out on a piece of paper for me so Emily doesn't find out.

Tomorrow, I have my weekly appointment/check-up with my doctor to see if they need to make any adjustments with my medication. Hopefully, they don't, it's taken me this long to get used to the dosage I'm on now.

That's it for the busy portion of my week. In and around all of that I have to fit in some writing. I'll get some done. I might not get as much as I would like done this week, but hey some is better than none... still working on Lancaster's Way 3: Pre-loved.

Woke up to this... Need I say more.

 Obviously R.I.P. to the other 5 victims of the helicopter crash

Man, is it stinking hot.

I can't believe how bloody hot it's been lately. Mind you, it hasn't helped that I have been having a heap of hot flushes. I think it's a side effect of one of my new medications, or perhaps my menopause has kicked in big time. Either-or, I'm continually drenched in sweat. The other big side effect is ongoing headaches.

Even the odd shower of rain hasn't cooled down the weather. All I can say is I can't wait for winter to get it's arse here. I seriously need to cool down. Thank god I have shorn off hair. I don't think I could go back to having long hair again, it would drive me nuts.

Even the poor cats are suffering in the heat. As soon as they hear me shutting the windows they must know the aircon is going on and they come running before the house gets shut up, so they are inside in the cool. Oliver lives to sleep on the hallway rug, and Robson like to sleep under the end of Mum's bed they must be the two coolest spots in the house.

Okay, now that I've complained. I think I should go and do some actual writing. I'm working on Lancaster's Way 3: Pre-loved.

Happy Australia Day

Happy Australia Day to one and all. 

No matter who you are this is our home.

Be proud of it - because it's ours.

Happy Birthday, Elliot.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELLIOT

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