Allison Knight's Blog, page 8
April 2, 2014
The Journey
Hospice nurse came and went - on April 1st., Nope, didn't blog on that date. Nobody would have paid any attention to me if I had. After all, I'm no fool.
Today is Laundry Day. Note the capital letters. Why, because it wears me out. Surprising how little I can do now. Definitely slowing down. The nurse said it was to be expected. But my fingers still work just fine, so, I'll be blogging for a while. I can read and compute and think up story lines just fine. I can work at my desk, no problem. Walking around, doing laundry, cleaning, cooking, going from one room to another is tiring, and sometimes, I have to stop in the middle of what I'm doing and rest. I was told this would happen and it is.
But, I'm convinced I got a long way to go, yet. In fact I'm determined to get the three Angel books I've got in mind finished. (Angel books - well we'll see if the publisher likes the idea and I'll explain) Plus the regency that's half done, and the edits which I'm hoping to wrap up today or at least by tomorrow. So I have a schedule. Now if the Good Lord will let the schedule stand. (grinning) Of course it's not my say, but.... Please!
So back to the edits and then to regency. I think it will be microwave dinners today. The laundry says I'll just be to tired to cook - anything.
Allison
Today is Laundry Day. Note the capital letters. Why, because it wears me out. Surprising how little I can do now. Definitely slowing down. The nurse said it was to be expected. But my fingers still work just fine, so, I'll be blogging for a while. I can read and compute and think up story lines just fine. I can work at my desk, no problem. Walking around, doing laundry, cleaning, cooking, going from one room to another is tiring, and sometimes, I have to stop in the middle of what I'm doing and rest. I was told this would happen and it is.
But, I'm convinced I got a long way to go, yet. In fact I'm determined to get the three Angel books I've got in mind finished. (Angel books - well we'll see if the publisher likes the idea and I'll explain) Plus the regency that's half done, and the edits which I'm hoping to wrap up today or at least by tomorrow. So I have a schedule. Now if the Good Lord will let the schedule stand. (grinning) Of course it's not my say, but.... Please!
So back to the edits and then to regency. I think it will be microwave dinners today. The laundry says I'll just be to tired to cook - anything.
Allison
March 31, 2014
The Journey
Happy Monday. It feels like a good day. It's sunny, dry (thank you Lord) and I'm breathing easier today, than even yesterday. I am beginning to think that pulled muscle may not be a pulled muscle. I know they (muscles) take a long time to heal, but the pain comes and goes, sometimes more painful than a muscle ache, and it's moved down into my arm a bit and into my shoulder.
It may also be arthritis. But then I've been hold repeatedly not to diagnose myself. (grinning) But I know how I feel and just because I'm usually really wrong.... (More grins) But the edits must still be done, I want to start another blog I began weeks ago, my web page needs an update, and I have phone calls I have to make.
So, Thanks, Lord, for the beautiful day. Thanks, also for the better breathing which means I can get more done.
Off to start the phone calls.
Allison
It may also be arthritis. But then I've been hold repeatedly not to diagnose myself. (grinning) But I know how I feel and just because I'm usually really wrong.... (More grins) But the edits must still be done, I want to start another blog I began weeks ago, my web page needs an update, and I have phone calls I have to make.
So, Thanks, Lord, for the beautiful day. Thanks, also for the better breathing which means I can get more done.
Off to start the phone calls.
Allison
March 30, 2014
The Journey
A short trip to Wal Mart. I don't do long trips anymore. Got a couple of things then home for breakfast. Doing better today. Things seem to be calming down a bit. The pulled muscle got a good yank when I tried to get out of bed this morning so I took a deep breath, swore a bit and tried again.
But I pulled the danged muscle again, I hope. My nurse seems convinced that's what it is, so, I take the muscle pain pills and cross my fingers.
The sun is shinning, most of the moisture from our drenching rain is gone, so breathing should be much easier. Today things look good. Good days and bad. To be expected. And still editing. I'll be glad when this is finished, the book, the book. Then I can return to the regency.
So big computer here I come. All my writing programs are on the big computer, in case you wondered.
This laptop is just for e-mails and reading news, which I'll wait to do much later today.
Allison
But I pulled the danged muscle again, I hope. My nurse seems convinced that's what it is, so, I take the muscle pain pills and cross my fingers.
The sun is shinning, most of the moisture from our drenching rain is gone, so breathing should be much easier. Today things look good. Good days and bad. To be expected. And still editing. I'll be glad when this is finished, the book, the book. Then I can return to the regency.
So big computer here I come. All my writing programs are on the big computer, in case you wondered.
This laptop is just for e-mails and reading news, which I'll wait to do much later today.
Allison
March 29, 2014
The Journey
Hmmmm. I think maybe I'm trying to recover from all the rainy weather we've had. Not quite up to snuff today. Breakfast was a put it in the toaster thingie, and I'm talking DH into going out to get something for lunch. Editing is also calling. I didn't get as much done yesterday as I wanted.
With the weather and making breathing hard, I had to rest every little 'whip stitch'. (Northern term) So my accomplishment was minimal. Today I am breathing better, but I'm still tired. I find it takes a day or two to recover. Part of the disease. So says the nurse. At least I have a reason.
When you think about it, I know why I have to know all about what happens and how. If I don't know, with my imagination, I think all the worst and best scenarios. Then when the worst doesn't happen, I'm delighted and when the best doesn't happen, I'm so disappointed. If I know ahead of time, then my mind doesn't go off in a tangent to come up with these crazy ideas. Okay, they say we authors are a bit nuts. (grinning) There may be some truth to that.
So back to the big computer which is behaving today and the book which I am editing.
Allison
With the weather and making breathing hard, I had to rest every little 'whip stitch'. (Northern term) So my accomplishment was minimal. Today I am breathing better, but I'm still tired. I find it takes a day or two to recover. Part of the disease. So says the nurse. At least I have a reason.
When you think about it, I know why I have to know all about what happens and how. If I don't know, with my imagination, I think all the worst and best scenarios. Then when the worst doesn't happen, I'm delighted and when the best doesn't happen, I'm so disappointed. If I know ahead of time, then my mind doesn't go off in a tangent to come up with these crazy ideas. Okay, they say we authors are a bit nuts. (grinning) There may be some truth to that.
So back to the big computer which is behaving today and the book which I am editing.
Allison
March 28, 2014
The Journey
Rain, heavy rain, so you know what that means. Lightening, thunder, lights on and off, computers up and down, and my O2 machine on again, off again. A typical summer shower, big time. So I have to take it easy. I'll throw out the plans for lunch - too much work, Let's see. What can I do that's simple?
I'll think of something.
I'll also not clean the strawberries. They will have to wait until tomorrow. We have pineapple we can eat. Rain and I just don't get along for right now. I do have to try the edits. Keeping my fingers crossed that the computers will not be messed up. I think that worries me more than anything else right now.
At the moment my DH is gazing at the retention basin across the street. He doesn't look that worried yet. But we have this ditch in back of our property and I'm watching it. We are getting a lot of rain.
Wonder how long it will take for everything to dry out? And there are people who desperately need the rain.
May the good Lord send some of this their way.
Allison
I'll think of something.
I'll also not clean the strawberries. They will have to wait until tomorrow. We have pineapple we can eat. Rain and I just don't get along for right now. I do have to try the edits. Keeping my fingers crossed that the computers will not be messed up. I think that worries me more than anything else right now.
At the moment my DH is gazing at the retention basin across the street. He doesn't look that worried yet. But we have this ditch in back of our property and I'm watching it. We are getting a lot of rain.
Wonder how long it will take for everything to dry out? And there are people who desperately need the rain.
May the good Lord send some of this their way.
Allison
March 27, 2014
The Journey
Late today! Really late. But it was a busy day. I'm still going with the pulled muscle as an excuse for the chest pain. It hasn't been bad today at all, but the pain did wake me up this am. But this was laundry day, and company was coming this afternoon. It was also the day to get the Income tax form in the mail. That always hurts and takes some time before I recover. (grinning)
Having company was fun, but only half the laundry is done. As DH says, there is always tomorrow. Keeping my fingers crossed for quite a few tomorrows. I haven't finished with the last round of edits. It took me most of today to figure out how to indicate to my editor what I wanted to add, where, and how, without destroying her comments (or mine!)
Of course, I finally figured it out, but wow! Two hours before I was satisfied with what I had. I'm only hoping she likes the way I worked it out. Today I'm afraid to ask. (grinning) A bit of a coward here.
And, I got scolded by another author for misspelling a word. I'm a terrible speller, and words that are pronounced the same but spelled differently and mean different things always throw me. That's a great example. Threw and through. It also took me forever to learn the difference between its and it's. Then there's that darned accept and except. I pronounce them the same, so that's the problem. (Now I'm sighing)
Back to the health thingie. My nurse comes tomorrow. I should know what the doctor had to say about the chest pain. I'm also trying an OTC drug for my runny nose. Keeping my fingers crossed on that one. Hard to breath through a nose you need to blow. Doctor says it's the O2 (See, I do know when to use it's now.) We'll see if the OTC helps.
Now back to that book.
Allison
Having company was fun, but only half the laundry is done. As DH says, there is always tomorrow. Keeping my fingers crossed for quite a few tomorrows. I haven't finished with the last round of edits. It took me most of today to figure out how to indicate to my editor what I wanted to add, where, and how, without destroying her comments (or mine!)
Of course, I finally figured it out, but wow! Two hours before I was satisfied with what I had. I'm only hoping she likes the way I worked it out. Today I'm afraid to ask. (grinning) A bit of a coward here.
And, I got scolded by another author for misspelling a word. I'm a terrible speller, and words that are pronounced the same but spelled differently and mean different things always throw me. That's a great example. Threw and through. It also took me forever to learn the difference between its and it's. Then there's that darned accept and except. I pronounce them the same, so that's the problem. (Now I'm sighing)
Back to the health thingie. My nurse comes tomorrow. I should know what the doctor had to say about the chest pain. I'm also trying an OTC drug for my runny nose. Keeping my fingers crossed on that one. Hard to breath through a nose you need to blow. Doctor says it's the O2 (See, I do know when to use it's now.) We'll see if the OTC helps.
Now back to that book.
Allison
March 26, 2014
The Journey
Probably a pulled muscle. Horray! Still hurts like Hades, but the meds are helping and if I don't cough hard, take a real deep breath, or try to lift anything, it isn't bad. And it doesn't hurt at all if I just sit and type. (grinning) So, gee! I can't do much can I?
I was a bit worried, and my hospice nurse isn't sure I'm out or the woods, so to speak, but she'll let me know on Friday, until then I have a pulled muscle that probably occurred when I try to lift our slightly, well maybe more than slightly, overweight cat with my right hand off the counter in the bathroom. He loves to drink out of the faucet so if you don't get the door closed quickly enough when you go to the bathroom, guess what? You have company and he wants a drink.
I tried to pick him up and put him out, so I think that's when I pulled something. I think that sounds good, don't you? But as I said the meds are finally helping, so, minimal pain, unless...
Otherwise, new printer and I'm one happy camper. Now I better go get started on the final ( I hope) edits. Then I can work on "Once More My Love". This one is set in England in the 1840's, but I'm repeating myself. Time to get busy and stop procrastinating....
Allison
I was a bit worried, and my hospice nurse isn't sure I'm out or the woods, so to speak, but she'll let me know on Friday, until then I have a pulled muscle that probably occurred when I try to lift our slightly, well maybe more than slightly, overweight cat with my right hand off the counter in the bathroom. He loves to drink out of the faucet so if you don't get the door closed quickly enough when you go to the bathroom, guess what? You have company and he wants a drink.
I tried to pick him up and put him out, so I think that's when I pulled something. I think that sounds good, don't you? But as I said the meds are finally helping, so, minimal pain, unless...
Otherwise, new printer and I'm one happy camper. Now I better go get started on the final ( I hope) edits. Then I can work on "Once More My Love". This one is set in England in the 1840's, but I'm repeating myself. Time to get busy and stop procrastinating....
Allison
March 25, 2014
The Journey
I thought about posting after my nurse comes today, then changed my mind. I don't know what it is and decided not to wait until my hospice nurse gives her diagnosis. Nasty chest pain. A combination of pain from a pulled muscle and what a bad chest cold feels like. Especially when I take a deep breath. Keeping fingers crossed that the nurse will tell me it's something simple.
Yesterday was not a good day. My computer misbehaved, my yahoo account wouldn't send messages, then it wouldn't send a jpeg file, and last but not least my printer decided it was done.
My DH tried to clean it and after some nasty names about the instructions, the company, the printer, he put on his shoes, grabbed the car keys and left.
He came back a short time later with a printer just like the small one he has for his daily work. (He has a super-duper one for my promo work). He loves his little printer and can fix this one if I have trouble. No wonder we have stayed together for 54 years. He's a real love and a keeper, and I have a brand new printer. Yahoo!
Allison
Yesterday was not a good day. My computer misbehaved, my yahoo account wouldn't send messages, then it wouldn't send a jpeg file, and last but not least my printer decided it was done.
My DH tried to clean it and after some nasty names about the instructions, the company, the printer, he put on his shoes, grabbed the car keys and left.
He came back a short time later with a printer just like the small one he has for his daily work. (He has a super-duper one for my promo work). He loves his little printer and can fix this one if I have trouble. No wonder we have stayed together for 54 years. He's a real love and a keeper, and I have a brand new printer. Yahoo!
Allison
March 24, 2014
The Journey
Yesterday was a beautiful day. Early on a bit of rain, then glorious sunshine. That was yesterday. Today started with glorious sunshine, but now it is starting to cloud up. Oh, well, doing nothing today to speak of so I'll just work at the computer and forget about the arranging of office files I'd planned on doing when the forecast said sunny.
Don't you love it? They can't get the weather right from one day to the next and they tell us things that will happen in the future. Farmers' Almanac is a better deal. I really like all the bit's about how man is changing everything. But no one has yet to explain how things changed so dramatically when there were no people polluting the planet.
Doing all right, experiencing some pain, but nothing that is intolerable. I think I pulled a muscle. That's what it feels like. My analgesics work so I'm not too concerned.
Now, on to the big computer, which is misbehaving miserably. Ever try to e-mail and the text box won't work. It hasn't been working for days and I'm at the "pulling my hair out stage". I can only pray geek son can figure it out. However, he's not coming down for another couple of weeks. (sigh)
Allison
Don't you love it? They can't get the weather right from one day to the next and they tell us things that will happen in the future. Farmers' Almanac is a better deal. I really like all the bit's about how man is changing everything. But no one has yet to explain how things changed so dramatically when there were no people polluting the planet.
Doing all right, experiencing some pain, but nothing that is intolerable. I think I pulled a muscle. That's what it feels like. My analgesics work so I'm not too concerned.
Now, on to the big computer, which is misbehaving miserably. Ever try to e-mail and the text box won't work. It hasn't been working for days and I'm at the "pulling my hair out stage". I can only pray geek son can figure it out. However, he's not coming down for another couple of weeks. (sigh)
Allison
March 23, 2014
The Journey
Oh, Boy, oh boy, oh boy! The cover is here. Despite all kinds of computer problems, I do hate computers almost as much as I love them, I got the cover and I'm trying to put it up so you can see what I've been up to and what I wanted to finish so badly.
In my computer struggles I pulled something in my chest - I think. Time will tell. It feels like a muscle that's been pulled. WE'll see. In the meantime, I'm waiting for the last of the edits and then the book is almost ready for it's May release.
However, I am not giving up because the book I wanted finished is finished. That would be foolish. I have other stories to tell and as long as God isn't quite ready for me, I intend to continue for as long as I can. Who knows? I might get another two, three, even four more books written, before He calls.
You see, I'm ready so it doesn't really bother me.
Now, I have to go back to my big computer and figure out why my e-mail doesn't work. UGH! Where is my geek son when I need him?
Allison
In my computer struggles I pulled something in my chest - I think. Time will tell. It feels like a muscle that's been pulled. WE'll see. In the meantime, I'm waiting for the last of the edits and then the book is almost ready for it's May release.
However, I am not giving up because the book I wanted finished is finished. That would be foolish. I have other stories to tell and as long as God isn't quite ready for me, I intend to continue for as long as I can. Who knows? I might get another two, three, even four more books written, before He calls.
You see, I'm ready so it doesn't really bother me.
Now, I have to go back to my big computer and figure out why my e-mail doesn't work. UGH! Where is my geek son when I need him?
Allison
