That was what Gidget sort of looked like last night as I was trying to get my submission done and in.
Well, we survived another one. My New Year’s Eve was spent on the computer, trying to make deadline. LOL
Yeah, really fancy-schmancy.
And the next morning, because of my current flare and the weather front coming in, I STILL got to feel like I’d partied hard all night but without the benefit of having been drinking. Feel like I got ran over by a truck and someone sledgehammered the remnants. LOL
Yeah, fibro sucks.
But that’s okay. I’m vertical and breathing, so I won’t complain about that.
Basically what I’m trying to do right now is get caught up. The Great Turning series, keeping my deadlines with Siren, etc. Monkeying Around, Drunk Monkeys 10, releases on 1/15/16 and I’m melancholy about that. It was a fun series to write, something different for me to play with. I keep getting asked about my Suncoast Society series: yes, I’m still writing books for that and won’t stop any time soon. I have dozens of ideas currently for new books in that series. But I do need to work on some of my other series as well. Not just to keep readers happy, but to keep from burning myself out.
I keep joking that one of my resolutions this year is to remind myself that prison orange is not my color when I have to deal with terminally stoopid people, and this whole Charles Michael Segaloff / Michael Makai case might be that main reason. As I report on it, still seeing some willfully stupid comments about that, including people with a scary-poor grasp of how our legal system actually works in this country. (And they vote! Even scarier!)
Speaking of which, yeah, can I just crawl into a hole until the elections are over? Holy crap, we’re getting swamped by campaign bullshit. Let’s be honest–they all pretty much suck in some way, it’s just picking the suckage that aligns the most with your own point of view and is the least evil. Until we get money and special interest lobbies out of our governmental and election process, not much will change. I hate to be so damn glum about that, but it’s what I feel.
I need to try to take more time with my family this year. Until my doctors can pin down what my latest health issues are (or if it’s just another fibromyalgia thing I’ll have to live with), I should take better care of myself. I’m slowly losing weight and still have a ways to go to get to my goal (another 29 pounds).
So today I’m working in bed, have BBC America on (Alfred Hitchcock marathon) and I’m struggling to keep a cat out of my lap while I work. (Laptop is made of warm, therefore is for sits…)
I hope everyone had a safe and happy holidays, and here’s to trying to kick butt in 2016. ((HUGS))
Happy new year. Feel better.