Last week, I got hit with a weird 24-hour flu type of thing. I say it was weird because I woke up Tuesday morning feeling completely fine, drove to work feeling fine, and then got to the office and immediately starting sneezing. At first I thought it was just an allergy attack of some sort, but it just wasn't calming down. I literally needed to shove tissues up my nose to keep it from dripping all over my desk. Gross, I know. So, I went home at lunchtime so I could sniffle away from the comfort of my couch. By late afternoon, I was achy and fevery. By nighttime I was worse, and slept on and off through the night thanks only to my sleepytime cold stuff.
Then I woke up Wednesday morning, groggy and achy, but the stuffiness was gone. This was the weirdest part. You see, when I get a cold, it inevitably turns into a sinus infection within a day or two. So being able to breathe the day after going through an entire box of tissues?? Insanity. By Wednesday afternoon I was thinking I probably could've made it into the office after all.
Maybe I just needed some down time, though. I haven't had a day off since Christmas (wahh, I know, it's only been two months) and I'm not gonna lie, it felt SO GOOD to just sit around and catch up on the DVR. I checked my work email and did a little writing, but for the most part I got to just relax. I had nowhere to go, nothing pressing to do, nothing needing cleaned, etc.
It felt glorious.
I have been noticing, however, that lately when I'm in a productive mood I am REALLY in a productive mood. Take yesterday, for example. I went grocery shopping, started dinner in the crockpot, cleaned the bathroom, dusted & vacuumed upstairs, hung some new wall stuff in the bedroom, did two loads of laundry (even putting the clothes away!), ironed two dresses and like 87 pairs of pants, wrote over 1100 words, made dinner, cleaned up the kitchen, etc etc etc. It was bananas. And it felt good.
The WIP is now officially alllllmost finished, thanks to said awesome productivity. I'm over 65,000 words, and I think it'll wrap up around 70k. There are some revisions I know I want to go back and add it right away, but then I'm gonna let it sit for a week, then read it once through without touching it. I haven't been going back to reread stuff much at all with this one, besides for some continuity purposes and to post snippets here. So I want to get a feel for the flow before giving the first draft to my readers. My ultimate goal is to have it finished and start querying again by late spring.
Making goals seems to be helping this one move along quickly, so I'm going to stick to that.
Happy Monday!
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