thursday.

I feel this icon is very representative for how I've spent my day.



I woke up early and had a decent start, then abruptly had a bout of anxiety around 9, popped a sedative and slept till 11, missing my morning pills completely, so had to drag myself through the day on absolutely no chemicals for my poor brain. It was a drag. To say the least.

But I survived! I did this mainly by starting to do editing work on chapter 11-12 of my novel and can I just say, someone didn't edit as they went along, writing those two chapters. My work was cut out for me. Hours of endless editing, rephrasing things, restructuring, connecting dots that had been left to hang before... But, without having reread the finished result from start to finish yet, I think I managed pretty well.

And I got through both chapters, leaving me only with the final chapter, chapter 13, to read tomorrow and polish. However, since it's a short chapter and I know I've worked over it a couple of times already while writing, I'm being optimistic and putting rereading chapter 9-13 as well as beginning my final read-through of the whole manuscript on my to-do list for tomorrow, too.



K. is off for a Christmas dinner all evening, so I have time to myself, to just read over things at my own pace. It should be nice. I have tea to keep my company.

Hopefully, I can finish reading (and final editing) the novel before next week, because then I can send it off to my betas and get that part of the process going.

I'm very excited.



If I can only remember to take my meds tomorrow, so I can have a slightly better day, mood-wise, then that would definitely be nice. We're aiming for that.



We also speed-cleaned the entire apartment today, after K. got home from work, because my parents are coming Saturday and, like I mentioned, K's off to a Christmas dinner at work tomorrow, so we wouldn't have time in the usual slot. I will also do some tidying up tomorrow while K's at work, so she has nothing to worry about neither tomorrow nor Saturday before my parents arrive.



I'm getting pretty fatigued with Christmas at this point and could use a vacation from Christmas vacationing, to be honest, but I'll live.

And in a moment, I'm going to bed.