don't fear the sun.

A bit of a chaotic day, to say the least.

I went to the library, the library was nice. I managed to finish my two chapter editing there, though I was still feeling self-conscious from the Facebook incident yesterday and didn't do my best. I've reread the seventh chapter this afternoon and done more work, hoping to do chapter eight tonight before bed.

While there, I forgot to take my morning pills, so my mood was slightly shot all day as a result. It's evening out now, since I took my night pills early at dinner. Might also help my editing process some.



Bought all the stuff I needed to do the birthday present for my friend, who's turning 30 in January (yes, I like to buy and make pressies ahead of time, if possible). It's a lovely gilded picture frame with a collage I've made in it. All greens, plants and feminism, since those are things she likes. It's come out quite nice.

After doing that bit of shopping, I bought another tea (third this month, but it's peak tea drinking time of the year), a black tea which is unusual for me, I usually stick to white and, if all else fails, green tea. But this was a cream tea and it smelled amazing and wasn't expensive, so I bought a small bag of it. It's not the best cream tea I've ever had, but far from the worst, too, and very comforting with its soft, rounded flavour.



Girlfriend came home late from work, due to a project she's working on, and I had dinner ready when she got there. It was rye bread day, so we just had some tuna mousse and salmon spread on bread, basically, but it's quick and simple, so on these kinds of days, that's just how we get by.



I slept for a couple of hours after I got home from town, so I might have to stay up a little bit longer tonight to be able to fall asleep comfortably.

Also, LOL, my parents are coming by for tea on Saturday, a fact I'd apparently forgotten to tell K. about, hahaha, says something about how busy December has been. We had a long talk over dinner about what to do about it, what prepwork we needed to do. We have cleaning day Friday, so that's perfect, but some shopping must also be done. We have something in Denmark, a traditional Christmas pastry, called "æbleskiver" which translates to "slices of apple", because back in the day, they were fried balls of dough with slices of apples in them. However, these days, it's just fried dough in a small ball-shape that you eat with jam and sugar on the side. They're quite yummy. Anyway, we were talking about making some of those and serve them with the tea/coffee they're getting. It's just a couple of hours my parents are staying, so it's not like a lunch appointment or anything, but something sweet and warm would be nice.



After I settled on Lest They Leave, I've completely stopped my search for titles. It just feels like the perfect title for this project and it's so me, tbh. So I think that's my sign, this is it.



The plan for tomorrow is chapter 9 + 10 editing, then tidying up in the apartment a bit, wrap S's present and probably some shopping for dinner, unless we take something out of the freezer tonight. We have a lot of soup that we should get working on.



I guess that's the update. That was the day.

First read-through accomplished.

Eight hours worth of reading. No wonder my brain is mush.

I really like this story, and I think it has a lot of potential, the character development is the most solid I've ever done, I think.

I think, maybe, the last chapter needs a lot of work, but that can also just be me who's been sitting at the computer for almost ten hours straight reading this shit and getting overly critical in the final stretch, so I'll look at the final two chapters separately tomorrow and see if they say what I want them to.

After that, it's a question of finding beta readers. I already have one ready after New Year, and I'm hoping for two-three different ones, at least. We'll see how that hunt goes down.

Can't believe I just read my own novel in a day, though. My eyes are so tired, hahahaha.