You know those plans? The ones you were going to stick to and pull off until something not on your plan dove in and muddled everything up?
Yeah – those plans.
Enter: Migraine/Headache from hell.
You see, it didn’t start out as a migraine on Wednesday night, it just started out as a headache that stayed all through the night and woke with me on Thursday. And proceeded to get worse and worse the longer I was awake.
But didn’t you take meds and/or try to sleep it off I hear you ask?
Why yes, I did both of the above. Enter Tylenol and a round of two hours sleep. Hi constantly worsening headache. By the time I tried to sleep on Thursday night, it’d reached migraine proportions. We’re talking elephant sized. Good thing it was already dark – because light and I were NOT getting on at this stage.
And Friday – oh Friday how you hated me. Headache was back (a nice change from Migraine), but decided to slowly develop back INTO migraine and then further through to super migraine despite every nap I could throw at it. I felt like a vampire. Light hurt, and I swear if I stepped out in it, I’d burst into flame (no, I don’t sparkle thank you very much).
I even lost weight. The whole migraine thing not letting me eat lol. Not a good thing when expecting, but it was what it was. Had a brief respite for a few hours until it came back and bombarded me with pain at about 10pm and refused to let me sleep decently for most of the night.
Finally I attacked it on Saturday with tylenol and sunglasses. I FREAKING WON.
Maybe I shouldn’t say that so caps locky. After all the slight throb stayed in the back of my head until last night… sooooo As it stands now I have one victory. We don’t need to count how many Migraine has, do we?
The point to this story is: I wanted to be three days into writing AI2, but I’m only one day into it. Still – the #writemotivation goals are chugging along and I feel good about it.
1. Send Edits to Agent
2. Go to OWFI
3. Plot AI-2
4. Write AI-2
5 .Finish TDP 2 Draft 2
6. Be more consistent with blog posts/blog reading
YAY – so yeah 1, 2 and 3 down. I SHOULD manage 4, buuuuut you know – best laid plans and all 😉
Also – that blogging thing will get whipped into shape this week!
How has your week been? Have you had a chance to pop over and check out the beta match up? Is your month progressing the way you wanted it to? Did you have any unexpected/unwanted interruptions this week?
*loves* And you’re doing a wonderful job on #4 so far too! *hugs for all the headaches/migraines* Poor dear. Bad headaches, leave the KT alone!
(And yes, no sparkling vampires. *shudders*)
Sometimes life just sucks. All you can do is move through it and come out on the other side still fighting. Glad you’re feeling better and still working on AI2.
Sorry about the migraines. I get them too. Imitrix is the only thing that will stop them. It is a Godsend. I don’t know if you can take it when expecting but you might check.
So sorry about the migraine. My stomach flips just thinking about it. Take care of yourself.
I’m fortunate, I’m ahead of schedule, and hoping to submit two short stories for consideration before the end of May
Sorry to hear about your “attack of the head pains”. When you’re expecting, Tylenol is about all you can take so at least it looks like you have a respite from things.
May has gone well for me but it could have gone better if I didn’t get panicky about how well things were going. I guess things were going too well and too well seems abnormal so…I panicked and killed a lot of writing time. Still crossing my fingers to finish my first draft of NEVERLOVE by the end of May.
Sorry to hear that things have been going so rough recently. I hope they get better very soon now!
Oh man. I absolutely HATE it when that happens! I get headaches and debilitating migraines often, so I know exactly how you feel. I hope you successfully kicked it in the butt.
my life just gets put on pause when migraines strike and i’ve stopped worrying about it – because worrying can actually make migraines worse! gotta love that! i just think of it as life saying, :hey, you look like you could use a forced time out – with a big ass throbbing, stabbing pain in your skull – so here, take a time out. you’re welcome.” 🙂 isn’t life nice? i hope you have a better week.
I should have known to carefully consider those best laid plans with this being the end of school and prepping for summer. I was not so wise, so I’m feeling constantly behind this month. But I am accomplishing things, just set my goals a little high. ;-(
Glad you are managing, but hope the headaches stay away. Migraines are so debilitating.
Congratz on defeating the migraine! Having never suffered from them myself, I can’t imagine how painful they are, but I’d imagine it’d make writing near impossible. Happy that you’re doing so well, too. 🙂 I’ve finally pulled out of a writing slump myself, and though I had to downgrade my goals a bit, I’ve started to churn out words again!
Let’s go!
You poor thing! I’m glad to hear you’re feeling better now, but I’m sorry you had such a terrible few days of it. But it looks like you’re doing great on your goals even with the world conspiring against your head!