Book Update

Okay, here we go again! Work time! Stats for Waiting On You

Starting Word Count: 64,956 words
Finishing Word Count: 69,346 words
Difference: 4390 words

And for Dying Thoughts - Fourth Week the stats are:

Starting Word Count: 58,187 words
Finishing Word Count: 61,143 words
Difference: 2956 words

TOTAL WORDS WRITTEN: 7346 words

And now I'm going to the park with B and Darla to take photos of Darla as she's nearly at school....how the time has flown!!

I've just taken some morphine

The heat is killing me! But I have enough energy left to tell you all that I'm grateful for your support and comments you posted regarding the fact that we got the house. Right now, I have the job of sorting out what we do and what we don't want to take with us and getting rid of a lot of junk that we no longer need...that way I only pay the removers to pack what we want to take with us, sadly B's already packed so she'll be paying them to move both what she wants and what she doesn't want, though we are getting rid of a lot of her furniture so as not to overcrowd the house so that I have space to move around in my wheelchair.

It's all very exciting and in a week and a half we go back to measure for flooring and curtains and stuff like that and then apply for some money that we don't have to pay back that will pay for our removal men and hardwood floor throughout most of the house execpt for carpet in B's room, Darla's room and the stairs so that if someone falls they have a nice soft landing...though hopefully that won't happen.

We already have a BRAND NEW KITCHEN!!! and will also have a brand new bathroom when they're done working on it and send the keys round...I'll have two rooms, one downstairs with lift to take me up to the upstairs room which will be my bedroom, there's some concern that we won't have room in my upstairs bedroom for my bed, in which case I may swap with B and have her bed (with a new mattress) and she has mine, but I'm hoping to keep mine as it's a double not a single, but we will see!

As far as work goes, I'm doing my chapters slowly, the heat isn't helping matters but I'm getting through it, I'll finish either in time for uni, or I won't...I'm too hot to stress about it right now!

Hope everyone is doing okay :)

Dum Da Dum Da...

WE GOT THE HOUSE!!!!!!

Moving in 4/5 weeks :D

Those of you following know how much this means to me!

For those who don't know, I live in a one bedroom flat with two other people, my carer, B and her daughter, Darla. We've been on the list for a three bedroom adapted house for a very long time now and have been let down many times. I am praying that what I tell you now is not going to be another one of those let downs.

Yesterday, we went to see a FOUR bedroom house with a built in lift...it was PERFECT! I would have the east side of the house to myself, having both an upstairs room for my bed and such and a downstairs room for everything else. It's wheelchair accessible and it could be ours in as little as four/five weeks, all we have to pray is that the OT agrees that it's suitable for us and then, our nightmare is over and we will move into this house. So those that pray, please do, those that don't, please cross things that we'll be allowed the house..the area is perfect and I could see if becoming a nice home for us all.

PLEASE pray we are not let down again!

Update about books

So, this weekend is my work days, and here's what I accomplished. Waiting On You stats:

Starting Word Count: 59,739 words
Finishing Word Count: 64,956 words
Difference: 5217 words

And Dying Thoughts - Fourth Week stats:

Starting Word Count: 54,701 words
Finishing Word Count: 58,187 words
Difference: 3486 words

TOTAL WORDS WRITTEN: 8703 words

And B managed to read what I had written so far of Waiting On You, she said it's not my best work, but it's not my weakest either so I'm going to get on with finishing it and see what all the betas/first readers think of it.

I'm sooo sleepy!

We started a new routine for Darla last Sunday, instead of putting her to be at 7pm and letting her fight her way to staying up later, we'd put her to bed at 9pm and she'd fall asleep pretty quickly. It's working and eventually, we'll bring her bed time back down to 8pm for the holidays by sending her to be ten minuites earlier..it's a long hard road, but we HAVE to get her into a routine for school. The problem is, however that I'm still sleeping in the living room so I can't sleep until 9pm at the earliest and I've only been doing this for a week and I'm soooo tired! They went out after we picked Darla up from playschool and I zonked out for a couple of hours and now I'm up and they should be home soon, but I'm TIRED!

I feel achy and run down and I know it's not helping my M.E and FMS because the mattress on the bed is old and I miss having the space to move around...another week of this I think and then we'll switch back so that I can go to bed at 6/7pm like I used to and catch up on my sleep.

I've written my two chapters of Waiting On You and today did chapter 31 of Dying Thoughts - Fourth Week so I've nearly done my work for the week, and you should see an update on that soon, but still, so tired, falling asleep as i type, bring on bedtime!

What I'm doing...

I'm about to start working on chapter 31 of Waiting On You, I did some work to it yesterday and will hope to finish it today and start on chapter 32, and then I can switch over to chapters 31 and 32 of Dying Thoughts - Fourth Week. I didn't make it over to Libby's this week as she has been super busy, but I plan to write my usual four chapters and whether that means I just work yesterday and today or all week, as long as I get them done, I'm happy. As I'm nearing the end of book seven the chapters are getting longer, which should hopefully mean I reach my expected word count, I'm about 5000 words off for book seven and about 7000 off for book eight, but I still have twenty chapters of that to write so I should catch up with myself at some point.

The good thing is that B and Darla spent yesterday out with her sister and got their hair cut and that enabled me to get some written, not much, but some and they're going to the Paddington Exhibit at the Steam Museum today so I'll have most of the day to myself to get working. I got up at 10 to do just that.

Now I need to do a little pimping. As most of you know from my previous posts, there was an election recently and the result of it was that three members of the British National Party (BNP) were elected to sit on the European Parlimentary Commitee. They have said a lot that is "racist" and pretty much every "ist there is. Those on my list of followers who are disabled and from the UK, I urge you to join the movement, or show support.

This is what he has said about disabled people.

"The founders of this blog, Harry Thomas and Cerebral Person (who wishes to remain anonymous) were horrified, terrified and disgusted when they discovered that, in response to the death of Ivan Cameron, son of David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party, senior BNP member Jeffery Marshall claimed in an internet forum discussion: “We live in a country today which is unhealthily dominated by an excess of sentimentality towards the weak and unproductive. No good will come of it.”

Later, in response to comments made by others on the site, Marshall is alleged to have written: “There is not a great deal of point in keeping these people alive after all.”

He said that the comments were taken out of context. The founders of this blog, however, choose not to believe him. We feel we have good reasons to be against the BNP."

If you're disabled and want to show support, or join the movement, put this in your blog:

<a href="http://disabledpeopleagainstthebnp.org/" target="_blank"><img src="http://disabledpeopleagainstthebnp.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/nobnp135.jpg" width="135" height="138" alt="DisAbled People Against The BNP" border="0" /></a>

If you're not disabled but want to show support too. Show this on your blog or facebook page..anywhere you want where it will be seen:

<a href="http://disabledpeopleagainstthebnp.org/" target="_blank"><img src="http://disabledpeopleagainstthebnp.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/nobnpsupport135.jpg" width="135" height="138" alt="DisAbled People Against The BNP" border="0" /></a>

Political rant over. Now, off to work!

Ten Questions!

If you could have dinner with any three people, whom would you choose?
Pauley Perette, Mark Harmon and Michael Weatherly

What’s your favorite thing to do on a rainy day?
Write, or curl up with a good book!

If you could hire any actor to portray you in a movie, who would you choose?
That's a tough one...Pauley Perette, she'd have to do a good English accent

What’s your favorite cereal?
Uncooked Flapjack Mix

What’s your favorite part of the day?
The part at the end of the day when I call my American friend, Debbie and another friend, Cindy and then call Libby. It's my downtime and I love it.

If you could play any instrument, which would you pick?
I can already play the Oboe, so I'd like to know more about playing that, but most of what I know is self-taught and I'd like the lung function to play it too!

If you could take a one month trip anywhere and money was not a consideration, where would you go?
America to visit Debbie and Cindy, and then drive to Alabama to visit Traci..I miss my family over there

If you had one day in your life to live over, which would you choose and why?
The day Albin proposed, I would have sad no

If you could change anything about the way you were raised, what would it be?
That's a hard question because although I don't blame my parents for my problems now, I feel that if Mum had been less concerned with her son and more attentive to me, maybe things would be different now.

What is your most treasured memory?
Holding Darla minutes after she was born, watching her be born and listening to "All The Way" by Busted as she came into the world.

Now, everyone of you who reads this, copy the questions to your blog and post your answers :)

More Politics

I was just reading the paper and saw that had we not been leaked the information about MP's expenses, then we would only have gotten blacked out pieces, not telling us what they were claiming for, just the amount...thank god they were leaked!

I applied to the DWP for a Budgeting loan for £600 to pay for two nebulisers and help me pay a debt back to someone, before you saw that it shouldn't be used for that, I HAVE to pay it back...and I was award not even enough for the first neebuliser so my mum had to pay for that...yet they can claim for solar pannels and gardening bills, food..you know what I get for food? £42 a week...that's to pay for food and ALL my bills...yet they get £400 a MONTH just for food. It drives me insane!

They're allowed to have second homes, tax payers pay the mortgage and other things and then they rent it out, still claiming on the mortgage and pocket the rent they get...why should they be allowed to do that? If I brought a house and rented it out I woulnd't be allowed to ask the council to pay the mortgage and then pocket the rent, would I?!

All I can say is, roll on June 2010 then we can vote and get these corrupt parties out of parliment...and hopefully no one will be stupid enough to vote the BNP into power because then I'm leaving the UK before the concentration camps start opening..

As long as there are people voting them into power, THIS is going to happen...if it doesn't scare you because you think you were born "English" then think again. It wasn't just the jews the Nazi's targetted, it was the gays, the infirm, the blacks and any race that wasn't pure...so be forwarned...we do not need another holocaust!

What I think of you all!

If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

This applies to you all...my world is a better place with all of you in it :)

Thank you for being my friends