Very tired bunny here.
Today we went for the last part of MD's Christmas pressie - a make up and photo session for her and her alone. OMG, I wanted every single one of the piccies but I couldn't afford them. They did her make up as 'glamourous' and I am going to be in SO much trouble when she decides to notice boys because she looked absolutely amazing!!
In the end, we managed to resist the sales pitch and just accept the two that were part of the package but it was seriously hard. It also meant we didn't get home until after 10 p.m. which meant LM was hyper and way past her bedtime and me and MD are kinda zombie like.
So of course, I decided to do the second edits I received from Dreamspinner. I have found this set of edits much easier to deal with - whether it's because I wrote the story a long time ago (it was actually last September-ish time and I submitted it about three months early) so I have the distance to not take anything too personal, or I'm just better aware of what needs to be done to tighten a story up. Whatever it is, I've learnt a lot - I know about splices, how many Britishisms I use in my stories - I can recognise when I use the same word too many times. Yeah, definitely coping better. And of course I've already done them and sent them back.
I don't think it's that I'm not reading them properly or taking them seriously. I think it's just I can see quite clearly what they're saying, my brain seems happy to provide alternatives or explanations, so they whoosh by. Whatever it is, I've more than made my 24th March deadline.
In other news, I bought a iPhone from eBay, at last using my birthday money. And typical of my luck, it was a complete dodo. The seller said the battery was on it's way out but that the phone worked fine. What they neglected to say was that the phone only works if it's plugged into a charger which hardly makes it 'mobile'. Cue a week of back and forth with seller, with them getting more and more irate with my refusal to accept the phone, calling me ignorant and accusing me of damaging the phone myself because I had changed my mind about wanting it.
It took a lot of walking away before replying so that I didn't get snotty back. I'm posting it back tomorrow and should get a full refund but have a case open with eBay just in case. And I found an alternative phone that comes with a year's warranty so hopefully that should be here tomorrow and I will finally have my birthday present.
I re-read the start of 'Good with his Hands' and am going to try to write it for the April 15th submission of 'Bears' at Dreamspinner. I've already completed my Taming the Muse for the week so time is free, apart from a parent meeting tomorrow morning about LM.
All in all, an interesting week - I've been a bit out of it in terms of light-headedness, feeling a bit sick, over-tired - but my back hasn't been too bad and my knees have stopped clicking although they are still swollen. God I sound like I should be put down!!
Overall a green day, and yeah me this makes two weeks of Atkins I've stuck to!! I think one of my chins is fading and I could sit down in my jeans without being cut in half so I shall see it as a success. Not quite the success of Kim Khardashian but not bad!
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