NaNo 2006 Day 12: Catch-up

I did it! I did it! Last night at 11:56, I reached yesterday’s word count! I got all caught up! From being two days behind to being back on track! Par-tay!

It didn’t happen all at once – it happened in chunks. I had breakfast, then wrote. Stopped because I hit a wall, then went and started the laundry. Thought of a way to get past the wall, then cleaned the kitchen. Then wrote, then went for groceries. Wrote, then had dinner, then wrote some more. Vegged for a few hours, then wrote and finished yesterday’s word count. It took about 16 hours, but I got all 2000 words I was behind, plus the 1667 words I needed for yesterday done.

Today has been slow. I’m feeling lazy and slow and unproductive. I’ve eaten ice cream and watched the first disc of season 1 of Grey’s Anatomy, and realized how good it is. Well, I knew, but now I really know, y’know? Then there’s the PMS – the sorrow and depression, the irrationality and hilarity, the food cravings, joint aches, fatigue, etc. This has got to fucking stop now, as it’s been two week and still no final sign of the main event (the cramps that would kill a horse). I hate it, I hate myself, and I hate PMS.

Now I have to motivate myself to write, and then go make meatloaf with garlic mashed potatoes*, trying to remind myself that I am not a bad person if I don’t eat the whole thing tonight.

(Updated to add: I hate HATE HATE the spell check feature on the new version of Firefox. It’s already ruined this post twice by adding words, breaking up paragraphs, and eating whole sentences. Grr…)

*Except that I forgot to buy garlic yesterday. I distinctly remember looking at it, because it was beside the ginger, and I remembered to buy ginger, but not garlic. I think I need to add temporary memory loss to that list up there**.

**And the inability to spell. All week, I’ve been typing out my name as “Reebcca”. I have all the letters, just not in the right order.