July 2020 - Day 16

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Here is the place to tell us about your daily success (or the lack of it)!
May the magic be with us all!

Comments

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Apologies for the late post. Just at the moment when I sat down to my PC, my mother took a fall in the loo, and it took the nice young woman next door and me almost two hours to somehow get her out of there and into bed. I'm still scared out of my wits, but it seems that we've been lucky - or our guardian angels are quite extraordinary. Still, it was a harrowing experience.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, what a scare, I'm so glad you had help and were able to get her into bed. I hope she's not too bruised and hurting. Is it possible to have someone come check if everything is OK?

Bathrooms are dangerous--I think they should all come equipped with grab bars nowadays.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

We hope we won't have to get the so-called health service involved. *sigh*
I don't think our loo is big enough to install grab bars, though.

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

I just read your other post. What an awful thing to happen. I'm so glad your mum is all right. She's going to be pretty sore tomorrow, so I hope she will still be okay recovering at home.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, she's badly bruised, the poor thing. I hope we can manage it without any doctors or paramedics. That definitely isn't advisable for such an old person.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness - I have been there and it is scary, and not easy to get someone up when they are kind of wedged in beside the loo. So glad she is ok and in bed now.

[candidlily.livejournal.com]

Oh no, I'm so sorry! I'm glad you were able to get her to bed. Best of luck in the recovery and such. <3

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Unbelievable, but she's back on her feet already!

[ylla.livejournal.com]

Ouch - I hope she feels better today, and that the bathroom leaves her alone in future!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

She's doing surprisingly well, thank you.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad she wasn't permanently injured. You were both very lucky!

[elmey.livejournal.com]

I took a few days off, my Moritz the cat died on Sunday night, his kidneys failed. He had a great run, 16 years, and I can say he truly lived his best life, he was a happy cat. Still it's hard. And I think the sadness of his passing has gotten all tangled up for me with the dispiriting times we're in, the lives lost to shortsightedness and willful stupidity. How are we supposed to function normally in this horrible morass.

So no writing, but I wanted to get back to work. Spent time this morning editing and transcribing old notes--more busy work than anything else, but close enough.

Hopefully will get more done tomorrow.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear it about the cat; I can understand how dispiriting such a loss can be, above the general mess in which we're living right now. It is great that you could at least do some editing and transcribing; such things can distract one from the general unpleasantness.

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Oh, E. I'm so sorry to hear about poor Moritz. But he did indeed have a great run. I wish I could take this sadness from you. Busy work is good at times like this, it's good you are able to do some of that. Sending love and a hug.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I am sorry.

The horrible times make writing so difficult, losing your cat now as well is very sad, and no wonder you don't feel able to write. I am glad you have been able to keep yourself busy today, though.

[candidlily.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry for your loss, and I understand how it can be compounded by our current inescapable situation. Hang in there, and we're here for you. <3

[ylla.livejournal.com]

I'm very sorry for your loss - I hope getting back to writing helps you feel a bit more stable.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

*hugs* I'm so sorry for your loss. They do leave a rather large hole in your heart when they leave.

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Two hours on the WIP today. I got tangled up in re-re-re-re-vising a couple of scenes. Trying a few different things with dreams and hallucinations, trying to make it readable. I'm not happy with it. But I get an A for effort.

I will be gone for a few days. See you on Monday.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Sometimes rewriting to get it to feel right is much harder that doing the first draft.

See you on Monday - have a good weekend.

[ylla.livejournal.com]

Hard work - maybe leaving it alone until Monday will give you a clearer view? Have a good weekend!

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

At lest that's progress and that's never a bad thing.

Have fun!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Sometimes effort is everything.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Only 300 words today - but they are good words, if you know what I mean. I know where this chapter is going, I am just letting the characters sit and chat for a while!

[ylla.livejournal.com]

That sounds nice - I hope you're enjoying their company :)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I am, at the moment :)

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Hey, good words are the best kind to have. :D it's always nice when the characters can relax and chat with you.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

They are happily sitting around a camp fire discussing what they want from life!

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

That's the way you do it! :D

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Well, they ought to know best what they want to do, so let them do all the work. *g*

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

That's what I reckon - they are all sitting around chatting, and all I need from them is to finish by about midnight their time and settle down to sleep :)

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Nothing... I had a bit of an accident (tripped on a concrete path) and while I'm okay, really only bruised and shaken, my arm's a bit sore so I am finding typing slow and stiff. I'll catch up on comments in a day or two.

[candidlily.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear that, hope your recovery is quick and easy!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Ouch! I hope it improves quickly.

[ylla.livejournal.com]

Ouch - I hope you feel better soon (and that if you have to be bruised, they're nice and colourful!)

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Oh, I am so sorry to haer this. It seems to have been the day for accidents. Feel better soon.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It seems to be that kind of day... Get better, soon!

[candidlily.livejournal.com]

I had put off writing all day due to various stressors, but Critical Role was kind enough to have technical difficulties and start 23 minutes late - just long enough for me to add a couple hundred words to my WIP. :D

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

A couple of hundred words sounds good to me :)

[ylla.livejournal.com]

Making good use of your chances!

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Good for you!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Sometimes the most annoying things can prove useful. Nice progress!

[ylla.livejournal.com]

I was quite busy last night, just mostly not with writing - I went for a walk before dinner, because I was busy at lunchtime when I usually walk, and learnt some of last week's dancing from the videos, since the class wouldn't let me in at the time, and played the poor fiddle, and discovered an Age of Sail post which was finished except for the pictures and put them in, and then I wrote a bit about a river. 109 words, after some trouble with closed bridges and diversions.

I had really meant to leave the path and have a look at the little peninsula which holds Colinton church, which the path cuts off, but staying on the path seemed difficult enough, and I just headed on until I found myself unexpectedly at the start of a long tunnel.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a very busy evening! yet you still managed words. I'm impressed.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That's 109 words more than I have written for days!

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Hmm, the day got away from me, but not before I did a mess of rearranging on my fic, adding another 300 words along the way...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

You see? Words!