Ani Was Writing

 Hello friends!      I am still recuperating from Christmas, but at least my hands feel better enough to make a properly formatted post.      I managed to get all my crochet gifts done. All the Christmas dolls for my family got done right on Christmas morning. Then I made it through breakfast with 15 other people in my house. After they all left, my sleep-deprived brain crashed for seven hours.      What I have learned in 2022 is this: If I go to bed after not sleeping for a long time, I get a migraine. A bad migraine.      So I woke up with enough of a migraine to only have crackers for my Christmas dinner. It was okay though; my mother and I decided to postpone our Christmas dinner for the day after. After the crackers agreed to stay in my stomach and not leave my body, I took some medicine and went to bed.     For another ten hours.      But yeah, Christmas was great. I got some things that...

 I am never going to do this again. My hands are sore, but I know I need to write something. So Merry Christmas. And -if my family is reading this- I may not make homemade gifts for a while.  It takes a lot of energy, and most of the time I don't manage my work or time well.  So ... yeah... I'm tired, but I still have so much to do.  I'll talk to you all later.  Merry Christmas.

 Hey there!     I was listening/half-watching more cleaning videos to help me focus on my own work. I know, it's kind of odd, but somehow it works for my brain. I still have yet to figure it out.      But while I'm at it, I have a few more things I've been questioning when I do give myself a brief moment to actually watch them.  Why do they have so much stuff? Granted, I'm watching this around Christmas, but still! They have so many random possessions! There is so much going on to the point where some of them hurts my eyes. Especially the ones with makeup vanities! Or whole sections of their bathroom with enough brushes to paint canvases! I honestly can't believe they need that much.  What is with the aesthetic of these people's houses? I really don't understand the complete ecstasy that is a plain colored room with plain decorations and furniture. Maybe it is where I live or what my particular family is like, but our rooms either have a more colo...

 Well, now I'm in the middle of December, and this is already turning into a chaotic end of my year.      First, I need to get through Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. I promised some presents two years ago, and my silly butt didn't finish all of them. It's going to be a long couple of days.  Secondly, I need to get my stuff cleaned up before New Year's Eve. My desk is so messy right now, mostly with crochet yarn and notebook stuff. So I will really need to get all the things done.       I'm not sure what is in store for me for 2023. My vision is a little narrow right now, between all of the things I'm trying to get done. We'll have to see where things go.      My apologies in advance for all of the short posts coming in and the ones in the past. It's just a crazy part of the year but I don't want to neglect at least letting you all know that I was thinking about you. I hope you all have a wonderful December, and I'll see you o...

 It's done. Finally.      Well, as done as it is going to get. There is a lot that could be added, and there is a lot that is missing from the draft. But that is what future editing is for.      Speaking of editing, that is what I will be spending a lot of my December doing. Editing not only Eventide, but looking at all four novels to see whether or not the idea I had to keep them together in the same part of the timeline or not. I am only debating this because of how much work I have put in and how much trouble it is to put all four of the stories in the same part. So that will be on the list of considerations that I have over the course of December while I'm editing.      Other than that, 2023 is looking like a lot of smaller works are going to be written. I don't know if they will have any connection to this stuff, but we'll see.      In the meantime, I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and a celebrated New Year!...