So I’m dutifully typing out chapter three of Bone Magician… and enjoying how annoying Jarod can be, LOL and it hits me. Out of nowhere.

Alchemy needs a prologue. A ‘how the two main characters met under dire circumstances’ prologue.

I am so becoming the prologue queen *sigh*, but Varo doesn’t pop up until the end of chapter three. I think the reader needs to see him in action and that would help with Alesh’s motivation… and her general obsession, hehe

This week has been a bit crazy.

It started off with good intentions to attack the latest edits of Mackenzie… but then my body went into free all and I began to swell up like a balloon and just ache, LOL I couldn’t sit at my desk without my feet and hands bloating to twice their normal size. I’m blaming the heat.

Fast forward to Thursday and I finally got going on my edits and finished them late last night. YAY. They’ve been shot into the ether and I await word on the next round.

Meanwhile, I’m back to Bone Magician and deep into chapter three. I’m also going to start looking at Alchemy again. I need to push that along if I want to sub it by September.

And finally… I entered the Romance Junkies Writing Contest. After last year’s debacle, LOL, I’m not saying what story or what name I entered under.

So there, hehe

…back to Fen and her melting corpses…

I got my first reviews for Billionaire.

And I’m very relieved, LOL

Talia Ricci at Joyfully Reviewed said:

I simply, and thoroughly, adored it!

http://www.joyfullyreviewed.com/reviews/TheBillionaire’sSeduction.html

And Holly at Euro Reviews said:

Kim Rees does a terrific job of keeping this story at just the right heat to keep you interested as the suspense develops and is resolved. The hidden history between the characters adds another layer of intensity which just adds to the drama and Emily’s sense of humor gives a wonderful comic relief.

http://euroreviews.eu.funpic.de/bookdetails.php?book_id=172

I’m happy today *grin*

We had a meeting at Frodo’s school this afternoon. Through several tonnes of paperwork and phonecalls by the school and us, we managed to get Frodo outreach support.

We didn’t know exactly what this entailed, thinking that it would be another advisory role.

We turn up this afternoon to find that a special school in the north of the city is giving Frodo an outreach teacher for three mornings a week. The head teacher was being concilitory, saying that we really couldn’t expect full time, one-to-one support… I never expected that. At all.

I was stunned at the three mornings and grinned like an idiotic, LOL

He also did really well with his OT this morning.

So a good day all round.

But I’m guilty of abdandoning my edits today. Eeep. I have my writing group to go to tonight. I’ve missed a few weeks due to various lurgies. So I have to go out. Honest. *grin*

…because my body went into melt down, LOL

I used to be able to strip a room, repair and fill cracks and have 3/4 coats of paint applied in 6 days… in between all the usual domestic mayhem.

I stripped one wall and a bit over the door frame and came out in an all over rash and and my knees swelled so I can’t walk.

The Ent thinks it’s caffeine related, LOL I think I haven’t decorated properly for a while.

Ho Hum

Thanks everyone for the support over my insane idea to give up caffeine. I’m feeling okay today. No headache… so far… touching beech veneer, LOL

I had a Samhain loop chat yesterday. Manic but fun, LOL. And I found out, in a round about way, that I should be getting my very first review *gulp* in the next few days.

Not that I have any nails… mainly because I’ve been stripping wallpaper all afternoon… but what I have left are whittling down fast, LOL

Slightly less of a headache today – which seems to have cleared up with a blast of Sinutab. So the headcahes could be sinus rather than caffeine related, LOL Still very, very tired though. Did coffee, tea, chocolate keep me awake this much??

Okay – I never knew I depended on caffeine this much, LOL

I can barely stay awake. It doesn’t help that there’s been a mini heat wave and I was designed for the artic tundra. So not happy with hot weather, LOL

Samwise spent his first morning at pre-school. Had his little uniform and everything. He was fine until he realised that I wasn’t staying. Then a very unclingy boy got clingy. He was teary when I came to pick him up two hours later. But I think that had a lot to do with him being tired. He can’t have had that bad a time as he managed to paint himself orange while he was there. *grin*

And for Mackenzie I have to sort out wandering body parts. Roll on Zombie fest…

Regular caffeine consumption reduces sensitivity to caffeine. When caffeine intake is reduced, the body becomes oversensitive to adenosine. In response to this oversensitiveness, blood pressure drops dramatically, causing an excess of blood in the head (though not necessarily on the brain), leading to a headache. This headache, well known among coffee drinkers, usually lasts from one to five days, and can be alleviated with analgesics such as aspirin. It is also alleviated with caffeine intake (in fact several analgesics contain caffeine dosages).

Often, people who are reducing caffeine intake report being irritable, unable to work, nervous, restless, and feeling sleepy, as well as having a headache. In extreme cases, nausea and vomiting has also been reported.

References. Caffeine and Health. J. E. James, Academic Press, 1991.
Progress in Clinical and Biological Research Volume 158. G. A. Spiller, Ed. Alan
R. Liss Inc, 1984.

This is what The Ent sent me today as I go into my second day – and the… thirtieth hour… of my headache. And I didn’t imbibe that much. I only had about 3-4 cups of coffee, 1-2 cups of tea a day. Oh, and a semi-serious addiction to chocolate.

I do feel dreadful, LOL… so no writing again today. Ho hum.

Today I cut out coffee and have just had one cup of tea.

Guess who’s had the headache from hell since 11 this morning?