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?

I should be stripping wallpaper, but two small Hobbits conspired and that’s not happening today, LOL. I’m getting stuck into Bone Magician, instead.

This fantasy novel started last year with a throw away prologue wrote in an hour, starting with:

The metal was hungry.

Which I like as a first line. *grin*.

It’s also my first attempt at a truly ambigious hero. Jarod Vae was fun to write. The reader has no real clue where his motivations or loyalties lie. He’s powerful, arrogant, smart… and of course sexy…

Which had The Ent muttering when he read through the first draft, hehe

The edits for Mackenzie are out and I should have them back next week. So from now until then it’s full steam on The Bone Magician’s Daughter. I want this sub out in May. As of this moment, Ii’m waiting only on The Winter Prophecy.

And that is so wrong… *grin*

A partial got rejected this morning.

And I’m quite happy about it. I’ve stopped wanting to write for the line for a few months and was debating what to do if they asked me for a full.

Well, apparently it wasn’t what they wanted, LOL. I think my subconscious had been at work and knew long before I did that I had written all I would in that particular sub-genre.

They’d said in my last rejection that I had too much plot and too many secondary characters so for this sub I pared that all away. And it killed me, LOL. I think I’ll rewrite the story the way I want to and offer it up elsewhere.

I think everyone deserves to get to know Zachary Quinn *WEG*