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Bruised and All Over the Place

20/2/2018

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Good morning, Readers!
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Well this weekend was a thing.  I'll try and go through it in order.

Friday was great.  I opened up and read through what I had written for Outworlder (title may change).  I actually quite like the story so far, and I'm pretty excited to get stuck into it.  It was a good day for creative stuff.

Friday night was less great.  I ordered pizza, and then tried to run downstairs when it arrived.  Only I fell instead.  I'm nursing a few bruises on my right side, muscle pain on my left side, a headache, and possibly a stressed tendon in my left shoulder, but nothing much more serious.  It could have been much worse, so I'm counting my blessings.  It hurt like a bitch when I went down though, and there was a lot of shock, so when I finally collected my pizza and sat down to eat, I burst into tears instead.

Then, despite not having an appetite anymore and because I'm a stubborn old goat, I ate two slices of pizza before heading to bed.

Saturday I could not move, except I had to because I teach martial arts on Saturdays.  It was not a good day for me, but I went and I taught and it was decent enough.

Sunday was a filming session for Nights at the Round Table.  Ordinarily, we'd be filming this coming Sunday, but there's a celebration for friends that I'm attending, so we just moved the filming up a week.  It was fun, but baby Keladry was in a wriggly, squeally kind of mood, so it was also a lot.

Sunday night, I received a note from the publisher I had submitted Skylark to.  They're a bit behind in answering their submissions.  So far, however, there has been one vote from the acquisitions team on the manuscript, and that vote is a yes.  That made me happy.

One step closer.

The world won't end if they, ultimately, decide not to take the book.  I'll just self-publish it.  Hopefully, I'll have more news soon.

I'm also a little proud of myself because, despite the hurt, I still managed to get myself to the gym.  Not Saturday, which is my usual gym day (Sunday is my rest day).  I waited a couple of days for the muscles on my left to be less painful.  They're still not great, but they were good enough for running on Monday, so I went for a run on Monday.

I would like to state for the record, that running with a bruise on your butt hurts like hell.  Just the movement of the skin in the area of the bruise was excruciating.  But still, I ran.  It felt good to be doing something, at least.  I didn't do weights because of my muscle issue, but that's alright.  I did something.  That counts.

I also went for a run this morning.  The butt bruise hurt much less, which was nice.  I managed just under 4K in half an hour, including the five minute walking warm up, so I'm pretty happy with my pacing.  My goal is to get a half hour 5K.  That's all I really want from my run training.

And that is the state I'm currently in.  Bruised and battered, but ultimately in a good place.  Now I have some writing to get stuck into, so I'll let you go here.

​Ciao!
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