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It's been a slower day today. I didn't get nearly as much written as I did every day for the last several ones. That's fine. It's okay for me to have an off night. I'm already at my word count I wanted for the month (30,000 words), so if I don't get much done while Mist is here, that's okay too.

Unfortunately, I also didn't work on the latest transcript for Seven Seas, but I'll get to that in a bit. I've still got some time, yes, but I'm on page 13 of 200+. I do need to try to make some progress today.

Anyway, there's a lot to do between now and Wednesday... and even more to do before Friday... so I need to be getting off my ass and doing them.

Tomorrow.

For tonight, I'm going to finish trying to get to 1,000 words, and then I'm probably going to go on to bed. Good night, all.

Today has been a good quiet day. I did find out that Seven Seas apparently sent me a title to edit, but it's not due until Wednesday. And somehow my sick time isn't showing up for last Friday, so now I'm worried about this coming Friday and the following Monday, when Mist is going to be in town and I'm taking annual leave.

But other than all of that, it was a good day. I was lazy. I ate good food, including the froyo I was craving the other day. I played with Luci and Boo.

At midnight, I'm going to post katsuko's and my next story for Mag7 week: the first actual content on Resurrectionist... because I do still have ridiculous love for that story, even if Shelter and all its alternate universes have taken over my soul.

And I got a lot of writing done today, enough that I'm going to have to reset my overall goal to a higher number. I'm not complaining on that note, mind you. That part's just an observation.

Anyway, I'm going to finish up this bit, post the chapter, then go the hell to sleep. I've been drifting off for nearly an hour now. Good night, all.

katsuko and I have been handing my phone back and forth for nearly five hours now, working on the same story. She writes a while, then I write a while, then she does, and so on. It means we've managed over 3000 words between the two of us today. (It also means that I have to leave my phone plugged in because we are seriously murdering my battery... but it's all good, because so many words!)

You see, katsuko came up with an AU off one of Worst Case Scenario stories, where Faraday puts in an early appearance. It's spiraled out of control. It's two parts long... and mine is already nearly 8,000 words. Because it's out of control. Really. Also, I think sometimes I give Jack the Horse too much personality. Other times, I don't think I give him enough. Because I adore Jack the Horse.

And after all that, I'm not sure I've got much words left in me. I think I'm ready to go the hell to bed for the night. I think I'm going to do just that.

So... good night, my freaky darlings.

I finally got to have my "it's not cancer" dessert. I decided to go with cupcakes. I have a lemon drop one, because I love lemon drop cupcakes from Cami Cakes, and katsuko had a Cookie and Cream one, because what's a celebration if you can't include your best friend and better half? I even posted photos of my "it's not cancer" cupcakes on Instagram, Tumblr, and Facebook, because that's how I roll apparently.

I rebought a purse that I had returned for rent money last month, and I feel vaguely happy about this. I liked the purse quite a bit, but keeping a roof over our head was more important.

And yeah, that's about all I've got for today. I'm shortly to head back the hall for bed, and I think that katsuko is going to sleep out on her bed for the night, since Luci has decided she can't stand a closed bedroom door. (But she and Boo need some space, because otherwise the relationship between them is just going to keep getting worse and worse.)

And that's definitely it. Good night, all.

So I had my two/three doctors' appointments today. And the good news is... it's not cancer.

I started my day with the saline ultrasound, and while I was on the bench, they finally got me my results back from the biopsies last week... with the "not cancer" results. The walls of my uterine cavity are very thick for my age and health: about 1.3" centimeters thick. And the wonky periods now have a likely root cause. And that is a 3 cm long, 0.5 cm thick fibroid in my uterine cavity.

And may I say for the record that the saline ultrasound sucked? Because it did. It really did. But it didn't suck nearly as badly as the biopsies did. Plus the ultrasound tech and Dr. Hathaway and I spent a large portion of the time we we doing all this chatting about Captain America, DragonCon, and the Avengers. That helped a lot towards distracting myself.

My second appointment was basically Dr. Hathaway explain the results of the ultrasound today and the one last week. She did discuss with me the fact that I"m going to have to have outpatient surgery to get the fibroid removed. I gave some thought to asking her to just take the whole damn uterus, because I have no interest in keeping it, but somehow I didn't.

All in all, I liked the staff at that branch of my gynecologist's better than the Sandy Springs location. Everyone was a lot nicer, and they all treated me like I had a brain in my head, which isn't to say that the other location talked down to me, but I've been to enough gynecologists who do.

I did a quick lunch with katsuko at The Flying Biscuit. It was delicious as always... and it turned out that it was only five minutes from my primary physician. That was a quick visit. We went over my blood tests, Dr Woodhouse upped my Paxil prescription from 10mg to 20mg, and I got two jabs: tDap and flu. Because I'm hoping not get sick on my birthday this year.

After all that, I went to Panera while katsuko was at Mirko, and after she got out, we did a celebratory dinner at Jinya. I feel like I stuffed myself, but it's a happy thing... Even if it means that I can't quite seem to keep my eyes open now.

So I'm going on to bed. Sleep well, all.