Days of Freedom

It's been a little rough at work this week.  I worked 26 hours in the last 3 days and 6 of them were yesterday...

Needless to say, I slept in today.  The poor puppy woke me up with his whining because it was past his breakfast time :(  Sorry Ajax!

Today I'm mostly relaxing and getting my lazy on.  When my fiance and I ended up finally at home for the night, yesterday, I was so darn tired!  I begged to be let out of my writing for the day, promising three chapters today.  Well, I got a pass, and now I have to write three chapters!  Ha ha ha... oooh...

I've gotten the house cleaned up a little.  I really hope to be a full-time author one day, because our house will be so much cleaner then!  Though, if I had free time all the time, maybe I would be lazy and get less writing done?  In case my fiance reads this post... that last sentence was just a joke.  Ha, ha!!

In writing related news... no chapters yet.  However (here you should picture me triumphantly piercing the sky with a jabbing forefinger) I did make an outline of how to end my book.  I never make outlines, the story is always floating on waves of imagination through my brain.  But, I'm getting down to the last bits and I want to make sure everything is in its correct place - especially since this will be the first novel I've ever finished.

If all goes according to outline, this book will be finished in 8 (eight!) chapters.  I just had a small moment of foreboding there, so I had to spell out eight.  8 is too close to the sign for infinity, and I don't want infinity chapters until I'm done...

I think it will probably be closer to 9, but we shall see.

Also, for those interested, here is my current (as in, in progress) reading list:

(Hardcover) The Heretic's Daughter, Kathleen Kent
(Borrowed, hardcover) The Host, Stephanie Meyer (I have not, and will never, read Twilight, so don't ask)
(Hardcover) The Monster Book of Zombies, anthology
(Hardcover) A Whisper of Blood, anthology
(Kindle) The Hangman's Daughter, Oliver Potzsch (umlaut over the o in the last name, laaaazy)
(Kindle, free) Bright of the Sky, Kay Kenyon

I know there are more, but some of them are actual printed books and got lost in the shuffle in the house...

In my Kindle sample queue:

The Demon Queen and the Locksmith, Spencer Baum
Amber Magic, B.V. Larson
The Gift of Fury, Richard Jackson
Silver Thaw, Amy Rose Davis
The Black God's War, Moses Siregar III