Days two and three…

Have been pretty good – I’m feeling pretty good at the moment.

I’ve been really lucky that I’m self-employed and off-deadline, and that Hubby’s away at the moment so I have no responsibility and I’ve been able to just focus on making myself feel better. I think that’s really helped with how quickly I seem to be bouncing back from it all.

So on Friday, after the blog was posted, I got myself organised and went off to the movies. I downloaded a new book to Kindle, went to Manuka and had lunch before going to see The King’s Speech, which was such a beautiful story.

I got home, feeling tired but I really didn’t want to have a nap – I’m trying to re-establish good sleep patterns, so instead I found things to do.

The ANU has a thing called the Mood Gym – it uses Cognitive Behavioural theories to help you work through some issues in your thought process. My sister recommended it, so I worked through the first module. No insights so far, but I think it helped to know that I was working to help myself.]

Then I downloaded a guided meditation for my iPod. The first one was ridiculous – felt like I was being brainwashed. The second was great. After dinner, I then finished my boot bag – I was so happy with how it worked out.

So went to bed quite happy, and slept reasonably well. I woke up once, but went back to sleep pretty quickly.

Up at 6.30 – was still a bit dark, so hit the snooze a couple of times before I could go for a walk. Then went and voted, then got ready for the road-trip.

Tracey O’Hara and I drove up to the book-signing session at the Australian Romance Readers Convention. I won’t go into it because we’re doing a blog for the Voyager blog. I was a little concerned that if it wasn’t a positive experience I wouldn’t handle it well, but luckily it was great. I signed books – some were sold. Some of the books had been given out free to attendees and a few people came to tell me how much they loved them. So nice.

Home late, went straight to bed, slept well for four hours then on and off. I’m feeling a bit worn out this morning, so I’ll probably take it easy today. Bit of reading, bit of lazing around, bit of sunshine.

But yeah – am feeling MUCH better. Seems I might have done well in catching this so quickly and being able to work so effectively on it.