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I've been having a terrible neck and headache for over a month. On Tuesday I felt that my feel of my body was compromised. It happened as I was going to work and I felt really bad. So it was a lot of commotion at work and a colleague took me home. Gizi got me an appointment for Thursday with a doctor. My neck and head are still bad. I'm having a problem with turning my neck as it hurts and sometimes I feel the loss of sensation again.  We'll see tomorrow.

Today I went to look for a new coat. I'm trying to find something not as fancy as my fur coat. While on the street, I saw some buds on a bush. It was rather warm, I didn't even need gloves. I did get three caps in different colours. Really cute. We ate at a pizza place. It was good with a nice seasoning and it was even at a 50% discount.

Well, it's 2012 now. Will it be the year of doom? We shall see a year from now. This is usually the point when I swear to lose that extra 12 kg I've been carrying around for a while. However, this year I won't. I'm fed up with diets. Instead, I swear to try to be happy. I'm going to be more sociable and mingle. I'm turning 30. I'm going to go for yoga and make an appointment at a kineziologist. I'm not sure how that's going to help, but I need to make changes. Hopefully a year from now I won't be single.

For Christmas I gave some people my little book that I wrote about my travel through Rome. It looks pretty cool. I had it printed and made out as an actual book. I also posted it online . I hope some people will read it.

Finally posted a new chapter! Being ill and my eyes getting light sensitive didn't help in my progress. Now I have a writer's block. I tried to start the new chapter, but it just felt bad, not inspired at all. I do have some things like health concerns and my 29th birthday on my mind, which is on the 13th. It also occurred to me that perhaps I was getting a bit stuck in the POV of Harry and my next chapter was actually more about progressing Hermione's story. So, I thought of writing a one-shot from Hermione's POV to see her side more. It would be about her life in Malfoy Manor and how she ended up going to the Ball. I already started it a bit, and I felt that it was not bad. So I may complete that before a new chapter.

I actually posted chapter 8 today! YAY! It's my longest chapter yet and full of the Malfoys. I really love my description of how Harry approaches the Manor. I can't wait to have people read it. It's always so interesting to hear what people are saying, what they think. Of course, now that chapter 8 is up, everyone is wondering how chapter 9 is going. Well, I'm almost done with it. It's rather long as well. It has an event which is mentioned in chapter 8. There is a bit that I'm slightly unsure of, I'll just have to see what my betas say about it. Another bit worth mentioning is a monologue. Technically it's a bit long to have uninterrupted, but it wouldn't work otherwise. I had some problem with typing after writing it, you may guess why. The remaining part is the culmination of the whole chapter. I just had a bit of an idea to put in there, so now I'm going to put that into my chapter notes. .... Done. Ah, cool! That's going to be so c...

I have recently posted chapter 7 on The Hex Files. Until tomorrow I'll only have it up there as it's really late and I'm very sleepy, but it is there. When I sent the new chapter to them they had a little problem with my capitalising "Our World" in my story and it made me think about just why I did that. This is what I wrote: I'm doing that in a sort of a reference to Gone With the Wind. There is a part where Rhett speaks about the purpose of war as opposed to the true purpose and he says something like "Cause with a capital "C"" in irony. So "Our World" is kind of ironic in the sense that it's said by people who think that it's their world and that they are doing what is best for it, but it's best for them actually most of the time. I could make a lengthy comparison here about how the different people in the story think about "Our World", but the story does speak for itself. A little update on th...