It hasn't bothered me in years, Christmas Eve 2005 to be exact. Tonight, however, my big toe is throbbing and I'm fighting to keep the terror down. Two years ago the pain was quite spectacular. Now it's just a ache but I wouldn't call it dull. I just took a pill that has helped in the past. Quite the challenge, this.

I'm in the last polish of the book and reading it straight through is a treat for me. I really am loving it, after these three years of working on it. I don't know why I'm sick of it.

The only thing that is worrying me about it now is that I have a lot of great song lyrics in the manuscript and I'm not at all sure how Rodale wants to handle them. And with the pub date in just over two months there is very little time to do what I thought they had been working on months and months ago. My book is my baby and it's so damn hard protecting it.

Well, back to work. Hopefully that will keep my mind off my foot.