I did say "lost" rather than "wasted". It's just, sometimes you're like "wait, how did two hours go by?" But it was one of the October Daye books, so certainly it was not a waste. :-D And I think you're entitled to some lazy reading mornings on your summer holidays!

Well done with the editing! Yeah, I can never keep track of all words changed in editing, either. I sometimes change a lot, so usually I just see if there's any added word count, and if I know I've both removed and written lots of new things, I try to locate the main new paragraphs and sentences and get a general word count out of them, and just stick that into my spreadsheet as a guesstimate. Glad you're feeling better about the novel after getting started with the editing! And yes, editors are for telling you what still needs changed for the thing to work after you've done your part in editing. You can't see everything about your own text, after all.

And don't worry, it doesn't make you a lout to forget that. *g* But you're welcome, I'm happy to do my part in making this challenge run smoothly, when it's been so good to me. *hugs* Keep seeing you around!