A Little Every Day - Week 8
This week it feels like I got nothing done. Whenever I have a week off from work, I end up planning to get a lot done and get ahead on my blog posts for the future. Whether that is drafting reviews, brainstorming possible recipes, or digging into getting notes written up from my videos of my Dungeons and Dragons sessions. This week I have done almost none of that.
I started the week off by not remembering to write up my weekly review for the A Little Every Day project. I ended up working a little on Chapter 11 of the first Lonely World novel instead monday and realising tuesday that I ha made a mistake4. Maybe it was because I had been very productive the week before and gotten three posts out but at the beginning of the week, I was struggling to get my mind to engage with the tasks I was giving it. Much of the first half of the week I spent doing other things including baking almost 50 cupcakes in a single afternoon to give to my local covid-19 vaccination centre. Or going shopping to find a birthday present for a good friend. Then another day going back to town to mail them package to them. By the time I sat down to work on a post for the blog I realised that I hadn’t done the preparatory work for any of my go to options. So I turned to working out a format for another review type: jigsaw puzzles. Admittedly, I thought that the jigsaw I was aiming to do would not take as long as it has been to complete. Perhaps if my health was better it would be easier.
This bring us to mid-week. Earlier in the week I had misplaced a sleeve of one of my medications. I subsequently forgot to take it for a few days and ended up having my partner call an ambulance in the early hours of the morning. I was luck in that my painkillers and other medications were able to stabilise my condition and make things manageable for me again. Thus, I avoided a trip to Accident and Emergency. On that day I realised that one of the reasons I haven’t been able to sit and concentrate on writing and getting things done is because I am taking a break from my day job. Where my job is taxing physically, and as a result emotionally, now that I had stopped for more than a day or two it had caught up with me. I found myself foribly reminding myself that it is ok to take time to do what you need to do, rather than what you feel you ought to do.
Having taken the day off and done what I wanted to do I was much more comfortable doing some writing the next day. Even though I didn’t get it finished I made great headway in the next Dungeons and Dragons recap. I got basic notes written up and then fleshed out two-thirds of the notes into a written story. I was happy with the progress I made, but as the end of the week drew nearer, I realised that I hadn’t posted anything to the site this week. I tried to push myself yesterday but only succeeded in giving myself a headache, rather than producing the desired results. I am struggling with it, but I know that it was best to rest this week rather than push myself to post something anyway despite it not being up to standard.
Thank you for coming along on this journey with me. I am going to post at least twice next week and that is a promise! Stay safe, rest when you need to, and have a good week.