Well, it’s almost over but I vowed I was going to get a post up. Today I had the chance to sleep in but that didn’t work very well. I want to say it was a lazy day but it wasn’t. It was a physically lazy day but my brain feels tired from overworking. I’ve also been sick since Thursday night… we won’t discuss the source!
The first thing I did this morning was sit down with my three working notebooks and went through them as I sat with a stack of blank lined 3-hole paper in front of me. I was going to flesh out the four projects that I know I’ve had in my mind for these last months. I decided to dive in to each notebook and pulled the pages out while heading fresh lined paper with the title of the project and then putting the pulled pages in behind.
It turns out I was wrong with the four outstanding projects. It’s SIX! I barely have time for four projects and now there are two more than I thought! That doesn’t include all the articles I’d like to write!
After I did that I was planning on maybe fleshing out each of the ideas a bit more but I then got into my Tales out of Nursing project that is currently in editing stages and edited a bunch of those pages instead.
Now I’m very tired. I’m feeling better today than I was yesterday but today I felt stuffier than I did yesterday. But you know what it’s like trying to sleep with that extra stuffiness.
Back to work in the morning and I’m definitely not prepared. When I have an extra day like today I just want it to continue. I want the ability to keep it all going. I certainly don’t get a lot of time like this to jump in with both feet and immerse myself in my writing while watching movies that I’ve seen over and over before with the cats asleep next to me.
Of course writing that much today has had an impact on my hands as well. I visited my doctor this week and had some x-rays done. I have a little bit more deterioration in my right hand compared to last year. This year we also had a look at my neck and I have arthritis C2-C5 with some narrowing at two of those joints. Guess that explains all the pain I’ve had in my neck for the last few years. The one good thing is I now know I’m not making it up and I know it’s soft tissue.
This news hasn’t necessarily been taken well, as you can imagine. Well, how would you feel if given the same? Anyway, as my right hand aches, it’s time for me to wish you all well again and I hope to get back into a bit of a routine.