I’m back! Some detours here and there over the past couple weeks…which I’ve talked about all too much already…but something new happened today: I felt better.
I felt like myself today. Calmer. More focused. I had a solid work day. I will have to work some through the weekend to make up some lost ground…but that is the benefit of setting one’s own schedule, I suppose. I get to, well, set my own schedule. I floundered throughout the week, but I still have the weekend (and next week) to recover.
It’s nice to feel like myself again. I suppose if I were to look through my blog posts, I have these episodes of mild depression every few months. It lasts for a few weeks, 1-3 usually I’d guess, and then it floats away just like it entered.
I’m moving my site, btw, to a new hosting company…so it’s *possible* that there may be a service interruption with the posts. Baby G willing, that will not happen, but if it *does* know that I will just jot my entries down onto something like notepad here on my iPad, and then I’ll post them retroactively once the site is back up and running. I have a clock ticking on doing this site migration, so I think I’ll do that shit tomorrow. I never know how long it will take them to shut my stuff down…
Hopefully it will all go seamlessly, however. Paying a little bit more with this new company, but that also comes with some upgrades, including a static IP address. I’m not sure if that bumps my site onto a less-crowded server (it probably doesn’t), BUT…apparently a dedicated IP addy does have some benefits associated with site performance and the ability to use it to do quasi-professional activities.
The “upgrade” seemed like the right thing to do given that I’ve now spend almost three years writing this damn thing, AND I plan to use it quite extensively as my author platform. So, with all that in mind, I picked a beefier plan and I paid for the next three years of hosting. Can’t complain about that, right? Right.
Writing happened today, too! And it was *good* writing. It was writing like I’d never left. I’m right back into the story. So, that was a fucking relief. But, I’m telling you, it was because I just felt more like myself today. I woke up that way, and it persisted.
I’ve also decided to tweak my work day a bit and see if having a “siesta”-type break in the middle of it might allow me to be as productive as i want to be, and work with my body’s natural rhythms. We’ll see how it goes. I *always* seem to hit a will around 2:30/3 until almost 5ish. Every day. Without fail. Perhaps just planning to not be productive during those hours and schedule my work hours around that might be a smart idea. I’ll let you know 😛
That’s all I got tonight. Coops is asleep up at the top of the bed right next to me right now. He never does that. I wonder if he saw Coco do that last night, and he got jealous and wanted to try it himself. I doubt it, though. I think he just wanted to be extra snuggly tonight. I was such a rascal today. Oh! And the Blue Jays beat the Rangers, the Indians beat the Red Sox (so, both lead their division series now 2-0), AND the Cubs beat the Giants. So, all the teams I wanted to win, won today. Halleluj!
Night!