mistressofmuses

I kind of gave up on doing any of the stuff I planned to yesterday, with the promise that I'd get back onto doing things tonight. (I've got posts I'm behind on making, am slightly behind on comments, haven't written in a week+, could really stand to clean some stuff up at home, etc.)

But man, gotta say I'm not feeling it.

(What's the joke about "self-imposed rules are a great idea, except I know the person who makes the rules, and they're a total pushover"?)

So I think I'm going to take one more day of not doing much, lol.

But tomorrow I really mean it: I'll try to get back to Doing Things and Being Productive.

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I did finally get my covid and flu shots last Monday. While my arm definitely felt like it had been punched (and it bled a bunch, ew), this was probably the most mild of reactions I've had. Some aches and fatigue for a few days, but not actually feeling like I had the flu. Glad to have finally gotten that done.

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This work week felt SO LONG, even though it wasn't. Friday having a longer than usual workday, with my manager out and my weekend coworker covering part of the day (even though it wasn't the part of the day that most needed covering, lol) made it feel like my Saturdays usually do, which made yesterday feel like it should have been Sunday/the last day of my week, and made today feel like I was having to work an extra day.

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I'd just about decided that my plan for the next few weeks/rest of the month would be to put my energy toward reading instead of writing. I took longer than I wanted to on my first book this month, and have a bunch I want to get to, so planned on spending more of my time on that, even if it was at the expense of writing plans and such. Except then I felt really dissatisfied at the end of the week because I didn't do much. So now I'm second-guessing myself.

We'll see if I can manage to knock out some productive stuff and writing tomorrow.

Because really, I do need to get back to it at some point, lol.

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Though we're getting a pretty major pressure system coming through today/tomorrow, and it's possible that the brain fog and general lack of focus is related to that, too. (Of course I have a headache, though not so much of one that I'd call it a migraine... but some of the other symptoms seem like it could be that. I keep writing or typing the wrong words, feel like I could fall asleep at any moment, lose my train of thought even more easily than usual... So that might be part of the battle, too.)

I know that no one except me cares about my unbroken posting streak for the year. (Which wasn't even a goal when I started the year, but now I'm being stubborn.) But I DO care, even if it doesn't matter, lol

Last night I rewatched Fellowship of the Ring, for the first time in years, and it turns out I still love it. So I think I'm logging off my computer again to watch The Two Towers tonight, because why not.

But since I'm otherwise not sharing much of interest, have a couple nice sunflower pics from the last week!


It's a MUTANT. This conjoined-twin flower was in the little field near my office.


And this lovely two-tone one is on my mom's patio, with a matching orange-belted bumblebee! It looked very nicely striking against the bright blue sky. :)