Might have gone and done it.

Hi Patron~

How's it hanging? Well I hope! I, only the other hand feel like I might be hanging on by a thread. Made some choices. My personal schedule this week is a bit jumbled up for reasons out of my control and of course I make up for it by increasing the intensity of my (mostly casual and harmless) self-destruction and now I have a sore throat.

Sleeping for less than five hours is nearly a guaranteed bout of some kind of suffering on my part. You best believe I have been gargling and downing vitamin C like nobody's business. I am a fan of those 'emergen-c' effervescent packs. Those often buy me a day or two to load up on healthy food, take a nice hot shower, and get my sleep schedule in line. With luck, it often ends there.

Going into work sleepy, sore, and with other complications on top of it just isn't how you want to start your week, now is it? Well, this is how we start our week. Worth it? Not for the intelligent and wise, but this is what we learned. Makes one realize how close to the razors edge they actually are.

When your patterns and self-care routine is upset or adjusted in even the slightest way, it is amazing to watch the cards exchange places and then the dominoes fall after that. Sometimes you can still make up an equally strong hand or go for a new strategy with what is being dealt your way, and other times you end up taking one card too many and busting. And not that busting, either, sadly.

Care for yourself, always take time for that. Of course. If you must serve others out of duty and honor, or otherwise, make sure to set aside some time for yourself. And try to be flexible about that time, when it is, how it is spent. I was inflexible and made choices on Sunday evening I typically reserve for a Friday and, well, see the title of the rant today!

Tell you what else I done did. Finish EB Chapter 11's draft. That means we have the newest full chapter coming up and the previous chapter will finally (It's been like two or three months. Forgive me my precious lurkers and free members... Been swamped of late in the best and worst of ways.)

Going to keep this week to that business I think. Also got some more delicious updates for my DDDs, look forward to that goodness in the chat. I am liking the cut of this new artist's jib. So some good deluxe content on the horizon.

Next week I am debating stripper story or perhaps something else completely different or maybe more EB. Keep striking while the iron is hot perhaps. With a concerted push I could force out the entire draft this year I think. Maybe five or six chapters away depending on how things play out. it is coming clear in my mind and the outline keeps changing and shifting, but the plane is coming in for a landing nice and easy.

I won't sweat that stuff this week and just keep doing what I am doing. Maybe my favorite response on the polls I put up. Love when you guys and gals click that one in addition to your other thoughts and feelings on the subject.

Anyway~ Let's have a wonderful week ahead!

Ta ta~

~Michelle