A bit of a late start, but welcome 2024! This would typically be the time I set new intentions and goals for the new year, but this year we are going to do something a little different.
For me, this is the year of rest. I have finally gotten diagnosed with Long Covid after dealing with the condition since June of 2022 and there is no real cure besides resting myself back to health, both mentally and physically. That means I can’t push myself to achieve the most I can, set my outrageous goals, publish everything and do all the things on top of a full time job. It means I have to take it easy.
It means I have to learn how to take a break.
And that sucks.
But it’s also been a long time coming. As much as I wish it didn’t take a major illness to do, it really was only a matter of time before I was going to burn right out and be forced into some kind of break anyway.
I am still myself, though, and that doesn’t mean I am going to completely stop everything. It just means adjusting what I’m doing so that I am not incurring major setbacks or triggering crashes.
And so, I have a few promises to myself in terms of this blog for this year:
- I will allow myself to take days or weeks on a post and not try to stick to a schedule
- I will continue to review books and post date those for Fridays, but will also be comfortable about missing weeks if I just cannot keep the brain together enough to read
- I will talk more about the things happening in my life
- I will also talk about the things I am working on, even if “working on” doesn’t result in anything tangible
- I won’t stick to any themes or topics, and am free to talk about things outside of writing or jewelry or anything else
As it is, this blog took me 3 days to write, and it’s not even that long! Be proud of me. I’m already trying and hopefully this is a good step on the long road to recovery.