I've been a little bit quiet on the Hive front lately, quieter than I'd like to be. Have been trying to come up with a new post schedule and a good time to set aside each day for post perusal and commenting, but with recent life changes it's become a bit hard to juggle everything.
I'll find my way back into the swing of things, eventually.
Life changes!?
Yes! Life changes.
I've recently thrown my life up into the air, watched as it spun about for a bit, then caught it as it tumbled back to the ground, and I've never been happier. Well, I probably have been. But I feel so uplifted and absolutely amazing lately that it's hard to compare to any other time.
A smile lives on my face all day every day, I'm laughing more than ever... I used to be known for random bursts of hysterical laughter that would bring me to tears and leave me literally "rolling on the floor laughing." I haven't done that for years! Until recently.
Feels good.
Juggling things, though...
So, Vengeance will be released in a few weeks and I've been tirelessly putting the final touches on it.
I only really got constructive critique from one beta reader, so hopefully it'll be good enough. I don't think I'll bother with beta readers for the next books. Too much stress and anxiety and I'm reeeeeally not good at poking people and asking, "Hey, are you done yet? It's been two months?"
Of my own volition, not instigated by the critique as apparently I care about this more than my finished reader did, I have tidied so much sentence structure, found a few spelling errors, have made it a lot more active and less passive, and once again I'm up to the painful bit...
...the last few chapters. The ones that killed me while writing them and that I expect will make me dissolve into tears again as I edit them. Hopefully only minimal editing is required.
⭐️Pre-order your copy on Amazon 😘
When I'm not editing Vengeance I've been exercising like crazy. Every day I do about two hours of various activities. I have no idea what I weigh or if I'm losing anything, but my pants feel looser and I think I'm starting to see a difference in the mirror.
As well as exercising I've completely changed my eating habits, as mentioned in previous blogs. I'm still feeling ridiculously full throughout the day and ready to burst by dinner time, but I'm keeping on with it. Need that protein.
I've also started taking collagen supplements in hopes it starts repairing my hair. I didn't realise how much hair I've lost until I showed my last blog post to a kiwi-friend who hasn't seen me in four years and he was just, "Holy crap! Your hair has become so thin!"
Stress and depression, buddy. May collagen heal my hair and restore it to its prior fullness.
A good twenty-to-thirty strands of hair used to fall out of my head every night as I showered. It has not done that for a whole month now. Fingers crossed things are happening!
Exercising has pretty much consumed me at the moment. It's gotten to the stage where I'm at home, bored, and instead of endlessly scrolling up and down my Steam library trying to find my next game to post about or scrolling up and down Hive trying to find people to talk to I'm just, "I might put some music on and get moving!"
Which is good for my health, not so good for my Hive'ing, haha.
I'm just excited to look the best that I can -- be the best that I can. Forgive me!
I have a bad habit of becoming absolutely fixated on things. I just get too excited.
For example: when I was in the process of buying and waiting for this new laptop, it was the only thing I would think or talk about. I have a few friends who I talk to daily, and they alllllll had to listen to me go on and on about this laptop. How it has this, and that, and ohhh it was dispatched, oh when will it arrive? It's three days late! It's onboard for today. Yay I have it!! Nothing else was going through my mind.
I have the same thing going on with exercise at the moment. I'm sure my friends just looove hearing all about protein, and how I did this, and that. I'm sure you all love it too 😛 after all, I plan to be posting about it every 10-to-14 days.
Another thing I'm fixating over is my move in... TEN MONTHS. It's a fair while away. But I'm constantly looking at properties that are available now but won't be available then, looking at what jobs are available now but won't be available then, making plans for the future...
The most amazing thing happened a few weeks ago, something I never could have dreamed of ever happening, and I've never been more totally and utterly excited -- fixated -- to work towards and start the rest of my life.
😊😃🙃
Until next time,
Thank you for stopping by!
.