awanderingbard | Hello Again

Hello there! Oof, it's been awhile since I posted last here. It's been kind of a series of unfortunate events the last couple of months and I've been just trying get through. Migraine season was very long, plus I had a string of small but annoying kidney stones, and Mum and I had colds, and I've broken another tooth which I'm waiting to have pulled, and Dad also had broken, infected teeth, and it turns out when Mum fell at Christmas she broke another vertebra in her back to go along with the three that were already broken which we only found out a couple of weeks ago and she's got a slightly frozen shoulder as well, and my SIL is on stress leave from her job and...there's a lot. It's just a lot.

Thankfully, the election we had up here went the way I personally was hoping for, and, even amongst all the woes, we've been working decluttering and organizing and cleaning the house. We've been watching 'Sort Your Life Out' on CBC Gem, and it's been quite inspiring.

In the midst of my decluttering, I also decided to a journal declutter of sorts. This journal has turned into a personal one since I lost my ability to write, and I decided to make a writing journal to split the two off.

awanderingbardtales is a mirror of this journal, but I went through and deleted all the personal entries so there's only writing and writing related posts. To be clear, everything that was posted on this journal is still here, but going forward, should I manage to write again, I'll post the stories there and keep this one for personal stuff. I have been working on original stuff and maybe one day I'll have something I want to share. I got a new writing app for my iPad that functions like Notepad on Windows used to, which is where I did all my writing before the Great Flash Drive Crash of '15, and I feel like I'm better able to organize my thoughts on a simpler interface than Google Docs, where I get distracted all the time by the grammar and spell checks and get into my head about it. Feel free to follow the writing journal if you wish. I'll also post links from here to there if there's anything new. I'm going to probably try to make some master posts of my stories, too. And it's been fun to go through and read stuff over the last almost 20(!) years of my life that this journal as existed (at least on LJ, the DW version is newer).

I'm also continuing my art journey. I'm trying to learn to draw bodies now and practicing gesture drawing, and it's progressing. Not fast, but it's going. I've done some crocheting, and managed to keep up my reading. Still very light-hearted stuff to keep my brain happy. I feel like learning about my neurodivergence has been helpful and I'm finding better ways to cope and get things accomplished. The Loop earplugs have really been a life saver in so many aspects. I feel like I'm even more confident and decisive because I'm less overwhelmed all the time.

I hope everyone else is coping with life and finding some joy in it.