A week from Hell (It Ain't even OVER Yet...) · 3:22pm Sep 27th, 2020

So... My week's not been pleasant and it's only getting longer... Last Saturday (the 19th) I came home from work and took my usual post-work nap (It's my Friday and I can do what I want!)... Only when I woke up, I was feeling miserable. Sniffles, Sneezing... Just Yuck...
Okay... So instead of staying up until 0200 (which is what usually happens Saturday night), I dosed myself with NyQuil and went to bed at the reasonable hour of 2200. Woke up around 0800, STILL feeling like crap, but at least not attempting to sneeze my brains out through my nasal cavity... So I canceled on MomCord for Ceramics and curled up on my couch and was miserable... I found out why later that day...
YEY for the Monthly Eviction Party my uterus holds!
So needless to say, Sunday and Monday were NOT fun... Though Monday was made better by the second session of a D&D game I got invited to. It's a setting based on a game/Chinese Drama called "Legend of the Phoenix" and the story is pretty fantastic.

Tuesday and Wednesday go well (ish) aside from residual cramping, but then Wednesday night? I finally finished the last book in Anne McCaffrey's Tower & Hive series... Up until this last book, I'd mostly just had the frustration of going "ANNE!! CONTINUITY IS A THING!!!" and just sighing and ignoring it. But then she literally had alien pheromones turn a gay man straight... Just... WTF Anne!!!?? McCaffrey's been my FAVORITE author since I was nine years old... She was the reason I'm such an avid reader! Her books provided the escape I needed to survive Middle & High School!
And then - because of course the day's not over yet - BAM... My site lead's wife went into labor. Okay... Cool... E and I had talked about me covering his 0600 shifts a month ago... So, cool... Gods willing, it'd only be one shift, right?
WRONG...
Thursday morning - I'm feeling like deep-fried Tartarus, and BossLady says I'm gonna need to cover Friday morning too. Okay... I can handle this (I hope)... But I wasn't able to sleep before 2200... and I wake up around 0430 so I can have time to pry my sorry arse out of my nice warm bed while still getting to work on time.
(Side note: It only takes me 15 minutes to drive the ~10 miles to get to work... But I've trained myself to allow at least 30 minutes, because anything can happen en route, and I hate realizing that I need to make a stop on the way and I don't have time for it.)

Thursday NIGHT rolls around, and suddenly, all the discord chats for the D&D game have vanished. Just... Gone... Nothing said. Group chat, gone; no longer in the discord server for it. Just POOF! A Mutual acquaintance asked me to tell her "my side" of what had happened and I'm just sitting here like... "I have no clue!"... then a more insidious thought occurred to me... What HAD happened? Did I say something wrong?
For those of you that struggle with anxiety? You know exactly where my brain was going at breakneck speed.

So I wind up talking with an old DM from back when I lived with my parents and was dating a complete Psycho female (Hindsight being what it is)... Fang (the DM) offered to run a game for me over voice chats on Discord and/or FB whenever I was available and to find at least one other person to play. So that's at least SOMETHING good, right? But still, because of the anxiety attack of earlier, I don't get to bed before 2200.

Friday was rough, because again, getting up at 0430 when unable to sleep before 2200 the night before is painful. And, of course, my relief didn't show up on time due to a migraine... UGH...

Saturday, again, wasn't pleasant. Despite best efforts, I'd still not gotten enough sleep... But Work was at least slow and not super stressy... Aside from dipshits who don't listen to anything other than Fox News who think that Covid-19 isn't really a pandemic/serious/worth social distancing for... And that masks are akin to building a chain-link fence to keep mosquitos out...
I was just wanting to get home so I could go with Hubby up to this winery that makes AMAZING mead... But by the time I got home, I was SO EXHAUSTED that despite my intentions, I wound up taking a 2hr nap.

Went to bed around midnight last night, I'm super tired... and I'm probably gonna have to cancel on MomCord AGAIN because, guess what I have to work tomorrow at 0600 again... I need to do my laundry, I need to cook dinner tonight... and I'm an emotional WRECK...
I've already even started considering what excuses I'll use if I have to call off work this week... because I will not work 6 days this week.

Anyways... That's my update... I've not been writing a bunch lately, due to a whole lot of stuff (including the D&D game) but also because I've yet to pry Sylvian out of whatever hole he keeps hiding himself in to help me with the last chapter of my NYE short story and the third chapter of Monkey's story... So I've mostly been attempting to help Jim Hoxworth with Arc 5 for Shadowbolts: A Memoir... It's going pretty well... Aside from the fact that we basically had to throw out the entire idea for where each chapter will end in the arc and we'll have to go back and find good points to cut it once it's all written.

I'll catch y'all later. Stay safe!
Love & Light,
Your VERY Twitchy Witchy