Hopeling news... ish · 1:14am Nov 22nd, 2020
Not much to say, so I"ll just cut and paste the post in:
Not dead yet, but…
not sure what the future of this blog is. We’re stepping out of character for this post.
You’ve never been reliablle, but this is rediculous.
It is, isn’t it? RL’s killing me, possibly literally. Since Covid hit, we’ve dealt with losing one income in the house, I work a barely above minimum wage job (admittedly MO min is $9.45 so it’s not as bad as it could be), management change at work has led me to working absurd amounts, end of Sept/beginning of Oct was 7 days a week, 55+ hours a week. Now it’s down to 40 to 45 hours a week, 5 days, occasionally 6. At this stage I’m taking Aleve to work along with 6 to 8 cups of coffee, and then sleeping pill/ibuprofen combo to sleep some days. All that, plus I proofread stories, and have been mad busy over there. We’re at the point where we only read ponyfiction that we’re not doing work on 2 or so days a week, compared to 7 days a week, sometimes multiple times a day.
So, there’s no time to do posts let alone the fact that there’s little content to offer as I haven’t been reading anything. Dunno if I’ll bring this blog back to life or not, one thing on the horizon is that I’ve reached the point where I’m quitting my job, I’ve only a little more than a week left, and then I’m done. For the first week or two I’m doing nothing but rest, recovery and catching up with things in my life. After that, who knows.
Now with that said, the future of this blog, there is one thing I could use help with, and that’s a possible renaming. I’m thinking of expanding it to cover news about what Gavin (my proofreading OC) is up to, story recommendations like we’ve always done, and possibly other news from Javataur, my personal OC, but we need a name. Anyone got any suggestions for one? I had one pop into my head, but didn’t write it down, and forgot it. A bit of reference, Javarod and Hope are both part of my Third Choice universe in which Starlight stays behind in disguise to become a friend and adoptive parent to Starlight in the past, leading to Starlight growing up to be a princess. That story may or may not ever get written, but that is the AU that my characters are in, an AU that really could use a better name, but might also be the new name for the blog.
So, anyone got any suggestions?
Get some more sleep. Get into a routine at your job where you don't need coffee to stay awake and sleeping pills to go to bed at night. Don't do anything in your blog for a while, but when you feel like reading something and making a blog post about it, set aside some time so you know you won't be interrupted unless it's an emergency.
Most of all, relax! We're not worried if you can't post because we all have busy lives. Whatever makes you happy.
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Unfortunately I have the misfortune of a retail job that doesn't care about me, I'm merely an asset to be used as they need, hence a work schedule and workload that's killing me, prolly literally. Of course that was solved by me quitting, just one more week to go, but this one is so rough that I've asked the district manager to find me help from another store.
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Ouch. That can't be nice. Just remember that we're here for you and if you do need to have a little rant, we don't mind. It's better if you tell us, because that way we can rally round to help you.