So my immune system pretty much handed my ass to me a day after I got back from my vacation. There’s nothing a boss loves more than having someone come back from vacation for a day before being out for two more due to sick, believe me.

So first, my vacation. I went camping. A week, Sunday – Sunday, of camping. Tents, air mattresses, limited to no cell service, camping. The first couple days weather wise were good. Then it rained. Then it got ungodly hot. And I was able to come home.

This trip has fully made me realize that while I used to love camping, I can’t do it anymore. I have hip and back problems – and I paid a pretty penny for a mattress at home to help with these problems. So sleeping on an air mattress just doesn’t cut it for my body anymore. I also have problems with the heat – I tend to get heat stroke super easily and so I can’t take prolonged exposure to heavy heat. The last two days of the trip the weather was close to 100 in the shade and I felt like I was going to die. And! And. The chigger bites. I looked like I had chicken pox from the knees down on both my legs. It wasn’t fun. And while I love the people I saw on this vacation, I feel like there’s a better way to see them that won’t leave me in itchy hell after.

Last week I was pretty quiet because after coming back and spending two days in my bed, I got sick. Not sure what it was but it had me going home Wednesday with a half day from work and home Thursday to try and sleep it away. I’m still not a 100% right now, mostly phlem in my throat and fatigue that I’m trying to shake. So trying to be productive has been difficult.

I’m drinking lots of fluids, I’m taking some over the counter meds that help to clear up the issues, and mostly I’m getting to bed at a reasonable time to try and get as much rest as I can so my body will get better faster. However, a couple nights ago I couldn’t get my body tired enough to sleep, but my brain was shot so I spent until Midnight on a video game because I just couldn’t get to sleep. It’s up and down, overall. I’m working on it though.

While I was camping, I brought a WIP that needs to be finished. My plan, because it’s been in progress for a while, had been to read and edit it and then be in the right headspace to finish it. It’s literally only a couple chapters from being done. That worked until I got to about chapter 5.

Then, I woke up at 4am one day and my brain refused to let me go back to sleep until I wrote what it wanted. An hour later I had about half a chapter of a brand new WIP. The rest of the week was spent writing on the new WIP. I finished two chapters before I got in the car to come home. My game plan this week is to get it typed up into a document (because with 100-degree weather this was all written in a notebook) and then continue to finish it. I know it’s going to be a short. And thanks to my friend that I discussed it with while I was writing it, I already know that it will have a sequel. I’m not sure if I’ll try to lengthen it past a mini duology set or not. Depends on how I feel after I get the second short done, I think. But yay! I’m hoping to get that short finished by the end of the month and get it out early September, with the second one to follow shortly after.

My WIP list grows every steady as I go. But I’m excited about this short and it’s sequel.

I’m also currently reading an ARC that will have a review posted soon! Super squeeing about that too. So excited to both read it and share my thoughts!

For now, back to the grind of getting everything set up. I can’t believe summer is almost over, the school year is almost back, and everything is zomg.

Are you ready for the school year? Are you ready for Fall? What’s your favorite Fall activity? Leave your answers in the comments below.

So I didn’t believe the weather apps and news reporters that kept saying we’d get snow. I thought, they must be wrong. It’s too late in the season for snow. And yet here we are. With snow on the ground.

Traffic was horrible due to it, plus late getting out because I had to clean off my car. And everyone at work today has been late due to the snow and traffic. It’s been a long, interesting morning today.

This weekend has been quick, but I’m not sure if that’s just because I ended up doing a lot of cleaning. And all that work leaves me sitting at 6pm looking around confused on how late it happened to be. It’s feeling good to get the stuff cleaned up though.

Writing wise, I didn’t get too much done. I’ve been added a little to chapter three of Honor as I can. Because I’ve needed to rework the beginning of the chapter, and how everything opens, it’s taken a little longer than just editing the chapter itself. But it’s definitely looking tighter and better, at least in my opinion.

I’ve also got a side novella project that I’m working on with the hopeful plans to reveal and release it in 2019. It’s been a little slower in coming than I’d like it to, but at the same time this year has seemed to be going super fast around me.

I’m not entirely sure how it’s already April. Or how my plate has felt full every minute of the day, especially at work. I feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day, or energy in my life, to get everything done. And it’s a strain on me sometimes for how much I look around and see what’s not yet done.

Here’s hoping the year gets better, but with how it started I’m just not sure about that yet. How is your year going so far? Are you like me, having time fly faster than you can track through the day? What do you do to try and slow it down so you can focus and get work done?