” …of all the things I’ve lost, I miss my mind the most…” Mark Twain
The New Year and the new month have been slipping past me at an alarming rate, and what with being under house arrest and suffering a miserable cold (at least I hope it’s a cold) I am becoming a bit depressed.
I haven’t been doing anything creative. I can’t think straight and just realised how close I am getting to despair.
I have small moments of pull yourself together girl and quite a few just have a look at the WIP… but nothing is working. It feels like an eternity since anything was normal, and not much hope of any of it turning up.
Every now and then, I have a moment when life seems better and my head clears, only to vanish again when the paracetamol wears off, leaving me a pathetic sniffing heap again. It isn’t just the aching joints, headache and streaming nose, the depression is worming its way into everything.
I have been trying to keep on top of the emails and other small jobs, but anything else just slips through my fingers. But I have been doing a lot of thinking about the future of Books & Bonsai. Not enough, obviously, to get me doing anything creative but at least the grey matter is trying to function. My WIP is haunting me. It’s a mess, with piles of notes depending on what I have already researched. Before I can move in any direction, I must make a workable plan.
And this morning, that was what I did. The germs have retreated enough to allow a little get up and go to creep back into my life, and I now have a new list.
Yay!
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Keep going, Jaye. I had a cold over Christmas and immediately thought it was Covid, but hey, it was just a cold. Dark, short days get to us all. I keep thinking of summer days and sunshine.
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We had sun today… made a nice change!
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There is a really nasty cold going around…it got us here too at one point, and you are right, added to everything else and the house arrest, it is the last straw and just depressing.
We just need to get through this dark, sticky treacle period and back out into the light and air…
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I can’t wait to get out in the garden…
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I know that feeling, Just ‘out’ will do…
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I keep going outside, just because… but it’s too cold to stay out there!
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I meant proper outside… of the boundaries. Where there are horizons… or trees…
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That will be a fine day, Sue…
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Oh yes…
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There you go, Jaye. Now for my cure all. A nice hot cup of hot coco.
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Make that hot chocolate and I’m your friend for life!
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Okay. Hot chocolate it is. Marshmellows or whipped cream on top?
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Nothing fancy, I’m watching what I eat, although that doies sound delicious…
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I feel you, Jaye! I’ve experienced those moments more often than I would have liked to in these last few months. ((hugs))
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I can feel a change coming, in my office at least…
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Hope it keeps going for you! 🙂
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It had better… we could do with a change…
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Yay for the bugs buggering off! 😀 … may they continue to retreat with their little buggy tails between their legs.
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and that goes for this blessed virus too!
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