I'm not sure how long I'll continue blogging, but I do enjoy documenting my journey, through writing, my health, and my feelings/opinions on things. It's a nice online journal essentially. A lot has been going on in my life lately, so why don't we do a little update post.
I turned 25 two weeks ago, it was a quiet affair, and I honestly don't feel any particular way about it. I'm happy to still be alive, 16 year old me definitely didn't predict we'd make it this far. To be fair, she was... gloom, doom, and agony embodied. I'm sure many of us were. I guess on the subject of dying, I did spend six days in the hospital with a kidney infection that had caused sepsis in August. That was a great time (not), but I had some good support, Tyler stayed with me the entire time, my boss stopped by, and everyone who couldn't come by the hospital kept a check on me via text. So as you can imagine I've had an interesting month. Trying to recover from that visit took much longer than expected. Physically, I recovered fairly quickly some soreness and fatigue lingered, but the emotionally draining experience mixed with work, birthdays, and just trying to stay above water was more than I could do. Finally, over a three-day weekend, I managed to reset myself, I cleaned the RV, I got my mind where I needed it to be, and mostly I just let myself do what I felt like. I'm sure my near silence was weird for the people around me, but I had to do something or I was headed to a bad place mentally. Or I was already there and I had to dig myself out of the hole. The world will never know.
Other than all that boring life stuff, most of the summer I spent every moment of my free time playing Diablo IV. It probably ranks in the top 5 games I've ever played, and since I've been able to play with Dad, Whitneigh, and Tyler it has enhanced my gaming experience. Unfortunately, I don't think I'll get my Sorceress to level 100 before the season ends, but I'm determined to try again with a Druid for season two, more to come on Diabo another time. I pretty much didn't write this summer... well that's not entirely true, I did start a project that's been taking up my headspace for a while, but I've only gotten a couple chapters down. So this week I decided my goal is to have the final edits of Code Red done before Thanksgiving, we are quickly headed into year seven of me working on this book, and I'm ready to move forward with the project. Book two is calling for my attention, and I want to share it with the world. Or maybe just a few people who might enjoy the story I've been working on since I was 18. Big dreams, but I won't stop reaching toward them.
I just know y'all love my boring updates. More exciting stuff coming soon... maybe. I can't make any promises, you know my track record.
Taila Out.
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