Writerly Musings

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Renewing and Recovering

A recent bout of food poisoning (not I might add the preferred method for loosing five pounds) has had me reeling all week. Let's not even forget that we had scheduled and paid for our campground tickets and festival tickets months in advance so we also had a vacation (of sorts) planned for two days after the illness took control.

Now that I've completely lost everyone. I found myself sick to the point of wishing for death last week. The culprit? Food poisoning. While I did manage to loose five pounds it had its own negative side effects that made it a rather unpleasant weight loss plan. In addition to that we had allready booked our cabin for the weekend and paid for them (while seriously needing a little time away I might add). Just so you know, while you're still recovering from food poisoning, a campground stay (my first) is not advisable especially if you have to walk a quarter mile to the nearest bathroom.

At any rate I survived the food poisoning, fit into my jeans once again (well some of them) and had a really nice weekend. The problem is that being too ill to think of looking at a computer for two days followed by three days out of town left my head spinning when I came back home to work that was already behind and more work to do...not to mention 107 emails (I kid you not). Thankfully, most of the emails were junk and the others were not new jobs that needed immediate attention (I know I can't believe I'm being thankful for no new work but I'm still trying to recover from everything here).

At any rate, I seriously considered kicking around skipping our vacation so that I could get the work I needed caught up and back on track. Husband flipped (good man) and reminded me how much I needed this break and how much we needed time as a family and I reread my goals. It's hard to always have your priorities in the right place when you're choosing between your livelihood and your family. I was very fortunate in that I only had one buyer give a negative reaction when I asked for an extension. He was not a regular and I seriously doubt he will become one but life goes on, even if we can't always live up to others expectations of us or our own expectations of ourselves. I remember sitting at the computer and literally crying as I was writing to ask for an extension. It was work that I would have had no problem doing in the alloted time if I had not been so ill but there was no way I would have given quality work in that condition and I knew it.


It seems that now I'm rambling...maybe I'm not as renewed as I had hoped. It has been 3 days of non-stop writing since I've returned so I'm entitled to ramble when I'm not getting paid for my efforts.

At any rate, I really should get back to work. I've been trying to establish a daily schedule and really need to stick to it. Just wanted to check in so no one thought I had fallen off the face of the planet.

Oh and as soon as I get time I will update my links to accomodate sites that have changed and make a few additions as well (hopefully sometime next week).

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