How have you been feeling? Better I hope. GET WELL SOON MISS MY FAVORITE WRITER!
hey everyone 💜 so I’ve had a lot of inboxes like this one, so just wanted to keep you all updated.
I’ve been in and out of the hospital the past few weeks. I’m okay, and on the mend. With my health as bad as it is recently, just trying to maintain normal home life as been taxing, and has left me with little energy for anything creative.
I’ve absolutely not put down the proverbial pen. I adore writing and have so many ideas I want to get too, plus finish my existing projects (honestly, Grimmjow is fuming with me 😂) I’ve slowly started introducing it back into my routine, a sentence here, a paragraph there. I hope you can all bare with the lack of content for just a little while more, I promise, more content is coming!
Thank you to everyone who has reached out, it really means a lot and brings a smile to my face every time. I don’t want to repeat this for every ask I’ve had, so if you’ve reached out, please know that I’m thankful, and will be back in full swing soon 🩵
So, my loss of voice has turned into a full blown head cold...boo! But I'm doing well and not being very good at staying clothed or in bed 🤣
I had figured that at some point this summer I would catch a bug 🐞🪲on my adventures and my immune system would need to flex it's muscles in this post lockdown era. It's not COVID, but this cold has been worse for me than my COVID experience! Go figure.
Buuuttttt.....SOOOOOOOOO worth it for the amazing summer I've had! Building back my immunity for future adventures! Grateful hubby and work have been amazing and I've mainly just been a cat companion the last few days 🤣🤣
Hey guys,
I've been doing ok. Just wanted to say I was planning to come back today, but this break is probably gonna last just a little longer. I need to get some stuff sorted out in my head, I still haven't felt the greatest.
Any words of encouragement would be incredibly appreciated.
Having a flare up of PTSD symptoms so please excuse me for not being very active right now. I’ll get through it. I always do. But right now, it’s taking all my energy to survive.
I have started to work out again for the first time in a year and my blood sugar is going bonkers.
I work 10 to 12 hours a day as a teacher and then also work most weekends. Right now though I'm, I'm on break. 🙏🤘I'm about to turn 51. While I look pretty good for my age, my health is just not the best and hasn't been in a while.
6 years ago I started teaching at a very violent and poorly run school. At the same time I moved across the state; at the same time I separated from my husband; at the same time I developed double pneumonia; and at the same time I lost my sister whom I was very close to.
All this was a cocktail of horror that I did not recover completely from.
I went from looking and feeling 30, to looking 30 and feeling 90.
I ended up with crippling anxiety in the form of agoraphobia, and a lot of problems with my lungs due to the pneumonia. I have lived with chronic asthma all my life and having pneumonia just made it so much worse that I ended up nearly dying from an asthma attack two and a half years after having pneumonia.
Last year however I discovered Trim Healthy Mama and lost 25 lbs when I did not think I was ever going to be able to lose weight again.
Now that it is summer I am bound and determined to get exercise as many times a week as I can. My agoraphobia means that I cannot go walk around the block or anything like that so it has to be done at a gym. Luckily there is one in town that gives teacher discounts.
My blood sugar simply does not know what to think about all this. I started working out on Monday and I have been dizzy and off-kilter all this week and am pretty much forced to eat something with protein in it every 2 hours to make sure my blood sugar is staying stable. That was a feeling is a pain in the butt, but I'm hoping it gets better as my body gets used to doing cardio again.
Tumbleweed needs everyone to know that I am his most cruel and heartless mother for decreasing the amount of food he gets due to him gaining a third again his body weight over the last year no that is not all fur Tumbleweed you are shaped like a pregnant sheep!
He has spent much of the day stomping from room to room while yelling his immense displeasure.
is everything okay? You disappeared and I'm scared, don't want something bad happening to my favorite writer.
oh bless your heart 😭 I’ve been dealing with some health issues, but I’m okay! I’ve been distracted and all over the place but I’m not giving up writing! I’m slowly writing one paragraph at a time (nearly finished three!) and will start uploading again soon 🩵 thank you so much for your concern, it’s really brightened my day
girl who wont shut up about how she "loves a man in uniform" but as she keeps talking it becomes clear she's talking about butches in customer service jobs
cant tell you how bad it feels to constantly tell other artists to come to tumblr, because its the last good website that isn't fucked up by spoonfeeding algorithms and AI bullshit and isn't based around meaningless likes
just to watch that all fall apart in the last year or so and especially the last two weeks
there's nowhere good to go anymore for artists.
edit - a lot of people are saying the tags are important so actually, you'll look at my tags.
#please dont delete your accounts because of the AI crap. your art deserves more than being lost like that #if you have a good PC please glaze or nightshade it. if you dont or it doesnt work with your style (like mine) please start watermarking #use a plain-ish font. make it your username. if people can't google what your watermark says and find ur account its not a good watermark #it needs to be central in the image - NOT on the canvas edges - and put it in multiple places if you are compelled #please dont stop posting your art because of this shit. we just have to hope regulations will come slamming down on these shitheads#in the next year or two and you want to have accounts to come back to. the world Needs real art #if we all leave that just makes more room for these scam artists to fill in with their soulless recycled garbage #improvise adapt overcome. it sucks but it is what it is for the moment. safeguard yourself as best you can without making #years of art from thousands of artists lost media. the digital world and art is too temporary to hastily click a Delete button out of spite