Building a new organizer for my files and sorting through old drafts of my novels, plus a trip to the Renaissance Fair, and back to work at the office on an ordinary day.
Category: quiet day diaries
video: quiet days vlog 67 – visiting an arts festival, migraine day in the life, and a vulnerable moment
This is a long one, so buckle-up.
A visit to the Coconut Grove Arts Festival, a migraine day in the life, coffee experiments, and a long, vulnerable, teary rant.
video: quiet days 66 – days in the life – New Years outings, loss, & Art of the Brick exhibit
January was a tough one, and it took me longer than I expected to find the will to edit this vlog. It’s a short one, but it covers the overall mood of the month – starting with the highs, lows, and a general sense of calm after loss.
This was posted to YT about two weeks ago. Follow my channel for up-to-date posts 😅
video: quiet days vlog [ep. 64] outings in Oct & Nov – kite festival, Goldcoast Railroad Museum, Superblue
Out and about in Miami… outings in late October and early November during a brief staycation. Kites, historical trains, and interactive art experiences.
video: quiet days vlog 63 – life, writing, new hair, and pumpkins! 🎃
video: quiet days vlog [ep.62] 🌩️ cracked windshield fiasco, water water everywhere, and cats (again)
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- quiet days [ep.60] 😷🤧 sick week and recovery vlog
- quiet days [ep.61] 🖼️🐈 Miami staycation featuring Van Gogh experience, cat cafe, pancakes, & more
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video: quiet days – ep. 59 🤕 a chatty day in the life with migraine
quiet day diaries: week of January 24
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Saturday – Sunday
I started so many of these in the last two months and failed to post them. In short, I’m burned out. All my creative juices are flowing towards edits, but my general mood is one of exhaustion, particularly at day job. I’m just managing to work on the stuff I need to check off, not much mental space left for distant goals.
I’m not sure how much longer this feeling will last. It started before the pandemic and has gotten worse since.
In an effort to take control of some aspect of my life, I started a No/Low Buy for 2022 and will be documenting it on my channel.
I am also finding new ways to engage in non-spending activities at home.
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in memoriam
of a very good boy
Oreo was my pandemic cat. A sweet street cat who experienced several traumatic infections between 2019 and 2020. He was around 6 years old based on my mom’s neuter records, but we’re not sure the day he was born (his mom brought him when he was a few weeks old).
I adopted him a few months after losing Caramelo in October 2020. I wasn’t ready to adopt a cat, but I didn’t want to risk his having a third infection (they were brutal, turned into massive, hard to treat abscesses, and required surgery), so I brought him home and hoped for the best, knowing that he might be a hospice case.
After so long, I thought he was clear, but his heart was too big. He was so big-hearted, his little body couldn’t keep up. We lost him on October 30th at 3am, a year to the day I adopted him.
quiet day diaries: a catch-up
This month started on the wrong foot and kept hobbling along. Among the disasters were several incidents involving my job and the place where I work in general, including an active shooter threat in my building, which led to a lot of stress and anxiety as admin tried to keep it quiet to avoid panic on campus. No update yet on who wrote the note, but the threat hangs over us.
This week, I got my covid booster, and it knocked me out. Simultaneously, my tuxedo cat went into a respiratory crisis overnight. As I write this, I don’t know what will happen or what his prognosis will look like. I’m anxious and feeling a terrible sense of dread and deja vu after what happened to my last two cats.
In happier news, I made an update to the writing progress series on my channel
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