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In Which I Have an Exhausting Weekend
Oct. 28th, 2018 10:10 pmSo Kimberly's on the road to recovery from her foot surgery, but I stayed home this weekend to ensure that she got any support she needed. It's really not been that much work. She's needed stuff sherpa-ed around, but that's been the case for the last year, just at a slightly higher rate of need this week.
Except that it's taken slightly more energy staying ahead of her, making sure that I suggest ice for her foot and food for her stomach from time to time. And it's taken slightly more emotional energy keeping track of how she's doing. But the most exhausting days were probably Thursday and Friday when she was still largely incoherent, and those were over with by the time we hit the exhausting weekend.
Also exhausting: the large-scale disruption to routine. I did take out an hour for a walk up the hill and back yesterday and about the same for a walk to Trader Joe's today. But for the most part I've been hanging out at home, and that's really stretched out the day without any of my normal recreation.
Part of that has probably also been that I've been heading upstairs in the early evening, after Kimberly decides that she's likely down for the night. So it's like I get a whole extra evening on top of the regular evening, where I hang out in bed with the cats and read and write.
And the cats continue to need extra food care. Wet food three times a day, plus dry food for Lucy whenever she requests it.
And I had horrible allergies Friday and Saturday, leaving me with a throbbing head and light-headedness all day!
And, I've had a lot of writing that I had piled up for this weekend, and that's surely added to the feeling of busyness and exhaustion. I finally listed it all out for myself yesterday, because I was afraid of losing track of it, and I realized that I had four projects that I wanted to complete, or at least move as far as I could toward completion, this weekend.
Mechanics & Meeples required my second article on decision making, which I had notes on, but which turned out to be 2k of writing. That one's done at least.
Designers & Dragons needed my next article, a look at Art & Arcana. I got a draft of that, which still needs some editing and pictures.
Designers & Dragons also needed some work on my FFG history update, the last of my revisions for the German translation, where I finally got some notes back on it this weekend. I got through all the notes, am going back and forth on a few questions, and then it's off to a final edit.
Bitmark has been requiring some work on a few different blog articles that I'm working on. One is done, and another is scheduled for the next few evenings.
So, I actually still have a decent amount to do on these, but it feels like the bulk is done as I have at least complete drafts on everything.
I did leave the house for a few hours this evening. (Kimberly slept while I was gone.) The Art & Arcana crew was in town, and the hope was to hang out for a bit, but they got called away to something else. I very briefly met Jon, Michael, and Kyle, and then they were off. But then Jayson Elliot (TSR Games), Jason Thompson (beautiful D&D maps and other stuff) and I hung out at Jupiter for a while and talked. They seem like good folks, and it was nice connecting to some locals that I'd only chatted with online in the past.
This coming week things hopefully start to quiet down. Callisto is having her check-up in about 12 hours, then I hope to to return the cats to normal free-feeding. Kimberly is doing better day by day and has her first follow-up on Wednesday. (I meanwhile should have glasses arriving on Thursday, so it's totally a week of follow-ups.)
Hopefully by Wednesday and Thursday I can return to Endgame and a PACG game at my house, then also hopefully, a more relaxing weekend next week this time.
Except that it's taken slightly more energy staying ahead of her, making sure that I suggest ice for her foot and food for her stomach from time to time. And it's taken slightly more emotional energy keeping track of how she's doing. But the most exhausting days were probably Thursday and Friday when she was still largely incoherent, and those were over with by the time we hit the exhausting weekend.
Also exhausting: the large-scale disruption to routine. I did take out an hour for a walk up the hill and back yesterday and about the same for a walk to Trader Joe's today. But for the most part I've been hanging out at home, and that's really stretched out the day without any of my normal recreation.
Part of that has probably also been that I've been heading upstairs in the early evening, after Kimberly decides that she's likely down for the night. So it's like I get a whole extra evening on top of the regular evening, where I hang out in bed with the cats and read and write.
And the cats continue to need extra food care. Wet food three times a day, plus dry food for Lucy whenever she requests it.
And I had horrible allergies Friday and Saturday, leaving me with a throbbing head and light-headedness all day!
And, I've had a lot of writing that I had piled up for this weekend, and that's surely added to the feeling of busyness and exhaustion. I finally listed it all out for myself yesterday, because I was afraid of losing track of it, and I realized that I had four projects that I wanted to complete, or at least move as far as I could toward completion, this weekend.
Mechanics & Meeples required my second article on decision making, which I had notes on, but which turned out to be 2k of writing. That one's done at least.
Designers & Dragons needed my next article, a look at Art & Arcana. I got a draft of that, which still needs some editing and pictures.
Designers & Dragons also needed some work on my FFG history update, the last of my revisions for the German translation, where I finally got some notes back on it this weekend. I got through all the notes, am going back and forth on a few questions, and then it's off to a final edit.
Bitmark has been requiring some work on a few different blog articles that I'm working on. One is done, and another is scheduled for the next few evenings.
So, I actually still have a decent amount to do on these, but it feels like the bulk is done as I have at least complete drafts on everything.
I did leave the house for a few hours this evening. (Kimberly slept while I was gone.) The Art & Arcana crew was in town, and the hope was to hang out for a bit, but they got called away to something else. I very briefly met Jon, Michael, and Kyle, and then they were off. But then Jayson Elliot (TSR Games), Jason Thompson (beautiful D&D maps and other stuff) and I hung out at Jupiter for a while and talked. They seem like good folks, and it was nice connecting to some locals that I'd only chatted with online in the past.
This coming week things hopefully start to quiet down. Callisto is having her check-up in about 12 hours, then I hope to to return the cats to normal free-feeding. Kimberly is doing better day by day and has her first follow-up on Wednesday. (I meanwhile should have glasses arriving on Thursday, so it's totally a week of follow-ups.)
Hopefully by Wednesday and Thursday I can return to Endgame and a PACG game at my house, then also hopefully, a more relaxing weekend next week this time.