I didn’t have a good week in terms of health.  Allergies, post nasal drip, and not sleeping well combined to make me limp through Thursday and Friday.  That’s why I’m writing this Friday night because I don’t know if I’m sleeping through all of Saturday or not.  Probably shouldn’t, but we’ll see what happens.

Glancing at my goals for this week, my simplicity made this a successful time.  I only wrote one December blog post and biked once because I did a lot more Pokemon Go outings than expected.  That might be why I felt so tired.  Well, the breaking of my oral appliance before I got the CPAP yesterday didn’t help.  Still, I can’t say the week was a wash and I got a decent amount of accomplished.  With any luck, this weekend will see me with more energy and I can add finishing a chapter of Darwin & the Beast Collector to the list.

I’m bouncing around a bit because I don’t really know what I’m going to be like when I wake up on Saturday.  As I said, I finally got a CPAP machine, so I’m using it for the first time.  It’s not what I expected.  It requires distilled water and I had to get the full face mask due to the way I sleep.  I’ve been told that it will take 2 weeks to get used to everything, but also that I could end up getting a perfect night of sleep right away.  There are a lot of morning maintenance things too, which will make workdays rather difficult.  I ordered some CPAP wipes to help there, but I still need to pack everything away before leaving for work.  We’ll see how this goes since I don’t know how deep a sleep I’m going to be getting.

As much as I want to get 2 chapters of Darwin & the Beast Collector done this weekend, I’ll be happy with one.  I’m at the start of the third act, so the next 3 chapters all have 4 sections.  The final 2 chapters have 3 a piece.  This means, I should finish by the end of November the latest.  Doing two sections on a Saturday and 2 on a Sunday should be fine.  If my energy and focus improves with the CPAP machine then I’ll start being able to write during a few weeknights or get back up to 3 sections on Saturday and Sunday.  Be nice to get my old energy and mojo again.  Hard to tell if it will happen because my sinuses are still a problem.

Oh!  I almost forgot about what I did with my son last Sunday night.  Since Monday was a day off, we went to the Bronx Zoo for a nighttime pumpkin event.  They had a trail with pumpkins emblazoned with animals.  Don’t really think they were real pumpkins, but I could be wrong.  Here’s a few of my favorite pictures:

There weren’t any real animals like we thought, but it was still a lot of fun.  Totally worth staying up until close to midnight.  It was the highlight of last weekend since Saturday was raining (homework time) and Monday was sleeping in then appointments.  We still got in enough Pokemon Go to get our exercise and accomplish tasks.  Maybe my son not being around is why I tend to not have much energy or focus on the weekends he’s not here.  I’ll have to think about that one.

Life event is still going on, which is another reason for stress.  Going to be a long month with that continuing.  I’m trying to distract myself with reading manga and watching some anime.  Technically, I do this anyway, but I’m rationalizing my actions that don’t involve writing now.  Whatever gets me through the worst of it.

This coming week is going to be more of the same.  The next two weeks have a bunch of appointments and meetings too.  It’s crazy that the life event is moving so rapidly while all this other stuff is going on.  Feels like I don’t have enough time to focus or breathe with everything going on.  If it isn’t an appointment for me, it’s one for my son.  It’s a struggle just to carve out a small about of quality time with him and resting time for myself.  Makes my head spin at times.  That’s why I’m not trying to push book writing as much as I would like.  I’d run myself ragged and either have to take a longer break from my books or put out terrible quality sections.  Best to accomplish what I can and hope there’s a point in the future where I have the time, energy, and health to get back into author form.

So, what are the goals of the week?

1. Write some Darwin & the Beast Collector.
2. Time with son for school and fun.
3. Biking and walking.
4. Appointments . . . Ugh.
5. Get used to the CPAP.
6. Keep eating salads.
7. Work on December blog posts.
8. Figure out more Sunday post topics.
9. Keep the pain on the inside.