I did manage to edit the first 4 chapters of Darwin & the Halfling Hunt.  Just happened to get completed on Thursday when I took a day off from work for a few doctor visits.  This story moves faster than I remembered, but the whole thing revolves around Darwin being chased across a continent, ocean, and more.  Throughout, he has to complete a special quest alongside some unique new allies.  One had a secret that is made obvious from the start, but only if people read Legends of Windemere.  These series are supposed to be connected, so I need to have connections.  With any luck, I can get more editing done this week once the break starts.

Speaking of Legends of Windemere, I noticed a few reviews disappear.  Good to see I can’t gain any new ones, but the old ones can vanish.  Think a few vanished on all of my books too.  At this point, it isn’t even kicking me when I’m down.  More like poking a corpse since I can’t get any momentum.  At least I’m having fun editing when I have the energy.

That’s the health issue going on too.  The weather going from warm to cold didn’t help, but there’s been odd timings for about a year.  As soon as I reach a weekend or break, I wake up feeling like I’m about to die.  Lethargy, headaches, body aches, funky blood oxygen levels, fatigue, vertigo, and the list goes on.  Since I got myself tested for a few things recently, I realized this round wasn’t caused by a disease.  I stumbled onto the concept of ‘leisure sickness’, which is supposedly when a person under a lot of stress gets a day to relax and their body takes on illness symptoms.  Basically, the adrenaline being used to get through work/life stresses goes away and the body realizes its in bad shape.  The person can even catch real diseases because their immune system might just plunge into the red zone.  Definitely sounds like what keeps happening to me and why I’m not as productive on weekends as I used to be.

Work has been crazy in a way that I can’t explain.  Definitely ending most days dragging myself back home.  Last week and this week had special events too, which throws our kids off at times.  Next week is only 3 days before Easter Break.  I’m sure that’s going to be rather chaotic at times.  At least it’s only 3 days, so I should be able to muscle through the whole thing.  I’m signing up to help with a special basketball team as TA support in April and May, which means even more mayhem.  Guess my editing will take place primarily over the summer at this rate.

Nothing else of major importance happened this week.  I think.  My son and I used our time to watch the original 2 Ghostbusters movies and ‘Afterlife’ in order to prepare for ‘Frozen Empire’ tonight.  Been a long time since we went to the movies, so we’re both excited.  I’m also nearing the end of ‘Resident Alien’ Season 2 on Netflix.  That’s a fun show, but it took me a while to really get into it.  For some reason, I’m enjoying season 2 more and I think it’s because the alien gets to be more mouthy with the humans.  It’s funnier.  Not a popular opinion from what I’ve seen though.

With the break coming up, I’m hoping to relax and get some work done.  Thursday is an outing into NYC to meet up with friends.  Might end up being a birthday thing on some level for me since that’s coming up.  After that, I hope to get more editing done since it’s supposed to be cold.  If I can get a minimum of 7 chapters edited then I’ll be making great progress.  Darwin & the Halfling Hunt has 19 chapters and getting the remaining number into single digits would be great.  Maybe get all of the May blog posts done too and pick another anime to watch.  I want to pick a shorter anime because ‘Great Teacher Onizuka’ debuts on Netflix on April 1st.  Doubt that sentence makes sense to most people reading this.

Only other thing this week had was a rice bowl failure.  Broccoli did not work because it got too mushy.  It’ll be on the ‘no’ list with sugar snap peas.  So, the only rice bowl combos that are working are edamame, roasted corn, pickled baby corn, and pineapple with the constants of tofu and pickled ginger.  I can’t think of anything else to try, but maybe it’s enough.  I’m doing these more than the salads because the yield is less and I keep having short work weeks.  I mean, it’s a 3 day, 4 day, 4 day, 5 day, and then spring break. Kind of wild.

Goals of the week?

1. Ghostbusters, Pokemon Go, and relaxing with son this weekend.
2. Edit more Darwin & the Halfling Hunt
3. Get May blog posts done.
4. Guess work should be on the list.
5. Thursday outing with friends.  I heard Chinatown mentioned.
6. Finish watching ‘Resident Alien’.
7. Start watching something else.
8. Try to stay warm since winter decided to stick around.
9. Work on a puzzle when need a break from screen or page.