Legends of Windemere

(For anyone annoyed that I used this theme song instead of the Japanese one, you need to understand something.  ‘Rock the Dragon’ was the first intro I heard when I got introduced to the series in college.  I love the others, but this has a special place in my memory banks as the ‘first one’.  I also find it funny how it was for the Dragon Ball Z series when most of the footage is from ‘Tree of Might’ and ‘World’s Strongest’ movies.  For anyone who wonders why I picked this, Akira Toriyama (creator of DB and inspiration for millions) passed away this week.  All of the manga and anime that I love wouldn’t exist without him.)

The title pretty much says it all.  Not sure what’s been going on, but I haven’t been feeling great.  It isn’t a sick feeling, but really off, especially in the morning.  My blood oxygen level one morning was 90 after waking up, which means it probably dipped into the 80’s at some point.  Had a few dizzy spells and one day where I didn’t have any appetite until dinner time.  I have been stressed a lot and tests showed no presence the usual suspects (flu, strep, covid, etc.), which means my anxiety might be rising.  Strangest part is that I’m not having more than 0.7 apnea events per hour when I sleep, but I wake up like I did when I had tons of them.  Only major difference besides a massive leap in stress/anxiety is I went from 500 mg to 1,500 mg of ashwagandha before sleep.  This was starting to happen beforehand though, but maybe I’ll take half a dose tonight to see if I feel any better in the morning.

Could be the weather too since it’s been rainy . . . That would be a lingering gift from my two bouts of Covid.  Joy.

Sadly, the state of my mind and body made me push back the start of editing Darwin & the Halfling Hunt.  I’ll try to tackle it either next week if I feel better or next weekend when I don’t have anything planned.  I did finish typing in the edits of Darwin & the Fate Bracelet.  Having that under my belt is good.  I probably could have started editing, but I wanted to be fresh of mind and that wasn’t happening.  The book has 19 chapters and I can usually do 2 a day if I have nothing else and I’m in decent health.  This is all hand-editing too, which takes longer since I see the changes alongside the previous stuff instead of the old being replaced like on a computer.  Kind of sad that I stopped doing this way back even though it saved on ink and paper.  Another reason I need to work on getting my own printer in my room, which requires making space.

That will segue into the other event that stopped me from editing last weekend.  I have a large, spinning DVD stand that holds about 400 DVDS.  It takes up a lot of space and I don’t watch them any more since I have streaming.  I’d love to put a small table with a printer in its place, which requires getting rid of stuff.  So, I got a plastic container to save the DVD’s that I refuse to part with for sentimental reasons or they are series you can’t find on streaming (Adventures of Brisco County Jr.).  Then, I typed up the list of what’s going to be sold in a garage sale or somewhere.  Took most of Sunday to do and now I’m kind of stuck wondering when the next stage will come.  We’ve been saying we’re going to do a garage sale for years and it never happens.  If it fails again this year then I’ll try to bring all of this to a place that might buy them all.

Doesn’t sound like I had the most exciting week.  The rest of the week was work, parenting, and . . . dealing with one of my top stressors.  Oh, I worked on the Mario Lego sets that my son never did since he’s switched to Pokemon Go.  At least it gives me something to do for a little destressing.  Wasn’t enough to stave off the worst of what was happening.  Things got really bad in a few arenas and some days they went off the rails on the same day.  Another reason I think I’m sliding into survival mode, which stops my brain from focusing on writing.  Need to figure out if I’m going to work this summer and my health will be the deciding factor.  Could use the money, but it won’t do me any good if I break myself.  Guess thinking of that is a big issue too.

That’s really it.  Didn’t get to watch much TV.  Going to be doing a bunch of Pokemon Go this weekend and check out a flower show with my son.  Probably post pictures from that on the next free Sunday, which might be April.  Going to be watching ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Ghostbusters II’ to prepare for the new movie that comes out the next weekend I have my son.  Then, the week is going to be the usual.  Parenting, work, trying to relax, and hopefully finishing the April blog posts.  There’s a big event going on all week at school, so our kids might be off since it changes schedules, makes a lot of noise, and can be generally disorienting.  Going to need a lot of rest . . . Oh, I have a training thing on Tuesday.  I almost forgot about that.

Goals of the week:

1. Rest and keep checking vitals.
2. Help son with school.
3. Start editing Darwin & the Halfling Hunt
4. Finish Lego sets.
5. Finish April blog posts.
6. Make chopped salad and rice bowl stuff for lunches.
7. Keep up the biking on days I don’t walk a lot for Pokemon Go.
8. Do whatever I’m forgetting to do at this moment.