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Hello again, Gemini. It's been a hot minute, huh? Didn't really get me writing like I hoped it would, haha.
That's the question, isn't it.
A lot of reading, actually. A friend of mine pushed Bradon Sanderson's Stormlight Archives on me (as heavily as he could from 600 miles away). He said it was, "A self help book disguised as a fantasy series," and I hate to say it but he was completely right. Go read them. Right now. I started /running/ again. *And* sketching.
Anyway, the series is 4 books at present and they're over a thousand pages each. I started the first one in May and I finished number 4 about a week ago. That's over 4000 pages in 6 months, and that's absolutely insane for someone who hadn't finished a single book for almost ten years until a few months before. (The trick is to fill every extra moment with a few pages. You get through it eventually. [The second trick is to read books that you like and which are good, the former being much more important than the latter.])
As I mentioned, I've been running again. For me, this is interval sprinting, with lots of walking in between intervals. This is because I am out of shape, and have never been "in shape" - I was a nerdy sedentary child who grew up to be a nerdy sedentary adult - all the better that I've begun an exercise regimen I enjoy, then. I still have trouble with the regularity of the activity, but the fact that I'm doing it at all - and still doing it, after several months - is what I find important.
Sketching is, likewise, a project I'm having issues with regularity on but still have managed to keep the habit going. I began a sketchbook back in June, and I added another page just today. I don't know if I'm actually getting any better at drawing, but I've read that building confidence in the pen strokes is imporant even if composition and shape are imperfect. There's always time to practice new techniques later.
I broke my wrist in late July. My first ever broken bone! It happened at work, so I was lucky enough to get covered by worker's comp for my time off healing (and, of course, the hospital visits - good ol' U S of A :eyeroll: ). It healed pretty quick, at least the bone itself. I'm still dealing with muscle pain and limited range of motion, but it's improving every week.
My laptop, Skoll, has kicked the bucket. I spilled wine on the keyboard like a true warrior and it no longer turns on. A sad loss, but I have a desktop computer I was able to pull out of storage (and which I'm sure I gave a name to at some point; I'll have to figure out what it was).
I got back into sex work last month, albeit not the full-service I have experience doing. No, this time I've engaged the latest popular method, which I affectionately refer to as "simp sites". OnlyFans is probably the most well-known, but there are others; the few I'm using are actually specifically designed for sex work, so the big OF scare of a few months ago are essentially impossible on these. I have yet to turn an income, but I understand that my knowledge of how to advertise this type of thing is highly lacking. Learning new skills is Fun, though. (Dwarf Fortress taught me that. I should play a new round of DF when I'm done writing this.)
I'm still working on the massive blanket I'm knitting for my friend. I wanted to have it done by his birthday last month, but as I said, I broke my wrist, so that put a halt on my work. Maybe I'll have it done for the winter holidays. It's freaking *huge*. And heavy - I keep thinking about getting him a weighted blanket, but honestly, I don't think I'll need to.
Oh, and I turned 30 two weeks ago. :celebration emoji?: Didn't ever think I'd live this long. Now that I have, I've decided to refuse to die. :)
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