Allergies suck
May. 2nd, 2020 08:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
milievaHonestly, this past week has been awful for my hayfever. I'm not even sure what in particular is bothering me at the moment aside from possibly everything. I know there are fields of flowers I am very allergic to blooming at the moment. Really big agricultural fields. Because it's awesome being allergic to something that is a common crop plant in your area. Also the house is a mess and I haven't hoovered enough recent, so not only is the carpet covered in cat fur and dust, the cats kick it all up into the air when they get excited and run about. I really need to do something about it, but just hoovering right now is making my eyes itch.
We did get a new air filter a few days ago. I opened it yesterday, and having two of them running in the house does seem to have helped a bit. My eyes stop stinging and I am able to breath again.
The past two years have been rough for my allergies, and I am thinking that might have to do with a number of factors, that include one of the medications I am on. Even with my usual hayfever medication, it's just difficult.
I still really need to get back to work on deep cleaning the house again. But I need to do it in smaller chunks than I want to. When I get super focused on it and work too hard, I regret it for several days afterward, as my body is just not up to too much activity at once. So I have to decide what I want to do in a day. This is why I keep trying to make myself focus my writing energies earlier in the day, so I can get some words out and not feel like I've failed to write anything by the end of the day. Especially because the end of my day is rather early since I start my day rather early, thanks to the cats. (I was hoping to sleep in a bit today, but guess who woke me up at 5:50AM.)
There's not much else I can think of at the moment, but I thought I would try to keep this better updated, and also start including writing updates over here again rather than overloading my author's notes on AO3. I may waver back and forth between posting them on a regular entry or by themselves, but here's what my writing has looked like this month:
The past month, I've been working on From Guru to House-Husband almost exclusively. I honestly have been struggling to find the concentration to work on anything else. I'd say that it's because this is light and fluffy and complete nonsense, but I've actually done a ridiculous amount of research for it. Though, a lot of the research has involved planning an over the top fictional wedding, so... that could be part of why it's been a lot of fun.
I had planned to work on one of my books (working title: Tea Corner) for camp NaNo this past month, but I just couldn't find the interest or concentration for it, and given the current state of life the universe and everything, might as well just play with a project that is amusing me, and is amusing everyone else. But the book does have several thousand words written and a pretty solid outline, so it should exist at some point. Hopefully toward the end of the year if I get things sorted out right. I just keep getting stuck on certain little bits of it.
I'm currently managing some good chunks of the next fic in Guru to HouseHusband, and I hope to start posting it in another week or so, but I want to have the full draft finished first. It's going to be multi-chaptered, but it's not super long.
I've had a look at Sanctuary this week, and I need to find the outline for the next chapter. We're still in the bit that wandered off a little from the original outline, so there is not much written already for the next chapter unlike some previous and later chapters that have a number of scenes written in fits of inspiration and for various NaNoWriMos. There's a lot of plotty stuff happening in this bit, and I keep getting a headache when I'm trying to sort it all out.
We did get a new air filter a few days ago. I opened it yesterday, and having two of them running in the house does seem to have helped a bit. My eyes stop stinging and I am able to breath again.
The past two years have been rough for my allergies, and I am thinking that might have to do with a number of factors, that include one of the medications I am on. Even with my usual hayfever medication, it's just difficult.
I still really need to get back to work on deep cleaning the house again. But I need to do it in smaller chunks than I want to. When I get super focused on it and work too hard, I regret it for several days afterward, as my body is just not up to too much activity at once. So I have to decide what I want to do in a day. This is why I keep trying to make myself focus my writing energies earlier in the day, so I can get some words out and not feel like I've failed to write anything by the end of the day. Especially because the end of my day is rather early since I start my day rather early, thanks to the cats. (I was hoping to sleep in a bit today, but guess who woke me up at 5:50AM.)
There's not much else I can think of at the moment, but I thought I would try to keep this better updated, and also start including writing updates over here again rather than overloading my author's notes on AO3. I may waver back and forth between posting them on a regular entry or by themselves, but here's what my writing has looked like this month:
Writing Updates:
The past month, I've been working on From Guru to House-Husband almost exclusively. I honestly have been struggling to find the concentration to work on anything else. I'd say that it's because this is light and fluffy and complete nonsense, but I've actually done a ridiculous amount of research for it. Though, a lot of the research has involved planning an over the top fictional wedding, so... that could be part of why it's been a lot of fun.
I had planned to work on one of my books (working title: Tea Corner) for camp NaNo this past month, but I just couldn't find the interest or concentration for it, and given the current state of life the universe and everything, might as well just play with a project that is amusing me, and is amusing everyone else. But the book does have several thousand words written and a pretty solid outline, so it should exist at some point. Hopefully toward the end of the year if I get things sorted out right. I just keep getting stuck on certain little bits of it.
I'm currently managing some good chunks of the next fic in Guru to HouseHusband, and I hope to start posting it in another week or so, but I want to have the full draft finished first. It's going to be multi-chaptered, but it's not super long.
I've had a look at Sanctuary this week, and I need to find the outline for the next chapter. We're still in the bit that wandered off a little from the original outline, so there is not much written already for the next chapter unlike some previous and later chapters that have a number of scenes written in fits of inspiration and for various NaNoWriMos. There's a lot of plotty stuff happening in this bit, and I keep getting a headache when I'm trying to sort it all out.
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Date: 2020-05-04 11:02 pm (UTC)BTW - how did you code that fancy header for your writing updates? On my journal format it looks the same as my sidebar heading.
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Date: 2020-05-06 07:59 am (UTC)Oh, the "writing updates" is just coded with an H3. Mostly I wanted something big and bold. I didn't think about what it would do with various themes... I just had a look on your reading page and that's funny. That's just me being too lazy to choose a font size to code or bother with typing out 'strong' to bold it.