Back from the Void

The online game that I played had a thing where if you didn’t send in any commands for a long enough period, it would idle you out. Your character was sent to a special room named “The Void”. Before you hit a second time-out point, your next command would put you back into playing mode and send the message that “You have returned from the void.” That’s how I feel right now.

The past week has been rough. It was bad enough to have DS home sick all last week, but to have the Romance Divas forums and chat room also inaccessible was pure hell. You really don’t realize how much you come to rely on certain routines until they’re not there. Thank goodness they switched providers and have let the addicts back in. How am I supposed to de-stress when there’s no de-stress outlet?

Have you ever noticed that once you’re used to a certain amount of procrastination in certain ways, that when it’s removed you can’t function because your routine has been upset? That’s how I’ve felt since it’s been down. I did get some work done, but not a lot. Although one of the other gals offered her forum’s chat space, it had a time-out restriction and that wasn’t very helpful for challenges. It’s hard to stay motivated when you’re always having to pull yourself back in from the void.

What?! I could have caught up on all that RL stuff, you say?! The boy put a serious crimp in my style by staying home. I did get one important set of errands done in the 2 hours he made it to school on Friday. I’m now fighting to convince the girl that she needs to go to school all this week because she doesn’t have a fever or nausea and congestion is just an inconvenience. We still need to decorate the tree now that we have it. Tonight: scouts Weds: martial arts Thurs: DS’s 4th grade Holiday Chorus Fri: martial arts again… Yeah… maybe Santa will do it for us…

I’m still about 6 or 7 pages from the end of the rewrite on Revealed. It’s still sitting at 39, 595 words. I may have to break down and read it before I finish it, just to make sure it’s part of a whole instead of a little dangly bit tacked on at the end.

Anyway, sorry for going so long without an update, there hasn’t been much to update on. I have been doing my daily entries, but nothing too exciting in them. Which reminds me… I still need to write one for today!