I have another 5 day work stretch coming up in a few days and I’m really not looking forward to it. My heel has been in a lot more pain lately and I wish I could offer up one of my shifts for this week or next. I already asked them to drop me from 5 shifts a week down to 4 shifts, which is starting next week, but I have to work through this 5 day stretch first and I just know my foot is going to be in rough shape by the end of it. Knowing I’m dealing with a heel spur, I really wish they’d divide my shifts up more so I’m not working these long stretches at a time. Two days on, one day off would be ideal. Even 3 days I could tolerate but 4-5+ is when it really starts to get hard.
I have a podiatrist appointment in January, which I think it just going to be an initial meeting where I’ll tell him about the pain I’ve been experiencing, and ideally, I’m hoping to be scheduled for surgery to have the spur removed. If/when this happens, I’ll likely get 3-4 weeks off of work to heal – which, despite being painful, I’m really looking forward to going on a paid medical leave and having a break for awhile. I miss having more time to work on my site. I haven’t had much of that lately. I feel like all I do is work and the rest of the time is spent doing mostly pointless things. I have been dedicating a bit of time each day though to doing small web features on Facebook, and promoting it where I can, so that’s something, but it’s not really improving my own space any, and I just really enjoy actively making stuff here. It’s my creative outlet.
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Lately I’ve been debating on what I want to do with the Library subdomain. I’ll keep it, but I was kind of using it as a bookish social network but I don’t know that I have the time or energy to really grow and promote it. I kind of started it with the idea in mind that members of the webring could use it and interact with others in the book ring, share our current reads, and it would kind of be a book club community or sorts. But I guess I don’t really want to put effort into promoting it until I have time to really be consistent with it, because I haven’t even been using it. And I guess that’s in part due to the fact I haven’t had time as much time to read lately either, and what I’m currently reading hasn’t really ‘hooked’ me in yet. I’m currently reading When The Moon Hatched, and it’s good so far. The writing is beautiful, but I’m not really hooked to it yet. There are some books that hook me almost from the beginning, and there are other books that take awhile to get me to that point, and there are some books that just don’t do it for me at all. So, I guess we’ll see where on the scale this one lands as I get further into it. I’m around 100 pages in so far.
I also just bought another book order from Book Outlet. They had a bunch of books I’ve had my eye on for awhile. I completed one of my Lucy Score series, I was only missing one book from it. I also bought a bunch of popular books from Ana Huang which I’m looking forward to reading. I didn’t care much for her Twisted Love book, surprisingly. It wasn’t bad, but I didn’t feel like it was something I’d necessarily want to read again, but I might get it again now that I have the rest of the books. We’ll see. I’ll read the rest of the series first and then decide if it’s a series I want to hang onto or resell. My general rule for keeping books is that I’ll only keep them if I loved it so much I would re-read it, so it would have to be a 4.5-5 star read, generally. That being said, I have a ridiculous TBR list that I don’t even know if I’ll read it all in my lifetime, and it just keeps on growing haha. But, I’m really thankful I’m in that position to be able to surround myself with things that bring me joy.
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Recently, my husband and I also started building up our physical media collection of DVDs. As the world moves more into making everything digital and subscription services, we’ve both come to realize how much we are collectively losing as a society; going digital for everything is really limiting. Streaming services are useful, but, I don’t want to have to rely on the internet grid to watch my favorite movies. I don’t want to have to pay someone a monthly fee when most of what I watch are my comfort shows that I basically just keep re-watching. We are also losing so much from DVD movies and shows that just aren’t provided in subscription services, such as behind the scenes, and bloopers, and the fun little extras. I just don’t think digitizing everything to the point we have to pay corporations monthly for the right to watch these things, when we could just purchase it once and watch it infinitely at home, makes much sense. And I guess I have the same mentality for books too. I love my Kobo Libra Colour, don’t get me wrong. It’s a fantastic piece of technology and I use it all the time, but it will never replace physical books, or smelling that brand new book smell, or the experience of flipping a page, or having a personal library filled with your favorite stories you can re-read. I like that we’re learning to rely less on corporations, subscription services, and advancing technology, and remembering why physical media is important to have instead for so many reasons. Once we move, I’d like to rely less and less on technology and just become more grounded, spend more time out in nature. I told my husband that when we move, I want to change careers and become a farmer lol. I want to have a homestead, with a garden filled with fruits, veggies, herbs and flowers. I might want to get into bee keeping and get some chickens. I want to learn how to can and preserve food, become more self sufficient. I truly, truly hate the 9-5 grind and have wanted to work from home for a long time. If my husband is willing to be the main provider, I could start up our homestead and do farmers markets, selling honey, eggs, maybe baked goods. I also thought about making essential oils and scented essential oil candles and maybe soaps, lotions, there’s so much I could do.
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Anyways, I’m rambling. This is a lot of word vomit. I just get excited about the future and moving to the next chapter of our lives, where we finally can have our own home. I’m excited. 🙂