I think it’s safe to say that I haven’t been myself lately.

Well, that I haven’t had the energy to be myself is more like it. I don’t think I’m learning to balance work and my blog as well as I thought I would. Honestly, how do you guys do it? How do you hold down a full-time job (or even a part-time) and have time for blogging as much as you do? It’s exhausting just thinking about it.

As many of you already know, my family and I have been blessed with two wonderful kittens, Tippy and Misha. I’ve spent the last two weeks constantly worrying over Tippy in particular, who it turns out had a low-grade fever. She’s got two more doses of antibiotics left, but she still isn’t eating as much as she should. I found out she hates wet food. Well, it’s going to be a long week, cause Amazon’s delivery service won’t be sending our food subscription for about 11 days, and we’re low on kibble. All that’s left is the wet food after that.

At any rate, my anxiety has gotten better with my new medication. I don’t mind being tired during the day as long as I can sleep at night. It’s an acceptable trade-off in my eyes. That being said, I do tend to take more naps now. This can be a pain when I have a ton of articles to do in a day, but whatever. I get them done, and my buyers are very understanding and awesome.

Also, I didn’t end up doing anything for Halloween because I was very much under the weather physically. And besides, what fun is Halloween for an adult if you can’t drink alcohol? My meds say I can’t, and I didn’t have an unused Halloween costume this year, so it was pretty pointless to go out (even though I could barely move because of cramps… I could have tried). It just sucks because it’s one of my favorite holidays and one of the few times where there are attractive men my age hanging around. I’m almost 30, you know. I’m halfway to being a crazy cat lady.

Speaking of cats, I started reading this awesome book my sister bought: Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cat Did What?: 101 Amazing Stories of Magical Moments, Miracles and… Mischief. (affiliate link) I can’t say that all of the stories are chicken soup for my soul… some of them made me want to cry and cuddle my cats to protect them from the imminent dangers they’ll face, but most of the stories are heartwarming and funny. I highly recommend it for anybody who loves reading cat stories. 🙂

At any rate, I feel like I’ve been able to get back on my feet a bit. I’ll hopefully be posting a little more now. I have yet to get back to reading other blogs (I still feel terrible about that), but I’m going to make an effort to get back to where I was. I just want you guys to know I love you and miss you! My readers and fellow bloggers make all of this worthwhile. You’ve been so good and supportive that I wish I could take you all out to a fancy dinner or buy you candy.

Lots of love,

Amber