Last week was not what I expected, to say the least. My energy and focus, and therefore my productivity, basically fell off a cliff with the drop in hormones during that part of my cycle. It shouldn’t have surprised me because it has happened every month since I’ve started tracking it, but I had hoped to be able to continue using the break method I’d found to be so effective the week before.
So much for that.
And on Friday, we got some especially bad news: My husband was let go from his job, which had started out as a contract-to-hire position but there were never any open positions for him. So now he’s back to job hunting, after a little over a year at that job.
It’s a little more stressful this time, since our finances are in rougher shape. Our kitty’s care before she died last December had added to our debt, so we have more bills to cover now. Plus we also didn’t have the advantage of knowing in advance this time that the end was coming, so we weren’t able to prepare for the gap in pay as we had been last time.
I have been in a slow period with my own income, so I’m going to step things up and see if I can contribute a little more, which will unfortunately cut into my time cleaning and organizing around the house. Fortunately, my mom’s surgery was delayed a week, so I have until later in September now to get the house ready.
Last week was pretty dismal — about the only goal I met was my blogging and author IG posting goals, and a single day of working on novel research — so I’m going to forego the rundown this week. Hopefully this week will be more productive, and I’ll have more positive stuff to report next Monday.
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