Mood: Content.
Song of the day:
I honestly don’t think my mood would be where it is had I not found this song in my liked songs today. It’s just one of those things that makes me feel closer to that innocent, care-free state that so many kids are taught to forget by a certain age. This said, here are my latest musings.
My most recent endeavor regarding the blog has been figuring out how to make the normal author archive page not display what the normal author archive page usually displays (mine showed older posts and was consequently boring). With the help of Google, I finally took the leap and followed the suggestion that both seemed reasonable and ended up showing up a lot during my research. It admittedly was a matter of installing a plugin and doing a quick copy/paste job, but I got it to work as I desired. Now, my author page bounces people to my About page whenever they click my name.
While attempting not to pull my hair out trying to figure out a way to fix my author archive page, I also came to a relatively satisfactory decision on what method I was going to automatically have these posts sent to Mastodon, my social media platform of choice. I think I mentioned this line of thought briefly in my last post, come to think of it. I was debating last time on whether or not I wanted to change plugins, even after that last post was sent, but I’ve pretty much come to peace with how this particular setup works. I don’t know how the more advance things work yet, but the basic things are enough for me at present.
Unrelatedly, I walked the edge of writing a post about how I felt regarding the upcoming meeting with my partner in May. Work completely broke that particular thought line, though, which was annoying at best. That said, The desire to write about that particular topic is still present. I just don’t have the energy or focus right now.
Speaking of work, I don’t have the same job I did during the early days I was posting up here. I now take customer satisfaction surveys on behalf of various banks and credit unions. It’s a remote job and a steady $12 an hour, so long as I’m on the phone. It’s much more solid as far as work volume, and the only thing that makes that volume any less is my ability to keep the set number of hours I have set for myself. I struggle with this off and on, but the freelance transcription and proofreading I do in conjunction with this helps supplement things when my energy levels and/or emotional state is less than stellar.
Well, as I feel this post is getting boring and I’m not quite focused enough to continue rambling, I’m going to close this here. I’m still working on finding that energy I started this blog out with, but that will come in time. I’ve been through quite a lot over the past nearly four years, and the impact of these experiences has made it difficult to maintain connection with those things I enjoy. I’m having to rediscover things that I ended up putting aside and reawaken other things that I ended up putting to sleep for the sake of everyone else.
I’ve recently started taking a mood stabilizer, which has really helped eliminate the constant mind chatter and resulting physical reactions. This has definitely made things more manageable, and I’m feeling far less tempted to just not bother. I’m not one to give up once I’ve dug my heals in, and the medication has given me just enough of a boost to keep the clouds from completely overwhelming everything. All in all, I’m slowly, steadily finding my way back to stable ground. It’s with this in mind that I would like to encourage you to keep on keeping on. There is always a way out of the dark, and we are worth it.
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