Yule Recovery Time!

[nonesensed]

I'm finally truly slowing down here at the end of the year. We've got seven days left of 2025 and I hope everyone is having a good end of the year. I certainly am! Vacation is here at last and I can recover from all the things I've put myself through since January 😅

Yeah, this did not end up being the self-care year I had planned. At all. In fact, I've not worked this much overtime since I had my old, shitty job that gave me actual burnout. Wheee. Everything that could go wrong at work definitely did, this year (in ways that no one could help).

Will absolutely aim to take things slow for a long while and to NOT do this to myself again. My loudest wake-up call was now in December when two massages therapists, independent of each other, made the O_O-face when assessing me. Going to take a while to recover but it is doable. I just need plenty of rest.

BUT! I still managed to write 50k words on one of my book projects during November and I finished my Yuletide fic in time, so all is not terrible by any means of the word. And I have plenty of personal plans for next year, to prevent myself from taking on too much work or "work" (+ I've had everyone who would be "picking up my slack" agree to not overwork themselves either, which is the biggest win of this year for me!)🩵🩵🩵

Speaking of Yuletide, I got this wonderful Bioshock Infinite fic 💖Highly recommended!

Comments

[flamingsword]

I have been having a lot of luck with my list of 20 self care things and a dice rolling app, both helpfully located on my phone. I don’t get bored of doing self care things and I have an alarm to tell me to do the thing. Easy! Well … easier than trying to do it by memory, anyway.

I’m sure the internet has other good ideas for such things.