Now to explain my absence as well as the pics. But behind a cut since it is a wall of text.
This is one of two reasons why I’ve been away. Also the only reason I’m up at this time of the morning (almost 3am. I’ve been up since 4 am yesterday. I work 7am-2:30pm today and have errands to run - assuming we don’t get severe storms like they’re predicting. The Weather Channel said the weather would be on par to what we had Monday . . .and I came home in a severe storm. The second one dropped a lightning bolt right out front of my kitchen, where I was cooking up the last of my supper.) But, this monster is done and, hopefully, picked up tomorrow morning for judging. If not, then I stayed up all night for nothing. This is actually my best work. I rarely crochet since I can’t keep an even tension. Except for watching youtube vids on making granny square triangles and attaching granny squares like I sorta did (doesn’t translate so well to triangles) the pattern was my idea. It won’t win against anyone’s entry, though I am assured a win local since no one entered an afghan.
The other reason (and the main reason why I haven’t put any words to Camp NaNo 2) is I’ve been on a manic trip this entire month. I can’t focus long enough to write. What’s strange is I have to be at a certain level of depression to write and, so far, I’m no where near depressed. Things are actually looking up for a change. Which, for me, is a miracle.
So. My hope is this weekend to bash out 25k words (they’re saying severe storms today and the weekend so I probably won’t be outside much.) This coming week is Thundercrack (and the Stormcatcher is already partying hard) so I’ll probably not get back on tumblr until after next week (though you never know.) ) I figured everyone could use a heads up as to why I’ve disappeared again. Usually it’s because I’m too depressed to write. This time It’s the opposite. That and working in my garden (and cleaning the whole front yard up. I still have a ton of work to do, but it’s getting there with help.) I’ve never had my garden flourish like this one is (it’s even complete with a pair of mourning doves that, I think, want to nest in my pots . . . )
Oh, and Furvilla isn’t helping. That’s kinda taken over even Flight Rising as my go-to game to unwind. So yeah . . . I will be back. Sometime. I haven’t forgotten about all of you. (I’m going to get in all my blogs and repost this. I’d answer posts but right now I have no brain to RP. I can just imagine what I’ll be like at work. I’d go to bed now, but I need to be up in an hour oO So yeah, I’m looking at about 40 hours awake time (assuming weather doesn’t keep me up past 8 pm tonight.)