It’s been over a month since I posted anything on my blog. I’ve been struggling with my health and most days getting out of bed was beyond my limits. I know it’s just part of dealing with a chronic condition, but every time I think I’m getting a handle on things then I seem to have a setback of some kind. The health issues have really stalled our move. We had planned to leave the first part of June, but here we are nearing September and we have at least another month or two worth of work to finish on the house before we can put it on the market.

After more than a month of being sick I’m finally starting to feel somewhat human again. I’m still struggling with the exhaustion and find myself sleeping more than usual but I know it will even out eventually. It always does. For now, I just have to listen to my body and sleep when it tells me to, otherwise I’ll end up sick again. Even while I was down Hubby continued to whittle down the list of things that needed to be done, although there are a lot of things that he can’t do by himself so hopefully those will be taken care of in the next few weeks as I start feeling better.

One of the upsides to the forced social media hiatus is that I realized just how much of my time I was spending on social media. Granted it wasn’t as much as most people, but it was still more than I really wanted to. I understand that social media is necessary for authors to be able to reach readers, but if I’m honest it’s not something I particularly enjoy. There are some aspects of it that I like but for the most part I could easily walk away from social media and never look back. If it wasn’t for the whole author thing I probably wouldn’t have any accounts except for maybe Pinterest, since I use it mostly to find new recipes to try. Life is too short to spend a lot of time doing something you don’t enjoy. I like blogging and writing newsletters, so I’ve decided that’s what I’m really going to focus on from here on out. I’ll still post occasionally on Facebook and Instagram but I’m going to try to limit my social media time to no more than 30 minutes a day. That’s across all platforms. I’ve even set that limit for my Screen Time (a mac application that allows you to track how much time you spend on a specific app) so that it will lock all of my social media apps once that limit has been reached.

Another good thing to come out of being sick was that I got a lot of reading done in between naps. I’ve found a few new to me authors who now fill spots in my top ten all time favorite authors list. While not every author landed on that list, I have found several other new to me authors that I’ll be keeping an eye on future releases. Since it’s been awhile since I did a “What I’m Reading” post I might put a few together to share the books/series/authors I’ve been reading lately.

I tend to read a lot of different genres and sub-genres, but lately most of what I’ve been reading has been in the realm of fantasy; either fantasy, romantic fantasy, fantasy romance, or urban fantasy. I’ve also read several sci-fi and sci-fi romance books as well. With a few contemporary romance thrown in there to break things up.

So while I continue to recover, I’m looking forward to getting back to writing and reading some of the new books on my e-reader.