Where does the time go?

Well, a lot of things have happened in the past month, lol. Still have my same job, but started a new client who I really like and they're really easy. Unfortunately, I've been off work for the past almost two weeks because I ended up having carpal tunnel release surgery on my left hand. I have my post-op follow-up tomorrow, and hopefully he'll give me a work release so I can go back.

Because of this, I haven't been able to do much of anything, but my hand is feeling much better (as evidenced by me typing this blog post...), and I'm hoping to dive back into Becoming Family, make the changes that need to be made, and finally get that released. I did not think this would become a year-long odyssey, but such is 2020...

Also hoping once I get that out, I can embrace the season and start working on Winter's Noelle. Obviously I didn't end up doing NaNo this year, but hopefully no matter. Fingers crossed it won't take long to write, but I can't make any promises in that arena. And then, once that's finished, I can finally get back to Crimson Hollow. So many ideas, so little time.

Hoping to also get back to semi-regular blog posts. I was trying to start doing that, looking for ideas for topics, and then life happened, but hopefully I can get back into it.

In the meantime, I'm pretty sure I'm not getting paid for all of this time off, sigh, so if you're feeling generous, you can help me out by donating to my PayPal, or by becoming a Patron.

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