Hi everyone
Sorry to worry you guys; I'm no longer subscribed to the Romance thread but I was doing bookmark clean-up and decided to peek in and see what you all were up. I'm not doing well health-wise, to the point where I'm re-evaluating many things, including how I'm spending my time (especially online) and buying books that look more and more likely I will have much less time to read than I thought (or buying books I don't care to read anymore). It's been a time of wrestling, I'll be frank. Soul-searching, as I'm sure you all know, is not easy, but it has been worthwhile for me in re-prioritizing and returning balance to my life, especially when it comes to my faith (most importantly, the practice of my faith). This illness (*whatever it is) has seriously upended my life, to the point where I'm practically home-bound right now and cannot go anywhere on my own. For an independent-minded person like myself it is a major blow. But God has taught me a lot through it and I'm very grateful.
*So what is wrong with me? My health started deteriorating more 5 years ago and, thousands of dollars worth of tests later, I'm only a little closer to knowing the answer to that question. It's neurological, debilitative and progressive. Very enlightening stuff, right there
My current doctor has her one major speculation; I'm scheduled to see a new specialist (and to do another mint-worth of tests) to find out if she's right.
My work has suffered a bit but I'm able to do some of it from home. My boss and coworkers are very supportive and co-operative. One of the things I wanted us to work on as a team this year was '
initiative' and we've been thrust in the deep-end with my situation. Everyone seems to be up to the challenge, though.
Regarding books and reading, I'm definitely buying less (only bought 4 so far for 2014), and I have yet to complete one book this month. My Calibre library, however, is finally getting the clean-up I always wanted to give it. And what a clean-up it has been! I went from over 7000 books to just a little over 2000. I was pretty ruthless
I created a separate library for the Amazon books I wanted to delete from my account and have
only 1600 left to get rid of.
I deleted my Booklikes account. I couldn't work up the energy to update anything, plus the things turning up in my update stream seemed so trivial in light of what I may be facing. When you collapse at work and have to now hold on to someone to get from point A to B, you might find yourself not caring about which author is having a beef with reviewers. No offense to anyone, but that is the dead-least of my concerns right now. Same with Twitter; there was just too much noise there. I cleaned up my
following list and removed all my
followers (afterward I felt that was probably kinda rude but I wanted to go in a different direction with what I was posting (if anything) and I didn't want to bombard people with stuff they didn't sign up for
).
[I'd already gotten rid of my Goodreads account after that September 2013 debacle so it has nothing to do with now. I created a new account (because I find it easier to navigate for book info when I'm signed in) but it's set to private].
So, there it is. Sorry for the length! Praying that
AnemicOak gets a great job soon and that
KyBunnies is OK. And I hope everyone else is doing well. And thanks for thinking about me!
