Clearly, I suck at blogging.
But 2016 was a tumultuous year for me. I nearly had a nervous breakdown finishing out the school year, and I decided it was time to retire before the Common Core frenzy and PARCC madness got even madder (which it did).
The moment I said I was retiring, a wave of peace came over me.
The biggest issue I have with retirement, however, is that depression is taking over. I did swim a lot at the gym over the summer, and did some yoga, but then everything began to shut down in October.
Naturally I put on weight, so there's that. I stopped going to the gym when I hurt my knees, and then I broke my foot again, which caused me to sprain the left knee further. I went to the Rothman Institute and they're going to fix me up with some knee gel to replace the cartilage.
I began seeing a chiropractor, and I found that I had some levroscoliosis, meaning my back was all twisted and wrenched to the left, and some vertebrae were even a little skewed. But he fixed me up.
And I got a medication for my restless legs syndrome! That's been a true miracle.
In November, I picked up my steampunk thingie and began writing again, and that feels like accomplishment. I even got to a writers con in March.
The best fun has been playing with Blessed Sacrament and becoming the music director for Bracken Cavaliers. The Bracken people are so appreciative, and at our last show, many of my friends said I had done a fabulous job -- they sounded like a drum corps! I feel pretty good about that!
So, here it is the beginning of May. I'm still trying to get up in the morning -- I just plain can't get out of bed. I know that if I could get up before 8, I'd be able to do so much more with my retired life! But I just keep cocooning.
Let's see if blogging about it works.
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