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December 2019 – January 2020 Wrap-Up: Health, Wedding Plans, Business Changes

Welcome to the wrap-up post for the month of December 2019 and January 2020.

And 2020 is here, at last. And I’m going to turn 35 this year. Wow.

So, below is a sum-up of the most recent news:

• I’ve been dealing with PTSD from dad’s sudden death in October. The core of the trauma is my failure to accept that I won’t have my dad at my wedding in September, walking me to the altar, sharing that joy with me. But I’m slowly accepting that — and with acceptation come less crises (screams, loud cries, depression). Spiritually, dad will be at my wedding and will walk me to the altar. I forgive you, daddy, for not being there. I forgive myself, too, for being fragile. I forgive us and it’s all good now. I’ll be okay.
• I saw a neurologist on Dec 20 and a psychiatrist on Dec 28 and January 21. They put me on pregabalin 75 mg (to combat micro-seizures and hyperpathia) and lorazepam 1 mg (for general anxiety). On January 21 I was put on paliperidone to fight psychoses. I feel better since.
• Among the things, now I work as a Content Marketer for SIA Enterprises. I work on a project by project basis because I can’t handle even part-time hours or time-tracking with my current health conditions. It’s good, though, because I’m making some business changes so, starting 2021, I can rely more on my own products than on client projects.
• I have Marketing books and SEO comics in the planning, as well as a continued SciFi projects as an artist with my friend Lia Dospetti. Things are good.
• I’m open for art commissions (see my DeviantART page for commission rates and formats). First come, first serve. 😉

So, all considered, things are looking up. 🙂 I hope 2020 started great for you, too!

Read on for the updates in detail.

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The Charm of A Minimalist Workspace in a Maximalist Lifestyle

Yes, a (semi) minimalist workspace.

In the home of a maximalist.

As “weird” as it might sound, we don’t have to embrace a movement to use it for inspiration to make some changes, right?

I don’t really use the label on me, but you could define me as a maximalist: I love owning a lot of stuff that I can rely on at all times and I would never “downsize” unless I had a great internal push to do it… in some specific, small area of my life.

But you know what? A little touch of minimalism is actually doing charms for my mental health when it comes to handling my workspace.

To keep sensory overload at bay, mostly. To make my workspace less visually and mentally triggering.

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September-November 2019 Wrap-Up: Wedding, Programming, Reads & Work

Welcome to the wrap-up post for the months of September through November 2019.

Only one month to go until the end of this year. I can’t believe we’re already entering the second decade of the 21st Century.

Here’s a sum-up of the news (not a happy one):

• My father died on Oct 16, 2019. In the end, while leukemia was about to lose the war, complications from therapies won him over. I know he’s with God now, but I miss him like crazy and knowing that I won’t have my darling father to walk me to the altar the next year… breaks my heart.
• I started on a new hemorrhoid therapy and it’s giving results. Because PSAS was caused by internal hemorrhoid compression of a group of sacral nerves… I suffer from fewer PSAS crises now (but they’re still not so easy to cope with; I’m still grateful for the improvement anyway.)
• It’s a bad time to be a freelance copywriter, as there seems to be some ongoing market crisis and I have been with little to no work since August. I keep trying, but right now I can’t seem to be able to see the end of the tunnel…
• … BUT I may have found a Content Marketing client. We might get started in December and I may stay with them long term.

In spite of the grieving and work-related despair, below I listed the stuff I’ve done September to November this year. Never give up, right?

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