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Radio Silence and the Ever-Busy Squirrel #Life

Posted on January 29, 2020 by Loni Townsend

In December, my webhost migrated my account to a different server. Since then, I’ve discovered emails from my website no longer work. I’ve contacted them and, after troubleshooting, they suggest reinstalling WordPress without any plug-ins to see if it’s a problem with my installation or if there’s something else.

I haven’t gotten around to that due to the general state of busyness I’ve been in. Therefore, if you use my contact form or have used my contact form since December… Sorry. I won’t see your email.

Compared to other years, 2020 is less ambitious. For the Colonel’s Challenge, I’ve resigned myself to the fact that I won’t meet the 30 hours of aerobic activity goal. I can’t get myself up in the mornings and my evenings are consumed by my children. I’ve simplified my resistance training to what I can accomplish at work, and that has proven to be 2 sets of 25 kettlebell swings using a 35 lb weight, and at least 16 pull-ups a day. My co-worker says the pull-ups count, so I’m going with it, logging each one at a little under my actual weight.

My kids managed to break my illness-free record, and I spent a couple days with a fever and even longer with sinus congestion and an ever-lingering cough. I did finish a digital painting though (two actually, but only one is publicly posted):

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A post shared by Loni Townsend (@art_by_loni) on Jan 19, 2020 at 7:54am PST

It’s nice to see my improvement over the years. Admittedly, I got a bit lazy with the hair, but that just leaves something else for me to work on.

I’m still playing catch up with everything else in my life. I’ve revised 8 chapters to reflect the major rearrange in Isto, and I’ve got a few more to go. Then it’ll be going through the entire book one more time. It’s been a long process, longer than I anticipated, but it’ll be better for the book in the end.

Have you ever had something take longer than you’d hoped? Did you keep working on it? How do you work fitness into your everyday life?

9 thoughts on “Radio Silence and the Ever-Busy Squirrel #Life”

  1. Melissa Maygrove says:
    January 29, 2020 at 9:44 AM

    Oh, yes. I looked at my word count log for my current WIP and realized that in a couple of months, I’ll have been working on it for a year. I’m only 20k into a full-length novel. Sad.

    It’s good to be blogging again, though.

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  2. Natalie Aguirre says:
    January 29, 2020 at 12:36 PM

    Glad you’re making progress. My writing goes way slower than I plan. But I plug at it when I can.

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  3. C.G.Coppola says:
    January 29, 2020 at 4:43 PM

    I’m so proud of you for all your progress…on everything! And as far as 2020 being less ambitious, I think you’re being realistic. Setting actual attainable goals. Like I’ve always know: you’ve got this!!

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  4. Alex J. Cavanaugh says:
    January 29, 2020 at 5:09 PM

    Yes, my current manuscript has gone two years over when I should’ve finished it.
    Just do what exercise you can. Better than none!

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  5. Liz A. says:
    January 29, 2020 at 8:29 PM

    Pretty much everything I do ends up taking longer than I expect. I’ve been working at allowing things to take as long as they take, and not worrying too much about how long something is going to take me to get done. It’s a slow process.

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  6. Elizabeth Seckman says:
    January 29, 2020 at 8:58 PM

    On the bright side, whenever I want to write, but can’t find the time, the words build up in my head and they are easier to write when I have time. I think writers are always writing- even when they have no keyboard.

    Modifying goals to make them attainable is the only way to survive child raising. I adopted the “good enough” standard when mine were little and they all turned out fine.

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  7. Patricia Josephine says:
    January 30, 2020 at 5:25 PM

    A lot of things take me longer than I expect. A flash fiction collection I finished today I had hoped to get done in December.

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  8. J.H. Moncrieff says:
    February 4, 2020 at 11:00 PM

    Fitness continues to be a struggle for me now too. It’s that darn teaching. At least two days a week I can walk home, though. That’s something. Hope to get back to working out in the early a.m. again.

    Sorry to hear of your plague and website woes. And that digital painting is amazing! Well done.

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  9. Lee Lowery says:
    February 5, 2020 at 9:19 AM

    I’d have to say most of my writing takes longer than I expect/hope. But I do just keep plugging away. And come to think of it, that pretty much describes the fitness routine, as well.

    Love the digital painting!

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