@JnthnHdrck Appreciate it, dude. I'm certainly gonna try my damnedest...granted, easier said than done now that I'm being forced to confront a major career change/shift.
I learned the other day that I'll no longer have a job next month—the company I work for is closing...so that's neat.
Insult to injury is my wife and I leave for a 2-week vacation we've been saving up for/planning for years.
Is this what they call...perfect timing?
Two days of prep, baking, mousse making, and freezing just for me to totally fuck it all up with an unforced error in the 9th while making the caramel glaze too thin, over-correcting with a chocolate glaze that was still too warm to pour so it slid and pulled down the sides…fuck
Incredibly small potatoes, I know, but HOLY SHIT is it funny that I just woke up to an agent form rejection for a graphic novel pitch submission well over 6 months after the fact…the cosmic powers at be got jokes.
Burnout is so real. 2024 has been absolutely brutal. I've suffered some pretty serious blows—both in my personal and professional life. Been trying to claw my way back to some form of normalcy...whatever that means...but it's been a struggle.
This isn't a pity party or anything, I've just been holding all this in, and shouting into the void is better than an aneurysm. I'm doing my best to reclaim some personal, fun time...mostly in the kitchen.
Got lots of demons to exorcise.
Just keeping my head above water has taken so much energy, that I'm left on fumes whenever I attempt to make moves. Like I've hardly written anything at all this year...just no juice. And when I do get a small foothold towards a goal, I crash and burn spectacularly.