Week 9 - 10th | Sick, Self-Doubts, and Rainy Days

It is finally March, and I am super excited as spring is approaching (my favorite season). That said, the start of March has been rough.

Mar 3 - 14:

As the season jumps from Winter into Spring, people around me are starting to get sick. Unfortunately, I was one of the unlucky ones as I am exposed to germs everyday having to take the public transit.

Going to work while I was sick was terrible. My nose was running, I was feeling chills, and I hadn't realized but I had a terrible fever as well. While I was on the bus, I rested my eyes as I was starting to get a headache. At that point, I thought to myself that it would be nice if I could work for myself because that way I would have the freedom to take the day off without worrying about pay. When I arrived to work, everyone was probably thinking I was weird as I kept my jacket on the entire day. As I headed home, I took some Tylenol to bring down my fever.

The next day I was feeling a bit better. Or so I thought. In the morning, it was rainy and my parents offered to drive me to work. At first, I was doing really well as I didn't feel tired, my nose was clear, and I was able to focus on work. However, as noon hit, I realized that my nose was starting to run again and my fever came back. Not to mention, I started to feel chills again so I wore my jacket for the rest of the day. I had also went back and forth to the washroom multiple times to blow my nose to the point where my nose was red and my lips were super dried. However, in times like this, my Aquaphor was the best remedy. Heading home was the best part of the day. My dad offered to drive me home and I knocked out the rest of the day as I took some more Tylenol.

Aquaphor
March 5th was an important day for me. I was still feeling a little bit under the weather but I knew I needed to focus. Today was the day where I was given the opportunity to complete hands-on work for the company—sending invoices to clients. Overall, I crushed it as my co-worker and I sent over 80+ invoices. Thankfully, my fever was gone and I was feeling a lot better. Also, I was super excited for Survivor 48.

It was near the end of the week, and I was feeling so much better. However, something embarrassing happened where I accidently choked on my own saliva so I began to cough. My manager passing by saw and sent a message to send me home. So by lunchtime, I packed up my stuff as well as the company laptop and continued to work from home. I was feeling down because as I was heading home I started to have doubts about my self-publishing business. However, I reminded myself of my why and I felt my mindset shift from a negative to a positive one. That said, I was also excited to head home early as I was able to get things done early so I was able to watch the finale of Traitors US.

It was the end of the week, and I was feeling fully better, but I decided to work from home to save transportation money. Plus, Fridays were always horrible as my buses were always delayed, causing me to arrive home late. That said, I watched Hulu's newest docu series The Fall of Ruby Franke. I also started another docu series, Gypsy Rose's Life After Lockup season 2.

It's daylight savings, and I am dreading that the clocks are turned 1 hour faster as I am already feeling tired all the time. However, it is nice knowing that the sun is still out when I head home from work. The weather is also feeling a lot warmer which is nice—Spring is almost here.

As I was feeling better, it was time for me to get my business back on track. I began to plan and work on a new book—finally got my latest book outline completed.

My older sister is getting married in a few months, and we went to get our dresses tailored. We arrived at someone's house which I thought was odd. Apparently, the tailoring was done in the basement which I thought was super shady. However, the lady who tailored my dress was nice and friendly. Crossing my fingers that it will turn out well. My next mission is to find shoes for the wedding.

To end off the week, I treated myself to watch Mickey 17 which was surprisingly good (I don't typically watch Sci-Fi movies). Robert Patterson did an amazing job portraying his character. That said, I am excited for the release of Disney's Snow White next week!

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