a thought

It occurred to me today, in re: my previously mentioned tiredness, that tiredness IS a known potential side effect of Celexa.

Also I hadn't been taking any iron supplement pills since Thanksgiving-ish (because I finished my old bottle and somehow kept not getting around to opening the new one) and I do have a history of not-exactly-anemia-but-still-kind-of-low iron levels.

So I'm going back to taking an iron pill a couple-three times a week, plus extra doses of my "sun" lamp when I'm home in the afternoon, plus aiming for 8.5 to 9 hours of sleep a night.

I think that combo should probably work. And if it doesn't, well, at least I'll have learned a few things that aren't the source of the issue.

wherein Liz talks about writing (and a couple unrelated things)

Things I have done today:

1. Work, obviously. During the course of which I resolved a lost key issue, checked on a furniture complaint, rescued a tenant who'd locked themself out of their bathroom (easily fixed with a paperclip or a coin, depending on the lock type, but it's easier to demonstrate in person than explain over the phone), signed a lot of packages in, signed a lot of packages out, and gave a prospective tenant plus parents a studio tour.

2. Wrote ~225 words of Susan's incredibly belated gift story. Also spent about twenty minutes figuring out a good alternate universe name for St. Paul. Minneapolis is easy -- just call it St. Anthony, after the waterfall, since it very nearly was called that in our world. But I'm pretty sure that in any universe Pig's Eye/Pig's Eye Landing is not going to fly as the name of a major city. So I tried googling "saints associated with pigs"... and it turns out that there is one, and it's St. Anthony. *headdesk* Anyway, I wound up with La Fontaine, with the reasoning that Pierre "Pig's Eye" Parrant set up his tavern in Fountain Cave and if you're going to go, "Oh hell no, we must have a proper Catholic name!" then Our Lady of the Fountain (en français, naturellement) works just as well as St. Paul.

3. Downloaded a word count tracker for getyourwordsout, which I have joined with a Light level pledge of writing 75,000 words in 2020. Currently I am about 1,250 words behind pace, which I am kind of meh about. I mean, it would be nice to establish a more regular and consistent writing schedule. On the other hand, time is always half-unreal in the first weeks of January. With a pinch of luck things should settle out as the year rolls on

4. Read some more of Sovereign, the third Matthew Shardlake historical mystery by C. J. Sansom. I stalled out on it some years ago due to genera life interference, but I've started over from the beginning and it's going better this time. :)

5. Answered a bunch of comments and read several stories/chapters, with the end result that my email inbox is very nearly clear!

And now I think I'm going to hang up my clean, dry shirts and go to bed.