for context on what this series is, please see my Day 1 post here: Redundancy Review: Day 1, “A New Beginning” – Rosalia Rambles)
Good morning poxwalkers and plaguebearers, welcome to what is essentially a “week in the life” post for Day 160 to 166 of Rosalia Rambles Redundancy Review.
The week started out as standard, work feeling pretty intense for both myself and my partner, with the latter having a fair bit of overtime on the horizon for both the Monday and Wednesday. He got through the Monday shift pretty okay, but given the exposed nature of retail, on Tuesday he took a turn when he was afflicted with a pretty nasty cough.
He usually has a pretty good immune system, not getting ill often at all and any time he does get ill it never lasted more than a day or two, so I encouraged him to head into work on Wednesday, emphasising that if it did not clear up, he did not need to do the overtime.
Unfortunately, he needed to come home shortly before his shift was due to end. I was proud of him for making it as far as he did, but considering the state he came back in, it was definitely for the best.
The worrying part comes in that we are on Sunday, and it has not cleared up. The coughing has definitely got less intense, but he does not take well to illness all the same – definitely different from how I take it.
Because, yeah, with me being in close proximity to him and offering him comfort up close and personal, I ended up catching whatever he has.
While he gets ill very infrequently, my immune system is quite different. Two bouts with COVID have taken a pretty rough toll on how my body reacts to illnesses. Combine this with naturally not-good sinuses which are prone to infection, any pestilence I get inevitably moves up into my nose and leaves me very disoriented for a period of time…
…which is weird that somehow, I have not taken whatever this bug is as hard as he has.
Comparing our situations, he has been afflicted for almost a week now and still struggles to move about, eat proper food, or be at his desk for any length of time. Whereas in the span of two days with the majority of that time spent in bed zoning out to extremely long Youtube videos, while I still feel like ass I am at about the same level of functionality that I am on any other given day.
This goes some distance to explain why I have not exactly been in a writing mood this week, most of my energy has been dedicated to taking care of my partner and making sure he can get through this situation as best he can.
In general, I do not feel massively optimistic about my ability to keep up with writing for the rest of the year, at least until mid-December by my current guess. Lots of work commitments, working out Christmas plans, my birthday, and trying to find time to myself in that mix.
It will benefit me to try to write in that mix, but it may be more pieces like this which are journal-styled than proper Redundancy Reviews as I have made in the past.
There will be plenty to ramble about in the future, and plenty I can review, but for now, the story I am telling is one of perseverance, checking in when I can and keeping myself together through the crazy world we live in.
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Soon.
Soon I will have this game finished 100%, and then I will be able to ramble about it to my heart’s content.
That covers what I want to catch up on this page. Thank you for reading today’s edition of the Redundancy Review. Wherever you are I hope you are able to relax before the work week begins once more and that any impending Monday blues do not hit you too hard.
Rosalia Rambles 
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