Hats, Boots, & Chocolate

    Hi there! Sorry, it's been a while; I've been rather busy, and frankly this post is really just an update on what I've been doing with my life the last few months and why I haven't been around much.     Let's start with the biggest news first. I'm getting married soon! I finally found the one, y'all, and he is amazing. I couldn't have asked for a better guy. Between his emotional intelligence, his love for people, and his interest in archaeology and anthropology, I think I've learned more about people and relationships since meeting him than I did in all my family science classes before he showed up in my life.     Next up, I started streaming on Twitch at the beginning of this year and I've really enjoyed it--though, as of the next few months, my stream schedule will be sporadic at best in the bustle of wedding planning. I mostly play Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous,  which is an utterly fantastic game that has given me great joy since I...

    I had an epiphany today: I have a disability. Two, in fact.     I'll get to why that's an epiphany in a minute. First, life updates: I'm a YouTuber now! And a Twitch streamer! Mostly a Twitch streamer, but I put the VODs on YouTube. If you want to watch, my YouTube channel is here and my Twitch channel is here .     Okay, back to the epiphany.     Recently (as in, the last day of LTUE this year), I made a goal to write a 70,000 word novel (or 70,000 words of  a novel) by April 15th. I did really well at first, and made a lot of progress very quickly. Currently, I'm sitting at about 18.7K words 19 days into the challenge; I should be at about 20K words according to the tracking website I'm using, because my writing speed has dropped off recently.     However, due to the epiphany I had today, I've decided that, no matter the outcome, whatever word count I reach by April 15th, I'm not going to beat myself up if I haven't hit that 7...