hooray hooray, i'm your silver lining

I started a new medication on Friday. An antidepressant. A tiny little white 10mg pill that's supposed to make my brain not want to attack itself. The weekend was rough, to say the least, as my body adjusted to having serotonin again. I felt like a zombie, napping and being so zonked during the day and tossing and turning, unable to sleep at night. I spent the majority of the weekend Googling symptoms and side effects and the best way to handle them when they bombard you all at once. We're on day four now and I think I have my routine down with it, as long as I take it with food, which works out to be at the same time as I take my Itraconazole (my blastomycosis med).

I spent a lot of the weekend planning out sunflower mini sessions for my next trip to Burlington at the end of the month while I couldn't sleep. As much as I proclaim to hate math, I sort of love crunching numbers and figuring out prices and hours and fees. I made a poll on Facebook between two weekends and then whichever weekend won the poll was chosen. 8 people voted in the poll. I made a graphic that said, "Info on SUNFLOWER MINIS dropping on Tuesday! Get excited." and that was that.

Today was the day that I opened up info on sunflower mini sessions to the public. On Saturday, I messaged everyone who voted for the winning weekend to see if they wanted first dibs. Two out of three took me up on my offer. I got an email from a girl I went to high school with this afternoon inquiring about the last Saturday opening, and now I have three open slots left on Sunday. I've already gotten a couple of DMs about it and all I can do is cross my fingers and hope for the best.

Nothing fills my heart with more joy than when people I know ask me to document their memories for them. Every single person that has inquired so far is either a repeat client or someone I went to high school with. All of those people have watched this hobby turned passion turned business of mine being built from the ground up and are willing to take a chance on me when there was a time in not-so-distant-past when I thought nobody ever would.

Progress and growth is quiet and slow.