Over the last few months, my health has gone from ‘meh’ to ‘oh no.’ Add in a three month saga of a critically ill guinea pig and it has been a wild ride.

Now that I have a grant I’m working on in addition to freelance writing for sites like Allure (stay tuned!), I have to be more mindful of time.

I’ve put a lot of pressure on myself to try to hold chat and the podcast too often… which leads to executive dysfunction on top of feeling gross. That just leads to a lot of me binging Nailed It! and daydreaming about being Nicole Byer’s best friend/make out buddy.

Anyway, it’s not necessarily that I have to slow down. I do need to readjust and manage my time better. Sometimes self-care is holding yourself accountable for things and making changes. My hope is that changing things up a bit will make it easier to keep a regular schedule for everything.

Chat

It’s been a long minute since we had chat. What I would like to do is move chat to once a month.

To keep things easy, I’m going to hold chat on the first of every month from now on. Setting a firm and unchanging date will help a lot. Reducing the frequency should help, too.

On top of that, it’ll make it easier for more people to join as some of the dates will be weekends.

Podcast

I think the Chronic Sex podcast needs to reduce in frequency, too. I don’t record sometimes because I know two weeks from now I might not be able to release a new episode.

To keep everything easy, I’m going to keep all the dates the same.

From now on, expect to participate in chat and listen to a new podcast episode on the first of every month.

That means the next chat will be on February 1st. Make sure to follow the tag #ChronicSex as times may change month to month. That’ll allow more people to participate from around the world.

If you haven’t joined chat before, check out this guide.

That also means the next podcast episode will be out on the first. You can find it on SoundCloud, Podbean, iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, and a ton of other places. Since the timing is changing, we’ll be in the third season. I think it makes it easier to manage.

Like I said, I think narrowing this stuff down will help me put out content. I stress about this stuff way too much. It isn’t that it’s not fun, but I really do treat it like the work it is.

If you miss hearing my voice more often and enjoy true crime or paranormal stuff, check out the Spooky Sconnie Podcast. It’s all about the spooky, paranormal, criminal, and just plain odd Badger State of Wisconsin.