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Six Months Later…

September 23, 2015Rachel Rose Mitchell2 comments3565 views
SIX months later

It’s been six months since I last posted on here, and seven and a half since I released Light Shows and Shadow Puppets. I haven’t kept up the website and I haven’t even finished the song pages for LSSP songs. I’ll be working on those over the next few days but as I’ve got an album underway I won’t make promises.

So, around this time last year my home life became hectic. I won’t bore you with the details but for months my family weren’t sure what was going to happen or even if we’d be able to find a home. It all worked out well in the end and I don’t want you to worry. We found somewhere to rent for a little while and by April moved into a permanent home that we love. Seriously, it’s a fabulous little unit.

Early this year, as things were becoming clearer and less scary, I said to a few people that short of serious medical issues there was nothing left in the way of me creating as much music as I physically could. I should not have said that.

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Since about January (though I didn’t realise it then) I’ve been dealing with progressively worsening chronic fatigue. It’s somewhat evened out since about June/July, in that I’ll have great weeks and horrible weeks but they all seem to snap back to the same level of being unable to do much eventually.

What this means for my music and writing is that sometimes I’ll go for days or even weeks unable to achieve what I see as a good level of productivity. I’d slated the album I’m working on now for a late May/early June release but then fatigue knocked me on my butt and I didn’t have much of a say in the matter. Through August and September I’ve been working pretty solidly on getting tracks polished and ready to be unleashed on the public, so I have reason to believe it’ll be released in the next couple of months. At the moment the primary obstacle is saving up to get the CDs printed. But that’s not a huge problem – it gives me more time to develop extra bonus tracks that I hadn’t planned to include originally. Yay!

So, how’s this going to affect my work in the long run? Unless I’m extremely lucky, this is going to be a lifelong issue for me. I can learn ways around it – which I’m already doing! – but I’ll always have to deal with the fatigue itself and the SUPER FUN side issues such as brain fog, confusion and sometimes near complete lack of anything resembling an attention span. Like I said though, I’m learning ways around it. I’m far better at managing and navigating this muddy swamp called chronic fatigue than I was even two months ago. It means I’ll have to take things slower, and it’s always going to mean that. But it cannot and will not keep me down 🙂

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2 Comments

  1. Mike says:
    September 30, 2015 at 11:10 am

    I love the new design of your website. You’re are probably still working with it, idk, but on my end the Home Page is plank (idk if that is intended), The right arrow dose not work but the left slides the same background picture over, and if music is supposed to be playing, I can’t hear it.

    I’m sorry to hear about your fatigue :/ and I hope you find a good way to work around it with as little problems as possible. Take your time with your work, your health is more important. As with your new album, are we going to get to hear the songs on it before the release like what you did with Light Shows/Shadow Puppets? Good luck with everything. =^-^=

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    1. Rachel Rose Mitchell says:
      October 3, 2015 at 6:12 pm

      Thanks Mike! You’re right, it’s still a work in progress. You may have noticed that many pages are now walls of text with no line breaks. Currently attempting to fix that! The home page is meant to be blank but thanks for mentioning it anyway 🙂 I’m probably going to find a way to disable the slider and hide the arrows as I’d rather a static background for now, even if it means digging into the code (which I’m doing at the moment in search of a solution for the line break problem lol). As for music I haven’t set any up now. I may upload some to the playlist in future, but I’m wary of adding any autoplay.

      Thanks. I feel I’m getting better at working around it, but there are still days when it hits me hard.

      I’d like to figure out some neat way to preview it! I don’t think I’ll put the whole thing up for streaming before release, but maybe a track or two. There’s a couple I have in mind that’d work really well 🙂

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