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Well, per doctors orders, I guess I’m officially now on vacation for at least the next 6-8 weeks, lol.
I'll spare you guys all the intimate details, but apparently, only sleeping 2-3 hours per night for months on end, and the stress and anxiety from running multiple businesses at once, can actually kill you, lol. Who would have thought? All summer, since my son has been on break, I've been spending all day with him, and working all night, so that doesn't leave much time to sleep, except from about 7am-9am everyday, lol. I haven’t been sick or anything, and other that the crazy insane pain of the kidney stones a while back, haven't been in any pain, but just haven't been feeling quite right.
So I started observing myself a little closer on my everyday activities, and started seeing a pattern. No sleep and high stress = not a clear brain for thinking with, and a brain that can't keep ones body healthy. So I did a little testing on myself, and it was very enlightening and entertaining at the same time, lol. I know it may sound funny, but I always keep a Rubik's cube close by, it’s just something to play with if I'm waiting around for something. I'm pretty fast at solving it normally, however, the other day I picked it up and I couldn't solve it at all, (because my brain couldn't remember how to do it). Now, keep in mind, I'd just solved it several times the day before, while racing my 9 year old son (who is pretty darn fast himself now, at about 90 sec.). He's actually faster than me now, lol.
Well, so this now was making me a little concerned, because I've never felt like that before. This lead to me calling a doctor buddy of mine, and I took him to lunch to express my concerns and ask his advice. So after some testing, he basically (in not so many words), told me I'll be dead soon if I don't stop living like I do, lol. Now normally, if a doctor told me such a thing, I'd just blow it off and be like “sure dude, whateverâ€, but when my doctor buddy (that I've known for over 25 years), says “as a friend first and a doctor second, I'm not kidding, you will die from this if you don't fix it right awayâ€. He said he had never see anyone survive as long as I have “burning the candle on both ends, and the middle at the same timeâ€, lol. So after a very long conversation, on how I should approach this concept of not trying to slowly kill myself anymore (literally, lol), we compromised with just taking a vacation for a bit, and see what happens from there. We both decided that meds were not the way to go, I refuse to go that route anyway. I’m only allowed to be in the shop working on other personal projects, not the businesses, lol. (I'm sure I'll cheat a little here and there though, lol)
So the big real question is: How does this effect you guys and ordering decals from me, etc...? Well, it doesn't really at all, everything will pretty much be normal, (orders will still ship right away just like always), except I won't be doing any big custom art projects for a while. I did bring in another part time designer to help finish up the custom stuff we've been working on already, and to do little quicky customs and alterations to existing stuff. You guys shouldn't really see any difference at all I hope. I'll still be doing most of the emails, etc...(although, give me a little more time to respond). There are a few other things that are changing at the shop, to help serve you guys better, but I’ll be posting that in the other thread.
So that's about it for now. I'll keep you guys updated as things progress, and hopefully everything will turn out awesome, lol.
And I'll have more time to hang out on here again now too.
BTW, what does one do on vacation? I've never really been on one before. I suppose I could try to build a ship inside a bottle or something, lol.
I'll spare you guys all the intimate details, but apparently, only sleeping 2-3 hours per night for months on end, and the stress and anxiety from running multiple businesses at once, can actually kill you, lol. Who would have thought? All summer, since my son has been on break, I've been spending all day with him, and working all night, so that doesn't leave much time to sleep, except from about 7am-9am everyday, lol. I haven’t been sick or anything, and other that the crazy insane pain of the kidney stones a while back, haven't been in any pain, but just haven't been feeling quite right.
So I started observing myself a little closer on my everyday activities, and started seeing a pattern. No sleep and high stress = not a clear brain for thinking with, and a brain that can't keep ones body healthy. So I did a little testing on myself, and it was very enlightening and entertaining at the same time, lol. I know it may sound funny, but I always keep a Rubik's cube close by, it’s just something to play with if I'm waiting around for something. I'm pretty fast at solving it normally, however, the other day I picked it up and I couldn't solve it at all, (because my brain couldn't remember how to do it). Now, keep in mind, I'd just solved it several times the day before, while racing my 9 year old son (who is pretty darn fast himself now, at about 90 sec.). He's actually faster than me now, lol.
Well, so this now was making me a little concerned, because I've never felt like that before. This lead to me calling a doctor buddy of mine, and I took him to lunch to express my concerns and ask his advice. So after some testing, he basically (in not so many words), told me I'll be dead soon if I don't stop living like I do, lol. Now normally, if a doctor told me such a thing, I'd just blow it off and be like “sure dude, whateverâ€, but when my doctor buddy (that I've known for over 25 years), says “as a friend first and a doctor second, I'm not kidding, you will die from this if you don't fix it right awayâ€. He said he had never see anyone survive as long as I have “burning the candle on both ends, and the middle at the same timeâ€, lol. So after a very long conversation, on how I should approach this concept of not trying to slowly kill myself anymore (literally, lol), we compromised with just taking a vacation for a bit, and see what happens from there. We both decided that meds were not the way to go, I refuse to go that route anyway. I’m only allowed to be in the shop working on other personal projects, not the businesses, lol. (I'm sure I'll cheat a little here and there though, lol)
So the big real question is: How does this effect you guys and ordering decals from me, etc...? Well, it doesn't really at all, everything will pretty much be normal, (orders will still ship right away just like always), except I won't be doing any big custom art projects for a while. I did bring in another part time designer to help finish up the custom stuff we've been working on already, and to do little quicky customs and alterations to existing stuff. You guys shouldn't really see any difference at all I hope. I'll still be doing most of the emails, etc...(although, give me a little more time to respond). There are a few other things that are changing at the shop, to help serve you guys better, but I’ll be posting that in the other thread.
So that's about it for now. I'll keep you guys updated as things progress, and hopefully everything will turn out awesome, lol.
And I'll have more time to hang out on here again now too.
BTW, what does one do on vacation? I've never really been on one before. I suppose I could try to build a ship inside a bottle or something, lol.
