School and Births are Keeping me Busy!/How Am I Doing

All these speeches as the poet laureate have been keeping me so busy! It was like 3-4 speeches in one month! I had a meeting with the poetry collective today and they told me I did a good job and my new poetry that I presented was inspiriing :))) That made me feel so so good. As I always say, I think my poetry is horrible. It takes me years to like my work and see the true feelings that arise from it. BUT there's some poems that I will never like and I'll never understand why in the world did I write that mess. I cut and painted my nails today!!! I love, love, love doing my own nails. All I do is paint them clear, but it be making me so happy inside. It's a form of self-care that in the past I would never do. I'd never paint my nails, no. Didn't have the time or energy. I was revisting my time in Atlanta and I literally worked 6-7 days a week and it would be a minimum of 10 hours a day. I would be so tired all the time!!!!!!!! I have no idea how I did it. Granted, I was younger and had more energy, but that's too much! I don't think I could ever do that again, I might collapse. I am so grateful that I have this break in my life where I can relax more and just sit down. Well.. kind of. I'm still busy with my births, school, poet laureate, and I just had a beauty meeting with Maybelline. So, I'm still busy, but I'm not on my feet 10-14 hours almost everyday. I had bills to pay back then (obviously!) and I was taking very good care of myself and my home, which was why I worked so hard. But yeah... never again. Lately, since I attended an induction, I've been resting soo much. Not letting anything stress me out. Just taking things easy. That induction was not easy, but no birth is. Every birth is a learning experience and I learn so much. Lately, my cat has been terrorizing me. Every day. As soon as I wake up, she's on my pillow above me looking into my eyes. It's my fault because I haven't bought her toys yet, so she thinks I'm her human toy. But, I'm going to get her some toys and maybe a leash, idk. I'm really skeptical about the leash because there's so many dogs in the area, I don't want her to get attacked, even though she's pretty used to dogs now.