Lack of Motivation and Energy Here on Steemit

Hello my fellow Steemians! It honestly feels like it's been forever since I've written a decent post on this great platform and in reality it's only been about 7 days ago since my last blog... Well, that is a long time considering that I was posting at least one post per day on average! I've actually had a lot of stuff to write about but I've been in sort of a funk here lately that I'm having a hard time getting out of. There's no doubt that I will get out of it, it's just a matter of when is all.

I have several things to write about and my phone is full of pictures to post! But it almost feels like I have gotten so far behind that I'm literally overwhelmed and don't know where to begin. I have two unboxing videos to upload, one from @raybrockman and one from @rebeccaryan, I also have many pictures that I want to post and tell about that I saw at a beach festival in the Outer Banks where I thought about @natureofbeing. Just about the only things that I have been doing on steemit is making a few comments here and there, voting on a few posts and participating in a daily endurance contest that @papa-pepper is hosting. https://steemit.com/contest/@papa-pepper/the-daily-steemit-selfie-challenge-day-19-315-sbd-prize-pool-and-growing
This contest has been going on for around 19 days now and I have been having a blast with it and have also met a lot of nice people. We started out with approximately 90 contestants and I think it's around 48 of us left. There are some hard core people left in it, so I don't see this ending anytime soon unfortunately. When I say unfortunately, I don't mean that in a negative way towards the contest. As some of my closer followers know, I have my fair share of health issues like MS and Progressive RA being the major hard hitters. I still need to have some surgeries and fusions performed on my feet sometime, whenever I can work that in lol. I've already managed to get passed a few hurdles during the contest with having sleep studies, MRI's and other test's done but I fear the worst is yet to come, we'll see what happens. While I was at the beach last weekend, I doubled over with a massive sharp pain in my lower stomach area. The pain lasted throughout the trip and when I returned home, I saw my doctor which advised me that I had an infection in my lower intestine, so I was like "Great." This can be pretty serious if not treated properly. Well, it's been a week and I'm still suffering so we'll see what plan B is. @rebeccaryan thinks they will give me an IV of antibiotics and she is probably right. She has a plethora of knowledge and has taken a lot of her personal time to try and help me and I am forever grateful for that. In this picture, I was supposed to be making an angry picture for @papa-peppers contest. I am very well known for having an intimidating look in my eyes, even when I don't mean to. But in this photo, if you zoom in and look in to my eyes, all you can see is pure pain. Everyone that knows me said the same thing, that I looked like I was miserable and they were right. It was all I could do to hold that rifle up with one arm without doubling over!

Well here's a great question: "Why don't you quit, Bandit?" That is a fabulous question, Safety Sally but let me tell you why I don't want to quit. Simply put... It's NOT IN MY NATURE TO QUIT! I'm a Type A personality, hard headed sumbitch, so there ya go. If I end up losing this competition early, it will be because of a technicality, being in the hospital without my laptop or 6' under or all of the above! I never claimed to be the sharpest tack on the board but I do have a set made of steel. That's just the way I'm wired folks and it takes all kinds to make the world go around. If we were all the same, it would be pretty boring, huh? And we wouldn't have soldiers, cops, doctors, lawyers, farmers, truck drivers or computer programmers. We would all be doing the same thing.

So what in the hell is this blog even about, Bandit? Another great question, Negative Nancy! I guess it's just a blog of why I haven't been blogging in a while. I kinda feel responsible to let people know what is going on when I usually visit their posts and then all of the sudden I go under the radar for a while. I sure as hell ain't looking for any sympathy, so if you're thinking that, I will quickly but politely correct you. I've just been really fatigued here lately and haven't felt like making comments. I have made an effort to visit some of my loyal followers though and vote their previous posts, even if I didn't make any comments, I try to always be supportive when I can. @mother2chicks, I've been visiting your page but steemit hasn't allowed me to leave a comment fyi. I hope everyone has a great day!

Picture of the guy with the guns belongs to me. The rest of the photos were taken from Google images.