About the upcoming Hiatus

CAUTION!

Now I've announced a while ago that I will put the Lullaby on Hiatus in December. However I had never really lost a word as to why I'm pausing and how long. I want to explain a little why I'm going on Hiatus and what I'll be doing in the meantime.

The past few weeks and months have been quite straining to me. Not only because of things that happened to me, but also things that happened around me. Now i know that there's much more bad things happening to other people when i recall what i sometimes read in other peoples journals. I just want to let you all know that there's nothing life threatening or immense health issues happening to me.

About a month ago I've had a really, really bad week. During less than a week, several bad things had happened:
My old car, which i had bought of my own savings, had broken with an engine failure. We had to get a new car almost instantly, and that despite not having much money at hand at all. Luckily, Sascha's (my bf) parents offered to pay 1.000€ for the finance of a new car, and my boss also gave us another 500€. With that money we were able to buy a new car, which ironically was in even better shape than my old one, which cost us much more when we bought it.
During the same week, on a Thursday to be precise, our heater broke. Sascha managed to repair it on the Friday after, however it broke again during the night. We called the landlady the next day and she sent in the technician instantly. He diagnosed a broken Pump, but as he had none in reserve we were forced to spend the entire weekend in a cold apartment without warm water, and we even had to wait till Tuesday for the technician to get back to us. Ironically it was the coldest weekend of this year to that date, and the weekend before and after had been quite warm You cant believe how cold an apartment can get if its not constantly heated, even in the hallways it was warmer than in our apartment... Luckily Sascha's parents helped us again there and let us take a shower in their home...
^{_{In our home I tried to fill the bathtub with hot water from the water cooker and bathed like Duhliya in chapter 1 hahaha. Luckily i had experience with that from the times we were in the Philippines XD}}

In the same week and after, somehow many people around me experiences other kinds of technical problems. My coworker and best friend Caro's Laptop totally died and she lost all her files. My Bosses working computer decided not to work anymore and forced him to reinstall his system. I too had decided to reinstall my Windows to get rid of all the unneeded programs and corrupted Data I collected over the year. I actually like to do that, because you can never entirely clean up a Win... the problems will just pile up, one file corrupts the next and so i just ditch the old one and build it up entirely from scratch again... however i never had so many problems as this time. I couldn't even work on the lullaby for almost 4 days because i was reinstalling the system about 4 times till it worked properly.
I secretly suspect the objects are working towards 21/12 already hahaha.... No srsly i don't believe in that 21/12 Maya crap. As far as I've read into the Theme, the Date the Mayas predicted that on the 21/12 the Milky way will have made one entire spin since the date they started counting (or something similar to that). The Maya were exceptional Astronomers for that ancient a civilization and based many things in their calendar on astronomic events, hence I think that's more legit than the entire end of the world crap. Our calendars end every year, and no one has ever said O NO THE CALENDAR ENDS ITS THE END OF THE WORLD :/

ANYWAY to get back to my previous subject... In the weeks after the car and the heaters died I additionally had to work overtime several times till long into the night. Most of the time it wasn't even because I was slow, but because my old work computer was so slow. I had to work on some 3D files, and my old computer simply wasn't built for that. I kept telling my boss about it but he refused to believe it. Then one day he wanted me to show him some of the things I worked on and he noticed just how slow it really was. He asked me "Why didn't you ever tell me about this?" and instantly ran to order a new one XD... He's not usually ignorant... he's just silly sometimes.

Anyway, after about 3-4 weeks of straining work and unfortunate events I had thorn my buffer down from 9 Sets of pages to 3 (though i have 2 other sets still unfinished split up between my Toners and myself).
The weeks have mentally exhausted me, and even though i really want to work on the lullaby i really cant work fast on it anymore because of this. I suppose i'm on the edge of burning out. So i will hit the breaks here. I still really love to work on my story, but it has become more of a chore at the moment.
I will use the break in December to work on some other projects that had been sitting on my to-do list for a while, i will play some games i've wanted to play for months and i will try to just relax and if time allows it i will work on my buffer as well. In January i plan to start off only with 1 Update every second week, after that I'll see if i will stay with the lowered updates for a while or if i can jump right back to my current schedule in February.

I hope everyone that's been a loyal fan of my work so far will have understanding for this, and thank you already for your patience with me :3 There will be better times again, I promise !

And for all those that just now went
Summary of the upcoming Updates:

24. November: Pages 154-155
1. December: Pages 156-157
8.-29. December: no updates
5. January: Pages 158-159
12. January: no update
26. January: Pages 160-161
February: Pending~