The Process (Part Blargh)

So apparently part two of the process is that you get totally slammed by a high school musical, during which you lose over 30 hours of working time to snow, schedule conflicts, and general asshattery.
Step three is losing your home to violence. I'm not going to air the details here, if you don't know already, you probably know how to send us a message for the story.
Step four is living in a place where you're always struggling to still be behind at everything, including the show that you so terribly want to do justice to by producing a carefully considered design with justifications and perfectly orchestrated load in that is entirely stress free.
Step 4.5 is where one of the jobs you wanted to do explodes into a deluge of stress that forces you to quit on a job for the first time ever.
Step five is where your day job buckles down for a huge job that balloons into overtimeville, keeping you too tired to catch up or really do much of anything outside sleep, eat, work and stress about the work you're not doing.
Step six you load in the show you almost designed with little forethought and spend the better part of two weeks in 13+ hour days.
Step seven is where you take a breath, then realize that all the stress you thought you'd put behind you is really a hydra of sorts where the one major stress splits into many smaller but still collectively overwhelming stresses that knock the wind out of you once again.