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7 hours ago, Scaly Freak said:

I get this feeling around the start of November every year. I am not sure why, and have avoided analyzing it too much. It's just a thing that happens every year.

On my end I know why it is - there is a lot of Stuff That Needs Doing. More than there has been for the last few months. And deadlines are looming. Though I do wonder if I get overwhelmed more easily than most people. Or even than I used to. It feels that way.

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Ongoing habits:

I did the next lesson in Integral Strength, the first for a long time. It was fun: short little sessions of a large number of different exercises.

I do not think I prayed, though I probably should have once.

I did no challenge reading today. I put my time into book reading instead.

I forgot to do the purging part of the new habit (I did do the putting-away). So I did not get rid of a thing today.

869 at the end of day. Progress!. (Tomorrow there will be negative progress. But I am hoping to make it up the following day.)

New shiny things for this challenge:

I have still not made up my socializing schedule/plan yet.

I set aside my new book to read a graphic novel that was due back... well, let's just say earlier than today. Did not like this one though. (This Country by Navied Mahdavian.) The plot summary, such as it is: couple finds San Francisco too expensive and buys a plot of land in rural Idaho right around the time Trump is elected. They love the nature but are shocked that the locals hunt, are conservative, use racial and homophobic slurs sometimes, and basically are rural people. They have a baby, decide they don't want to raise her there and have this become her culture, and leave. Total stay: three years.

I'm pretty sure I was supposed to sympathize with the author, but he started to grate on me about halfway through, and it did not get better. I will spoiler my long ranty judgments.
 

I have done small amounts of gift-related research, but have purchased nothing.

4 hours ago, Cheetah said:

You can do it!

Thanks! I hope so!

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Kinda sorta forgot to update last night. 🤦‍♀️Not a great start.

Ongoing habits:

I did not exercise. I had a planned outing to the post office that would have had me take a walk, but someone else took my package down for me, so I didn't go out. It will be interesting to see how the walking is - we just had a ton of freezing rain, followed by snow.

I did do a prayer, and it was the only one I could have done at the alarm.

I did a LOT of challenge reading yesterday. If this year is like previous years and December is slow on the forums, I might even stay caught up!

I have linked the "getting rid of" to a phone game I have been playing too much of (ie. if I sit down to a long game session, I will then put away five things and get rid of one thing). This will either get me to play less or tidy my space, and neither is a terrible thing. So I did get rid of a thing yesterday.

I did do a couple of tasks; can't really remember what they were. Currently sitting at 872 start of day.

New shiny things for this challenge:

I have not made up my socializing schedule/plan yet. There is one thing going on tonight that I REALLY want to go to, but I can't because work.

I have begun a new book, this one by a former campaign operative for John McCain talking about how and why the non-populist, non-extreme people he worked for were willing to suppress their worries about Trump in order to win, for personal gain, etc., and how catering to the populist urges in the past (ex. Palin) created the conditions for the party as it now is. I'm only a couple of chapters in, and it has a gossipy memoir tone that I'm not fond of, but since the point is to look at the less-than-angelic motives of flawed people (including the author himself), perhaps it will work.

I have not done gift-related things.

I feel very behind in general right now. At work, at home. It is making it too easy to retreat into unproductive things rather than face all the stuff that needs doing. I hope this challenge will help with that.

On 12/3/2023 at 5:30 PM, Cheetah said:

Today I took a walk around the neighborhood.  It was gray and spitting rain, but it was a good walk anyway.  My boy went with me, which is also not bad.

May you get prettier, snowier walks in the days to come.

Welcome back to the real world (aka New Game +)!

I hear you on not wanting to exercise outside when it's cold. But your goals are good ones, and it sounds like you have a plan for both of them. Looking forward to hearing about your progress!

Your journal is so pretty, and the stickers create a lovely restful wintry feeling. Like a sunset with the snow gently falling.

Have a good trip!

On 11/28/2023 at 9:50 AM, KeysMcGee said:

Socializing: A new one for me. Ever since COVID, I've turned into a hermit and have closed myself off from pretty much everybody. I suppose it's more correct to say that I always was kind of a hermit, but COVID let me lean deeply into those urges. It's just hard for me to socialize. I don't really keep up with my friends or my family, and I have a hard time talking to others. It feels weird and awkward striking up conversations with people, especially folks I don't know well. Thing is, it's just as scary for others as it is for me. Add to that the fact that, as I grow older, my social networks are going to become more and more essential. So, I need to start exercising my social muscles. Now's as good of a time as any. Success involves-Commenting on other people's NF posts, arranging (and attending) social gatherings, meeting new people, reaching out to folks I haven't talked to in a while, etc.

I'm working on social stuff too.

One thing that I found helpful was that someone pointed out that I was trying to do too much in the goal. Ideally, I would like to find more friends. But that is a long process, and a very heavy weight to put on a "meet and interact with people" goal. So they suggested starting with more of a "building community" angle. Things like picking a coffee shop/library/etc to frequent, so that you get recognized as part of the fabric of the community. It's way less intimidating to start a conversation with a staff member/fellow customer too as there is a sort of built-in topic of conversation (coffee, books, or whatever).

I don't know if that will help you with your specific goals, but just in case it will, I thought I'd share it.

New challenge finally!

A week of sitting with this has not produced any sparks of inspiration, so I am going to repeat what I did last time with minor tweaks. This time, I will not do a long-term help-me-of-the-future goal, mostly because me-of-the-present is going to need some attention. I am going to add in one task-oriented, time-bound goal. I have also reached the point on the task list where it should only grow occasionally if I am working on it daily, so I want to see that list get smaller.

Copy/paste from last time:

Ongoing habits:

• Exercise after my coming-home laundry routine
• Washing and prayer on hearing my alarm (if I am home and able)
• Reading NerdFitness when.... I still don't have a good habit here, but read it!
• Get rid of one thing every day
• Work on at least one task from my task list. Preferably, leave the list shorter than it was at the start of the day

New shiny things for this challenge:

• Look for opportunities to meet/interact with new people. I need to research and schedule this rather than leaving it to the serendipity of the day. It may not be every day, especially now that the weather is unpleasant, and that is okay as long as it is still happening according to plan.
• Read every day
• Work on something that helps me long-term every day-ish
• Make or buy Christmas presents. I need 2-3 for immediate family members, and 7 small coworker gifts. I have done nothing.

On 11/30/2023 at 6:32 PM, Mistr said:

So your ideas are on target, but not timely for this year. Spa things tend to be good for Elf. Dumbledore is difficult because he buys the stuff he wants.

I am finding more and more that thing-oriented presents are hard to find for people and don't really get appreciated (as they have bought the things they want). The best-received gift I ever gave was ziplining passes for the whole family, so that the present was time together doing something fun. I am not going to do that this year as I have specific things in mind for my two main giftees, but something like cross-country ski passes followed by something warm and delicious is very tempting for future years.

Congratulations!

This is a more distant tomorrow than the one I planned on, but oh well. A summary.

Ongoing habits:

Exercise: I did a decent but not perfect job at doing exercise when I came home from work. Generally when I failed, it was either because I was too exhausted or because I was being sabotaged by family members. I can't do a lot about the family members, but I could have a backup plan for what do do when I am too tired/sick/injured for Plan A.

Prayer: I did better than last month, but there is still a lot of improvement to be had here. I do want to celebrate what I did do though, because it IS improvement.

NerdFitness: I did not read as much as I had hoped, and did not stay anything like caught up. Sadness.

Purging: This fell apart a bit at the end, but mostly I did something small every day, which was the plan.

Tasks: The list has grown, but I did work on it. Probably I need to work on it more so that it stops growing. Please list, stop growing.

New shiny things for this challenge:

New People: This also fell apart as the challenge went on. I do feel like this is important to do, but I am going to have to schedule myself dates where I do x thing, rather than wait and see how I feel on the day (when I will remember too late and then do nothing). I did realize this earlier in the challenge, and then didn't take action on it.

Read: I have done a pretty good job of reading daily and have finished three books (I think) this challenge.

Long-Term: There was progress made here, but it was also a nebulous thing that I would often struggle to do on the day. I think the takeaway here is that I need more precise "do this" goals, rather than "do something in this family of things" goals.

I will put up a new challenge when I figure out what I want to do for the challenge.

21 hours ago, Jarric said:

It very much is - you know where to find me

 

I didn't know that; that's cool! I really like the pattern you've created from it too.

Thanks!

I can't take credit for the pattern - I copied it from a website, who copied it from a paper plate with a printed snowflake design. But it would be easy to adjust to make, say, a hexagonal spiderweb pattern or something.

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The last couple of days have been weird. I had a program at work. I sorted beads (at work). I played D&D. I played far more than is healthy on a phone game. I read some tricky stuff that's made me do some thinking and feeling. I learned a whole bunch of stuff that I am processing (nothing terrible, just stuff where I was being let in on a secret or where my past impressions were wrong). And I did very very little that was challenge-related.

I feel very much at loose ends and not sure what to do. Not sure if what I need it to throw myself back into something mindless (like phone game) for a while, or if that is a way to avoid the thinking and processing I actually should do. Probably a good thing it's the end of the challenge, I guess.

Will come up with some sort of summary tomorrow.

So many congratulations! You earned it.

18 hours ago, Sepherina said:

Hope that kitty drugs worked so  you got the rest you needed.  

  The cat drugs did the job they were supposed to. I didn't though - I couldn't find the cat at bedtime, so I shut the door thinking she was out of the room. She emerged from her secret hidey-hole and tried to come to bed with me when I stirred, so I had to box her up in the middle of the night. But it all worked out okay.

17 hours ago, Jarric said:

I don't know if you mean online or in general, but I've been feeling this too. I'm mega busy and not interacting with people as much, but also it feels like people just aren't around as much either?

 

If you do want someone to talk to, in a wildly inconvenient time zone, feel free to drop me a line.

Both. I don't know if it's a time-of-year thing or just coincidence, but it feels like everyone is a bit absent all at once. Probably I am as well - it has been a busy couple of weeks at work and I know my friendship reaching-out project has suffered due to that.

I'll keep that in mind, if it's an open invitation. Thanks.

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Um... The bit that I usually copy-paste is on a previous page, and I have a habitual habit of going back to the other page wrong and having my active post deleted. So for today, I am going to try to fill in the blanks from memory.

Ongoing habits:

I did not exercise today. I did yesterday though - both a GMB session of Elements and a walk before bed. Had to cut the walk a touch short because the hill was icy and I didn't want to slide down. Even the flat part required attention to foot placement.

No prayers today or yesterday. Yesterday it was more of a timing thing. I don't know what happened today. I think I may have had a podcast on, and the alarms didn't sound or something. I only remember hearing one.

I did not get rid of a think yesterday. Today I got rid of a CD by someone I have never heard of that I do not remember ever seeing before. But I did a quick listen on Spotify before I did, and I actually quite liked the one I listened to. So I may check out more by the artist (Dayna Manning), but I don't need this CD to do that.

Work tasks got worked on. The tasks for the display rotation got expanded even more, as I realized there are more areas that require posters and themes than I first thought. Tasks currently stand at 859. I probably did about 15 or so today.

I did read a couple of challenges and I think I may have posted too.

New tasks:

I did not go out. I got lots of socializing yesterday, plus it was grey today and I had work things that I had to work on. But I posted on my forum, so I did do something.

I got my framework for my permanent monthly display rotation built out and started. It has so many parts. (Why must the children's area have five displays and also need a passive activity?? Bleh. But that's why I'm getting the thing set up - because I am not a natural with displays.)

I have done some reading. My book hit a chapter that was difficult reading for personal reasons, so I may have to switch books again for a bit.

My main work thing was actually a fun one. I had a craft for which I needed to make a sample, but I needed either a compass or a protractor, neither of which we had at work. I found a compass at home and got to work. First I needed to get a circle the right size, then mark it off to make six points. (This is where the compass comes in, and why you often get hexagons in older sewing projects: in addition to their tiling properties, they are easy to draft when you know how. The radius of a circle is exactly the length of one side of a hexagon of the same size, so if your compass is all set, all you need to do it pick a point, set the point of the compass there and make a mark with the pencil, move the compass, and repeat until you have six perfectly even marks.) Then I connected up the dots to make the pattern outline with a marker, and stitched it. This is the end result:

I think it turned out pretty nice, if you ignore the extra holes and the visible lines (I was figuring things out). Should be a good option for the older kiddos, especially if we have variegated yarn.

Now I just need snow-related music to play in the background. If you know of fun snowy songs, please do suggest!

Pushup progress looks like great progress!

I am very, very tired right now. Partly because of cats, and partly because I got a nasty financial scare early in the morning, and I just couldn't rest until it was resolved, which meant no more sleep. So today's summary will be short.

Ongoing habits:

I was way too tired to exercise when I got home. I was struggling to stay awake at all at that point. Prayer was a no-go; I was quite busy earlier in the day and never had the opportunity. I did read a challenge. No purging. I have no idea how many tasks I am at and I don't much want to find out - I added a bunch of stuff related to that planning-ahead displays-and-passive plan I talked about earlier, and it's going to make the number really big. I mean, I could have make it smaller, but I made sure that all of the pieces were small enough that I would actually do them without any sense of overwhelm when they come up, which is the whole point of the list. But looking at the number now will just make me feel more tired in a way that it won't when I do so tomorrow.

New shiny things for this challenge:

Long-term thing was getting started on setting up the displays-and-passives plan and adding all of the necessary tasks to my giant list of non-urgent work. I peopled briefly at the post office. I read a teensy bit, and I may try to read tonight (I have to wait a bit for the cat drugs to kick in), but I may also not be able to focus enough for that. As long as the drugs work, all is well. Please please cat drugs, I need to sleep well tonight.

On 11/20/2023 at 2:53 AM, Rhovaniel said:

I now have TWO contracts, one for each department, but together do make a decent pay rise. In fact, due to the last minute nature of literally everything, today is my first day in my new role! I'll be learning as I go for this - Imaging coordinator, but also helping with booking patients in when needed. Bit nervous. But excited to just get on with it.

Congrats! And that's one worry dealt with!

On 11/20/2023 at 2:53 AM, Rhovaniel said:

I did not meal prep. I had nothing - not a single spoon in me that could be bothered. I think I hate cooking. This is problematic. So, it's shop-bought soups and ready meals for me (stuck to the ones that are under 500cals). It aint great, but it's what I'm working with. 

It's not my favourite either, but I do need to make food tasty or I won't eat. When I am really pressed for time and ideas, I find it helpful to buy already-cooked or prepared meat - breaded chicken tenders are great for this - and mix it with stuff. You just throw some in the oven at the beginning of the week and then add them to things. Like, air-fry a chicken strip or two (to crisp them back up) and stir-fry a little bit of veg, and have with rice. Throw rice, some frozen peas, and a stock cube in the rice cooker with a bit of cubed chicken tender, stir and eat. Microwave a tender and have with some prepared salad, also from the shop. Add chili sauce, or soy sauce, or plum sauce, etc. Cook some onion and garlic in butter in a pan, add sliced chicken tender, serve on pasta. Instant ramen with a bit of leftover chicken and veg on top. Stuff like that. The machines do most of the work (I just chop and sometimes cook the vegetables) and I end up with edible and reasonably nutritious food in a short amount of time. Could something like that, that's partway between from-scratch and shop-bought, work for you?

14 hours ago, Mistr said:

I am glad your kitty is getting better.

 

For future reference, it is possible to have medications formulated as a liquid in fish oil. We had to do this for one of our previous cats. It required working with a specialty pharmacy and was more expensive, but it saved having to pill the cat. Everyone was much happier.

This is a good thing to know. We've been getting ours straight from the vet. I gather this particular powder doesn't taste bad, so it could just be mixed into food also.

Non-capsule pills are not usually a big deal. But capsules... well, they suck, I have learned.

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Ongoing habits:

Exercise: I did Elements today. They have shaken up the format of the lessons recently, and it seems like a lot more of them have a circuit of bear-monkey-frogger-crab at the end than used to. I find I have to make a small adjustment to these by switching the crab and frogger. Having frogger right after monkey, when both are movements from a squat position, is just too hard on my legs.

Prayer: Ah shoot. I don't know what happened to the others, but I know I heard one just as I was finishing something up, noted it, then forgot about it less than a minute later. Working memory fail.

NerdFitness: I did a little.

Purging: A fair handful of recipe cards. My soup section is fairly large, and there was some duplication and weird stuff. It took more care and attention than some other sections though, because two things named, say, "parsnip and apple soup" can actually be pretty different recipes, and that happened a LOT.

Tasks: Start: 740. End: 729. Do you know how badly I did not want to plan the kindergarten visit I have in two days? I have been avoiding it ever since I learned I was doing it. I would open up the file and read for less than a minute, and my brain would just nope out. I think it just felt so overwhelming that I couldn't get a grasp on where to start on it or how to order it, because I've never done anything like it before. But once I pushed through and wrote out the questions to ask and started thinking about what order to have them in and how it would flow into the book I picked out, everything started to fall into place. I now have a plan, complete with fully-formatted scavenger hunt, and it's easy to adapt it to other age groups too for future re-use. And now I am actually looking forward to the school visit.

New shiny things for this challenge:

New People: I joined a new Discord server today to try out, since I think I'm going to leave one of the ones I was looking at participating in. And I went to the grocery store and interacted a little with the staff (and one customer who thought the bread I was buying looked interesting).

Read: I've only read a couple of pages today, but I am getting ready to curl up and read after this post. After the kindergarten planning, it feels like I earned it.

Long-Term: I set up my phone to automatically delete those text messages that send you verification codes (a new feature in iOS 17), but I think it only works when you use it to auto-fill on the phone, and doesn't delete them from iMessage on the computer when they sync. So I think this was a failed attempt.

I need to have another look at events in the area to figure out what to do this week. There is a knitting club that I plan to try out tomorrow, but I don't have a project right now and I have something else I have to do anyway. There are Christmas markets in three different walk-to-able locations coming up. And there are probably other things that churches and such are doing special for the lead-up to Christmas that I might have some interest in (I'll pass on the Jesus plays, though I hear that one town's drive-thru Bethlehem Live is actually pretty awesome).

The cat has unfortunately been a bit more difficult the last couple of days. Meowing a lot while in the crate again, and trying to avoid being around at bedtime so that she doesn't get put in (nice try, cat). Not distressed meowing, fortunately. Just insistent. However, that doesn't make sleeping through it any easier. So I'm going to have to drug her again tomorrow night.

She's also been trying for cuddles less often than before, and just hanging around in my vicinity a lot less too. This makes things easier from a rationing-of-interaction-time point of view, but it makes me sad as well. I hope she will forgive me soon after this is over, and doesn't feel rejected and lonely. I've been feeling a bit lonely myself since everyone seems to be a bit busy and not around much these days, and it's not a happy thing. Especially when she doesn't understand why it's happening.

Hope the first day at the new job went well!

How are things going?

Double update again.

Ongoing habits:

Exercise: Yes today, not yesterday. Though I did at least get a little wee bit of walking in yesterday. I am quite proud of myself for getting it done today because I wasn't particularly in the mood and was trying to talk myself out of it, but then did it anyway.

Prayer: I'm pretty sure I skipped at least one yesterday, but I think the timing was just bad today.

NerdFitness: I read a couple of challenges and gave someone who has been inactive a little poke.

Purging: A bit of paper, and some cat medicine that I passed on to someone who was headed to the cat rescue and thought they could use it.

Tasks: Start: 729. End: 740. I did do actual tasks both days, I swear.

New shiny things for this challenge:

New People: I briefly interacted with some people at a parade yesterday, and posted on Discord today.

Read: I have been digging into a new book that needs to be returned ASAP. As in, it is already quite overdue. 😅

Long-Term: I unsubscribed from like a half-dozen email lists.

Yesterday I volunteered at our local Santa Claus parade (which yes, was crazy early). I monitored one of the intersections on the parade route - set up two barriers, moved them to one position to block traffic from entering the parade route, then when the parade was visible, to a second position to allow the parade through, dismantle barriers once the parade has passed. This was mere minutes of work, and the easiest volunteer gig I have ever done. I got my social quota for the day in by chatting a little with some of the people who were gathering to watch the parade.

The parade itself was far larger than the one in my previous town, and better. The nature of the floats was not all that different. Local businesses and organizations with decorated vehicles, pulling wagons, or just marching along made up the parade. Things like a construction company, a dance studio, local schools, and of course, the local council and a bunch of fire trucks are pretty standard. But there was also junior football and hockey teams, the sea cadets, and people collecting donations for the food bank. The most interesting floats were the aerial and pole studio, who were demonstrating on a ring and pole on the float while it was in motion, a toilet rental company that had Santa in a portapotty, a metalwork shop that had a snowman leaping from a washing machine, the paddling club dressed in kayak costumes, the forestry centre's display of different trees and how they help the habitat, and the Buskerfest's stiltwalker and glow-in-the-dark jugglers. It was a good afternoon.

Today we got our in-person D&D gang together for the first time in nearly three months. We are getting ready to fight a green dragon after having taken an unexpected leave of absence in the fae realm and being presumed dead in ours. We spent the entire session talking to people and shopping. 😄

On 10/21/2023 at 6:27 AM, Renate said:

Laying down roots and becoming functioning.

How is everything going?

4 hours ago, Jarric said:

I agree the redesign of cars which are then only owned by the wealthy is pretty depressing - it feels like as more developed countries have made these mistakes it should give less developed countries the opportunity to learn from them without repeating them. Of course, that relies on people wanting to avoid repeating those mistakes, which is unlikely when the people making the decisions are the people who benefit.

It's also partly a history thing, which the developing world is repeating because although the situation is different, the echoes are the same.

After WWII, there was devastation in much of Europe. People wanted a break with the past, a fresh start. Redesigning for cars was a transformation of the old to leap forward into the future. It wasn't done explicitly for the wealthy (though they organized lobbies to push their interests well). It was just the way things were heading, and they wanted to aid progress. Even some more socialist-leaning people saw cities as ugly, dirty, crowded places and thought that this would help people by giving them some space and room to move and breathe. The designers didn't think that it would be like it is today.

17 hours ago, Jarric said:

Hope the cat settles into her crate routine soon, that sounds like a lot of stress. 

 

 

This sounds like exactly the sort of really interesting book that I would never get round to reading. Anything particular that's stood out from it?

She is getting SO much better. I think she realizes now that the crate isn't going to be put in the car and driven to the vet's, and that yes, the door will close, but it will also open again at a predictable time, and both of those things are giving her some security about the whole thing.

Hmm. A lot of the broader strokes are familiar to me, but the finer details are not. For example, the way that the general public fought back against cars taking over the roads in the 1920s USA and right up until WWII in the UK, with cars being portrayed as "dangerous pleasure machines that killed children, while taking the road from ordinary folk". The bits about how cities were completely redesigned for cars, then owned by the wealthy, and how this pattern is repeating in the developing world's cities, was depressing reading. So was the bit about how Congo's mining industry (which provides the cobalt for batteries, of which 50% goes to electric cars) funnels money to the rich, actually making life more expensive for poor Congolese.

The author's thesis (which I agree with) is that fewer cars in cities and more trips via public transport, bike, and walking make a city more functional and pleasant to be in on the human level, and that this is desirable from an environmental point of view as well. Achieving it is hard though, once there has been a lot of development that is not dense and people have learned to default to driving everywhere. The chapters I have read have all been negative, focused on the harms caused by cars and car-centric development in various ways. But I think there are more hopeful chapters coming up, where there are examples of cities that are reversing course, either voluntarily or because their car-based planning model has reached a breaking point.

6 hours ago, Scaly Freak said:

Ouch. Yeah, I can see how capsules would be difficult... but it's good news that the cat is getting used to her new situation. Is she the type that calms from catnip, or does she get all aggressive? If she's the former type, that might be an option for drugging her as well...  

She is. I hope to only need the drugs maybe one more time.

We're not big catnip users, but I think she gets more playful, at least at first. I thought most cats usually get playful for ten minutes or so, then get sleepy?

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Ongoing habits:

Exercise: Not today.

Prayer: I did skip at least one but I also did one. So that's something.

NerdFitness: Eensy bit.

Purging: Will do after this post. Honest.

Tasks: Start: 727. End: 729. I broke down some of the work tasks that I really need to get done this weekend but also really don't want to do, in the hopes that if I am procrastinating on them by doing this, they have a better chance of coming up and making me do them. That made the list longer.

New shiny things for this challenge:

New People: When I woke up to rain and so little energy that even rolling over felt too hard, I knew I wasn't going out anywhere today. I did post on the Discord group though. It looks like the mail exchange is going ahead soon.

Read: Guess how I will be spending my evening? This is what I really feel like doing today.

Long-Term: I don't think I did much of anything, so no. Not really.

A combination of dark rainy weather and hormonal cycles made it hard to move today. Didn't get much done in the earlier part of the day. However, as is also usual, energy is picking up and tomorrow should be a good day energywise. I did manage to fix my son's necklace, which was a significant task. I had to learn how to use crimp beads, make a jump ring, string both the cover and the crimp bead multiple times (because I kept dropping it because the lead wire was so short), and figure out how to manage the whole task with a very short end of fraying wire that must have been about 12-ply and would not come together and stay there. But it is done now, and I feel like I learned skills, and that is all good stuff.

I'm here to follow, not because I like Starfield, but because I like you.

Hope the daughter is doing all better now. And that Ghostlet had a great trip. And that you will figure out how to get your exercise mojo back.