[Machete]

So for those not watching the Instagrams, it's been 9 months since moving across the country. Job is great but the pay is insultingly-low. I had to take a second job at a CrossFit gym, which is great and fun and easy, but it cuts into my jiu-jitsu time and leaves me pretty exhausted. I'm also in school because I need to finish this degree. I've pretty much filled my schedule out so I won't have time to entertain the negativity my brain tends to drift into--I just turn them into memes and release them into the wild. (Doc took me off amphetamines, which I kind of miss because it makes me productive and social for like 2 days, but crashes me for a week.) Anyway, I'm not even going to attempt to exhibit any semblance of self-control; I'm just putting one foot in front of the other, hoping the world ends before my next billing cycle. I'm thinking I'm just going to work on home SOPs that I can mindlessly follow every day so I can have bandwidth for all this shit I put on my plate.

 

I've been pretty much "winging it" with everything, and I'm finding that the basic stuff tends to get forgotten because it's not done intentionally. Just need to check whether I did it or not.

 

3 DAILY TASKS

• Track my sleep - it doesn't matter how many hours, as long as I have the estimated number on record
• Drink water - I just need to record what I'm drinking that's not energy drinks, coffee, or diet soda
• Exercise - even though I usually have the opportunity to get a workout in, it's been intermittent; maybe the intentional exercise help me with the studying

 

For the first time in my life I'm living in a furnished apartment. Dining table, couch, coffee table, bar stools. I have no idea how people maintain a clean living space; my space always degenerates into a dump. I'm trying to address this. Nobody's visiting, but I think ultimately it distracts me from being productive and I just end up lying on the couch playing Last Fortress: Underground for three straight days instead of studying.

 

3 WEEKLY TASKS

• Tuesday and Thursday laundry and dishes
• Sunday trash and junk mail
• Jiu-jitsu once a week - just show your face

 

03JUL - 7 hours sleep / trash

04JUL - 4 hours sleep, 2 drinks of water, jiu-jitsu

05JUL - 7.5 hours sleep, 1 drink of water / laundry, dishes

06JUL - 5 hours sleep, 6 drinks of water, CF WOD

07JUL - 9 hours sleep, 1 drinks of water,

08JUL - 5 hours sleep, 2 drinks of water, CF WOD / laundry

09JUL - 5.5 hours sleep, 4 drinks of water

SLEEP: 7/7, WATER: 6/7, EXERCISE: 3/7

CLEANING: 1/2, TRASH: 1/1, JIU-JITSU: 1/1

 

10JUL - 7 sleep, 4 water, jiu-jitsu / trash

11JUL - 5.5 sleep, 3 water, KB CF WOD

12JUL - 6.5 sleep, Row

13JUL - 9.5 sleep

14JUL - 5.5 sleep

15JUL - 4.5 sleep, 2 water, KB

16JUL - 8 hours sleep, 1 water, lift

SLEEP: 7/7, WATER: 3/7, EXERCISE: 5/7

CLEANING: 0/2, TRASH: 1/1, JIU-JITSU: 1/1

 

17JUL - 9 sleep,

18JUL

19JUL

20JUL

21JUL

22JUL

23JUL

SLEEP: /7, WATER: /7, EXERCISE: /7

CLEANING: /2, TRASH: /1, JIU-JITSU: /1

[Rooks]

First, I feel like I was following along on the 'gram and still didn't realize you moved. Granted, I'm pretty bad at social media in general. 

 

Second, I like the goals. Simple and and moving forward. Get after it. 

[Sylvaa]

13 hours ago, Machete said:

So for those not watching the Instagrams, it's been 9 months since moving across the country.

 

Wait, your 'Gram isn't just funny memes and you eating? I've missed something (not really, I noticed the move).

 

[sarakingdom]

Looks like it's you and me, buddy, all the Monks are down for the count. You up for rescue missions?

 

[Rooks]

[Machete]

On 7/1/2022 at 7:25 AM, Rooks said:

First, I feel like I was following along on the 'gram and still didn't realize you moved. Granted, I'm pretty bad at social media in general. 

 

Second, I like the goals. Simple and and moving forward. Get after it. 

 

To be fair sometimes I tag ridiculous places, like Vault 22 and Whiterun. Haha

 

On 7/1/2022 at 7:59 AM, Sylvaa said:

 

Wait, your 'Gram isn't just funny memes and you eating? I've missed something (not really, I noticed the move).

 

 

I AM the meme. 😆

 

 

On 7/6/2022 at 3:49 AM, sarakingdom said:

Looks like it's you and me, buddy, all the Monks are down for the count. You up for rescue missions?

 

23 hours ago, Rooks said:

 

[Tanktimus the Encourager]

2 hours ago, Machete said:

I AM the meme. 😆

You think the meme is your ally because you adopted it. I was there when the meme was nothing but Bumper Stickers and Tshirts. I watched the meme make the jump from chain letters to email forwards. I saw the BadgerBadgerBadger and the Dancing Hamster the day they were born. The meme is older than you and me put together. 

 

I mean, I just found your challenge, HOWDY!

[Kishi]

Dude, welcome back! Had no idea you'd moved because I too am bad at social media.

 

[Machete]

On 7/7/2022 at 3:34 PM, Tanktimus the Encourager said:

You think the meme is your ally because you adopted it. I was there when the meme was nothing but Bumper Stickers and Tshirts. I watched the meme make the jump from chain letters to email forwards. I saw the BadgerBadgerBadger and the Dancing Hamster the day they were born. The meme is older than you and me put together. 

 

I mean, I just found your challenge, HOWDY!

 

The alleged original (though I do believe there are cave painting memes).

 

On 7/11/2022 at 1:28 PM, Kishi said:

Dude, welcome back! Had no idea you'd moved because I too am bad at social media.

 

 

Extremely busy. Hustle culture sigma grindset and all that. Haha

[Machete]

Shitty week. Couldn't get anything done, I'd just get home and play on my phone as I fall in-and-out of sleep. Kept forgetting to drink water, and it was too hot to sleep comfortably most days. Yuck.

 

Shitty eating; ended up eating too many popped beans and had a stomach ache so I missed Sunday jiu-jitsu. I'll try to go on another day.

 

Need to drink more water this week.

[Kishi]

FWIW, I get it. I've been getting things done, but it's coming at the cost of sleep, so I sleep later and get to work later and the cycle's got more and more vicious.

 

Sorry to hear that everything's going off the rails as of a few days ago. I hope things are better now. And if they aren't, well, you do what you gotta do to take care of yourself. Sigma grindset be damned.