Today made me think of all the warm walks the spring and summer will hold.

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I did ok with pacing myself through my day yesterday and I’m doing ok with it today but that instinct to just do all of the things before resting is strong.

My brain obviously knows that it is hard for me to start tasks and it wants me to keep going while I am already in focus mode.

It worries that I will forget.

It worries that I will dive into something fun and struggle to stop doing that and start something else.

And I appreciate that my brain is trying to protect me.

But since doing all of the things right away is not even possible, I wish it would trust me to rest and then return.

Perhaps that will come over time.

I have several important things to get done this weekend and I am doing battle with my brain about them.

My brain wants me to get all of the things done ASAP and rest afterwards.

However, at least two of the things on my list have specific times attached to them (one is on Sunday evening!) so I can’t get them all done before taking downtime.

In fact, I need to blend my work and my downtime – a situation that is very challenging for me.

Because I have lost track of time so often in my life, my now-aware brain wants to keep reminding me of the outstanding tasks.

That inclination is, of course, an impediment to relaxing and having fun.

So I am trying to ensure that my brain understands that I will be alternating between rest and work throughout my days.

Hopefully it won’t rebel and prevent me from doing either one.

It’s so annoying to be reminded to rest when you’re working and being reminded to work when you’re resting.

It’s truly the most unsatisfying way to spend a day.

Cross your fingers for me.

I decided to create a comic to enter in a local magazine. And I found something interesting to do on the theme, something that is a little more complicated than anything I’ve done before but but it is within my reach.

However, in order to pull this off, I have to draw my dog’s face six times.

And while I could draw a random dog face six times, it is hard to draw *my* dog’s face six times. Apparently it’s really important to my brain into my hand to get Khalee’s personality into these drawings.

For the purposes of the comic, it doesn’t matter how accurate the drawing is. And I have to draw my own face six times but I don’t seem to care too much about the accuracy of those drawings.

But it is extremely important for me to capture Khalee‘s personality in the representations of her.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – brains are weird!

I had a fun start to my morning, telling stories to some grade 3s and guiding them to make some story cards.

We had a really great time and the kids’ cards were fantastic.

It’s always so interesting to see what they consider to be a good story prompt.

I don’t know if pizza and a grease filter will inspire everyone but it will definitely get people thinking!