I really liked how this one turned out.

I took things slowly and carefully last night and kept my migraine at what my dad would have referred to as a ‘dull roar.’

It was tricky though, walking the line between doing what needed doing and doing too much.

And now that I say that, that’s always a tricky line for me.

Some part of my brain always wants to just do the thing and be done with it while another part holds back to protect me (whatever protecting me looks like in that situation.)

And I am never sure if one of those parts is overreacting in the moment.

It must be nice to be the kind of person who never overthinks their thinking. 😉

For the last two weeks I have had a migraine on Thursday.

Last night, I slept oddly and I feel a bit off and there’s a bit of pressure in my head.

Today, and the last two Thursdays, we’ve had odd weather so there’s that.

But I also wonder what I could be doing in the first few days of the week that might be triggering a migraine.

And, of course, I’m hoping that the pressure I’m feeling right now just goes away.

I’d rather not have a migraine.

It snowed overnight and now there is freezing rain failing.

When I went downstairs this morning, I had a sudden recollection of a time with weather like this when I was in elementary school and I was hoping for a snow day.

I went downstairs relatively early and my Dad was in the kitchen listening to the radio a bit too loud. It was on VOCM, of course, because that was the school report station – at least as far as we were concerned.

I don’t remember any specifics of whether that was a snow day and, in fact, I don’t know if I am remembering one individual day or ‘what snowy days were like’ but what I do remember is how good it felt to have that little bit of extra time with my Daddy and the little bit of anticipation of a possible day off school.

It’s great that these memories pop up but I wish I could tell Dad about them. ?

I have been using Todoist for the better part of a year now and it’s been terrific for helping me keep track of a lot of my tasks but I’m not using it in the best way for me.

My to do lists still feel too crowded and I find myself delaying certain tasks over and over – which is fine, really, but I am finding it a bit tiresome.

I’m still working on a solution for the task delays but I think I have a solution for the crowding.

Because my to do list is a combination of personal, volunteer, and work information and tasks, there are a lot of bits and pieces to check off every day.

Just in my personal list alone there are about 5-8 things that I try to do every day.

And that really adds up.

So, step 1 in reducing overcrowding on my list is to combine my list of personal recurring tasks into one task called ‘routine.’

By doing that, I can change how my list feels for me. Instead of 22 tasks, I’ll have 14.

I’ll still do all my daily personal things (write a post here, do some journaling) but they won’t be part of the big number in the corner of my app.

I think this will help.

Let’s see how it goes!