Mombie – a bit of everything

Slow Start

I am moving at a snail’s pace this morning.

I wasn’t well (headache and general weirdness) last night. It threw off my sleep pattern and I woke up feeling like the bones in my skull had been rearranged.

That’s not a fun feeling, just so you know.

So, I am taking my morning pretty slowly.

The problem is, I have things going on later in the week and early next week that need to be organized now.

Someone else *could* do this stuff if I had written it all down before now but, at this point, I am the only one who can do it.

And if I just leave it until tomorrow, it will mean two things:

1) I’ll spend all day trying not to think about that stuff. Deliberately *not* thinking of stuff takes a lot of energy.

2) Tomorrow will feel rushed and frustrating

So that’s not appealing.

I wonder if I can figure out how to still do these things but just slowly and over a bit more time?

Let’s see how it goes.

A sunny day!

Today was supposed to be cloudy and 5 degrees but the sun decided to make an appearance instead.

It’s ridiculous how much better I feel just because it is a bit brighter outside.

Even the winter-dingy mess of my yard can’t detract from the fact that my swing is inviting me to hang out outside for a while.

A saucer swing hangs from a tree in a early spring backyard
Image description: a photo of the corner of my yard on this sunny day. Most of the foregoing is yellowed grass and old leaves with shadows of bare tree branches but at the back, near my wooden fence are two larger trees, one of which has my circular saucer swing with green trip hanging from it.

On 30 days of blogging

Well, I’m going to call this experiment a success.

I’ve written something in here 30 days in a row.

That’s a clear victory, habit-wise.

Sure, every entry hasn’t been a gem.

And I didn’t always have a lot to say.

But I showed up and I did the thing.

Overall, it got easier to find things to talk about.

In fact, the real challenge was when I had ideas for a post that were too big for my time or my energy level.

And that’s something I want to work on a bit – figuring out how to handle the bigger ideas without wearing myself out.

In fact, that’s something I need to consider in most areas of my work – breaking down bigger tasks and ideas into smaller ones and working on them over time.

I’m going to keep writing daily but I’m going to think of a type of post for each day of the week. – to give myself a container to fill rather than trying to develop container and contents all at once.

Reminding Myself To Rest

No matter how many times I remind myself that work and rest are part of the same cycle, I still forget.

It’s not that I am so caught up in productivity that I refuse to rest.

And it’s not that I think that my value lies in my work.

It’s that I literally forget that doing a lot of things a lot of days in a row makes me tired.

So at the end of a flurry of busy days, I find it weird to be tired and my brain wanders off in search of the reason why.

And then, when realization dawns, I have a good laugh at myself and take some downtime.

Brains are weird creatures.

Saturday Six for April 15, 2023

Six things I enjoyed this week:

1) Listening the audio book of Anne Cleeves’ The Heron’s Cry

2) Getting to hang out with my dear friend Mary three separate times

3) Leading a writing encouragement session

4) Leading a storytelling session

5) Taking morning walks (for a change!) with Khalee

6) Getting some future plans sorted for my volunteer organizations.

All good things, all worthwhile things, and I’d like to say more about each one but I am just too damn tired to be chatty.