Daily goals, motivation and check in

Hi @Shaz51, @Former-Member, @CheerBear, thanks for the callouts over the past couple of days. Hi to all others here too.

I have to admit I've been very lax with the daily routines for the past couple of weeks since the high stress period ended. Haven't been feeling well physically still, and just very tired and keep going back to the bed during the day. Still able to get to bed early at night though, so sleeping at both ends. But the big news is I haven't had a really late night or an all-nighter for over a month now. That's an amazing achievment for night-owl me, and a first for many, many years. All-nighters were a way of life for me for a very long time and it's been a very hard habit to break. So taking some satisfaction that this part of things is going better for now. The other point of satisfaction has been that I have been getting out to visit friends on many days. In between I've been working on a new video, an exciting though somewhat difficult collaboration. That's done now so here I am back on the forum.

Off to meet up at a cafe with my support worker very soon. Just wanted to check in and say hello for now.

Sending love and good wishes to all.

Thanks, @CheerBear

Yes, support worker meeting went fine. Then I walked all the way home. Probably about 4km all up, a lot for me! That's the first big walk for a couple of weeks. I twisted my ankle somewhere in the midst of things and couldn't manage it for a while. So glad to be back into it. Not sure about the rest of the chores that need doing though. My list is virtually the same as when I wrote it out here some days ago. The only chore I've been managing daily is making the bed. Which always reminds me of @BlueBells, who started a 'making your bed' thread in the old days of the Blueboard forum. I always think that thread was a kind of precursor to this one, helpful!

Just popping in to say hi, wish you all well 🙂

My goals for today

• Safely ride to/from work
• Work on stuff, but take breaks when I need them
• Have dinner
• Bonus round:
  • Go to the shops or
  • Do dishes or
  • Bike tuneup or
  • Rinse and dry shirt or
  • Put away laundry or
  • Work on the thing

Hello @Mazarita, Thank you for your call outs too 😄 I have a confession - my daily routines are permanently lax! I heated up a double handed pot of water yesterday - trying to budge the laxness of the dishes . . . but it didn't work! . . . once it boiled I turned it off & it just sat there & eventually went back to being cold 😞 I did clear off the wood heater & threw in some broken branches (I pick up branches and small pieces of wood that I think I can break with the axe, I don't really cut them, I have no technique what-so-ever except for a pretend Oriental 'Hi Ya' sound that escapes my mouth when throwing the axe with all my might at the little branch in an attempt to make it snap:D) & even successfully lit them, which was very useful for taking the chill off the air for the night 🙂 In fact I've just lit it again, take a bit more of that chill off until the Sun comes up over the tree tops to warm all the air for the day 🙂 The feeling of the ice thawing as the heat from the fire radiates in an ever expanding invisible bubble, is good enough that I know I'll begin my vigorous Winter hobby/sport of collecting and cutting{breaking by throwing the axe at with an oriental war cry} wood for the fire; it's almost like an ancient Olympic sports 😄

Well done with breaking that 'all-nighter' pattern! That really is a hard one. I think maybe exhaustion has had a hand to play in that routine ❤️ & it's great that your getting out to visit friends on many days, I think it's a positive energy that flows when we dust of the rusty 'courage armor' and go outside our backyards - I'm seriously thinking about going to a camp spot, even if it's just overnight so that I wake up over-looking a beautiful River! 🙂 I'm hoping the external stimulation will have me pick up the camera again; photography is a hobby I used to enjoy a great deal, I think it's important we do things we enjoy and therefore the brain processes as positive reactions, I might not go as far as Video editing, but I used to love making slide-shows 🙂 Wish I could see one of your shows.

Well, I think I should dub thee 'Mazy the Social Butterfly' 🙂 . . . meeting up at Cafes, out visiting, being creative, coping with being alive within the most complicated species on the Planet! 😄

Sending you love and hugs

My goals for the day:-

1. Re-heat dish water and use it!

--- didn't happen

2. Send another email to camp site enquiring about booking!!

--- OMG! I'VE MADE A BOOKING!!!

3. Let the 'bush-block' Winter Olympics begin!!!

--- didn't happen

oh and . . . maybe tomorrow, go into the City for a big shop {(OO)}

--- I went into town yesterday, - just got dressed & decided to go! I bought a couple of things that would be handy for sleeping out in the cool; a big old woolen underblanket that I could use to line the canopy . . . or would make a brilliant dog blanket, from a second hand store; and a brand new set of themal underwear from Aldies! 😄 Together with a bunch of other stuff {more pet food than me food :D}