News & Views: the Christmas chocolate is gone! Long live the Valetine chocolate

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

1. I'm all over the place today. This morning, I did a Yoga with Adriene which was too difficult for me and that set the tone for a day of frustration.

2. I am trying very hard to 1. write a poem 2. settle on a plot for my National Puzzle Day offerings. I want to try an escape room story, but I think it is too ambitious.

3. Out of sheer!@#$% I challenged myself to see how many drabbles I could write in 90 minutes, so I could have SOMETHING to show for the day. The answer is 5.

4. For the same reasons, I ate the last of the Christmas chocolate. I have some bars of Valentine chocolate but am going to TRY to save them.

5. I did a facial mask today and forced myself to lay down and just BE for 20 minutes with fair to middling results.

Tomorrow is shopping and errands day so I wanted today to be a quiet day at home, and I feel like I wasted it. But maybe my lens is cracked.

Comments

[debriswoman]

Hope you have the opportunity to get your breath back :-)

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Today is better but it is also busier in terms of errands outside the house. I know I was being irrationally demanding of myself yesterday but I couldn't stop it either.

[smallhobbit]

I feel the frustration, but writing 5 drabbles is impressive!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you! I was so out of sorts that I set myself a timer and just said Do Something!

[dr_zook]

Sorry to hear you've been frustrated. Maybe you just needed this day to purge your determinedness for something more accessible. ♥ Five drabbles in 90 minutes sound brilliant!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Yes, managing expectations of myself is a life long struggle. And things have cycles and seasons, right? in the macro and the micro. Today is better but also busier.