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Baby steps
Feb. 14th, 2019 12:31 amIt's a familiar enough refrain, by now, to be sure, but I didn't get as much done today as I planned. I'll take the hit on this one, though...I think it was a good choice to kick back a little. But I get ahead of myself.
Morning routine adjustment went pretty well, and...I made it to the gym! Did some treadmill, which turned out to be a strange experience. I think it kinda made me forget how to walk. I guess I got used to the action of "walking" but without the position change my body has come to expect. When I got off the treadmill, walking was an unsteady affair; I kept feeling like I was about to pitch over. Very strange. I have to assume that will improve with time. :) Thought I might give the exercise bikes a try, but what if that goofs up my cycling! That would be weird. :) But I can't imagine it would be nearly the same; the effects I felt today lasted only minutes. I can't see myself getting off a stationary bike and then hopping on my bicycle. Like...why would I be on a stationary bike if I can use my bicycle. :) But anyway. So that's a step in the right direction, so I feel good about that. I guess it's a step in no direction, since it's a treadmill, but you get what I'm saying.
When I was kind of mentally plotting out my day, I forgot that I had a DH meeting today (which more accurately is a TOC meeting). So I grabbed a shower and then had the TOC meeting, which went quite well. Glad I signed on there. So DH is a go; we're taking a little bit of a breather, so I've got a few weeks until a deliverable, so that's good. Plus there's a potential new project cooking, which I'm pretty excited about, so we'll see if that goes live, and I'll be sure to talk about it more when it does.
Aside from that, I hit my dailies and chores, but there was basically nothing beyond that. I exacerbated this by taking the evening off. T's meeting that would normally be on a Thursday was today instead, so that would have been a good opportunity to get some extra work done, but instead I decided I needed an evening off. I got some, let's face it, less-than-healthful dinner, and I wanted to just kick back with a movie and chill out. I ended up watching Black Panther again. I guess I just needed some superheroics. Plus...I've been feeling my down-with-colonizers oats lately, too, so that was also nice.
It's late. T got back pretty late, and we've been chatting and stuff, but I'll be happy to get to bed. Gym looks like a good decision; it definitely seems like it'll push me into being more active, and I've at least gotten over (or started to get over) the mental block of spending time on that. The big change in routine is pushing my shower to post-workout, so that frees up time in the morning for getting T off to work and everything, but I think I still gotta work out timing on breakfast. The kinda bad part is that it pushes the start of my morning back, but I knew that was coming and I've been scheduling for it, so I think it's okay? May mean more evening work than before, but I knew that was coming, too. All in all...I think it's going to be pretty good. I just want to make a steady go of it and not push myself too hard. Like I was saying yesterday...so far, so good.
Think that's about it. Sleep is gonna be goooood, that's my prediction. Of course now I really have to haul ass on TH tomorrow and possibly Friday, though hopefully not. GS is probably just a fantasy for getting in this week, but that's fine. And now that DH is not going to be breathing down my neck next week, either...that'll be nice. What remains now is for me to stop flirting with deadline disaster so much and actually get some work done early. Reminds me of school...I was never that good at working ahead of schedule. Mostly I have to keep a tight leash on social media...I think that's the key item to address. I mean, granted, because of ZS, this week is a special circumstance. Maybe the next week or two, too, but I hope not.
Anyway. Bed. That seems like a fine idea. Peace!
Morning routine adjustment went pretty well, and...I made it to the gym! Did some treadmill, which turned out to be a strange experience. I think it kinda made me forget how to walk. I guess I got used to the action of "walking" but without the position change my body has come to expect. When I got off the treadmill, walking was an unsteady affair; I kept feeling like I was about to pitch over. Very strange. I have to assume that will improve with time. :) Thought I might give the exercise bikes a try, but what if that goofs up my cycling! That would be weird. :) But I can't imagine it would be nearly the same; the effects I felt today lasted only minutes. I can't see myself getting off a stationary bike and then hopping on my bicycle. Like...why would I be on a stationary bike if I can use my bicycle. :) But anyway. So that's a step in the right direction, so I feel good about that. I guess it's a step in no direction, since it's a treadmill, but you get what I'm saying.
When I was kind of mentally plotting out my day, I forgot that I had a DH meeting today (which more accurately is a TOC meeting). So I grabbed a shower and then had the TOC meeting, which went quite well. Glad I signed on there. So DH is a go; we're taking a little bit of a breather, so I've got a few weeks until a deliverable, so that's good. Plus there's a potential new project cooking, which I'm pretty excited about, so we'll see if that goes live, and I'll be sure to talk about it more when it does.
Aside from that, I hit my dailies and chores, but there was basically nothing beyond that. I exacerbated this by taking the evening off. T's meeting that would normally be on a Thursday was today instead, so that would have been a good opportunity to get some extra work done, but instead I decided I needed an evening off. I got some, let's face it, less-than-healthful dinner, and I wanted to just kick back with a movie and chill out. I ended up watching Black Panther again. I guess I just needed some superheroics. Plus...I've been feeling my down-with-colonizers oats lately, too, so that was also nice.
It's late. T got back pretty late, and we've been chatting and stuff, but I'll be happy to get to bed. Gym looks like a good decision; it definitely seems like it'll push me into being more active, and I've at least gotten over (or started to get over) the mental block of spending time on that. The big change in routine is pushing my shower to post-workout, so that frees up time in the morning for getting T off to work and everything, but I think I still gotta work out timing on breakfast. The kinda bad part is that it pushes the start of my morning back, but I knew that was coming and I've been scheduling for it, so I think it's okay? May mean more evening work than before, but I knew that was coming, too. All in all...I think it's going to be pretty good. I just want to make a steady go of it and not push myself too hard. Like I was saying yesterday...so far, so good.
Think that's about it. Sleep is gonna be goooood, that's my prediction. Of course now I really have to haul ass on TH tomorrow and possibly Friday, though hopefully not. GS is probably just a fantasy for getting in this week, but that's fine. And now that DH is not going to be breathing down my neck next week, either...that'll be nice. What remains now is for me to stop flirting with deadline disaster so much and actually get some work done early. Reminds me of school...I was never that good at working ahead of schedule. Mostly I have to keep a tight leash on social media...I think that's the key item to address. I mean, granted, because of ZS, this week is a special circumstance. Maybe the next week or two, too, but I hope not.
Anyway. Bed. That seems like a fine idea. Peace!