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I have been sick for almost two weeks. I had the stomach flu then caught a bad cold immediately after (still testing negative). I'm behind on my work and I have a big deadline next month so feeling a bit down. Hoping to be magically recharged and crank out the last of my to do list but stressing that it won't happen.
I'm almost finished with The Choice by Edith Eger. It's been an emotionally difficult read but it's very well written. Looking forward to reading some a bit brighter next.
After a couple of months doing photosynthesis, my ADHD medication finally decided to allow me to study this morning. But no more than 90 minutes. Now I'm again in my endless scrolling and doing nothing productive.
Besides that, I'm trying to be more active in kbin.social / lemmy instances to create more content through comments or post and engage, knowing the inevitable doom from Reddit (although I have an user on sopuli since last year).
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Woke up at 3am and couldn't fall back asleep, but it's a freaking GOOD day, got some caffeine, not a lot of meetings at work today, and the Lemmy community grows, I'm loving it here
Back to work after a week of PTO. Company had some layoffs while I was out (my org is not affected). Home theater receiver died this morning, while I don't have time to investigate -- needs either a factory reset or a full swap-out.
Amazingly enough, factory reset worked! Reset also fixed our bluray player a few weeks ago. I'm shocked.
I spun up a lemmy instance for my friends and I. Great success so far :)
It's going pretty good because I think I'm finally making some progress towards being more focused. Although I need to confess that was pretty thrilled with the onboarding on lemmy and checked it a lot during the weekend.
Apart from that I'm cutting ties with general stuff and news and focusing on: books (reading The Stranger right now), one single magazine about current issues in the world, hearing good music and starting to play an old RPG after great advice I received on c/gaming. I'll workout after work and then start a campaign.
I been doing a lot of journaling lately. Also I'm new here. You know why
Took 2 weeks off of work to get a nice mental reset, its been a crazy past year. Been spending time at the beach and it has been amazing.
National Novel Writing Month, the big event in November, has two smaller events in April and July called 'camps'. I finished my first novel (that was started during NaNo 2021) in February, and took some time off after I finished it. But now with the July camp looming, I'm scrambling to get the outline and character sheets done in time to start my sequel come the 1st.
No idea if I'll get done in time, but I really hope I do. I really want to participate in this event.
So, my week? Crazy and busy but productive.
I always forget about the camps but I tend to have motivation issues during the November event. Maybe this is the year