I thought the rain would mean a break from construction noise, but it looks like I'll be spending another day with headphones on. I have no choice but to schedule my days around it, which means 7:30 am - 3 pm are 8 hours of nonstop musical discoveries monday through friday! Good thing I have rechargeable batteries.
Today I am grateful for music, rain, less pain, dutch braids, meditation, gratitude lists, three old friends who texted this week, the roof over my head for keeping me safe and being a warm nurturing sanctuary to create, dance, and daydream in, my current social media cleanse (because when every person I have ever known is now posting nothing but death and murder and violence and outrage, it can be ...rather jarring, and I must reduce stressful emotionally triggering stimuli wherever I can in order to stay healthy and alive myself.. But yes I've read the news and yes, it's always bad and racists are bad and murder is bad. Yes, I'm aware, fellow social justice warrior. I just think, if you need to tell your friends everyday not to murder people, maybe you need new friends.)
My current goal is to try to be better about yoga and do more core work even though I hate it because I think my spine would like that. I need to make the most of days with less pain while they last. Whatever I did the first 6 months of quarantine eliminated my pain entirely, so I need to retrace my steps and figure out how I can be my best self again. I think it could have something to do with making all my meals from scratch and less screen time.
I'm turning my living space into a forest so I can feel connected to nature despite living in a concrete jungle. Trying to fix and improve all the little things so that I enjoy being here all the time.
I can't think of anything else to report. I hope this finds you well. Keep going.
1:00 p.m. - 2021-03-18