Mid-January Check In
Jan. 16th, 2025 04:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spryngIt's a chilly, cloudy, rainy day and I am cuddled up under a shawl with my coffee and laptop. I've already gone to Crossfit, gotten the kids up, ready, and to school, and had my breakfast. Now I need a nap, hah.
Crossfit was great. We have a new coach and he proposed switching bodybuilding to oly lifting on Wednesdays and I am all in. We did a lot of snatch and clean work and I actually felt like I had to try with the skill portions; I'm really looking forward to more oly lifts in the future. Also it's just easier to come to Crossfit m/w/f than m/t/r or whatever weirdness I'd been trying before. As much as I enjoyed bodybuilding at the time, it's not really what I need, and it gets dull quickly since it's about moving weight around instead of technical skill.
...well that was yesterday now. The rest of the day got away from me and now I've got 20min before next Crossfit.
I wanted to check in on my nibbles, since it's already half-way through January. One of the reasons I wanted to focus on those daily practices this first month of the year was to slow things down. I feel like the last few Januaries have all flashed past, leaving me scrambling to keep up.
Not sure if they've been effective in slowing anything down, but at least it doesn't feel faster than usual? The daily joys habit has probably helped the most with that: writing one thing I want to remember about that day. At least when I've done that in the past, I've noticed the days don't blur together as much, and if they're more distinct, they feel less fast.
I ran yesterday, marking the third day run I've done this month. I will get used to it, goshdarnit. It is a lot harder to motivate myself to run in the afternoon, though, so I need to prioritize doing it before then.
I've only missed one day with writing, and that was the day the plumber was here, so you know what, sure. That's fine. I tallied up all of my words so far to see what my pace is -- since I've done anything from 23 words on day and 2000 another -- and I written 9k words so far this month. My WIP cracked 70k, which feels about right with where I am in the story. Another 30-40k words to finish also seems about right, which, at this pace, means I could finish it end of February, mid-March? That's kind of cool. That'll give me plenty of time to work on catacombs!WIP over the summer and maybe, just maybe, have something to query come fall.
I also missed a day of piano practice, but considering I was aiming for at least 15min of daily practice and have frequently done an hour, I'm not too bothered.
So, we're doing good! Hopefully there isn't another plumbing emergency and hopefully this upcoming 4-day weekend doesn't throw me too off track.
Crossfit was great. We have a new coach and he proposed switching bodybuilding to oly lifting on Wednesdays and I am all in. We did a lot of snatch and clean work and I actually felt like I had to try with the skill portions; I'm really looking forward to more oly lifts in the future. Also it's just easier to come to Crossfit m/w/f than m/t/r or whatever weirdness I'd been trying before. As much as I enjoyed bodybuilding at the time, it's not really what I need, and it gets dull quickly since it's about moving weight around instead of technical skill.
...well that was yesterday now. The rest of the day got away from me and now I've got 20min before next Crossfit.
I wanted to check in on my nibbles, since it's already half-way through January. One of the reasons I wanted to focus on those daily practices this first month of the year was to slow things down. I feel like the last few Januaries have all flashed past, leaving me scrambling to keep up.
Not sure if they've been effective in slowing anything down, but at least it doesn't feel faster than usual? The daily joys habit has probably helped the most with that: writing one thing I want to remember about that day. At least when I've done that in the past, I've noticed the days don't blur together as much, and if they're more distinct, they feel less fast.
I ran yesterday, marking the third day run I've done this month. I will get used to it, goshdarnit. It is a lot harder to motivate myself to run in the afternoon, though, so I need to prioritize doing it before then.
I've only missed one day with writing, and that was the day the plumber was here, so you know what, sure. That's fine. I tallied up all of my words so far to see what my pace is -- since I've done anything from 23 words on day and 2000 another -- and I written 9k words so far this month. My WIP cracked 70k, which feels about right with where I am in the story. Another 30-40k words to finish also seems about right, which, at this pace, means I could finish it end of February, mid-March? That's kind of cool. That'll give me plenty of time to work on catacombs!WIP over the summer and maybe, just maybe, have something to query come fall.
I also missed a day of piano practice, but considering I was aiming for at least 15min of daily practice and have frequently done an hour, I'm not too bothered.
So, we're doing good! Hopefully there isn't another plumbing emergency and hopefully this upcoming 4-day weekend doesn't throw me too off track.
