Just One Thing (13 August 2016)

[nanila]

It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!

Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

Comments

[azurelunatic]

Took a risk and made a phone call. Had a largely delightful conversation.

Made the effort to talk with an old friend as well. Got to talk honestly about some of the stuff that has been stressing me out.

Had a lovely dinner with friends.

[sathari]

Go you!

[alexseanchai]

\o/

[nanila]

Excellent self-care and communication. \o/

[sathari]

FINALLY made my damn wordcount for the day. It was a slog, but I did it.

Exercised!

[alexseanchai]

WOOOT!

[fred_mouse]

Well done!

[nanila]

Huzzah!

[alexseanchai]

Made it ALL the way through work last night, thus saving some number of leave hours for later use when the pain's harder to work through.

[fred_mouse]

Oof. Good on you. I know how hard that can be.

[cosmolinguist]

Glad you were able to make it through! Well done for making more painful futures a bit easier.

[nanila]

Good forward planning. Hope it pays off.

[lilysea]

Did some laundry.

Took out some recycling.

Changed the cats litter trays.

Dropped stuff off at op shop.

Went to chemist: discussed supplements with Naturopath.

Bought groceries.

Did some more laundry.

Rested.

Had a shower.

A VERY productive day by my standards!

[fred_mouse]

\o/

Somedays reading your list makes me feel tired!

[lilysea]

Somedays reading your list makes me feel tired!

Well, I don't do any paid work, and I don't do child-rearing, cooking for children, laundry for children, dishwashing for children, all of which you do...

I'm chuffed you said this. ^_^

I often look at your list of achievements on your personal dreamwidth and go, "Wow, what took you a day would take me a week. or a fortnight."

[fred_mouse]

These days, I outsource a significant amount to eldest, who isn't working outside the home.

When you get out of the house, you fit in far more errands than I'm usually game to attempt, let along achieve.

[lilysea]

Thanks. ^_^

Having a powerchair makes some things a lot easier/more possible than they would be on foot.

And for every errand-running day, there are a lot of resting-days at home where not much except toilet visits/showers/food gets achieved.

(It probably says quite a lot about my current level of physical exhaustion that I keep having the thought "wow, I could do so much more housework if I didn't have to spend energy on toilet visits, including the standing-up-while-washing-and-drying-my-hands afterwards.")

[cosmolinguist]

By anyone's, I think! Well done. :)

[lilysea]

Well done. :)

Thank you! ^_^

By anyone's, I think!

Well, a lot of less-disabled-than-me and non-disabled people manage to do some form of paid work or study as well, both of which are completely off the table for me until/unless my fatigue improves.

That was literally all I achieved yesterday, apart from organising/eating food and taking my meds.

[cosmolinguist]

Well, a lot of less-disabled-than-me and non-disabled people manage to do some form of paid work or study as well

Eh, not on a Saturday. :)

I don't mean to be flippant. I do sympathize; I'm not working or studying for anything either, and have just passed the two-year mark of that being the case.

But managing disability or chronic conditions is at least as much work as most of the full-time jobs I've had. Just a shame it doesn't pay better!

[nanila]

That is a pretty awesome list. :) Well done! \o/

[lilysea]

Thank you! ^_^

[cosmolinguist]

Helped a friend with his PIP application.

[fred_mouse]

Good on you! And good luck to your friend with the application (if luck is needed)

[cosmolinguist]

It definitely is. Applying for disability benefits is always much more reliant on luck than it should be. :(

[fred_mouse]

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[nanila]

Oh, well done. I hope it is successful.

[fred_mouse]

Left the house about 9am, was home briefly for a shower and change of clothes, and then out again until after 10pm. In that time, we did clothes shopping, skate classes, dance classes, grocery shopping, other food shopping, bought kitchen equipment to deal with a regular thing that has been eating through my plastic bag stash. Oh, and went to see a *fabulous* high school production of "High School Musical". No real all round stars there, but a fabulous campy dancer with an adequate voice, a fabulous singer with rudimentary acting ability, and a generally competent cast (only one that we all spotted who didn't really know the steps, and only two of the four of us had noticed her - she had a fabulous smile, and really performed the bits she knew).

And I'm functional today. This is well into the 'maybe I'm finally getting well again' category. Even last term, I was still struggling with skating + dancing on Saturdays, and missing one or both nearly as often as getting to both, and I had given up on grocery shopping.

[cosmolinguist]

That is definitely awesome! So pleased to hear it.

[nanila]

I'm glad to hear you're getting your energy back, and congratulations on all your accomplished activities!

[silveradept]

I finished drafts, sent them for beta, tweaked, and uploaded a few. I might be ahead again instead of very behind on everything.

[azurelunatic]

*\o/*

[nanila]

Excellent! Huzzah for progress!