Just One Thing (24 February 2017)

[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

[alatefeline]

Worked.

Worked more. Talked to people at work about things.

Prioritized. Tidied up. Left work.

Came home. Stayed calm. Got food. Put away clean dishes. Went to bed early.

Thought about what to do when woken up in the middle of the night. Drank water.

[nanila]

I salute your work achievements, and your attentive self care.

[alatefeline]

Thanks. :)

[fred_mouse]

That is a large number of somewhat exhausting sounding things. Particular congratulations for 'stayed calm'; also for 'went to bed early' if appropriate.

[alatefeline]

Thank you, for both.

It was a long day. There were several very long days last week. Now it is the weekend, and that is a good thing.

[fred_mouse]

Yay for weekends. I hope yours was soothing.

[alatefeline]

Relaxing, anyway. I feel like I need a weekend about every other day, recently! But I'll manage.

[fred_mouse]

yay for relaxing! And I feel like I'm on permanent weekends at the moment, and it is driving me up the wall (uni starts on Monday, kids school went back a month ago, so that is four weeks of 'I kind of wish I had energy to Do Something)

[alatefeline]

*nods* All the time and no energy sucks. As does energy and no time. I imagine there are people who regularly have time and energy left after getting through their day somehow, but I feel like I hardly ever meet them!

[fred_mouse]

I used to. I really miss it. Just before I got sick, I was riding to work (~15 km each way) a couple of days a week, dealing with three kids, and finding time for gardening and the like. A decade later, I'm *still* beating myself up about the fact that I 'don't do enough', although less than I used to.

[alatefeline]

*nods*

Changes are hard. Especially changes that take away things that were happy-making. It sounds like you have some personal insights to help you, but I bet they weren't easy to acquire.

[fred_mouse]

I find it really helps that I have friends with significant chronic conditions, and that there are some really good communities on DW that I've managed to find, where people are very honest about living with chronic illnesses/limitations, because that gives me a sane and sensible baseline, rather than societal expectations. Mind you, I had an epiphany listening to talkback radio (Australian Radio National, so somewhat high-brow) talking about living with chronic pain, thinking 'that would be awful', getting partway through the story and realising that *I* live with chronic pain, and I just hadn't registered it, because I don't typically medicate for it!

[alatefeline]

Listening.

Sensible baselines are good.

[fred_mouse]

<3

[fred_mouse]

Made it to a friend's evening birthday party with whole family in tow, despite the fact that four of us were to be up at 5am.

[alatefeline]

Awesome! Hope you all made it thru the following day okay.

[fred_mouse]

Indeed, survived the following two days of busy quite well; in retrospect, I should not have been at all surprised at the complete collapse that eventuated Monday.

[alatefeline]

The bizzies will do that! Hope you're doing better now.

[fred_mouse]

I'm some better -- functional enough mentally to be making progress, but struggling enough physically that I haven't tried swimming or skating this week, because both require the ability to then drive home afterwards.

[alatefeline]

Listening. I hope things improve.

[fred_mouse]

Thanks. Storm last night *should* have helped, but here I am, lying on the bed doing anything that needs doing on the computer that catches my attention (very much in a kitten with two pieces of string kind of way)

[alatefeline]

*dangles a virtual fuzzy-yarn-with-pompom*

[azurelunatic]

Got a reasonable amount of sleep.

Food and errands.

Contemplated how to best look at certain topics in an organized fashion, in service of communication and self-knowledge.

Braced myself for what might have felt like targeted rudeness from catering, except I know that it's just general lack of consideration, Big Bell Pepper, and the fact that engineers will try for scurvy.

Didn't try to talk about my love life in front of a young teenager.

When bathrooms as "political" came up, shared my personal experience of being a gender non-conforming child harassed in the bathroom by conformity-policing peers, and explained that mine was only once but it traumatized me; transgender kids often have it worse. May have gotten a cis ally whitedude thinking.

Sociable chatter with my primary partner and metamour. Took an opportunity for more chat with my partner.

Complained about a very obnoxious sensory barrage by table-top tablet at dinner.

Had the brainspace to write about my day.

Sensible bedtime decisions, and affection with my partner.

[alatefeline]

Good work! Lots of balancing acts on what to say and what not to, there.

[nanila]

Enjoyed my evening to myself, curating the previous weekend's photos.

[silveradept]

A good day, and a lazy day, and a social opportunity for cuddles and lounging around.

[nanila]

Very nice! Well done for luxuriating in mutual affection. :)