Just One Thing (27 May 2020)

[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

Just one thing

[dialecticdreamer]

I wrote stories for a prompt call on my journal, and wrote a total of 7300 words in ONE day! The total for both days' work was 12,100 words and change!

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[nanila]

That's an epic instance of Getting Your Words Out! Well done! *\o/*

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[dialecticdreamer]

Thanks. I'm off to sleep at last-- I was too wound up, and am more than an hour behind schedule, but seven short stories were written in those 12k words, and that is nothing to sneeze at!

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[readera]

👍👍

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[siberian_skys]

Bravo.

Sucked it up and went to the grocery, picked-up fast food for lunch and got most of the surfaces cleaned.

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[dialecticdreamer]

I haven't gone shopping since the month before lockdown, which makes the grocery run sound like scaling Everest right now. Go you!

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[siberian_skys]

Everest sounds about right. I had to go to the pharmacy the other day for my mother and it was insane. It was packed. If I go first thing in the morning to the grocery it's doable, but still a pain in the butt. Some people refust to wear maskes or follow the arrows on the floor, but this trip wasn't too bad. The main problem is that it takes twice the amount of time it should, because people don't follow the procedure and I end up having to keep avoiding them so I have to go back around the isle and coming back down. Ugh.

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[dialecticdreamer]

I've got nothing but sympathy and virtual hugs. *G* When I have to do something I dread horribly, I set up a reward FIRST. "After I do (yuck task), I can sit down, put my feet up, and have a cup of peppermint tea."

Yes, it's childish, but it truly works for me better than just saying (mentally): "Good job, you Adulted like a boss!"

Which, by the way, you DID!

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[siberian_skys]

Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. The last few weeks have been more of a struggle than usual. I have no idea why I can't seem to get my act together. I didn't even finish wipping down the house yesterday even though I know how important it is. I guess the good thing is that I did't really have much contact with anyone outside the house. I dropped some bills in a blue box at the post office, made a deposit for my Mom at the drive-thru at the bank and picked-up our lunch at the drive-thru. The good news is that the lunch was tasty. I hadn't been to the place in years. Who would have thought that a fast food chicken sandwich could be that good, but the chicken was awesome. I'm going to have to go back. Mom liked her shrimp as well.

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[dialecticdreamer]

You've got a life that works a certain way. Certain errands, routines, tasks, household quirks. Everyone does, and they may have broad patterns, but they're different in some striking ways.

Now imagine that you've had to strap a wrist for a sprain.

Or you've got a patch over one eye with strict no-driving instructions because of a scratched cornea.

Can you imagine either problem NOT having a major impact on your life as you're used to it?

Yeah. COVID-19 is like that, and it's absolutely essential to cut yourself slack for not having a hundred percent cope. My cope hasn't collapssed to the point that I want to watch the same movie four times, but there have been days when that's a close-run race.

HUGS if you want them. (Virtual hugs are guaranteed virus-free!)

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[siberian_skys]

Thank you for the advice and the virtual hugs. I am just not good at having my life out of control.

[lilysea]

Home visit from blood tech to take blood samples from me. Insisted she wear a mask and use a butterfly needle.

Made formal complaint over the phone to blood tech's manager about the fact that she had her mask on for maybe 1 minute of the 15 minutes she was close to me, and how resistant she was to using the correct type of needle.

Called agency to get ball rolling re building two wheelchair ramps for my house.

Rang a friend and asked for emotional support

Packed away home delivered preprepared meals [freezer tetris]

[readera]

👍👍

[nanila]

Sounds like a rough day to navigate, logistically and emotionally. Go you for getting through it with the help you needed.

[readera]

Called out of work after waking up so nauseated that i was ready to have a trash can next to my desk just in case.

Took meds, ate something, and went back to bed.

[nanila]

Yikes! Well done for calling it as soon as you realised you should stay home. Excellent self awareness and self care.

[readera]

Actually.. My partner was the one to suggest calling out sick after I almost cried trying to get my phone charger and our dog was in the way. Our dog is a tiny fluffball of a Pomeranian btw.

But im glad I listed and am trying to take it easy today.

[silveradept]

I spent a day doing as much work as my brain was really willing to give me.

[jazzyjj]

Helped a sister out some more with her Mac and iPhone, and did some more tech stuff of my own.





Talked again with a neighbor on the phone.

[azurelunatic]

Searched for lost meds.

Made a decision about a mattress.

Had food.

Had a very lovely bath.