April 8-14: a weekly roundup post. Because I fell behind again.
This was a strange week. We had 5 days of nice weather and 2 days of cold, windy, rain-all-day with a bit of thunder weather. Shelby and I made good use of the nice weather days to get outside and spend some time in nature. (Thank you all for the love on our nature pics and videos.) One might think I could have made good use of the rainy days to, I don't know, maybe sit at my freaking desk and get some writing done? But no. Those were my least productive days all week. I did go out in the rain to fetch groceries on one of the rainy days and to fetch an income tax receipt for my mother on the other, and I watched a French language television show and did some cooking. Otherwise I mostly procrastinated in the rain.
Workout wise this was a slacker week. I did an actual workout (or at least a bunch of mini workouts) on the Monday: dancing, some crane pose, one-legged crow with crossed ankles, baby presses, and some calf raises for
@TopNotch 's birthday. Also some push-ups. I did actual push-ups. With nothing pressuring me to do them. (My notes say these were "funky push-ups". If I remember correctly, some were similar to dragon push-ups, but with keeping my bent leg lifted, and the others were also a one-legged variety in which I crossed my lifted leg underneath my body. Not a lot of reps for either. But way more fun than doing high reps--or really any number of reps--of standard push-ups.) On Friday I did jumping jacks for
@Nevetharine 's birthday. Other than this, all I did all week was walk.
I'm not sure why I am being such a slacker. I do have a lot of things on my plate right now. But they're not chewing up all that much of my time. They are chewing up a lot of headspace though. I mostly need to get a grip and just press on through this time. Things will settle down to a new normal soon. In the meantime, the longer walks with Shelby and spending more time in nature are good for the head, and at least I'm not doing nothing physically.
I was mostly a slacker on the writing front this week too. My word count was low for the week overall. But I did get my short story written. Story #13 of 52, so one quarter of the way through the challenge now! I've been experimenting a lot, exploring new genres and sub-genres. It's been good overall so far--even if I haven't yet fixed the procrastination leading to late nights bit.
Speaking of which: yah. Sleep was messed up again. Stayed up late Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights. Sunday night due to needing to finish up my story. Friday and Saturday nights for no good reason. Not terribly late on any night though, so that was good. Finished my story on Sunday night and got it in before 11:30. So that wouldn't have been too terribly late of a night at all. Except that Shelby wanted to go for a bedtime walk, and once we got outside, she decided she wanted to do the full 3K. I don't so much mind being late to bed when this is the reason.
Not a huge amount of cooking last week. I did make some
banana muffins (baked half the batter and froze half), more pizzas (ate 'em all! yummy!), roasted some asparagus, made sweet potato air-fries (twice!) plus baked some sweet potatoes for using in other recipes,
whole wheat cacao nib banana pancakes, and a blackberry-cherry crumble. I just have the crumble and some of the pancake batter left at this point, plus the sweet Ps still waiting to be baked with. So cooking is definitely in order for today. But I am at least starting the week with a clean kitchen.
Will post some more photos and stories of Shelby's adventures in separate posts.
Stats for the Week:
hiking: 54 km
French: 10 hours French-language television
new fiction words: 3445
fiction YTD: 62,664
story-a-week challenge: 13 of 52 completed
54 stories in my 54th year challenge: 13 of 54 completed
new consumable words: 6558
consumable YTD: 130,646
target YTD for 2024 words a day in 2024: 212,520
deficit: 81,874
Streaks:
Consecutive days of working out: 0
Consecutive days of French study: 1244
Consecutive days of SOOT: 0
Consecutive days of GBOT: 0