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Weekly (Monthly?) Update
Nov. 4th, 2021 06:55 pmSo, I missed the last two weeks (again) so now this is going to be a really long update post (I hope). It's been a rather average three weeks, with a few spots of uniqueness. I wasn't great at doing the daily things in the last half of October, but I've currently got a 6 day streak going, and I'm going to make a concerted effort to maintain my streak for all of November. I don't know if it will work, but I'm hopeful. :)
On Sunday, October 17th, my city had an Open Streets event, which gives residents a chance to walk or ride their bikes in the streets and explore local businesses, without any cars around. There were a bunch of different booths set up along an 8km stretch of road, and I went to all of the different hubs but one and had a good time. I walked around each hub, but not between them, because a 16km walk (or bike ride) is beyond me. I drove between sites, then walked from the car, although I did walk between the last three, which was probaly a 3 or 4 km round trip. I need to see if I can find a feedback form though, because evwn though there was a site map, the hubs weren't labeled by street so it was hard to judge where to park the car to get out and walk. It also made it hard to judge the distance between each hub, so deciding if something was walkable or not (or telling when one cluster ended) was hard to do as well. Perhaps next year I will practise so that I can ride my bike for the event and not have to worry about driving.
I haven't done a great job on reading one book a month, and I didn't finish my book for October, sadly. However, I did re-read the X-Files fanfic 24/7 by Xanthe (can be found at xanthe.org), which is a whopping 625,000 words. So, I don't feel too bad about not reading more books because that *one* fanfic is the equivalent of about 6 decent sized novels, depensing on how you count a novel. I would like to read more actual books because I'm building up a backlog, but it's still an impressive amount of words to read in the span of about 5 days.
Some days, being a neurodivergent introvert is hard. I don't remember the original reason I wanted to talk about Peopling, but man, sometimes they reeeallly zap my energy. In the past three weeks, I've visited with a friend I haven't seen for quite awhile, saw family multiple times, and headed up to see a group of friends that is a few hours away from me. Having to deal with a large bunch of people, even if it was a good time, left me with a social hangover bascially and it made last Monday kinda difficult. I wish I knew a way to make people eat fewer of my spoons, but so far, no luck. Instead, I just try to steal some alone so I can recover at least.
... I had a note to talk about my mood, but I don't remember what I wanted to say now. It's been kind of up and down lately, though never really awful, so it could be worse. And my motivation seems to slowly be floating back, but holy wow is that hard too. Making decisions is really not my strong suit, and neither is self-motivation or doing things that are necessary but un-fun and I'm missing my regular outlet. Having to do those things allll the time is kind of like ... well, actually, kind of like introverted me going to parties every weekend. I *don't* do this, but the energy drain is roughly equivalent and sometimes it really sucks. I'm trying to counteract it as best I can, but some days are harder than others.
Halloween was fun. Saw my grandma for lunch (and also unintentionally dinner) and then gave out candy at home. There were only about 20 or 30 kids on my street, but it was still fun, and it didn't rain for us so that was very nice.
I haven't been doing so well at working on my emotional awareness goals, but I have been doing therapy for 4 or 5 months now, so I'm going to cut myself some slack. Even though we haven't gotten into any really deep stuff, and haven't necessarily started working on the things I want to fix, she has given me some good ideas for handling my emotions and just talking about it regularly makes me more aware of myself and my feelings, so I can try to make *choices* instead of just reacting. I do want to do more active work in this area, but I'm not going to be too hard on myself for not making more progress.
Knitting ... is going slow. I have a blanket and a pair of mittens I need to make before Christmas and I'm not very far along on either project yet. I need to make a schedule so that I can finish them on time, but I will do that tomorrow (famous last words).
And one last random bit of news: I got a new set of locks today at work, for making sure no one enters the machine if I'm working on it. There were three locks, each with an individual key, but no way to tell which key goes with which lock if I need to use more than one at once. So, I went down to our parts department, who has stickers for colour-coding parts. My three locks now have a black stocker, a grey sticker, and a purple sticker :D Now if I had a fourth lock I can add white and I'll have the whole flag :D ;P
Have a great weekend everyone!
On Sunday, October 17th, my city had an Open Streets event, which gives residents a chance to walk or ride their bikes in the streets and explore local businesses, without any cars around. There were a bunch of different booths set up along an 8km stretch of road, and I went to all of the different hubs but one and had a good time. I walked around each hub, but not between them, because a 16km walk (or bike ride) is beyond me. I drove between sites, then walked from the car, although I did walk between the last three, which was probaly a 3 or 4 km round trip. I need to see if I can find a feedback form though, because evwn though there was a site map, the hubs weren't labeled by street so it was hard to judge where to park the car to get out and walk. It also made it hard to judge the distance between each hub, so deciding if something was walkable or not (or telling when one cluster ended) was hard to do as well. Perhaps next year I will practise so that I can ride my bike for the event and not have to worry about driving.
I haven't done a great job on reading one book a month, and I didn't finish my book for October, sadly. However, I did re-read the X-Files fanfic 24/7 by Xanthe (can be found at xanthe.org), which is a whopping 625,000 words. So, I don't feel too bad about not reading more books because that *one* fanfic is the equivalent of about 6 decent sized novels, depensing on how you count a novel. I would like to read more actual books because I'm building up a backlog, but it's still an impressive amount of words to read in the span of about 5 days.
Some days, being a neurodivergent introvert is hard. I don't remember the original reason I wanted to talk about Peopling, but man, sometimes they reeeallly zap my energy. In the past three weeks, I've visited with a friend I haven't seen for quite awhile, saw family multiple times, and headed up to see a group of friends that is a few hours away from me. Having to deal with a large bunch of people, even if it was a good time, left me with a social hangover bascially and it made last Monday kinda difficult. I wish I knew a way to make people eat fewer of my spoons, but so far, no luck. Instead, I just try to steal some alone so I can recover at least.
... I had a note to talk about my mood, but I don't remember what I wanted to say now. It's been kind of up and down lately, though never really awful, so it could be worse. And my motivation seems to slowly be floating back, but holy wow is that hard too. Making decisions is really not my strong suit, and neither is self-motivation or doing things that are necessary but un-fun and I'm missing my regular outlet. Having to do those things allll the time is kind of like ... well, actually, kind of like introverted me going to parties every weekend. I *don't* do this, but the energy drain is roughly equivalent and sometimes it really sucks. I'm trying to counteract it as best I can, but some days are harder than others.
Halloween was fun. Saw my grandma for lunch (and also unintentionally dinner) and then gave out candy at home. There were only about 20 or 30 kids on my street, but it was still fun, and it didn't rain for us so that was very nice.
I haven't been doing so well at working on my emotional awareness goals, but I have been doing therapy for 4 or 5 months now, so I'm going to cut myself some slack. Even though we haven't gotten into any really deep stuff, and haven't necessarily started working on the things I want to fix, she has given me some good ideas for handling my emotions and just talking about it regularly makes me more aware of myself and my feelings, so I can try to make *choices* instead of just reacting. I do want to do more active work in this area, but I'm not going to be too hard on myself for not making more progress.
Knitting ... is going slow. I have a blanket and a pair of mittens I need to make before Christmas and I'm not very far along on either project yet. I need to make a schedule so that I can finish them on time, but I will do that tomorrow (famous last words).
And one last random bit of news: I got a new set of locks today at work, for making sure no one enters the machine if I'm working on it. There were three locks, each with an individual key, but no way to tell which key goes with which lock if I need to use more than one at once. So, I went down to our parts department, who has stickers for colour-coding parts. My three locks now have a black stocker, a grey sticker, and a purple sticker :D Now if I had a fourth lock I can add white and I'll have the whole flag :D ;P
Have a great weekend everyone!
