Let's Get Shit Done

• Chores.
• Studying.
• I drew a little bit today! A couple of quick studies to warm up and learn the characters. I've also been looking for references.
• Exercising like it's my job. Sounds exciting, but they are actually boring and carefully executed movements to regain mobility, nothing like the scenes in the movies when the protagonist gets in shape to attain their goal. I wish.

Okay, not much progress, I've been mostly feeling sorry for myself and didn't feel like doing much, but, BUT, the pace at which you all are attaining goals has sort of piqued my competitive streak and I managed to finish the KF fic today. Still needs some serious editing because I'm unsure about the ending (it contains crack and I'm always extremely insecure with crack, it's very easy to alienate readers with a different sense of humor, but the source material sort of asked for it?). Hopefully this will allow me to jump to the next goal (paperwork and drawing), since this was kind of blocking me.

So, in any case, yeah:

• Writing (and finishing the first draft of the KF fic).
• Studying quite a lot.
• Doing exercises for the shoulders (and some for the knees and for the back, too).

• Wrote another tiny, little bit and kind of outlined the transition to the very last part.
• Got an appointment with the phisiotherapist.
• Paperwork. Not the big Red Tape 1 project, but still, necessary procedures mostly done.
• Walked 2 hours again to cat-sit.

• Pending Task of Doom done! First specific goal crossed from the list!
• Wrote two lines, more or less. Getting there. I'm just very insecure about this part.
• Situps, lumbar, biking and swimming. And I do swear it was all VERY LIGHTLY DONE, but my shoulders have been giving me trouble for a while and just doing the whole articular rotation when swimming the lousy 100m I swam was too much and now I'm fucked and I can't even do the washing up (or lie down in any position. Any. At all), so no more exercise or any kind for a while.
• Cat-sitting.
• Studying.
   

But yeah, this shoulder thing is going to put a damper to my progress because I can't do fucking anything like this.

Also: heatwave.

Damn.

Okay, since it's already the end of the day where I am, I'll check in for both days:

Yesterday:
 

• Some friends brought me a new desk which has this reclinable board for drawing. Very nice. Problem is, IT DOESN'T FIT BECAUSE WE DIDN'T MEASURE IT WITH THE LEGS ON. And they add to the length and also get in the way. So now I've got a new desk which is skewed in the three axis of space. But at least it's nice and a drawing table?
• That means that I spent the morning tidying up and cleaning like a motherfucker. That included the bathroom. Also rearranging furniture. And then, cleaning some more.
• I also studied with focus on the pronunciation. Found a wonderful Youtuber who explained shit far better than my teacher did.
• A tiny bit of adulting.
• 10 situps, 15 lumbar ones.

Today:

• I cooked like a motherfucker.
• Pretended I worked on the last pending task, but it was mostly a lie.
• Pretended I worked on the KF fic, but it was absolutely a lie.
• Studied quite a lot (writing characters, mostly, and practicing the pronunciation I learned last night).
• 10 situps, 15 lumbar. Some stretching. Hopefully I'll do another round before going to sleep. Danced a bit while I was doing the dishes.
• A tiny bit of self care.

Doesn't sound like much in total, but it's more than what I usually manage to do.
 

Okay, I admit I did fuck-all yesterday. Except:

• I studied.
• I did 8 situps and 12 lumbar what's-their-name.

 Better than nothing.

I finished the second pic. Went to bed at 6am today, but I did it.

The wrap up:

I managed to exercise with moderate regularity, which is good. Not as often as I would have liked, but that's life.

I managed to finish two pics of the three I wanted to do, which is less than ideal, but it's better than nothing. At least I'm moderately happy with the results. I'm better than I was, even if it takes actually longer to produce anything. Damn bar.

I managed to do a bit of the bonus goals. Especially the bikes, I worked a lot on them. Not so much the adulting, but it's fucking neverending.

I more or less kept my sanity, which is more than I actually expected considering the circumstances.


So, all in all, not bad?

Thank you, everybody, for your help!



 

BG:

More stupid adulting.

Put a basket on the comfy bike. Lowered a tiny bit the seat to find a compromise between my knees (they prefer a high seat) and my poor genitals (they prefer a lower one).

Archived a couple of fics.