Pretty Good Day Overall

I had a pretty good day overall. The morning was hard; I woke up feeling messyheaded and just kind of puttered around with my coffee til I woke up enough to start doing my yoga, which took about an hour. Unfortunately in the process of this I drank far too much coffee and ended up stopping in the middle of the workout for a solid hour to text my friends before realizing what I was doing and continuing. All together this meant I didn't even finish the workout until well past lunchtime, which I was pretty upset about.

Here's something I've been learning lately: coffee makes me intensely social, and very creative. That's not a bad thing, but there's a time and a place for it. I need to make better choices around coffee.

The good news is I've been eating healthy today. Boiled eggs with asiago cheese, lots of water, lots of fruit. Protein from beef and quinoa. Though I did also have a lot of chocolate. Also something I need to make better choices about[0], lol.

After lunch I went absolutely fucking bonkers. I did 20 minutes of handwriting practice, something that's really important because of my chronic pain. This is huge because I've been procrastinating on it a lot. Then I worked/studied for 3.5 hours. Which is a pretty big record for me. Because of my shoulder and back issues, it's pretty difficult to hit numbers like that, so I'm really fucking proud of it. I'm gonna say that again. I am ridiculously, monumentally proud of myself for pulling that off.

When I tell you I was locked the fuck in I mean I was absolutely completely and entirely locked the fuck in. It was magic. Hell, if it wasn't for my chronic pain, I would've done way more. I'm not even fatigued yet.

Unfortunately, everything hurts now. There is a point to all the work, and some of it, like the book[1], will show up here eventually. But for the time being all I have to show for my effort is time logged, so that's what I'm gonna brag about.

Things I need to remember from today:
- A bad mood doesn't define the day
- A bad start doesn't define the day
- Any singular instance of getting off task doesn't define the day
- Cut right the hell down on coffee my man. Just stop. Seriously.

Anyway, see you all tomorrow, where I'll report internalizing the first three things and completely ignoring the fourth.

[0] As much as I'd love to be the never-eat-sugar only-eat-healthy guy, I'm just not that guy. She might be the best me, but she isn't the me that I most enjoy being. I have to make better choices about how often and how much chocolate I eat, but I will never completely eliminate it from my diet. Chocolate is love.

[1] I'm being intentionally vague about the book. I'm not going to reveal what it's called or what it's about until I have at least a rough draft. But I swear work is actually being done on this! I worked on it during some of those 3.5 hours!

tags: coffee, workouts, exercise, handwriting, book, studying