weekly retro: despite the haters (germs) i'm back
coming off of being pretty sick last week and then continuing to heal from that whilst starting my period - yes, that keeps happening for some reason - i was starting to doubt that i had anything to even write about this week. that's when it's time to just start typing what i'm thinking.
as i'm getting close to launching my candle store, i'm thinking a lot about executive function. i have the kind of adhd where i do a lot of knowledge gathering and have lots of ideas and pretty good organization skills, but it takes seemingly forever to take action if i'm the one creating my own deadlines. i've been working hard to combat that during this self-sanctioned sabbatical by saying yes to things and experimenting more.
experimentation in action plays out a lot in my kitchen. this week andy's friend shared that he was making the superiority burger tofu-fried sandwich so i made that too. you marinade the tofu in pickle juice which is kind of genius. i also made this spring ricotta pasta but used a vegan "spam" instead of pancetta. everything came out great and there were 5 million dishes to clean.
it wasn't until thursday when i could leave the house to do a chore without feeling like i wanted to die. at that point, it had been a full week since going to the gym or yoga. fresh air and exercise do wonders for my mental health, so i had never been more excited to do a...pharmacy run. tell me why they texted that my pills were ready but said i wasn't in the system when i arrived? i felt myself getting sick all over again until they finally found and handed over the goods.
next week will be 6 years since i stopped consuming alcohol! there's no doubt that this lifestyle change had positively impacted my mental and physical health. after the pharmacy, i stopped by a liquor store (the circumstances of me quitting lend to me being able to be safely around real alcohol and other drinkers) to pick up some non-alcoholic bourbon to make myself some throat-soothing hot toddies, or at least my take on them: brew hot black tea, add a squeeze of lemon, spoon full of honey, and a shot of fake bourbon.
by friday i was feeling well enough to go into the city for therapy. this is a major schedule change for me that we made recently, and i'm happy it worked out the way it did. one thing i'm trying to do going into this new business venture is set boundaries on when i work so that i don't burn myself out, and so i'm going to try for a four-day work week where the weekend starts on friday.
that starts next week though lol. i had not melted any wax while i was sick so, i spent a whole lot of friday and saturday getting back into it. also, i couldn't not take advantage of the sunny day to take more product photos.
today (sunday) i finally made my way back to the gym for a lighter cardio workout. i had been coughing like crazy for a week, so it was crucial that i started slow and hydrated a lot. i have managed to go to the gym 30 weeks in a row which may be my longest streak. it was a reminder that i was only sick for a week even though i felt like i lost an entire month of work and working out. i've been told i get my propensity for dramatics from my father. i also inherited his attention span.
things i enjoyed paying attention to this week
- look what @yomimono made in celebration of the (iirc) ten year anniversary of me once tweeting that i just keep getting hotter and smarter. no one can say that me saying that was any short of iconic - there's MULTIPLE pieces of fan art about it. i like that.
- i recently got a nice email from an old glitch colleague - it's co-creator, pirijan, who has a great blog. if you've not checked out his latest project kinopio, it's worth a look and try. i never talked about this with him, but pirijan once had his own office and then one day i was hired and he was told to share it with me and he never gave me any shit about it. i have given my office up to people twice in my career and they each still gave me shit. sharing truly is caring is what i'm saying.
- tom macwright has been sharing a sketch a day and i really enjoy them. i fear that i may need the accountability of getting kicked out of a club if i miss a sketch.
i haven't scheduled any streams in awhile, but i'm gooing to do doing a bunch of website code and deployment stuff this week and may go live once my cramps subside. i'm going to go finish my hot toddy - which has gone lukewarm at this point - now!
xoxo jenn
