Day 5

of writing myself out of a rut.

Friends, I ight be getting somewhere. Today felt good. Imagine you’d been in a hole, one deeper than you are tall & you finally managed to heave yourself up. You know that point where you’ve pushed yourself fully up, your arms are straight holding your full weight & you’ve swung one leg up, ready to climb out. That’s me today. Almost ready to push all the way out & walk away from the hole.

No gym today, it was a yoga day with my client, so that took one decision off my plate. Hooray for fewer decisions! I really love yoga & need to go back to incorporating more of it in my week. I remember hearing that even 7 minutes of yoga has benefits. I enjoy Yin yoga the most because I love those full-body stretches you sink into for a few minutes. More yoga next week.

After work, I went to Kmart to grab a basket, 3 frames for my Lore Pemberton prints, a singlet & some velcro hanging tape. Then I dropped off a library book & picked up a hold that was waiting for me. I collected my groceries, filled up my car & grabbed some drive-thru for me & the kids to have for lunch.

Ticking things off my to-do list felt good.

Once I was home, we ate around the kitchen bench before Blake was picked up to go to a mate’s house. I unpacked the groceries before turning the metal basket I bought into something that can keep Tim’s CPAP machine tidy on his bedside table. It turned out really well. I then assembled the lamp I bought a few weeks ago & put that next to his bed. Now I need a double adapter.

I played Role Models’ new video about 4 times in a row while I put all my prints in frames. I then put on a Role Model playlist while I tidied my desk. Then I organised all the recipes I’ve printed over the last few weeks into my kitchen folder, & then I filled all our pill boxes because I hadn’t done that for over a week, which means Blake & I have probably missed some days of taking our supplements. But now I am organised with even more things ticked off my list.

I dicked around on the internet a bit, mostly watching cooking reels on Instagram before looking at a few people’s websites. I have a cookbook in my cart from one creator, but haven’t clicked buy yet. Still haven’t bought any undies yet either. Guess which one I’ll buy first lol

It’s catch & kill tonight, so I had leftover spanakorizo from last night. I’ve done well to use up all the leftovers this week. Not wasting food makes me feel good. Listening to music makes me feel good. Ticking things off my to-do list makes me feel good.

My plan for the weekend at home isn’t going to go to plan. Tim is working, so I’ll have to grab Blake in the morning. It does mean I can stop at Bunnings to get the potting mix & double adapter I didn’t get today, so not terrible. For some reason, once I leave the house, I find it hard to begin anything when I get home. I need to get all the things done, THEN leave the house to do whatever it is that needs doing by leaving the house. It’s always been like this for me.

I am telling myself I have plenty of time to get things ticked off my list because I do have Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday off next week. I am forever telling myself not to rush, to slow down, that I have enough time. I don’t know when I became such a rushed lady. I think it’s one of the reasons I don’t enjoy going to the gym in the morning, because I feel the need to rush to get home to get everyone to school & myself to work. Maybe I’m also lazy. Could be both.

Anyway. I think I’ll be back here tomorrow, not to get ahead of myself, but hopefully completely rut-less. I’ll see you then.

Talk soon xx