Productive weekend already
Jul. 20th, 2019 08:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
starseerdrgnSpeakers ordered for my Dell. My project from last night is finished (Windows Vista on the MacBook, until I can find my actual Windows laptop). Wall shelf installed (though still needs some reinforcing ties). This has already been a productive weekend.
My mood has also been greatly improved, and I attribute part of that to not signing into Discord for a couple days. Honestly, as quickly as discussions turn negative everywhere I go, staying away from stuff like that has become the biggest boon for my mental health. And that is starting to turn into recovery, which is what I'm in need of most. Recovery from how stressed, run down, and burnt out I've been feeling late. Having a proper-sized laptop to curl up in bed with will also help with that, since I'll be able to be comfortable while I watch longer videos on my own when I need to relax.
Oh! And knowing that I'm losing weight is helping matters quite a bit as well. I'm down below 155kg for the first time in a while, where my natural "healthy" weight is about 127kg with proper muscular structure (closer to 118kg due to my lack up upper body strength).
I've even been enjoying myself just a bit with Spiral Knights. Going solo and just diving through levels when I need a mental break has really helped me out, and because I stay solo, I can stop and write down ideas or small story snippets without disrupting others. It's very calming for me.
And I've been able to work just a little more on Project Starwinds, thanks to what little I've been able to recover. It's one of my lighter interactive fiction projects, so I don't have to put too much effort into it right now. And that really makes a lot of difference when I'm trying to put anything down for it, since I don't have to stress about it like I would Project Jaiihako, which takes a lot more mental processing for me (much more complex IF scenario).
I just hope this keeps up for a while longer. I'm gonna stay off of Discord as much as I can, and just keep doing what I'm doing until I feel I can write again.
My mood has also been greatly improved, and I attribute part of that to not signing into Discord for a couple days. Honestly, as quickly as discussions turn negative everywhere I go, staying away from stuff like that has become the biggest boon for my mental health. And that is starting to turn into recovery, which is what I'm in need of most. Recovery from how stressed, run down, and burnt out I've been feeling late. Having a proper-sized laptop to curl up in bed with will also help with that, since I'll be able to be comfortable while I watch longer videos on my own when I need to relax.
Oh! And knowing that I'm losing weight is helping matters quite a bit as well. I'm down below 155kg for the first time in a while, where my natural "healthy" weight is about 127kg with proper muscular structure (closer to 118kg due to my lack up upper body strength).
I've even been enjoying myself just a bit with Spiral Knights. Going solo and just diving through levels when I need a mental break has really helped me out, and because I stay solo, I can stop and write down ideas or small story snippets without disrupting others. It's very calming for me.
And I've been able to work just a little more on Project Starwinds, thanks to what little I've been able to recover. It's one of my lighter interactive fiction projects, so I don't have to put too much effort into it right now. And that really makes a lot of difference when I'm trying to put anything down for it, since I don't have to stress about it like I would Project Jaiihako, which takes a lot more mental processing for me (much more complex IF scenario).
I just hope this keeps up for a while longer. I'm gonna stay off of Discord as much as I can, and just keep doing what I'm doing until I feel I can write again.
