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cosmolinguistI've had an obnoxiously busy and wholesome day.
I woke up early again, boo, but 5:30 isn't as bad when I was asleep before midnight. I at least went to bed early, though then of course it still took me ages to get to sleep. I got bored of trying to fall back asleep and finally did the first in a series of YouTube strength-training videos a friend recommended to me literal months ago. I'd tried to do YouTube exercise early in the pandemic and it just wasn't working, and every so often I'd check in with whether it seemed like any better an idea, and it never did, until now. I'm not sure what's changed now but I'm glad of it. I absolutely feel like I could do the next one tomorrow, but I might not, and I hope I will be okay either way.
Once again the endorphins afterwards made me feel like king of the world and after biking to work yesterday (I biked to work! and back! with no more than the expected amount of nonsense perpetrated against me by cars! it was so quick I felt weird about how late I'd left and I got back before it was dark (just)), and doing swimming and cycling over the weekend, I'm in real danger of turning into one of those exercise-all-the-time assholes now!
I'd done the exercise partly because I woke up thinking I should have a shower and I really didn't want to; after 40 minutes of strength training I really did want to! So that was nice. I needed two breakfasts after it: granola with blueberries and cream, and then toast with peanut butter and banana. And I did a big rant about ableism, not worth repeating here but it was satisfying at the time.
Just as I was about to leave to go see a friend I haven't seen since way before the pandemic started, he messaged to say something had come up and he couldn't do today. Feeling a bit bereft of plans then, I tried to tackle some long-overdue shit on my to-do list. I found one address I need to send something to, still not sure about another one. I askeddiffrentcolours to make the printer work so I could print off a form that I had to take to a bank, cycled there and had a completely frustrating and pointless time. I guess "I didn't get hit by cars and it wasn't quite raining" are my wins for that one today? It was a lot of effort for nothing getting done, but I'm really happy I didn't have to walk; it would've taken so much longer and the walk back would've been so grumpy.
When I got home I watched the Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band 1979 No Nukes concert blu ray thatdiffrentcolours got me as a "I know the end of November is a tough time for you" present, which was really sweet. What a novelty, to get a Springsteen present from the non-Springsteen boyfriend! It meant he got to be concerned that I might not like it, while Stuart probably would've been sure that I would. 1979 is such a good time for Springsteen, there's so much stuff I like that's later of course but there's a lot I don't mixed in with that; at this point I can just loudly and gleefully sing along with almost everything, and of course I did since it was only me and Gary watching.
Tonight we have a "ticket" to the live stream of a comedy gig Bethany Black is doing in support of some kind of union/HR department for stand-up comics, which sounds sorely needed. We're all looking forward to it; it may not be the same as in-person events but honestly it has a lot of the same vibe in this household.
I woke up early again, boo, but 5:30 isn't as bad when I was asleep before midnight. I at least went to bed early, though then of course it still took me ages to get to sleep. I got bored of trying to fall back asleep and finally did the first in a series of YouTube strength-training videos a friend recommended to me literal months ago. I'd tried to do YouTube exercise early in the pandemic and it just wasn't working, and every so often I'd check in with whether it seemed like any better an idea, and it never did, until now. I'm not sure what's changed now but I'm glad of it. I absolutely feel like I could do the next one tomorrow, but I might not, and I hope I will be okay either way.
Once again the endorphins afterwards made me feel like king of the world and after biking to work yesterday (I biked to work! and back! with no more than the expected amount of nonsense perpetrated against me by cars! it was so quick I felt weird about how late I'd left and I got back before it was dark (just)), and doing swimming and cycling over the weekend, I'm in real danger of turning into one of those exercise-all-the-time assholes now!
I'd done the exercise partly because I woke up thinking I should have a shower and I really didn't want to; after 40 minutes of strength training I really did want to! So that was nice. I needed two breakfasts after it: granola with blueberries and cream, and then toast with peanut butter and banana. And I did a big rant about ableism, not worth repeating here but it was satisfying at the time.
Just as I was about to leave to go see a friend I haven't seen since way before the pandemic started, he messaged to say something had come up and he couldn't do today. Feeling a bit bereft of plans then, I tried to tackle some long-overdue shit on my to-do list. I found one address I need to send something to, still not sure about another one. I asked
diffrentcolours to make the printer work so I could print off a form that I had to take to a bank, cycled there and had a completely frustrating and pointless time. I guess "I didn't get hit by cars and it wasn't quite raining" are my wins for that one today? It was a lot of effort for nothing getting done, but I'm really happy I didn't have to walk; it would've taken so much longer and the walk back would've been so grumpy.When I got home I watched the Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band 1979 No Nukes concert blu ray that
diffrentcolours got me as a "I know the end of November is a tough time for you" present, which was really sweet. What a novelty, to get a Springsteen present from the non-Springsteen boyfriend! It meant he got to be concerned that I might not like it, while Stuart probably would've been sure that I would. 1979 is such a good time for Springsteen, there's so much stuff I like that's later of course but there's a lot I don't mixed in with that; at this point I can just loudly and gleefully sing along with almost everything, and of course I did since it was only me and Gary watching.Tonight we have a "ticket" to the live stream of a comedy gig Bethany Black is doing in support of some kind of union/HR department for stand-up comics, which sounds sorely needed. We're all looking forward to it; it may not be the same as in-person events but honestly it has a lot of the same vibe in this household.