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Oct. 9th, 2023 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeI get the feeling this is the right dose. I woke up, actually I woke up early, ended up getting up with my husband a half hour later, showered, got dressed, had breakfast, did some Duolingo, got the cat medicated, got me medicated, got the outside cat fed, got a couple things picked up. Made some hot chocolate. Passed back out for a couple hours then cleared a handful of things off of my slate that had been lingering last week since I was getting 2-4 hours of sleep a night. Picked up my meds refills, fed the cat again, did laundry, did some exercise, did some more coding, did the daily tarot spread, put some stuff away, and started dinner. I haven't been this productive in definitely more than a couple weeks. I'm not sure how much more, and given that the last couple weeks have involved 1) very overactive thyroid and 2) sudden pet death there are sort of extenuating circumstances for me becoming a potato, but. Well, yeah. This seems to be the right meds dosage.
So at least things are better on that front. I'm trying to drag myself back into the habit of writing daily and in the habit of writing fiction in general, but since it's only been a couple weeks instead of a few years I don't think it'll be that hard. I just. I'm also in the middle of getting caught up on a lot of crap, including Inktober. I meant to have this be WIPtober too, and then I got behind on everything. Maybe it still can be. IDK. Maybe it still can be and I'll just focus on one WIP, like Treason's Crusade, and get that done.
(I'll talk about Treason's Crusade later when it's not 10pm and I'm trying to get things done before bed.)
I also haven't started Inktober technically, but I have the sketch of the first one done, which is a bit of a relief to get that started. My sort of theme for this Inktober is to do biological drawings of Creechurs, as tumblr calls them. Basically I'm mashing two or more animals together visually and making a drawing of it. My first one was a bat/horse/gerbil, which amounts to more of a hammer-headed fruit-bat with dik dik legs? and a round belly? But it looks pretty creechur-like. Second one is going to be more challenging, a peacock/rhino, and then I also have corgi/quokka, a god of worms, an armored bird (so like an anklyosaurus/ or armadillo/bird), and something crossed with a hippo, I wrote that down somewhere. I'm looking forward to trying to sketch it, and I was going to try and ink the first one tonight, but time and things to catch up on got away with me, see also the list upwards of all the things I got done today. So. I'll work on getting sketches done tonight and then take some time tomorrow to ink things. I might fill my rapidographs though, and do some practice drawing with them to see how I feel. I haven't worked with them yet. I inherited a set from my uncle, who used to use them for technical drawing. I've wanted to use them for a while, I've just always been too intimidated to.
Once again hoping that I'll be lucky and I'll have a few weeks to chill and catch up on things, do Inktober, work on what I'm going to do for Nanowrimo, before the next crisis happens. I know we need to buy a new car as this one's slowly giving up the ghost, but as far as I know the rest of us are in good health and there's no other things about to break. Well, my cholesterol keeps worrying my doctor, but other than that I think the rest of us are in good health. Cholesterol schmolesterol anyway. I'm working on eating better though. Less mac and cheese, more vegetable soups. It was more salads, but now it's heading in towards winter and I don't actually want much in the way of cold foods. So, vegetable soups, roast veg, warm soppy grains. Less pizza rolls and velveeta. And less stress. Please, less stress that makes me want to eat like a ninja turtle.
So at least things are better on that front. I'm trying to drag myself back into the habit of writing daily and in the habit of writing fiction in general, but since it's only been a couple weeks instead of a few years I don't think it'll be that hard. I just. I'm also in the middle of getting caught up on a lot of crap, including Inktober. I meant to have this be WIPtober too, and then I got behind on everything. Maybe it still can be. IDK. Maybe it still can be and I'll just focus on one WIP, like Treason's Crusade, and get that done.
(I'll talk about Treason's Crusade later when it's not 10pm and I'm trying to get things done before bed.)
I also haven't started Inktober technically, but I have the sketch of the first one done, which is a bit of a relief to get that started. My sort of theme for this Inktober is to do biological drawings of Creechurs, as tumblr calls them. Basically I'm mashing two or more animals together visually and making a drawing of it. My first one was a bat/horse/gerbil, which amounts to more of a hammer-headed fruit-bat with dik dik legs? and a round belly? But it looks pretty creechur-like. Second one is going to be more challenging, a peacock/rhino, and then I also have corgi/quokka, a god of worms, an armored bird (so like an anklyosaurus/ or armadillo/bird), and something crossed with a hippo, I wrote that down somewhere. I'm looking forward to trying to sketch it, and I was going to try and ink the first one tonight, but time and things to catch up on got away with me, see also the list upwards of all the things I got done today. So. I'll work on getting sketches done tonight and then take some time tomorrow to ink things. I might fill my rapidographs though, and do some practice drawing with them to see how I feel. I haven't worked with them yet. I inherited a set from my uncle, who used to use them for technical drawing. I've wanted to use them for a while, I've just always been too intimidated to.
Once again hoping that I'll be lucky and I'll have a few weeks to chill and catch up on things, do Inktober, work on what I'm going to do for Nanowrimo, before the next crisis happens. I know we need to buy a new car as this one's slowly giving up the ghost, but as far as I know the rest of us are in good health and there's no other things about to break. Well, my cholesterol keeps worrying my doctor, but other than that I think the rest of us are in good health. Cholesterol schmolesterol anyway. I'm working on eating better though. Less mac and cheese, more vegetable soups. It was more salads, but now it's heading in towards winter and I don't actually want much in the way of cold foods. So, vegetable soups, roast veg, warm soppy grains. Less pizza rolls and velveeta. And less stress. Please, less stress that makes me want to eat like a ninja turtle.
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