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sorcyressMannnn recovering from California time *blows*.
Last night I stayed up too late (basically 'til midnight) then was all "fuck, it's very late!" and got into bed. Where I proceeded to lie awake daydreaming for Iunno like an hour or something. Very frustrating.
BUT! I do seem to have done Some Amount of emotional recharging, and as long as I can get my dad-blasted sleep schedule back into my command, I think I will be okay. Here are some accomplishments of the last few days:
*Moisturized my face this morning, for the first time ever. I specifically Bought A Moisturizer, with some sunscreen in it, because that's supposed to be good for you or whatever. We'll see what happens in the long run.
*Took a shower this morning. Yayyy. I hardly ever shower before work, because I prefer to hit the snooze alarm a dozen times and be unrested and grumpy.
*Adjusted my alarms a little bit, which made the "leave for work" alarm a lot more effective. Then I made staggeringly good time on my bike (about 27 andahalf minutes, which is *great* for 5.2 miles) so I had plenty of at-work time to get ready.
*Last night I _finally_ laid altar. I have been putting Correct Things into the altar space since I moved in, and being careful not to put Wrong Things into that cubby under any circumstances1 but I had not actually set any of my altar stuff up until just last night. Right now it's very grid-like with a lot of pretty rocks, which I am digging. I also have a little rainbow of mini elephant candles that I forgot I had bought at Black Ink over the summer as a moving out/moving in present to myself. So they make a nice little flower shape off to the side, and there's some dead plants and my little poppet I found on the ground at NY FaerieFest a few years ago and my tarot cards are on the altar again and I'm very _very_ pleased.
Placebo-wise, this is definitely why things felt stable and good today, despite Monday always being the most hellish of school days.
*Have almost finished reading Laughter in the Academy, Seanan McGuire's collection of short stories. Just half of the last one to go! I read a few pages last night before turning out the light for sleeptime, and that is _such_ a good habit and one I'd *love* to cultivate! (Not tonight though, am already up WAY too late for wordsing)
*Did pretty okay with keeping school things rolling along. Hopefully I will be able to do my lesson prep and keep things rolling tomorrow as well. It helps that Tuesday is generally my easiest day, although I need to have a meeting with my spareboss to sort out a Fraught around my continued employment, and maybe to tell her that I'm nonbinary SHH THIS IS A SECRET AND I WILL PROBABLY WUSS OUT.
*Finally prepared my SCD lesson for next week. Have not yet finished the one for the week after that. And there's a total of nine lessons, and I'm supposed to do them two weeks in advance, and aiee!
For now though, bed! Well, brush teeth and maybe read just a page or two (to get the habit up, yanno?) and then bed. Goodnight!
1: So Wrong Things are often quite wonderful things that I love immensely and care for very much, but they are not things to go on the altar. Correct Things are usually things I have some amount of connection to, but sometimes that connection is "it's a nature!" or "shiny!!!". I have a _very_ strict rule for myself though that I never _ever_ put anything into the altar cube of my dresser2 unless it is something that feels right for my altar. This is because I know as absolute fact that I would eventually just empty my pockets into the Convenient Space and then whatever woo I get from the altar would be all mixed up and not work right.
The cube directly next to the altar is the "extra altary stuff" which is where I store my dice bag. Generally, whenever I am traveling, the portable parts of the altar I bring with me (bunch of polished rocks, usually) get dumped into the dice bag. However, dice are not Correct and therefore I can't put the dicebag on the altar itself. It's okay to be next to it though.
Along with my other tarot decks (insert one (1) Homestuck trash here), several things of matches, various naturey things that there currently isn't space for, and probably eventually all my Ikea tea lights. And teeth. I have an awful lot of teeth that are in the next-to-altar storage space.
2: My dresser is a pair of 2x8 Ikea Expedites (What later became the Kallax). They don't match, but they're the perfect size for milk crates and have moved repeatedly and are still sturdy as hell, so I'm fine with it.
Last night I stayed up too late (basically 'til midnight) then was all "fuck, it's very late!" and got into bed. Where I proceeded to lie awake daydreaming for Iunno like an hour or something. Very frustrating.
BUT! I do seem to have done Some Amount of emotional recharging, and as long as I can get my dad-blasted sleep schedule back into my command, I think I will be okay. Here are some accomplishments of the last few days:
*Moisturized my face this morning, for the first time ever. I specifically Bought A Moisturizer, with some sunscreen in it, because that's supposed to be good for you or whatever. We'll see what happens in the long run.
*Took a shower this morning. Yayyy. I hardly ever shower before work, because I prefer to hit the snooze alarm a dozen times and be unrested and grumpy.
*Adjusted my alarms a little bit, which made the "leave for work" alarm a lot more effective. Then I made staggeringly good time on my bike (about 27 andahalf minutes, which is *great* for 5.2 miles) so I had plenty of at-work time to get ready.
*Last night I _finally_ laid altar. I have been putting Correct Things into the altar space since I moved in, and being careful not to put Wrong Things into that cubby under any circumstances1 but I had not actually set any of my altar stuff up until just last night. Right now it's very grid-like with a lot of pretty rocks, which I am digging. I also have a little rainbow of mini elephant candles that I forgot I had bought at Black Ink over the summer as a moving out/moving in present to myself. So they make a nice little flower shape off to the side, and there's some dead plants and my little poppet I found on the ground at NY FaerieFest a few years ago and my tarot cards are on the altar again and I'm very _very_ pleased.
Placebo-wise, this is definitely why things felt stable and good today, despite Monday always being the most hellish of school days.
*Have almost finished reading Laughter in the Academy, Seanan McGuire's collection of short stories. Just half of the last one to go! I read a few pages last night before turning out the light for sleeptime, and that is _such_ a good habit and one I'd *love* to cultivate! (Not tonight though, am already up WAY too late for wordsing)
*Did pretty okay with keeping school things rolling along. Hopefully I will be able to do my lesson prep and keep things rolling tomorrow as well. It helps that Tuesday is generally my easiest day, although I need to have a meeting with my spareboss to sort out a Fraught around my continued employment, and maybe to tell her that I'm nonbinary SHH THIS IS A SECRET AND I WILL PROBABLY WUSS OUT.
*Finally prepared my SCD lesson for next week. Have not yet finished the one for the week after that. And there's a total of nine lessons, and I'm supposed to do them two weeks in advance, and aiee!
For now though, bed! Well, brush teeth and maybe read just a page or two (to get the habit up, yanno?) and then bed. Goodnight!
1: So Wrong Things are often quite wonderful things that I love immensely and care for very much, but they are not things to go on the altar. Correct Things are usually things I have some amount of connection to, but sometimes that connection is "it's a nature!" or "shiny!!!". I have a _very_ strict rule for myself though that I never _ever_ put anything into the altar cube of my dresser2 unless it is something that feels right for my altar. This is because I know as absolute fact that I would eventually just empty my pockets into the Convenient Space and then whatever woo I get from the altar would be all mixed up and not work right.
The cube directly next to the altar is the "extra altary stuff" which is where I store my dice bag. Generally, whenever I am traveling, the portable parts of the altar I bring with me (bunch of polished rocks, usually) get dumped into the dice bag. However, dice are not Correct and therefore I can't put the dicebag on the altar itself. It's okay to be next to it though.
Along with my other tarot decks (insert one (1) Homestuck trash here), several things of matches, various naturey things that there currently isn't space for, and probably eventually all my Ikea tea lights. And teeth. I have an awful lot of teeth that are in the next-to-altar storage space.
2: My dresser is a pair of 2x8 Ikea Expedites (What later became the Kallax). They don't match, but they're the perfect size for milk crates and have moved repeatedly and are still sturdy as hell, so I'm fine with it.