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Dream

I haven't been logging my dreams. Some I even remembered enough to log at the time. Definitely had a vivid dream last night, but it's gone now. It's not a priority to work on remembering dreams right now, but I don't think it's a waste of time to remind myself to try.

Thinking

Want to lock-in stretching as a habit, and so have decided to ban TV consumption until stretching has been completed. Was going to stretch right after breakfast (need to eat something before I take my meds, and need to take my meds as early in the morning as possible), but decided I might as well do my planning for the day first. Stretching will be next.

A lot of today is going to be eaten up by appointments. Another signifcant chunk is going to meetings. I'm curious how well my meds will help me fill the left-over time with pomodoros.

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Thinking

Going to be cooking tamales today! So, not really a great idea to plan any other productive stuff today. Today is the third day of adhd medication. Still going strong, I think. Also, certain things are noticeably different. I just watched a 1-hour MTG Arena draft video but was then able to switch to this planning setup here. Before, it would have been pretty hard to escape.

I still may want to avoid watching such videos. Like, completely? I haven't really been playing MTG Arena lately, so it's not educational like it was. There are higher quality things to spend my leisure time on (like season 5 of She-Ra, which I watched two episodes of this morning).

Today is the second day of no caffeine. The first day of medication, I still had my morning espresso. I took both around 0600, but was wired until past 2200. Didn't fall asleep until 2300. I still woke up at 0500 the next day (yesterday), which I'm grateful for. Not sure if my exhaustion yesterday was the lack of caffeine or the poor night of sleep (probably both), but noticably I had plenty of energy unti I crashed around 1830. I also managed a nap yesterday.

We'll see how today goes afte having slept about 11 hours or so.

Been bad about stretching the past few days. Stretching is an integral part of maintaining the life that I enjoy. I need to stretch everyday. It may behoove me to make entertainment off limits until after I've done my morning stretching. After this pomodoro, I'll do a warm up and stretch before I go grocery shopping to get the last of the tamale stuff we need.

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Thinking

What's this? A log on a Saturday?

ADHD meds working.

Though, I won't say too much in this log. Had a lot of chores I kept pushing to the following weekend that I did instead. Also, my meds (plus maybe caffeine) kept me up pretty late last night (even though I took the pill and the espresso around 0600). So I'm probably going to collapse later.

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Thinking

Took my first ADHD medication this morning. My mind isn't constantly going down tangents, it feels like. Didn't feel the resistance I often feel to starting this log. Like, when I start it's usually fine, but the act of actually starting was often a struggle.

Been a while since I did a weekly review! Going to try to make it a habit again: for both work and home.

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Thinking

Third day back at waking up at 0500. Pretty exciting. Today I also pick up some ADHD medication, which is also exciting, or at least interesting.

I'll update my default morning plan if I keep waking up at 0500 through the weekend. Here's hoping!

Time to switch to work log.

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Thinking

Woke up at 0500 this morning. It was hard and I was tired for quite a bit, but I stayed up. I also got in my stretching. Took twice as long as it should've, but it happened. And then I had a solid 2.5-mile run.

Now, it's time to get that stuff I sprinted towards having working yesterday into a deployable state today. Hoping to have it in prod tomorrow. But more details on that will be written in the work log.

Missing Day

I went to create this post and then had a day of grinding out work between heavy meetings.

Missing Day

Played some MTG Arena draft yesterday. Went grocery shopping. Watched some TV. Just hanging out.

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Thinking

Need to get something working end-to-end by 1500 tomorrow, and so I'm just going to get it working today so I got the buffer tomorrow.

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Thinking

Woke up at 0500 this morning! Yeah! Going to try to maintain that through the weekend.

I've also been off Twitter for almost 3 weeks again, now, which is good. Every once in a while I feel the urge, but I've been resisting pretty well.

My weight has gotten as low as 196.2 (yesterday), and today it's 198. It's pretty close to a weight where if I eat a lot of food one day, I won't be above 200 the next day. Though, there hasn't been too many days where I've felt the urge to eat a ton. My diet is in a pretty good place.