Timeblock

Thinking

Yesterday was pretty solid overall, I think. Not getting much work done, but it's a momentum building stage, and I'm doing a little cleanup here and there, which is good.

An hour blocked out for stretching everyday isn't ideal when I know I can do it in 30 minutes, but the reality is that I take time with stretching. Trying to condense it leads to me not doing it at all, which is bad. The improved quality of sleep almost certainly makes up for it. I don't need to force efficiency.

I have tried caffeine again today. We will see if it plus ADHD medication is too much.

Timeblock

Thinking

I think I have acclimated to the ADHD medication, and may be willing to try having caffeine again. It's something I'll try tommorrow, I think. It's still doing something, I think, as I'm having a pretty good relationship with, say, this log. Though I skipped Saturday and Sunday again, I managed Friday and yesterday even though the explicit plan was to do basically nothing.

What I want to do next, I think, is really put certain hours of the day into specific buckets. Which I think I'll put into my timeblock template right now.

And done.

But!

This is not some strict thing. "Practice flexibility". I have to be careful about this. There are some things that will have to find its own place based on external variables.

Missing Days

Last two days was mostly just watching Avatar: the Last Airbender. Should finish the show today. Was bad and didn't stretch the last two days, but did my stretching today.

Timeblock

Thinking

Not doing anything is not really energizing for me. Really gotta make sure I do the bare minimum of this planning and stretching, it always makes the day way better.

Timeblock

Thinking

No pomodoros today. Just doing some basic stuff to keep up with all of it.

Timeblock

Dream

Only vaguely remember that I had a dream.

Thinking

Was really tired yesterday. Been really putting a lot of new strain on myself what with the ADHD medication, more serious running, longer bouts of intense work focus, and trying to stretch everyday. Decided to sleep in and see if my body just needed some more recovery time. Will not walk or run today, my steps will just be the amount of pacing I do about the house (which is still quite a lot, in all honesty).

I may also go for extra calories. Extra sleep and extra calories. A four-day weekend starts tonight, as well, which should help a lot.

I'll still be stretching here soon, though. And try to get a solid amount of work in.

Timeblock

Dream

I had one of those dreams that can only really be called a nightmare, except I didn't wake with any sense of fear or dread. Some evil being tricked me into teleporting to a room to play some tedious game with it. Upon getting bored I decided I wouldn't play, but I couldn't escape, as the room had no exits. That's all I really remember.

Thinking

Starting to reignite the spaced-repetition habit. What seems to have triggered it is I'm not allowed morning entertainment until I stretch, but stretching is a much better experience when the wife wakes up. Thus, I do other productive things until around 1900. This means a pretty early pomodoro for planning the day, as well as a post-breakfast spaced-repetition (which I've just updated my default morning plan to be).

All that's really missing from my daily routines is a proper time for reading. I think it'll find its place soon enough.

Timeblock

Dream

Don't remember my dream at all.

Thinking

Yesterday, my heartbeat had trouble slowing down after my run home from the orthodontist. I did a pretty hard run, and that sort of thing has happened after hard runs before, but I do know my medication can cause an increase in heart rate and blood pressure. It's something I should keep tabs on, for sure.

I think it is likely I'll be below 190 by my birthday, which is neat. Have a good 10 pounds of buffer for my decade of being below 200! Though, I'm not taking such a goal seriously, and even if I did, I'd measure it not as pass/fail but percentage of time below 200. That way getting above 200 isn't simply a failure.

I'm getting light enough now that I'm noticing it is much easier on my body to run. Which makes pushing myself too hard all the easier. Got my heart rate up to 185 during my run yesterday, and that's too high. I'm not supposed to go above (220 - 30)*0.8 = 152. Though (220 - 30) = 190 is the literal "maximum heart rate", so at least I'm not going above that. My average heart rate during the run was 159. I should at least strive to not go above 152 for average heart rate, I think.

A Time to Rethink

Things are in flux. Lots of new variables are at play and my environment (both my surroundings and how I naturally react to those surroundings). It's time to reconsider certain aspects of my systems and habits therein, I think.

Certain changes are coming naturally. Suddenly, I've switched from naturally eating too much food to eating too little food, but because I measure calories in/out, and surprisingly measure it pretty accurately, I caught this change and am working towards pushing myself to eat a bit more (I want to lose weight slowly, so working on small deficits of 250-500 calories per day, not 1000 which can happen if I don't make sure to eat more).

Timeblock

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.

Timeblock

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.

Timeblock

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.