habit forming

[k2daisy]

I forgot how much I enjoyed blogging/journaling. I try to treat IG/FB as a blog with pics, but because my audience is family, family friends, and fellow vintage resellers, it doesn't feel as freeing to write whatever I want. I mean, yes, I do write many personal things on IG/FB, but it's not the same as here. I can riff more here, talk about teevee and my anger at my sister and whatnot.

Anyway, it's been 3 days (4?) and coming here to post in the morning already feels like routine.

Part of it is that I really love my office, and I am finding more excuses to be in here besides just estate work and reselling. It's pretty with lots of interesting things to look at.

The other part is that my husband makes me feel sooooo guilty. We both get up stupid early, and we spend the first hour-plus on the couch with the dogs, drinking coffee and scrolling on our phones. But he moves into his office to start work -- ON THE WEEKENDS TOO -- by 5:30 at the latest. If I am still on the couch an hour later, I feel like the laziest lazy who ever lazied. And it's usually not even 6:30!

So I have been getting off the couch a little earlier too, and motoring through my new daily routine earlier. Making the bed, eating breakfast, cleaning up the kitchen and the dog bowls, some data entry, this daily post, and the start of whatever chores I am doing that day. Yesterday morning it was dog food prep, today it will be folding a couple of baskets of clothes. I should be done with all of that well before 9, and then I can head out to go sourcing and/or errands.

It's kind of nice clearing the decks early. It opens up my day to more possibilities.

Anyway, I need to get going on that daily routine! Need to fold the clothes so I have something to wear today. LOL.

Comments

[denynothing1]

I think part of where I feel I have failed recently is that I used to get up so early (4:30 on weekdays, at work by 6) and now... I do not. So if I don't have breakfast till 9:30 (like this morning), it still feels like half the day is gone and there is no point "starting a project" because I'll just run out of time.

This is entirely in my head -- of course I could start things just as easily at 10 as at 6 and still get *something* done. So as I've mentioned, I need to do a lot of head work -- and I need to *do* it instead of just talking about it. ;-)

I'm glad you are enjoying getting back to blogging again. I know *exactly* what you mean about being freer here. I never felt comfortable on FB even under my fake name, and I recently, against my better judgement, added a non-(originally) fandom friend there, so now I feel doubly restricted in what I feel like sharing (which is mostly angry stuff, gah). So I'm glad I dusted this place off too.

[k2daisy]

Well, I cannot help you on feeling like starting projects at 10am is late, because I gasped and totally judged you when you said you eat breakfast at 9:30. That's time for second breakfast! LOL

But I do get it -- I am finally at the point where I don't feel guilty if I go out and start my errands at 11. But it's not easy.

[denynothing1]

LOLOL no worries -- I judged me too. I'm happy to report that by this morning I was up by 7 and at AAA by 9 to renew my car registration. So hopefully that's the start of something. ;-)