It feels really good to be able to work hard.
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Damn it I was gonna take before and after pictures but forgot.
Anyway, a majority of the area is covered now. Ran out of cardboard and there's some stuff I can't move myself.
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Today I'm planning to work outside. There's so much to do out there, but I need to remember not to overextend, even if I'm having fun.
I've picked a tiny spot of land to rewild. For today I'd like to clear the junk and lay down cardboard to "solarize" the grass and burdock there, basically a [โฆ]
My energy levels have been doing really well!!
I had so much energy this week that by yesterday, I had to keep reminding myself that it was Thursday not Wednesday, but then it turned out to be Friday.
That's because I only started getting tired yesterday, when normally on a good week I'm very [โฆ]
Things are better for me than they have been in years.
But I'm having anxiety today.
It just feels so fragile.
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I recently learned that you can relax your vagus nerve by massaging your ears. (This sounds like a setup for a joke, but this time, it is NOT.) It seems to work.
I stopped stimming my ears as a small child, when my mom would freak out that I had an ear infection. There are a lot of behaviors I [โฆ]
I know I've whined about this on here before, but ... I was on track to be somebody. I was a small-time somebody there for a minute. I was on panels at cons, being invited to other cons, speaking in front of crowds, invited to podcasts, invited to write for anthologies, people in certain small [โฆ]
Not being able to maintain a reading habit for a decade has been a huge blow to my sense of self. I made terms with it, but not satisfying terms. I still kept pushing and trying. Sometimes I'd finish a book but only through struggle, something I had to try, unsuccessfully, through intermittent [โฆ]
I've seen several playthroughs of Disco Elysium (one was over eighty hours), played it partway through twice myself, and seen several video essays about it (including one by Jeffiot that was *five* hours).
Since I usually don't like to repeat content, I wondered why I was so obsessed with it [โฆ]
LRT, "All I did today" was organize a very small stack of files and floundered against my taxes.
My new productivity scale counts that as extremely productive. Even if I don't.
(I did it mostly without pain flaring up, and that's the goal.)
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