Grateful log for Fri, 15 Mar 2024

1. Short bike ride yesterday, first of the year, first of many more to come!
2. Accepting the challenge, taking it head on.
3. How very little control (of life) I actually have.

⛈️ Late night storm!

Man. Not sure what’s going on today. Trying to look at it as “challenging” instead of lots of negative stuff.

🚶 Getting out for a walk before it doesn't happen!

Feeling: Lonely.

And a bit vulnerable by sharing this. I’m pretty much an open book about life, the ups and downs, especially as it relates to my fairly recent divorce, but sharing how all of the life stuff impacts me is something I don’t typically get into.

Grateful log for Wed, 13 Mar 2024

• No screens after dinner was a success!
• Will be selling my leather oven mitts at a local farmers market beginning this weekend!
• My sleep schedule for the last few weeks has been phenomenal.

Dinner is time as a family, everyone stays put until everyone is finished eating.

🖥️ I need a day, a full uninterrupted day, to sit with my leather website and just page through the thing. Read every word. Look at every photo, page, and product listing. Act on ideas as I have them. Edit and rebuild as I go.

Thank you to everyone for the birthday wishes!

Grateful log for Tue, 12 Mar 2024

1. A nice birthday day yesterday.
2. 67 days until I move out of this apartment!!
3. Temperatures are forecasted to get into the low 70’s this week.
4. Understanding a bit better what makes me tick and how to maintain, as much as possible, a healthy body and mind.

Grateful log for Mon, 11 Mar 2024

1. 🥳 38 today
2. United front (re parenting)
3. Good progress on the workbench over the weekend

Think I may begin designing my take on a duffle bag soon. Have ideas beginning to bounce around my head. They’ll eventually formulate themselves enough to get out and onto paper. Will be a fun challenge.

Grateful log for Sun, 10 Mar 2024

1. Part of the clock movement dance we do was today, which means warmer weather is near!
2. Slept great on the couch.
3. Another day of woodworking.

Fast-forward several years, we are now better friends than spouses, and sometimes it just makes sense for me to sleep here.

📝 Back to using iA Writer for, well, writing. Not sure why I ever stopped. The file management, or lack thereof, is perfect, and best of all is not locked into the application itself.

😴 ...and now, time for rest.

Some late nights are for tinkering.

Grateful log for Sat, 09 Mar 2024

1. Feeling rested
2. Mozzie seems to have kicked whatever had hold of him on Thursday.
3. Today is the day

Step 1: light cigar.

Went to bed earlier than usual planning to get up early to do writing on a new project. Either my alarm didn’t go off or I turned it off 🤷‍♂️ oh well. I’m rested now!

Grateful log for Fri, 08 Mar 2024

1. With Mozzie all day today
2. Started on the new workbench last night
3. Problems to solve

Photos from today.

Reminder to self:

🌪️ Brain is a tornado so far today. Writing as quickly as I can to capture everything.

Grateful log for Mon, 04 Mar 2024

1. Outside in the sun for 2 hours yesterday.
2. My past-self writing things down and putting those things in places where my present-self would find them.
3. Having the time and space to think, write, create.

To feel as though, even if just for a moment, that I am operating and living in harmony. I am present, I am using the talents, the skills, the gifts that I have been given. I am where I need to be, doing what I need to be doing. At this very moment in time, I am true.

Temps are nice enough, even in the shade, to do my writing routines outside.