Aaron Aiken

Grateful log for Mon, 12 Feb 2024

1. Plans for the next few months are coming into focus.
2. Time yesterday to think through the furniture I will make this year.
3. A good weekend with Mozzie.

The back pain from two weeks ago returned yesterday when I woke up. Had a week break from the pain and guess I need to figure out daily routines that need to become part of my life in order to better manage at this level. Yoga for starters.

Grateful log for Thu, 08 Feb 2024

1. Having a list to pick from
2. Remembering
3. The challenge

Grateful log for Wed, 07 Feb 2024

1. Explosion of ideas this morning.
2. Just about caught up on sleep.
3. The back and leg pain that haunted me last week seems to have gone away completely.

Grateful log for Tue, 06 Feb 2024

1. Organizing work
2. Home made pizza and cheese fries for dinner last night (request from Mozzie 🙂)
3. Time to experiment

Grateful log for Mon, 05 Feb 2024

1. Light at the end of the tunnel for the time remaining in my studio apartment.
2. A week to focus on much needed updates and new product designs.
3. Despite having to work over the weekend, Mozzie and I made the best of our time together.

🧘‍♂️ A feeling of peace and calm, that everything is ok, questions will be answered when they are meant to be, things will happen when they are intended to. Letting go of the idea that I actually have any control over anything is wonderful. Something that I should do more often.

🥞 Back from a walk to the coffee shop with Mozzie. Now time for pancakes!

⏰ Still fighting through back pain that keeps me up most of the night. One positive to this is that getting up at 4:30 and starting the day is not an issue!

🛌 Time to rest.

🌝 Work night. Dinner soon. West Wing in the background.

Grateful log for Tue, 30 Jan 2024

1. Back and leg pain that tortured me for 24 hours seems to have gone away
2. A solid plan for the next three days
3. Making pizza

Grateful log for Mon, 29 Jan 2024

1. A fresh week
2. Mozzie discovering his creative interests
3. Morning walks

From my walk yesterday.

Grateful log for Fri, 26 Jan 2024

1. Another custom project sent out
2. Progress, one day at a time
3. Walking to get coffee

Grateful log for Thu, 25 Jan 2024

1. Full night of sleep
2. Walking in the rain
3. Color

Foggy this morning.

😴 It is time!

😫 4.5 hours of sleep. Definitely not in a very good frame of mind so far today...taking a few walks throughout the day to keep my head clear, coffee for sure, and a solid wind-down routine later this evening to support a healthy night of rest.

Ice is just about completely melted from the Susquehanna river.

3am trips to the post office. Material for a chapter in a future book.

☕ Working through some computer-based tasks this morning, giving the sun a bit more time to rise before heading out for my walk.

Putting another pause on new orders so that I can catch up on the post-Christmas influx.

Beginning in February I absolutely need to bring on a part-time person to help with admin tasks, at least start with outlining what that role looks like, etc.

Grateful log for Mon, 22 Jan 2024

1. A new week
2. A great weekend with Mozzie
3. Feeling hopeful

🍸 Closing the weekend 🖋️