Aaron Aiken

Grateful Log for Wed, 27 Dec 2023

1. The help of family with the massive influx of leather Christmas orders.
2. A good Christmas celebrated over the past few days.
3. 2023 coming to a close, looking forward to the start of a new year.

😶‍🌫️ Slowly exiting the fog of the last two weeks.

😶‍🌫️ Slowly exiting the fog of the last two weeks.

My last customer order of 2023. “Off” until January 2nd. Christmas stuff the next few days then writing/thinking/planning for 2024 the rest of the week.

The Christmas order rush is over. Will slowly begin to come back “online”. Insane updates to provide eventually once the dust has settled a bit.

Likely going radio silent for the next week or so. Intense tunnel vision and focus has been enabled.

Grateful Log for Sun, 10 Dec 2023

1. Continuing to chip through the list
2. Good sleep
3. Coffee

🛀 Soaked in a hot bath last night, felt nice. The next 9 days are going to be crazy.

🛀 Soaked in a hot bath last night, felt nice. The next 9 days are going to be crazy.

One product I offer as part of my leather goods business is hand cut cigar matches (to go with the leather cigar cases). They are quite popular, which I never expected. Each one is whittled individually by hand.

✋ My hands are physically tired from all of the leather Christmas orders I've been working on. Such a great feeling, actually...but I am looking forward to having shipped the last one and taking a short break :-)

✋ My hands are physically tired from all of the leather Christmas orders I've been working on. Such a great feeling, actually...but I am looking forward to having shipped the last one and taking a short break :-)

Grateful Log for Fri, 08 Dec 2023

1. Restful sleep
2. In bed before midnight
3. Made a ginger bread house last night with Mozzie

🍵 Tea with a bit of desk work.

🍵 Tea with a bit of desk work.

🚿 Today shall be improved from yesterday by the simple act of taking a shower. That and eating breakfast.

🚿 Today shall be improved from yesterday by the simple act of taking a shower. That and eating breakfast.

Grateful Log for Thu, 07 Dec 2023

1. Chipping away at the list
2. Hitting goals
3. A good time with Mozzie last night

Grateful Log for yesterday (written but forgot to publish it) Wed, 06 Dec 2023

1. Not being stressed, trusting the process.
2. 8 hours of sleep
3. Massage yesterday

😴 Time to sleep.

😴 Time to sleep.

🧘‍♂️ Not stressing... :-)

🧘‍♂️ Not stressing... :-)

Grateful Log for Tue, 05 Dec 2023

1. Catching up with life-long friends over dinner last night
2. Optimistic state of mind
3. Another chance to do better today

Woke up after only a few hours of sleep, too much to do and too much on my mind to fall back to sleep. Another hour or two would be ideal, so haven’t crawled out of bed yet…