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I'm still pretty tired. As has been all too usual, I stayed in bed until almost 11, despite as usual waking up just before my first alarm was set to sound at 8:45, and getting out of bed to shut that and the 9:00 alarm off. I did spend most of the day cleaning my home, since my mom's arriving tomorrow to visit for several days, but that shouldn't have been enough to make me tired. Actually, now I remember it took me a while to fall asleep last night, too many distracting thoughts, so that probably has a lot to do with it. Well, with my mom visiting, I'm going to have to get up at 8 while she's here, as she certainly won't tolerate the schedule I've been keeping. That should help me get hold of my schedule and reset it to getting up by 9, as I've been intending to do for months… but then in two weeks I'll be attending Decibel Festival through the weekend, which will have me up very late every night for several days and will destroy my schedule again.
Today is the 250th day of the year. Due to illness and a couple other times my schedule was just too tight, I still have 13 days to go of doing 40 push-ups daily. They're not as difficult as when I started, in that I'm not sweaty and breathing hard the way I was early on, but each day does still feel like a challenge to finish 40. I'll have to come up with a new plan soon, to start when that series finishes. I suppose I could just keep going and do 40 push-ups every day of my 40th year, but I feel like 10,000 is a good round total to achieve and I'm ready to work on something else; also, my understanding is that I should have been spacing them out more, alternating days of rest with days of doing push-ups, in order to get more development out of the effort. I'll still keep push-ups in the routine somewhere, to maintain what I've developed. I probably should be doing some kind of pull-ups—that was suggested to me when I had to take a couple days off because of soreness in my right shoulder—but I don't have a good way to do those in my home. I also should work on stomach crunches, so that's probably what I'll add in next.
Trivia wasn't much fun tonight, as only a half-dozen of us regulars showed up, and no one else. Celeste did run a five-round game for us for fun, without the usual cash prizes (which wouldn't have made sense with so few people), which was nice, but definitely part of the fun is having a large crowd there and a sense of real competition. Apparently trivia's been this dead for three of the past four weeks, and attendance this year overall has been rather low, making it costly for the bar to keep offering it, so there's a good chance it may be canceled if things don't pick up in the next month or two. I've had "talk someone else into attending trivia" on my monthly to-do list since I started in July; I don't really have a good reason why I haven't tried that yet, I've just had the vague feeling that either my friends won't be interested or else that they're already busy with other things. If I never ask, then I'll never know.
I got home early from trivia since it was a short night, and I really wanted to make a batch of chocolate chip cookies. But first I had to finish a load of laundry, and then I went through my Bumbershoot photos and uploaded the few that were worth keeping, and then I knew I had to write this entry before starting to make cookies. Now it's 11:40 and I'm tired enough that I think I should just go to bed.
Today is the 250th day of the year. Due to illness and a couple other times my schedule was just too tight, I still have 13 days to go of doing 40 push-ups daily. They're not as difficult as when I started, in that I'm not sweaty and breathing hard the way I was early on, but each day does still feel like a challenge to finish 40. I'll have to come up with a new plan soon, to start when that series finishes. I suppose I could just keep going and do 40 push-ups every day of my 40th year, but I feel like 10,000 is a good round total to achieve and I'm ready to work on something else; also, my understanding is that I should have been spacing them out more, alternating days of rest with days of doing push-ups, in order to get more development out of the effort. I'll still keep push-ups in the routine somewhere, to maintain what I've developed. I probably should be doing some kind of pull-ups—that was suggested to me when I had to take a couple days off because of soreness in my right shoulder—but I don't have a good way to do those in my home. I also should work on stomach crunches, so that's probably what I'll add in next.
Trivia wasn't much fun tonight, as only a half-dozen of us regulars showed up, and no one else. Celeste did run a five-round game for us for fun, without the usual cash prizes (which wouldn't have made sense with so few people), which was nice, but definitely part of the fun is having a large crowd there and a sense of real competition. Apparently trivia's been this dead for three of the past four weeks, and attendance this year overall has been rather low, making it costly for the bar to keep offering it, so there's a good chance it may be canceled if things don't pick up in the next month or two. I've had "talk someone else into attending trivia" on my monthly to-do list since I started in July; I don't really have a good reason why I haven't tried that yet, I've just had the vague feeling that either my friends won't be interested or else that they're already busy with other things. If I never ask, then I'll never know.
I got home early from trivia since it was a short night, and I really wanted to make a batch of chocolate chip cookies. But first I had to finish a load of laundry, and then I went through my Bumbershoot photos and uploaded the few that were worth keeping, and then I knew I had to write this entry before starting to make cookies. Now it's 11:40 and I'm tired enough that I think I should just go to bed.
