On Routines
Apr. 2nd, 2020 04:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skysailorDays are strained right now, and it's hard for me to focus or feel okay. I wonder if building a routine would help any?
My inner ideal self keeps insisting he would like an 8:00 to 4:30 work schedule. He's been insisting on this for quite a while, so perhaps I could make one while my commute is still 0 minutes long.
Let's see, what are the necessaries? Cooking, of course, and meal planning, and food orders. Rabbit has offered to do the midnight food orders, since they can't sleep most nights. Working, obviously. Meditation seems to be the one thing I can do that helps my mental state the most. Washing dishes and other cleaning. Getting dressed, perhaps? I keep seeing recommendations about it, and Rabbit was pointing out that my clothes will be less likely to harbor germs if I change them regularly. I'm also able to wear things I like that I can't usually, so that's an important consideration. I think scheduling my free time beyond "free time" might feel too constrained, but maybe setting a timer to check in with myself as to whether I want to do something else would be good. Maybe also keeping a running list of things I'd like to do, especially those I often forget to spend free time doing? And oh, right, exercise is important for mental and physical health. I'm even paying someone to tell me how to exercise, so I'd better keep up with it. ...I should probably schedule showers and nail polish, those are both important hygiene. Cat care - so, let's see, that's litterbox matters and play time. (Feeding doesn't really need A Schedule, it's so quick.)
Hmmm. I guess I'll ponder these.
...oh, right, I'd better schedule reading the news or I'll spend hours dropping everything else to read the news.
Edit: And my voice! I forgot about my voice. That's important. Who knows, if I practice well enough, I could emerge from this stay-at-home vocally transformed!
My inner ideal self keeps insisting he would like an 8:00 to 4:30 work schedule. He's been insisting on this for quite a while, so perhaps I could make one while my commute is still 0 minutes long.
Let's see, what are the necessaries? Cooking, of course, and meal planning, and food orders. Rabbit has offered to do the midnight food orders, since they can't sleep most nights. Working, obviously. Meditation seems to be the one thing I can do that helps my mental state the most. Washing dishes and other cleaning. Getting dressed, perhaps? I keep seeing recommendations about it, and Rabbit was pointing out that my clothes will be less likely to harbor germs if I change them regularly. I'm also able to wear things I like that I can't usually, so that's an important consideration. I think scheduling my free time beyond "free time" might feel too constrained, but maybe setting a timer to check in with myself as to whether I want to do something else would be good. Maybe also keeping a running list of things I'd like to do, especially those I often forget to spend free time doing? And oh, right, exercise is important for mental and physical health. I'm even paying someone to tell me how to exercise, so I'd better keep up with it. ...I should probably schedule showers and nail polish, those are both important hygiene. Cat care - so, let's see, that's litterbox matters and play time. (Feeding doesn't really need A Schedule, it's so quick.)
Hmmm. I guess I'll ponder these.
...oh, right, I'd better schedule reading the news or I'll spend hours dropping everything else to read the news.
Edit: And my voice! I forgot about my voice. That's important. Who knows, if I practice well enough, I could emerge from this stay-at-home vocally transformed!
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Date: 2020-04-02 10:43 pm (UTC)I try to put all my essential routine things in the morning before work because I'm deeply untrustworthy about doing things in the evening.
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Date: 2020-04-02 10:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-04-02 11:06 pm (UTC)I do have "go outside and walk for an hour or so" as one of my daily activities, tho.