May Day!

And here we are. One month down in the back to the goals but don't make it weird world I'm living. 

I have to admit my head felt better all last month. I didn't really do anything different than what I had been doing (aside from the poetry bits) but it still felt like I wasn't as aimless. I just need to have that direction. 

I'm chewing on a writing prompt right now so this is probably going to be short. I kind of have the story direction worked out in my head for the prompt but not enough yet to write so that's why you are getting this rambly piece instead of that fiction spot. Though, I'm going to be honest, it probably won't be for everyone. Just warning you.

May's changes we talked about. Started No Weigh May! I tapered off last week, didn't weigh in most days, would have just stopped altogether but I needed to weigh the cats at the end of April and the best way to do that is by holding them while I am on the scale so I wasn't really weighing myself, I was weighing them, but I still had to weigh myself to do the math. They both weigh 10.6 pounds, by the way. They are still keeping equal in weight, which I think is the weirdest thing. Tig is MUCH taller than Tux and if he filled out he'd probably be another 2 pounds heavier. And Tux has the potential to go full chunk, he just never has. 

I wrote what I wanted to write and because I did the poetry pieces actually caught up on the fiction I was behind. Now if I average one a week I'll be on track for the repeated goals from last year. And because I'm wrapping up that long piece I've been sending to Dana I will probably start posting that here so that will take care of 20-23 weeks depending on how many more it takes me to actually tie that bow. I'm thinking it will make a lovely Sunday morning series. 

Reading was slow. I think I finished 4 books, maybe 5. But one was nonfiction so that's on track too. Just slow reads last month. Enjoyable, for the most part, just slow. The two I'm working on right now are the same. Not bad, though the nonfiction one is a great idea it's not great writing, but just slow. Hopefully I'll get to some juicy quicker reads soon. 

I did Picture of the Day and that was enjoyable. Have to decide here in the next few hours if I'm keeping it this month or not. Probably will, but haven't for sure decided. 

Picked up Duolingo again after a long time off. Brent has been using it to learn Spanish, German, and Dutch (though I convinced him that German and Dutch at the same time was a little crazy so he's down to just Spanish and German) I figured it would be a good time to pick back up Spanish since I could practice with him. I'll probably never be conversant in it, but being able to do more than swear and ask where the bathroom is would be a good idea. (I actually understand quite a bit of it since it was always around when I was growing up, I can read it better than understand it spoken and I can understand it spoken better than I can speak it)

Also picked back up the Calm meditation app. Trying for just 10-15 minutes a day. Not a lot, but a good transition from working out to the rest of the day. 

AND I finally got that magnesium sleep supplement yesterday so this month I'll be trying it out. Not really thinking it will do much for my sleep but have high hopes now for it helping my twitchy legs. 

I guess I did do a few things differently than I had been. But since I started doing the goal thing again it didn't feel like it. It just felt smooth. So that's good. 

And this didn't end up being terribly short afterall. 

But terribly rambly for sure.