Things I Got Done This Week – June 14th, 2024

I am still recovering somewhat from being sick a few weeks ago, but this week I pushed myself a little, so I could try to get back into a daily routine and rhythm. I rely on routine and rhythm, heavily, and it helps me to better regulate my emotions and prevent my autonomic nervous system from becoming overwhelmed, so I am always anxious to get back into a sense of “normalcy”. I still haven’t quite gotten back into a routine, and I have already been feeling the growing anxiety from that for the last three weeks. Tomorrow, Saturday, I hope to try to find a way to get back into a more structured daily routine and rhythm, and when I find myself out of my routine. I know it’s bound to happen, that I find myself out of my routine because my brain is simply easily distracted (that would be my Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), and as such, this falling out of my routine and rhythms tends to happen frequently. However, when I do fall out of my routine, even if I’m off by just an hour or so, or even eight hours, I am just going to try to salvage and redeem the rest of my day and routine. I’ll start where I would be in my routine at the time of day I realize that I’ve gotten distracted from my routine, and start that next thing that I would have been doing right about then, and then just keep going. This might sound silly or painfully obviously simple to some folks, I supposed, but this was a new realization for me, and it’s already been helping me so much in trying to get back into my daily routine on an everyday basis, of which I am lost and crippled by anxiety without. I decided a few months back, that this would be my goal whenever I get off of my routine, and am having a difficult time getting back into a rhythm because that’s always been a struggle for me (along with many other executive functioning skills). Anyhow, I can write about that more, later. I’m going to finish trying to write down a few quick notes about the rest of my week before I forget, because, well, that pesky, previously mentioned ADHD of mine.

I also tried to get more of our loft organized this week. I worked on it a few times this week, shuffling things around, and moving the loveseat in the loft I forget how many times because I couldn’t decide where I want to place it in the room. I have been trying to turn our loft into our homeschool room for the past year, and it’s still never been used for homeschooling. But I am determined to get that done before the month is over. Here’s hoping, and some prayers and faith, too.

I also was able to order more garden seeds today, because our two cats decided that the seedlings that I planted back in March were their new favorite toy to play with in the house. All of my original seedlings died. A few straggler seeds decided to sprout randomly two weeks ago, but the cats have decided that those are also fair game and far too fun to not play with. So I also ordered two indoor greenhouse-style plant rack/shelf things. Like a metal bookcase, but for starting seeds or keeping indoor plants and such. It comes with a transparent cover (that’s the “greenhouse” part of the kit that’s coming), and it’s supposed to zip or close somehow, so I’m really hoping that that is sufficient enough to keep our cats from destroying my garden starts this time around.

Let’s see, what else, what else… Oh! I bought a ton of fresh veggies and other basic ingredients yesterday when I went grocery shopping. I am also determined to start slowly transitioning our diet to all-from-scratch meals like I have been trying to do for the past 12 years. I can’t afford to let my energy levels stop me anymore. I don’t even care that I don’t think I have the energy to cook from scratch on a daily basis. I have to figure out a way to do it because my health is perpetually giving me grief, and I have known for more than a decade that my body feels better when I am able to cook and eat meals from scratch as much as possible, even if I am still struggling with health issues.

Anyhow, with all those things from this past week in mind, I have been thinking about documenting those endeavors of mine, again: Homemaking and family & home management, gardening/homesteading/self-reliance, and cooking from scratch and eating real foods, from real ingredients, and as clean, organic, and natural as possible. The same goes for household items, namely toiletries and personal products, household cleaning products, and anything else I can make myself and in as natural of a fashion as possible. I think keeping a diary of my efforts to do these things will help me maintain a sense of accountability (regardless of whether anyone other than myself is reading this blog diary of mine – that’s how it was in the beginning for 7 years, anyhow, and documenting my efforts back then and writing about it for all those years did help me to stick with my endeavors and efforts more than the times I wasn’t writing about them, so I think I want to start that habit of documenting those sorts of things, too, again).