I felt like I wasn’t falling asleep last night. Like I spent a lot of time awake trying to fall asleep. Eventually, I turned over to sleep on my stomach. For some reason, when I’m having trouble falling asleep. that position often helps me get there. And it worked last night.
I woke up feeling well enough to walk, but I decided that I needed to take care of the fruit leather instead. I wanted to get it drying before work started, which meant spending something like 40 minutes heating the mixture until it got nice and jammy – and spattery – and then spreading it out on the parchment paper for the hours in the dehydrator.
Except for licking the spoon, I skipped breakfast. I decided to start trying something I’d been thinking about over the summer, namely, intermittent fasting. I’m going to try limited eating windows a few days a week and see how I handle it. Today, I only ate between noon and 6. I’ll try it again on Friday. The morning was okay. I drank a lot of tea. Now that it’s close to bedtime, my tummy is complaining, but I’ll be okay if I can just get to sleep.
Work went pretty well today. Slowly progressing on all the things that I need to progress on. Training my newest team member in more complicated fixes. It’s fun.
I went to the hot springs in the evening and had a good long conversation with my friends Diane and Kelly, as well as a shorter chat with someone I met last year on the day that I broke the chain I was using to wear Ambrose’s ashes and freaked out. I’d tried to find her on Facebook after that, but I couldn’t find her. I think I’ve found her now. She’s local, so I might have another good connection there.
I left smiling. The moon is full and beautiful. And I have connections here. Ambrose would be happy at me for finding good people. I’m going to bring some of my books over to Diane and Kelly’s at some point so they can see my art. My neighbor suggested I put some of those books in the coffee shop to sell. I’ll have to decide which ones to order some copies of for that. I really need to publish another book. It’s time to get back to that.
I’ve been watching the videos from the Snowslide trip. It’s putting me in the mood and mindset to write about that trip. I’ll get that done, and the ICT trip, and I will publish more books. And stories. I can do it. I know that I can. Even the one that’s going to hurt.
