Right around the corner…another milestone looms: Three years.
I’ll have written a blog entry every day for the past three years. Three is a crowd, they say. Ha. Writing that last sentence actually made me laugh and roll my eyes. Some of the stuff I write on these entries, you guys. I’m surprised I even get one read a day, let alone the ten or twenty that seem to be the average.
Nevertheless, three years is pretty damn crazy. Especially considering this started as a 60-day challenge.
Today was a challenge. I got almost nothing done. I was too stressed out.
I’m getting myself a new computer. “But,” you might say, “that’s super awesome exciting! Stressed out for what?” Well, dear reader, pretty much any adult out there knows exactly why that’s stressful: computers are fucking expensive. I’m luckily in the position where I can afford a new computer. THAT’S not stressful. It COULD be more stressful, for sure – wanting to buy one and not actually being able to afford it. Been there. Much more stressful. But still…
Even though I’m not in that position, it’s still stressful to spend that much money all at once. Even if it is literally for the tool that I use to make money. It’s also the added pressure of the fact that it’s more expensive than I anticipated, which meant that I’m feeling the desire to spend less elsewhere, namely on the monitor that I need to go with it. I had one picked out, top of the line and expensive as fuck…and then it turned out today that the computer itself is significantly more expensive than I thought…which makes it far, far less practical to spend so much on the monitor. Which meant I went monitor shopping for most of the day. STRESS.
But…
BUT, I found a few options. And I can mull those over for a week or so.
AND, tomorrow I’m going to let my routine kick in and wash the stress away. Actually get some tasks done, let the feeling of accomplishment lighten the load on my shoulders. Spend some time in my imagination with a couple solid writing sessions. It makes me feel better just thinking about that tomorrow. I literally just sighed at the thought. I’m certifiably crazy.
Despite a derailment for a day and a half, a solid day tomorrow, and a good weekend will make it THREE weeks in a row of excellence. I’ll consider that a goddamn win, yo.
FINISH.
That’s the goal. Night you ten-to-twenty precious people. 😉
Artwork tonight is from the INSANELY talented and expressive Shusei Nagaoka.