I’m sitting here in front of my keyboard right now, hand on my chin, trying to figure out how to ‘package’ my day today…and coming up short.
It was a weird day. I was pretty chilled out and happy for part of it, and rather anxious and restless for another part of it, and kind of in between those two for another part of it. It was just…an odd one.
There was no particular reason for the anxiety, and I would even classify it as acute, or even ‘floating’…but, it did prevent me from napping.
And, you know what? That’s totally what this day did not having going for it: normal sleep. I haven’t slept ‘normally’ for the past two days, and man am I realizing how critical that is to my mood stability. Good thing I don’t have kids, eh? 😛 Seriously, tho, respect to the parents out there with kids: the fact that you look like a human, let alone act like one is a bit of a miracle, isn’t it?
I feel thrown out of whack by the odd sleep schedule. It started with waking up early on Friday because of the extreme heat, so I could walk the pups. Then, we stayed up late last night having too much fun, which meant I slept in today. It just throws me off my game, I guess.
But…life does that. One thing I’ve learned as a creative person is that life happens. But, for real: it never stops happening. Ever. There are *always* going to be curveballs to deal with, no matter how much I sit and daydream about the perfect schedule/location/etc. THAT means…creativity must happen anyway. We must find ways to work INSIDE the bullshit.
It really is the key right there. The world never stops, so must work with it spinning around us.
And, I did. I wrote almost 1,000 words today. Decent for a day off. I was a little zonked form all the words I wrote throughout the week, so I didn’t push it. I think I have more in me tomorrow, but we’ll see. If I’m feeling zonked out there, too, I won’t push it tomorrow either. Having these off-days really has helped me when I want to turn it on and really fly. So, I honor that now.
The process!
It’s coming together.
Finally.
Anyway…it’s time for me to sleep, so I’m going to. Tomorrow, I wake up on time. Looking forward to that! 🙂
Night. I hope you had a good day.