#Getting it Done

[princess-lilura]

manifesting works a little too well 😝

I don't chase, I attract

everything I want, wants me more

[rainyfestivalsweets]

10/22/24

Pep talk time for myself:

Now is the time. There is no better time than now to focus on yourself. Your goals. Your life. Get you shit together and attack every day like you mean it.

Make yourself some fun charts ✨️ to habituate studying practices. Stress relief. Healthy activity.

Get locked in to healthy study habits. Yes, it is hard. Yes, you have alot on your plate. But you can learn anything, especially if you focus.

Summer bodies are made in the winter. You could be 150 pounds and smoking hot next summer.

The question is- will you? Are you going to lock the fuck in and stop making excuses?

Stop making excuses to eat extra? Get more protein in? Get your miles in?

What do you want?

How bad do you want it?

YOU are the deciding factor in your life.

You. Your will. Your drive.

Be INDOMITABLE.

Now is the perfect time.

Cut the shit and get to business.

[mercurygray]

✅install new doorbell and remove old one ✅unbox books and all other earthly possessions ✅sell unwanted furniture on fb marketplace to recoup cost of new desk 💰💰💰 ✅ begin making appointments to get quotes for next big project ➡️write thank you notes ➡️new to me dresser ➡️relax :)))))

[sapphire-imeo]

[artaxlivs]

Dirty Dancing au please!

Why are you making me be responsible? But also thank you for choosing the responsible WIP. I need to get my ass in gear on that bad boy. I've been avoiding it in favor of thirsty little drabbles.

I actually wrote over 700 words before I remembered I needed to answer your ask. GO YOU FOR BEING MOTIVATING!

He doesn’t even get the chance to knock before the cabin door opens and Eddie grabs him by his belt loops and drags Steve into the darkened room, crowding him back against the door and diving into his mouth. The kiss is so intense that Steve forgets to breathe and gets a little light headed. Luckily Eddie’s holding him steady with his thigh shoved up between Steve’s thighs, pressing gently up so Steve's almost riding it. “Fuck, Eddie.” Steve whines, biting his lip when Eddie pushes his polo shirt up and sucks one of his nipples into his mouth, digging his teeth in a little. “You know,” he gasps, “ten more feet and we’d be on your bed.” “Too far,” Eddie pants as he pushes Steve's shirt up and off, tossing it on the floor before dipping back in to whisper "baby" into the shell of Steve's ear and suck the lobe between his teeth, biting gently.

[thelatebloomerdiaries]

10.31.24 Change can be scary🎃🦇👻

Where have I been? Well time for some honesty:

took 2 days of this week from the gym 💪

Got a new job, but idk if I will stay 💀

Got accepted into an internship 🤓

Got to go back to studying for CompTIA's A+🏫

Lost 5 lbs.🏋️‍♀️

Ate out yesterday and today, but been eating at home 🍚

I have had terrible digestive issues💩

Been freaking out over all the poison in our food🤢

My treadmill is pretty much a wash🤬

My business will be starting in January 💅

Spending too much time on TikTok🤡

Bought quite a few fungo pops 🛒

Did a coffee enema (did not work) 😖

Bought a new academic planner 📖

My depression room is now a depression room, hall, bathroom, and overall space. I have to clean this weekend 🧹

I set boundaries with old friends and I feel better ⛔

Hung out with friends and bought some things I've wanted 🛍️

Found out Trader Joe's has some good Panda Express dupes 🐼

Overall I am very nervous about balancing all the new things on my list. I have some decisions to make in the upcoming weeks.

[queen-skiia]

30 Days of Productivity: Day 16 🤎

08/05/2024

Hey besties 🤗

I hope everyone is having a good start to the week! Here’s the recap of today:

I got up early and made a yummy breakfast today! Featuring my emotional support matcha latte. It felt good to get up instead of waking up at 12 in the afternoon

I got ready and went to the gym! It’s great to be back, I missed moving my body 🥹 we did some cardio and light strength training to ease my way back into exercising

I ran some errands after, I’m officially signed up for driving classes!!!

I got home and ate dinner, then I hopped on my 6pm zoom class

Now we’re off to bed 🙂‍↕️

Gn besties! ✨

🎧 - Stank Rose by BLK ODYSSY ft Joey Bada$$

[astramthetaprime]

Putting the 'Function' in Executive Functioning

Lots of stuff going on and ongoing.

Number One -- Google Tasks is the bomb. Seriously. I'm, like, getting shit done. I'm remembering to do things because my exobrain is remembering it for me. If I can get one thing done around the house each day, on consecutive days, for days at a time, dagnabbit I'm getting shit done. You put it on the Tasks app, it fragging puts it on your Calendar, I keep it open on the phone, it stays in the back of my mind because I see it multiple times in a day, and it gets done. Schedule dog walks, schedule washing dishes, schedule writing, schedule whatever, it's there, you see it, it gets done. Between Tasks, Keep, Gmail and Calendar, I've got the means to keep up with dang near anything. The danger is not overdoing it, because here be burnout yo.

Number Two -- I never got the hang of drinking coffee, y'know? I tried, when I was younger, but it always messed up my stomach and I wasn't thrilled with the taste. My thing was Diet Coke, which I love with the force of a thousand exploding suns. And, later, I developed a love of fine Chinese black teas. (I freely and cheerfully direct your attention to Upton Tea Imports for further information. I loves me some good Chinese Keemuns, that's fine drinking.)

However, in the last week I have discovered a coffee drink I can actually stomach. And it has been educational.

It goes like this: 1 tbsp instant espresso powder, 3 tbsp your choice of creamer powder, 1/4 cup or more chocolate syrup, 8 ounces boiling water. Mix well, with a milk frother mixer thing if you have one but spoon's fine. It's a sort of half-assed mocha thing. I call it 'hellbrew' or Liquid Mania depending on my mood. And speaking of mood ...

The first one I drank it kept me up to 3 AM despite the fact I drank it at least twelve hours earlier.

I've had several since then (I'm afraid to have more than 1 a day), and yesterday it cranked me up so high that I spent more than an hour unable to sit still and stimming like you would not believe. I don't stim physically. Usually. But yesterday dear gods I stimmed. I stimmed so freaking much and suddenly I understand the whole thing now and oh yeah my skin felt like it was vibrating. All over. MY ENTIRE BODY WAS VIBRATING.

I was working at the time. Like I said, educational.

Speaking of ...

Number Three -- I have finally finished training for my job so Monday morning I am turned loose on my own recognizance. It's been 5 weeks? Or six? Five, I think. Regardless, I am working full time and funds are available in abundant supply. Just in time to replace all 4 tires on my car. But still, there have been groceries bought and eaten, and I was able to replace my earbuds when the case on my old ones got messed up. And last night I signed up for health insurance for the new year. And I'll be able to start paying my mortgage again. The reduction of stress has been restful. I am on the verge of not just surviving, but thriving.

Number Four -- Pathfinder Progress. Two nights ago I wrote what is probably the exact midpoint of the book, my protagonist and antagonists finally met face to face. Still not able to speak to each other, but it's only a matter of time. The Taelai have survived the Surprise Asteroid and now outright treachery from some of their own people. They're halfway back to civilization, given their means of travel they've got at least a week to ten days til they reach a friendly port and another week to ten days after that to their throneworld system of Daitengu. There's a lot still left to do. But I am making progress. It's getting done.

And beyond Pathfinder, I now have a third story planned. Tentative title: Cinder. There is a preliminary outline, and because this is me and the theater of the mind has no budget, Imma imagine Tom Cruise starring in it.

Because he's pretty, that's why.

Number Five -- I briefly considered attending the Saga Writer's Conference which is scheduled for July 2024 as my birthday present for my 55th birthday, but honestly I don't think I can justify the expense. I estimate I'd be spending at least $1k if one includes lost wages, and I just can't afford that. I have no doubt it would be a great time and I'd learn a lot of stuff I desperately need to know, plus it's being held at ConGregate and that would be just gravy on the potato cake so to speak. But alas, no.

However! I have been looking in to what I could learn on Skillshare, and the answer is quite a lot. Copyediting, social media marketing, Wordpress skillz, creating author platforms, AI art generation (yeah I know, but professional artists don't work for free and you guys have noticed I'm starting from zero, right?). Also, fiction writing. There's also a lot just for free on YouTube and various podcasts such as the excellent Writing Excuses.

Speaking of ...

Number Six -- ChattaCon is coming up in January, and Imma determined to stalk Mary Robinette Kowal, pin her down and massage her brain.

Number Seven -- I'm actually participating in a local speculative fiction writer's group, a subsect of the Chattanooga Writer's Guild. Like, I went to a real-time, real-life meeting (usually it's over video). This was at a coffee shop but pre- Liquid Mania so there was not 'dance a jig in your chair' or vibrating eyeballs. Next time, I will know what to order to make the proceedings much more entertaining.

Number Eight -- Tom Cruise. Because he's pretty.

[strugglinguist]

Proofs Proofs Proofs!

Okay. We're going to attempt to function a bit better today. I've already had breakfast and took my meds, so we're making PROGRESS!

My book chapter's proofs are due today, so I need to go through it with a fine toothed comb and look for typos and errors prior to publication. There are 50 pages in the chapter. (I never ONCE thought I'd be that scholar to write any article or chapter that long, but HERE WE ARE!)

To help me stay on track today and to make it a bit of a game, I'm going to keep track of each page here.

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[rainyfestivalsweets]

3/7/25

Fit girls do fit girl things.

Like have a healthy breakfast and get a sweat session in before doing to a dive tournament.

Like packing beverages and snacks so that I don't rely on shitty ass concessions.

Had my first peloton ride at the hotel gym. Did a 5 min stretch after and 15 min elliptical.

Can't change the past, no sense in it bringing me down. Throw it in the fuck it bucket.

What can I change?

How I do today. Choices I make today. Present me weighing the balances and choosing TODAY.

Going forth in Power.

Getting my steps.

Choosing healthy restaurants & doing the best I can today.

[tawnysoup]

Found my fav Slay the Princess route recently. Dragon my beloved. Your horrifying beak mouth was an impossible-to-refuse lip syncing challenge 💖

Shoutouts to @blacktabbygames for making such a cool game!

[nb-marceline]

(full article here)

[overcaffeinated-aro]

ok not to be that guy but like. labor rights and working class rights can coexist with 24h services and late amenities. its certainly hard to do so without worker exploitation in this political and social environment, it’s not a conflict likely to resolve overnight. but 24h services are important and especially valuable to those of us that are disabled or are on a different circadian rhythm. in fact more professional, health, and government services should be available or at least possible to work on asynchronously (if applicable) during late or odd hours, while workers also get sufficient pay for their labor and proper consistent scheduling. this would be much easier on the workers with night schedules if the entire professional world didn’t grind to a halt at 5pmEST

[carsonjonesfiance]

“This thing is legally dubious and therefore technically unenforceable.” Is not a “useless liberal gotcha” it’s how legalism works in this country. Tying up stupidly worded EOs in court is the quickest way to keep them from being implemented. It is the definition of “doing something.” But it doesn’t usually involve much tweeting so of course a certain type of leftist feels obligated to mock it.

[noodles-and-tea]

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