Week 2 - Day 6: Morning Post!!!

I read the book, Sin and Syntax, for about an hour today. Well, I skimmed through it mostly. It's a good book, but it's not what I thought it would be, so I decided that I don't need to forced myself to read it word for word, beginning to end. My time is valuable, and there is no reason for me to spend it, trudging though something that is not what I want and doesn't hold my interest. The book is a good grammar book, but I was looking for something else, something more... poetic? Oh well. My frustration over the book not being what I wanted (and the release of energy when I decided not to spend anymore time reading it) made me get up off my reading chair, put shoes on, grab a pair of pliers, and head out the front door to change my licence plate cover. It took me maybe five minutes. I've had the new cover, my university cover, for over a year. Why the heck did I wait so long to do something I wanted?

It's funny how much making good decisions, following through, and completing tasks then makes you want to make more good decisions, follow through, and complete more tasks.

Last night, I finally asked my dad to help me cut some thin pieces of wood and drill a few holes in them to try and fix my antique tabletop loom (that's right, I have a spinning wheel to make yarn, and a loom to weave on). Turns out the fix I thought would work, doesn't. It actually makes it more awkward to try and work the loom. Oh well. Someday I will have the money to buy a new loom (maybe an Ashford Ridge Heddle) but until then I will make this one work.

My hip still hurts. It feels like the muscle is strained or badly bruised. But I have no other TRAPS symptoms. I haven't taken a dose of my steroids since right before I started Medifast, and I'm feeling better than I have in a long time. Each day that passes, I'm more convinced the hip pain is not related to TRAPS. Maybe I did strain it somehow or maybe I just need to keep stretching it everyday until it gets better. That's the problem with having a medical condition that affects your muscles and joints. I can't always tell what pain is TRAPS related and what pain not.

New goals for this weekend (since I've already taken care of the two I posted about yesterday)!

• Transcribe the bit of the short story I hand-wrote at the library. Finished at 12:02 pm
• Write at least another 500 words for the short story
• Complete one video tutorial on Unity 3D (video game software I need to learn) Finished at 12:44 pm. Watched all 10 Beginners Editor Tutorials. They were only a few minutes each.

That's it. There are other things that I want to accomplish, but I don't want to overwhelm myself. If I list out ten things, then I will be lucky to get one of them done. But these three are small, easy tasks. Once I finish them, I can think clearly and realistically about what to do next.

P.s. still not excited to try the salmon for my lean and green. But who knows, maybe it will be delicious and then I can come back and post that I love salmon.