My productivity has spiked for the past two days. Things that were on my to-do list got crossed off. Hurrah!!!! It’s looking a bit empty now. I need to add more things. Coincidentally (or not) my to-do list is on an app called Things, and I love it.
Today I went out for the first time this week to meet Dan because he’d just flown back from Jakarta. We went for sushi express. “What do you do all day?” Dan asked me. I’m very good at whiling time away honestly. I think it’s the product of being an only child and having to entertain myself throughout my childhood. For the first time this year, I actually have no library books loaned out. I’m trying a new thing called “less reading more writing”. It’s self-explanatory.
I also got new specs!!! Pics when I get them. The specs shop dude also did my contacts a couple of months ago so he gave me discounts. I feel like branded specs are a big hoax, on the same level as diamond rings, because $800 just for the frames? Super shady. Mine are much, much cheaper anyway. I don’t understand why luxury goods are a thing. At which point is it marketing and not quality anymore? And who actually judges other people based on the brands they buy? Is this someone you’d want in your life?
I also don’t want a wedding ring or a wedding because I feel like they’d be something I regret spending money on. By wedding I mean the kind where it’s lots of guests (including your parents’ friends haha), a sit-down ballroom dinner and shark’s fin soup etc. Why can’t we just register for marriage then be like “oh hey btw we’re married!” then if friends want to celebrate we can have separate dinners with them and be more involved with their lives as well. I just hate the idea of flitting from table to table like a big white butterfly and only talking to friends for 5 minutes before having to move on to the next table. Does anyone genuinely enjoy weddings or are they one great performance of happiness, like theme parks??
Fitness update: from ZERO to (S)HERO. Start: August 2017
This is how I’ve been doing so far. I started on the 1st of August. I’m not sure what made me start that day but I felt that being without routine, it was up to me to establish working out as a habit again. I’m quite pleased that I managed to follow through with it but I could definitely be more consistent. I passed Day 30 so it’s on its way to becoming habitual! Yay! The huge gap in the middle is when I was on holiday from 17-28 September. I did quite a bit of walking during those two weeks but I also ate a lot xD
I would say my fitness went from Level 0, it was SO BAD, to maybe Level 2 (baby ninja).
To progress even more, I want to switch it up from next week so that I’m at the gym on Sundays (with Sya) and also on Monday (for cardio and back). I should also do a fitness test every month so I have actual stats for progress. Right now I’m basing it on which blogilates videos I can do without stopping :’D and also working on my splits.
I found out that Dan is on the same journey as me, kind of. But I don’t want to tell him that we have the same goal because then it’ll be like a competition and I don’t want him to weigh in on my eating choices when he’s out with me. Our diets are wildly different too. His is all about the meat and “protein”.
Writing update: rusty af but output > quality right?
This is what I’m working on at the moment. I’ll just copy and paste what I wrote to describe it to someone.
Summary: Two lovers reunite after the wars are over. Silas has become the Chosen, walking nightshade, able to kill with one touch. He is a war hero who thinks himself a monster. After two years, Lucy is no longer the innocent farmer girl Silas left. She has built a secret criminal empire around her gift with herblore. But she didn't expect Silas to return... and the price tag on his head.
I'm tentatively calling it The Return. I wrote it as a one-shot thinking about the hero's quest--like leaving home, and coming back after the quest is over. So this is kind of a "after the credits" part and trying to figure out how they can fit together, if at all.
It’s definitely fantasy/romance. It may be the product of reading too much fictionpress LOL, but I wanted to try writing romance because it’s a lot about characterisation and that’s something I’d like to start thinking about again. Trying to revive characters is really hard haha, when you want them to start talking to you in your head after ignoring them for so long.
Whew glad I got that off my chest!!!! I feel like I haven’t been updating in DETAIL and possibly OVERSHARING which is a part of this blog’s charm *cough* >.> glad I went there again haha. Okay thanks for reading!!!!! Also @ friends please drop me a note about how you’re doing as well, life updates or anything. Or feedback on my story, okay take care <3