Beth's Journal

Sitting at home, watching the leaves fall off the trees, digging out all my warm clothes because now I'm freezing cold all the time, pondering whether or not to throw myself at NaNoWriMo this year after a few years off...

Yep. It actually feels like fall today.

Thankfully, today was pretty quiet. I kept getting distracted by coming back here every so often to poke around my old entries or change my journal theme, so not having anything too brain-draining to worry about at work was nice. Aside from the pleasant distraction of rediscovering Dreamwidth, today was a pretty standard "work at home because we're in a pandemic" day. I did some laundry, watched the kittens do ridiculous things, and thought of a million things I wanted to talk about here but made myself wait to post because this isn't Twitter and I don't really need to make a million posts a day, now, do I?

I took a walk for the first time in ages today. For a while I was pretty good about going for a walk as soon as I finished work for the day, but the the weather got ridiculously hot - and by the time it cooled back down, I'd fallen out of the habit. My back started doing that weird muscle twinge it usually does if I haven't been too active lately, though, and usually that means a day or two of nasty back spasms isn't far behind - and since I really don't want to have to go to urgent care right now, I went for a walk in hopes the extra movement would get my back to shut up. (so far, it seems to have worked) Hopefully I can get back in the habit of walking after work again - it really helped separate my work day from the rest of the day, which can be really hard to do when you're working from home every freaking day.

While walking, I thought about maybe doing NaNoWriMo again this year - it's been quite a while since I last participated, and it used to be a huge thing for me, but with life being the way it has over the past few years, I just couldn't drum up the energy for it. Now, though? Well, I'm still not sure I have the energy for it, but dang, the NaNoWriMo nostalgia is hitting hard right now, just like the LJ/DW nostalgia. I do have four more days to plan, if I do decide I want to do this. I think I won one year with just one day of planning. I'll think about it, that's for sure.

Meanwhile: dang it's obnoxious to try to write an entry on my phone. Even with the new phone I have with the gigantic screen. I wonder if I can find a small Bluetooth keyboard of some sort that I could use when typing up entries on my phone... I've got a Bluetooth keyboard to use with a table, but dang that thing is large and clunky. Technology has to have advanced enough in the past few years to have small light Bluetooth keyboards be a thing, right?

I will say, it's weird posting on my phone. It's not something I did much back in the day - I usually spent all my time in front of the computer, so why post using the tiny phone screen? Now, though, the only place I can leave a computer set up long term is occupied by my work computer, and it's such a hassle to drag out my laptop and find a flat surface to park it on. I suppose I could use my tablet... I dunno. I'm rambling. XD

Today was a good day, though. Which I'm happy about - I need more good days.