The spins are back this morning. Not bad enough to make me walk into walls, but enough that I don't think I should be driving at all today unless they calm down a lot. I guess it's going to take me a while to recover from this, woe to me. Ahh well. I needed to do some stuff around the apartment anyways. Like the fabulous laundry! Woo!

Today marks the end of my first week with my new routine. I think it's been a success so far. I get things done without feeling overwhelmed and tired. Now just to keep it up.

The way it's worked out is in these separate chunks.

Morning Routine:

Start the Coffee, feed the cats, and water my garden.
Have breakfast and yummy coffee, post to the photoblog, check in on my silly pirate game, read some forums, check email, take my meds.
Do the dishes of Evil.
(Day One) Brush teeth, shower, lotion feet with amazing shea butter lotion, get dressed, brush hair.
(Day Two) Brush Teeth, wash face, get dressed, brush hair.
Write and post journal entry.
30 minute tidy.

I have gone out between the grooming stage and journal stage a few times this week, but it seems to get done all the same. I used to scatter all the various things throughout my day, for example I'd have my shower before I had to go out somewhere. Now having it done in the morning means I'm ready to go at any point and my hair's not wet either. *laughs* Plus having each stage flow into the next means I'll become used to it.

I'm a hell of a lot more accepting of doing things I don't like doing when it's simply something I do. Like the dishes, I hate doing the dishes. I'm very good at it, stuff comes out fabulously clean and shit, but god, I hate it so. But I hate doing the litter boxes more, so the deal I made with Mike and Sara is that the two of them do the litter, I do the evil dishes. *sighs*

I hope I find it as easy to do it in the morning when I actually start cooking again and there's more there to be done. The solution is not to cook! Hee. If it weren't for Miss Sara I'd probably do just that, cook easy crap and be done with it. Alas, the kidlet needs food to continue growing like a weed, so that's not an option.

Continuing with my routine layout, my evenings look like:

Floss and brush teeth.
Wash face.
Get changed, apply Vitamin A crème to face, lotion feet.

It's a bit weird to do things before bed like that, but my teeth definitely feel better, and if flossing daily will ward off another root canal, I'm all for it, baby! Not sure about my face yet, I think it'll take a few more weeks before I see any results. My feet are doing fabulously with the lotion routine though. The cracks on my heels are healing up and most of the calluses are softening. Shea butter is amazing; it has this nifty effect on skin, making it supple and younger feeling and looking. Since I don't need to save my shea stockpile for SkyWorks anymore, I can make as much lotion as I want. Woo!

That's something I should work on today, perhaps. Cleaning out my SkyWorks supplies and sorting what I could possibly sell to other soapmakers, and what I want to keep for my own use. Recouping some of my expenses would be very nice. Plus there's no need for the shelving in the kitchen to be filled with supplies for a dead and gone business, not when I can use the space for a pantry.

It's amazing how much space SkyWorks took up in here now that I stop to think about it -- the shelving in the kitchen, the cupboard in our bedroom. I clean out both and I'll suddenly have somewhere to store my supplies for my various interests. My word, what will I do without my painting boards sitting on top of the radiator behind my desk?

We'll have to see how ambitious I actually am today once I get finished with my 30 minute tidy. Plus I wonder if I'm feeling spinny today because I pushed it too hard yesterday. I certainly didn't feel well by the time I finished walking through the Farmer's Market. If so, it's a bad idea to push it again today. I just hate not being able to do things. I want to *choose* when I slow down, not have it forced upon me by illness.

Again, I'm not a good or patient sick person. :) Enh. I have writing and phone calls to be done on my list, so I can still take it slow and get stuff done. I need to find out pricing for enlargements of some of the photographs I took on our travels. Then I need to write a letter to the newlyweds with the 4x6 prints I had made for them of their wedding, and let them know how much it'll be to get any of those shots enlarged.

I'm no wedding photographer, but I did some good work there, I think. I find it hard to work with people though. I prefer things. I can circle things to find the perfect angle without feeling self-conscious. Hee. I'll put scanning my negatives on my to do list, so eventually all my good shots from the 9 films I shot on our trips will end up on the photoblog. Hopefully cropped to the right size this time! (My latest batch of processed images I mistakenly sized to my old size.)

And that is 30 minutes. See you all on Monday. :)