Today felt like it went by kinda quickly, but not necessarily in a bad way!

I didn't quite get great sleep last night (hopefully on track for today to be slightly better) and I got off to a late/rougher than usual start (monday...).  Worked a little later than usual as a result, but lunch was ok (pasta with mushrooms and leek), and dinner turned out well, if a little bit stuffy compared to what I've been aiming for this week (tomato soup, grilled cheese sandwiches and a little bit of spinach/arugula).

Managed to squeeze in a single Rhythm Quest re-charting today which felt nice.  Didn't manage to get any work done on my letter, so that'll be a goal for tomorrow for sure, to leave some time on Wednesday to start packing and addressing everything before going off to MCS and doing groceries and all of that stuff.

Highlight of the day was probably my ALTTPR run which went swimmingly; had a few execution mishaps for sure but also some narrowly-avoided deaths which were a relief to scrape through.  Ended up with a very low time; don't know if it'll be good for first place this week but was certainly fun regardless.

No real thoughts today, I don't think...but it's clear that the darkness has been clearing out...

Today was alright!  Not perfect, but we'll take it.  I can feel the effects of my good practices starting to kick in; today was the first day where I didn't really feel lonely and depressed, despite not having had anything like actually change in my situation or anything like that.  Which is good.  I mean, this is how it's supposed to work out!

I lost a little bit of steam toward the end of the night, but eh, it'll happen.  I managed to re-finalize/revise the heightmapping/charting for Rhythm Quest levels 1-1 through 1-3 and took care of the Easy/Hard mode charts for level 1-4.  If I can just do like another level each day that would be fantastic, but...we'll see, my work on that could end up being more bursty.

Doing good on the cooking front!  Lunch was green beans and then dinner was the leftover wood ear plus carrots, and then blackened tilapia served with a little bit of spinach and mizuna.  Tomorrow's lunch is going to be some mushroom pasta and then I'll have to figure out what I want to do for dinner; I've got a number of options.  I've actually got to go shopping closer to Wednesday or Thursday or so to restock on groceries, but there are still like 6 meals to go till then...

Also managed to get another page of writing done (less than I was hoping, but more than zero, so good enough), record my monthly Patreon videos, and take care of some more xmas shopping.  Had some quality alone time too, and played some (singles) DDR for exercise.  And another highlight of the day was just sipping on my aged white tea throughout the afternoon as I was working on Rhythm Quest stuff and such.  Helped provide some virtual company for friend, too, and watched the second episode of S3 of Hibike!.  Like I said, really not half bad at all.

My intent for the day was something to the effect of "work hard, play hard".  I think I sort of did a 4 out of 5 on that...some things came up so I couldn't fit everything in.  I think I did pretty OK on the "work" part more or less -- I mean, always more to be done, but progress is progress -- but the "play" part could have been a little better.  I keep pushing off like "quality dedicated" playtime to run rando or just do something else to that effect.  Maybe I'll just fire up a run of eletd2 lite mobile before bed, that's been a silly little timewaster of mine.

I don't really have anything substantial to report on at all, it's just a check-in more than anything else.  It's only a one-meeting day tomorrow, so hopefully a nice light way to get back into the swing of things after the Thanksgiving weekend...

Said I would check in here a little more often, so here I am!

Today was pretty "ok".  Had some more time in the car just driving along, haha, so there was that.  No big realizations or takeaways, but I definitely had some feelings come up from down under.

Did groceries today and stocked up on veggies!  Going to be trying to see if I can cook a little healthier this week to feel good, so that means veggies, leafy greens, and fish.  Did also get a few other things (just to break things up), like I'll probably be making smashburgers, some chicken, and that breakfast sausage apple dish, but I'll see if I can keep it nice and feel-good with the rest of it.

Did a really casual ALTTPR (alttpo) co-op run with a friend today, that was fun.  Sometimes I wonder whether I need a little more rando in my life to have something to feel good about and work toward, but I think my current pace of about once-a-week is pretty okay too, given the amount of other things I have kinda going on.

Letter writing is ALMOST at a close, I think.  There's actually a writing meetup going on tomorrow at cafenated but it's a bittt early for me to show up so I don't know if it's really going to be for me this time.  I know I'm supposed to be trying to get out and meet more new people but balance (and sleep) is good too, I think......  Maybe I'll make up for it by making sure I make it out to MCS this wednesday (instead of just hanging at teance haha).  Actually yeah I probably should do that especially since I will probably be missing Jammix this coming Friday.

Getting some more xmas shopping (both online and in-person) done, which feels good!  Gotta get through all of that, little bit by little bit.  Also stopped by the tiny keyboard store again in SJ, was there hanging out with a friend.  I've been taking a little break from using my Cycle7 and am back on the Evo80 instead, which is always a nice change of pace.  Typing randomly on some of the boards there in SJ made me inspired to find some time (maybe soon-ish) to finally put my HMX Gachapons into a board of some sort.  I haven't been super excited about it since I honestly feel like the WS POM+ ones in my Cycle7 feel and sound great for that board, but =maybe= the secret will be to put back in the plate foam and see how the Gachapons sound with both foams in the Cycle7.

I could also just try to use my Neo80...that has been sorely neglected for a while now, although maybe I just should hit the button on buying a new stabilizer kit for that; I think that would be the time to start driving it again.

I could still feel myself feeling sad through the day, but I'm also not feeling sucked into it.  I'm doing most of the right things...so there are things to feel good about, or hopeful toward, even in the midst of it.