I have a week off work and I think I want to try and spend the time with the mindset of doing some nice things, but ultimately remembering that there's nothing really pressing that needs doing. No major plan but also making that little extra effort to do things that I want to do. Not just sitting on my iPad all day

So this arrived on Friday, my new Kala KA-B baritone ! Have been having tons of fun with it so far - C’s are now G’s and G’s are now D’s and it just sounds so cool!

The case for “dusking”: In a world of light and noise, embracing the dark can be healing - Big Think - I think this sounds like a cool idea and I might give it a go this evening.

I think one of the issues that I have with anxiety is that I worry that I’m not relaxing ‘well enough’, which totally cancels out any relaxing I might actually have otherwise been doing. When I get in from work I maybe have 4 hours to get myself fed, do a ... jaymy.micro.blog/2023/08/05/th

The case for “dusking”: In a world of light and noise, embracing the dark can be healing - Big Think - I think this sounds like a cool idea and I might give it a go this evening.

I think one of the issues that I have with anxiety is that I worry that I’m not relaxing ‘well enough’, which totally cancels out any relaxing I might actually have otherwise been doing. When I get in from work I maybe have 4 hours to get myself fed, do a little housework and relax and recharge myself ready to do it all again the next day. But when I’m trying to chill out, I’ll be kind of worrying that I’m not getting the most value out of that time? Like, if I’m sitting watching Star Trek TNG, I might be thinking ‘this is fine, but would I be having more fun if I was playing Zelda? Am I setting myself up for a crummy day tomorrow by wasting my time watching this? But I’m already 20 minutes into the episode, I can’t just drop it now’ etc.

I think one way out is to try and learn to just do nothing again, and that unless there really is somewhere that I need to be or something that I need to get prepared for, then who cares? Just do whatever. I wonder if looking out of the window might be a good way to try this out.

It’s a bit of a shame that it’s basically impossible to do this all year round. In winter it gets dark long before I’m finished work. Maybe that just means I’ve got a chance to do this now and if I want to check it out and enjoy it, I can?

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Wordle 777 3/6

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Solved pretty quickly, again another day with lucky guesses

A walk near where I live. This is just a strange spot because you’ll be walking down a quiet road with a row of houses alongside, turn left and you see this - it’s like you’re instantly transported to the middle of nowhere. I always like part of the walk

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Appreciated the nice gentle one today after a couple of tricky words this week!

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Very lucky/easy today. Not that I time myself but I bet this is the fastest I ever solved a wordle

Today I’m quite strongly considering getting a baritone . I like my little Makala Dolphin but I think I prefer the way the bigger ones sound?

Ah bless her!

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Wordle 771 4/6

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There we go, a 'guess the remaining letter' day. At least I got it on the second go.

I know you should probably play these smart and try for a totally different word that will eliminate as many letters as possible but I'm always just SO SURE that my next guess is going to be right. Which did pay off today

Finished reading: Unmasking Autism by Devon Price 📚: jaymy.micro.blog/2023/07/29/fi

Finished reading: Unmasking Autism by Devon Price

Unmasking Autism by Devon Price 📚 The first chapter actually made me cry because it seemed to describe me really well. I’ve been doing a bit of research recently, after feeling really burnt out for several months. I remember wondering if I was autistic back in the days when people said only little boys could be autistic, and feeling the way I have been recently spurred me on to actually learn about autism.

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love it when you can just sit and think for a bit and figure it out, no repeated guessing what one letter might be

🎮 Messing around with Island Tune makers for and made this. Can’t wait to hear Isabelle sing it all out of tune and everything!
Theme nooknet.net/tunes?melody=d-s-s

🎮 Messing around with Island Tune makers for Animal Crossing and made this. Can’t wait to hear Isabelle sing it all out of tune and everything! Hollow Knight Theme

769 2/6

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So lucky! Really pleased with this today

After a crummy two days (actually ringing in sick to work which I never do!) I think are required

1) the support I’ve asked for at work seems to have been heard. Fingers crossed I get it

2) ginger beer

3) I treated myself this evening by making steak, curly fries, mushrooms and peas for myself for tea

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will do for me

Finished reading: This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar 📚 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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