My Actifit & Life Report Card: November 26 2018
Life, NaNoWriMo, and Actifit
Despite sleeping like an angel on my new mattress, I had a difficult day today.
Everything seemed a bit much. I wasn’t where I wanted to be with the NaNoWriMo.
This was the screenshot I took a couple of days ago. The plan was to be done by now. But lots of life happened.
When I cleaned the room to open the new mattress in- our former office, computer, podcasting room that now is being turned into a bedroom- I realized that I didn’t want a rug in it any more.
We had moved the sofa- the one I had been sleeping on - out in the garage/guest room. And moved the desk. It only made it to the living room since I need to do a lot of rearranging in the garage. Large areas of it are covered with boxes of books.
A while back, I installed a little free library on the corner of my property. I begged everyone and their grandmother to donate books to me. I had been buying books and they were disappearing fast. I don't mind that people take them, I love to put books into people's homes.
But I couldn't afford to keep buying them. Hence, the begging campaign. Apparently, I am a good beggar because I got lots and lots of books. And something else happened. The neighborhood is using the library a lot! And more and more people are coming and stuffing it full of books!
That is fantastic! Now, I am trying to get my son in law to build me a much bigger library. That way, I can have one for kids books (we have a school a few houses down with over 80% of the kids attending living below the poverty level) and one for adult literature.
but right now, the boxes of books need to be stored differently.
Back to the rug. After moving the desk - the one sitting in the living room
I was able to fold back the carpet. So much dust and dirt was caught under it!! And I have a good vacuum and use it often. The carpet has to go. And that means that I have to remove the rest of the furniture as well.
Which I decided to do anyway. I want a calm bedroom without computers and even my beloved books. For sure no bills allowed!!! That is not conducive to a good night's sleep.
I want super simple like that.
But everywhere I look is a mess. I know that it will get organized with time. A whole household was just added to an already full house. Time to get rid of lots of things. And it needs to be done by the time my husband comes back from working away from home.
So, my plan had been to just work on the garden and relax and do NaNo.
This morning, I felt like nothing is going to get done - ever.
So, how do eat an elephant?
One bite at a time.
That is why I buckled down and concentrated on writing today.
I wrote over 6000 words. Only a bit over 2000 to go. Tomorrow I am going to take the last bites out of that Elephant.
After that, on to tackle the books.
Move the desk and...... I am sure you will read all about it here.
Next Actifit goal: Get back to at least a daily 10,000. Might be getting a new (used) phone soon that hopefully agrees to count all my steps, not just a few of them 🙃
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You probably need to adjust your battery settings for Actifit so that it would allow it to run in the background and count all the steps...
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I do and I did. I think it is my phone. I have run experiments when I looked at both, the heart health and the acitfit app counts. Then, I counted steps and walked 200 steps - and they counted 8 🤪 Hoping a new phone will solve this. And in the meantime, I do what I have to do to hit at least the 5000.
Yes, it sucks! By the way, do you have prizes for freewrite contest?
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'the plan was.... but lots of life happened...' ohhhhh how I can relate to THAT! ..love the way you handle it...one bite at a time <333 :) Much love to you as always!
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thank you, actifit!!!
The library idea sounds great. Where are you at with so many children below the poverty line? I'm in Texas where 1 in 5 are below and Houston where over 50% are below.
I am in San Diego - Lemon Grove to be precise. A small town that is basically part of San Diego - one house on a street is in one city, the next in another.
Yup, not everyone is rich in sunny California. We have a huge homeless population and housing is very expensive - often 2 incomes are not enough to pay for rent and for food.
Crazy times...
And I keep trying to upvote your post - but I am not finding current ones. 😟
You wrote 6,000 NaNo words in one day, and you have just one more bite of the elephant to go (2,000 words), and here I am looking back on what I wrote today, and a whole chapter has to be dumped. Just not working. Ugh, ugh, ugh. I'm glad so many others are making it, though!! go go go!
Keep it for now and dump it later. NaNo is not about being perfect. :)
I finished yesterday - a good thing too. Life is a bit hectic....
Good advice!!
Just to keep the word count...
Congratulations on finishing, and I can't wait to beta-read your naked newborn (that's my speciality!) - I have an eye for panning for gold in rough drafts. ;)
that is good to know!! I am still going to be writing some and then, I will go back in and see what I have there LOL
Great job on the elephant!
Even without NaNoWriMo, my month has been crazy. And I think feeling down from time to time has to do with simply wanting to achieve too much, too soon.
Did I bite more than I can chew? Well, I think chewing methodically will still get the job done. So, working on my technique.
Yep. I certainly have a tendency to want to do too much.
Glad that you are chewing really well 😄 😉
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