Mental Hardship
Feb. 4th, 2026 07:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
days_unfoldingKept on hitting snooze and got up at 7:20 AM. Gracie does not want to come inside. Sigh. I'm tired, and I won't get a nap at lunchtime. I'm tempted to blow off piano, but I shouldn't nap because I want to get up early on Thursday and finally get the car jump-started.
Oh man, I'm yawning my way though a meeting. I might need to take a nap after work.
Going back to the Appalachian Trail book, the part that I find interesting is that it’s as much a mental challenge as a physical one. That got me wondering about my mental challenges. I tend to cave in. Maybe getting the house together is my Appalachian Trail. Maybe I should get an Appalachian Trail map and assign (big) house tasks to portions of it and color them in. I kind of like that idea. I ordered a laminated map. I can use dry-erase markers on it. I finished the book, which I liked better when she dug into the mental hardship of the trail. She also wrote a book about hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, so I bought it. I found it interesting that she said the AT is harder than the PCT.
At this point, it’s too late to take a nap, so I’ll just go to bed early. I need to get into my pajamas so that I can hand-wash jeans.
I think that I’ll gather my laundry this weekend and go to a laundromat to start with clean clothes, although I really want to fix the washer this weekend. Note to self: The Courtesy Cleaning Center in Urbana is open until 10:30 PM every night.
My clothes are soaking. After I post, I'll issue sell orders for the money market (ETFs?) for some of the money in my investment account to prepare to buy actual stocks.
Oh man, I'm yawning my way though a meeting. I might need to take a nap after work.
Going back to the Appalachian Trail book, the part that I find interesting is that it’s as much a mental challenge as a physical one. That got me wondering about my mental challenges. I tend to cave in. Maybe getting the house together is my Appalachian Trail. Maybe I should get an Appalachian Trail map and assign (big) house tasks to portions of it and color them in. I kind of like that idea. I ordered a laminated map. I can use dry-erase markers on it. I finished the book, which I liked better when she dug into the mental hardship of the trail. She also wrote a book about hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, so I bought it. I found it interesting that she said the AT is harder than the PCT.
At this point, it’s too late to take a nap, so I’ll just go to bed early. I need to get into my pajamas so that I can hand-wash jeans.
I think that I’ll gather my laundry this weekend and go to a laundromat to start with clean clothes, although I really want to fix the washer this weekend. Note to self: The Courtesy Cleaning Center in Urbana is open until 10:30 PM every night.
My clothes are soaking. After I post, I'll issue sell orders for the money market (ETFs?) for some of the money in my investment account to prepare to buy actual stocks.
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