Author: jennthompson

How do you generally feel in the morning?

TIRED!

then, eventually, caffeinated!

and, ultimately, hassled.

mornings are for school work around here. sometimes that drags into the afternoon but i try VERY hard not to let that happen.

i never used to be a morning person, but i like to get up a little earlier than the kids if i possibly can, and have some quiet time to my self. drink a coffee. listen to the world wake up. *then* have all the shitstorm start.

because, inevitably, it always is one!

#MorningThoughts

How do you plan your day?

very loosely

i don’t really plan it all that much, to be honest. mostly because i got tired of the plan not working out.

my son can throw a wrench into ANY plan, perfectly laid out or not! and he does! any time i build up a plan to rely on, he blows it apart. so i stopped planning, entirely.

i have a loose to do list and it grows and shrinks depending on how much i can actually achieve in a day. i usually get more done than not, to be honest, these days. we have gotten into a bit of a rhythm, even with autism around here. even with CoVid killing things we think we can rely on left and right. we very definitely have a groove. and not even a global pandemic has been able to impact it, honestly!

today, i plan to get out into the yard for a bit. to rake up all the pinecones and get the fall death out of my plants … i broke my heel right as fall hit here and it left my garden in shambles, honestly. so i have extra spring work to do.

i also have seeds to plant! inside of course, things do need to get started though. tomatoes. peppers, etc. and i have to clean up my greenhouse and get it read for another season of growth. unsure what i will put in the place of the gargantuan marijuana plants that took up the entire right side last year lol. probably just tomatoes.

but that is just today …

there is so much time in every day, if we use it wisely!

i plan my day by making a to do list on a white board and i hope i get through a bunch of tasks, and if i don’t … that’s ok too

#MorningThoughts

What do you do to relieve stress?

that depends on the stress and the situation.

smoke weed, maybe. if it is a possibility and i think it will help in an acute stress situation … i definitely walk away and eventually take a toke.

for ongoing stress, i literally throw myself into service. anything that i can do to help others immediately relieves my feeling of stress. perhaps it is a bit of perspective, maybe it’s a distraction, i don’t know. but what i *do* know is that when i feel overwhelmed and stressed out in an ongoing fashion, i immediately look for projects i can start to be of service.

it’s also how i celebrate … be of service. so it probably helps in an associative way as well. to tie together times when it is all too much with times when everything is going so well … like a little reverse psychology trick perhaps.

and, of course, take a break when i need to. that is something i am learning as i age. to take breaks. it’s ok to not be productive all the time. in fact, sometimes, rest is productivity. because the body can productively heal when in a resting state 😉

#MorningThoughts

Morning Person or Night Owl?

more like pigeon with insomnia ?!

i feel like i never sleep, and am always sleepy, if that makes any sense.

i want to go to bed at like eleven, but then if i do, i stay awake until like 2 or three in the morning, just reading. stupid books. i used to read books to try to fall asleep but now i just keep reading them. turning pages into the wee hours of the morning, often regretting it to myself when there is not enough coffee in the world to keep up with my small son.

and then, you know what … i do it all over again the next night/day.

i stay up late. then get up early with lots to do, and am tired … but stay up.

it’s some sort of mental issue, i swear. like … i don’t want to miss moments i could have. so i stay awake to experience more of them. even though it is exhausting. and i never learn. i just … keep doing it. happily. sort of.

What did you have for dinner last night?

… some sort of salad …

that’s an often time dinner for me.

tonight i had steak and caesar.

i really have a thing for food, i know it isn’t obvious to look at me, but food is one of my favourite things.

I am going to roast some chickens this weekend. big, huge hutterite chickens. ever since i have been getting these chickens, i can barely manage the little store chickens anymore.

anyway … that is all