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First coat of paint is on bf’s cave. It’s oppressively dark but he’s happy and he’s gonna let me paint glow in the dark constellations on the ceiling to hopefully give it some whimsy.

This week’s to do: ⬜️ Finish contract project by Wednesday ⬜️ harvest veggie garden and clear off balcony ⬜️ clean apartment ⬜️ buy bf anniversary gift ⬜️ add buttons to baby dress ⬜️ buy glow in the dark paint ⬜️ finish painting bf’s back room ⬜️ stretch every night before bed (to stop knees hurty)

Got bf's back room mostly emptied out, patched, sanded, and primed. Tomorrow we're gonna sand the patches on the ceiling and start painting everything navy before we do thanksgiving dinner with his family.

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The laundry machines are all in use so the laundry is coming with me to bf’s place and I’ll just do it there. It has my painting clothes in it and they don’t smell wearable again without cleaning so it needs to be done before I go over tomorrow to paint.

Got more done than expected on the writing but less done than I'd hoped. I'm gonna run a load of laundry and then bike to bf's to start patching the walls and taping the trim so we can sand and paint tomorrow. I'd go now, but he's not off work til 8 and I wanna see him before I leave.

Got to the gym. Did leg extensions. Legs are still extremely tight and sore from last leg day/all the walking and biking and painting. I have elected to stop and just go home instead of also trying to force myself through hamstring curls, deadlifts, squats, and calf raises.

At the gym. My desire to bench press anything does not exist but that’s what we’re gonna do today. I’m hoping if I start with that, I can just quickly get it over with and move on to the exercises I don’t hate. Like lat raises and skull crushers.

Today’s to do: ✅ gym ✅ allergy shots ✅ groceries ✅ finish intro and pt 1 of current project ✅ balance remaining 3 stat blocks ✅ clean kitchen ✴️ meal prep Could do more meal prep. Gonna take a break and see how I feel in an hour.

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Tomorrow’s to do: ⬜️ gym ⬜️ allergy shots ⬜️ groceries ⬜️ finish intro and pt 1 of current project ⬜️ balance remaining 3 stat blocks ⬜️ clean kitchen ⬜️ meal prep

I'm eyeing the Ride for the Cure website like maybe that's a thing I could try, dad used to do it on a tandem bike. This is The Audacity™️talking tho. There's a huge difference between taking my fixie down the very flat Chrysler Greenway in Essex and taking my fixie up the Niagara fucking escarpment.

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As a society, we have forgotten that the phone still works when you hold it up to your ear

Did not bring sewing to this morning’s allergy shots so I’m now playing the “am I about to go into anaphylactic shock or is this a mild panic attack cuz I payed attention to my breathing and my brain decided I forgot how to pull in enough air” 99% chance it’s the latter but like I hate this game.

I think I’m losing the fight to not half-ass it at the gym today but tbf in this case half-assing it is skipping 2 of the usual 5 exercises and replacing one with dolphin pushups. So like it’s still a decent workout.

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I will accomplish 0 of the goals I set out for myself to do at the beginning of the year but instead I got to do other cool things. I didn’t bike to point pelee before allergy season hit, but I did bike 65km. I can’t do a full pull up but I can do those lil shoulder shrug things from a dead hang.

Got a lot of writing done today despite feeling very unmotivated. Also took an 8.5km walk and did a tiny amount of tidying. I am in much pain from leg day yesterday plus hot girl walk today (hamstrings v tight) and I think I've reached my limit for work. So now it's reading Shakespeare in bed time.

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My bf is wonderful. Not only is he making sure various rooms of his house are cleared out so I can show up while he’s working to paint, he’s also agreeing to all my little “hey while we’re painting this room, can we do this fix” requests.

I have finished painting the walls of my new office/studio. It's just the trim and door left to do, but that might wait a little bit. We're probably gonna paint another room first. In related news, 3 days of wearing the big respirator over a hair wrap over my braids has given me an awful headache.

Not sure if I’m out of shape from not hitting all my gym days the last couple months, sore from biking and painting all weekend, or doing my deadlifts first really knocked it out of me but man am I struggling with leg extensions today. It’s probably a combo of all 3.

So it turns out 2 days in a row of constantly going up and down a step ladder to paint the walls is a killer ass workout. Like I'm still gonna try to do leg day tomorrow morning but my ass is already a bit sore from painting.

I did bump my head off wet paint several times and smear my nice white linen hair wrap with blue house paint. That is why I wrapped my hair and I usually wear the wrap for messy chores like gardening and spring cleaning. But now I’m gonna need to get more handkerchief linen to make a nice one too.

I’m about halfway through my first coat of paint. It turns out the colour I bought is not the colour I tested but it’s only like half a shade lighter and I’m very pleased with it.

I am sitting down now and my back is telling me that I am gonna regret doing my pull day gym routine before spending about 5 hours painting. Also the tearing the heavy plywood shelves out of the closet alone bit didn't help either. That needed doing for painting tho.

Could use an expert’s opinion here. Is this something I need to figure out how to fix before I paint the walls blue, or can it wait til after? Obviously it needs fixing before I paint the trim but I’m doing trim last. I haven’t even primed the trim yet.

It is splotchy af but one coat of primer is always splotchy af. I also definitely just painted over several spots that should’ve been patched first but I’m kinda ok with that tbh. I got the worst of the spots.

I’ve gotten all the corners and around the outlets, window, and door. Taking a break to have lunch, then I’m gonna prime the walls. And if I’m not completely done by the time I finish that, I’ll do the second coat on the ceiling.

Ok my hair is tied up so it’ll be out of the way. Gonna go to the gym, stop at the grocery store to grab lunch, and then to bf’s to spend a little time painting a second coat on the ceiling. The goal for today is to finish the studio ceiling, sand the rest of the walls, and maybe prime them.

the plan for today was go to the gym in the morning and then spend the rest of the day writing til my meeting, but it turns out I wore all the pants I own that aren't fleece lined so instead we are writing and doing laundry and I guess going to the gym in the early afternoon.