a new hellweek
OK, it shouldn't be that bad.
But I sure have my work cut out for me this week: moving around and cleaning my washing machine! Fitting a new tumble dryer! Getting a bed delivery and helping assemble it! Emptying my whole dang room and dismantling my whole dang four poster bed! Getting a new carpet fitted! Putting my bed and my furniture back together! Hosting a friend visiting from abroad! Doing a Root tournament! And other little things! It's a lot! It's so much!
But actually, I'm not feeling too overwhelmed by all of this. I will have my work cut out for me, but I'm feeling pretty zen and ready for it.
I was recently struck down by covid. It wasn't as awful as previous times, but I've been carefully ramping up my activity levels since recovering from it. During that time I stopped taking my ADHD meds (methylphenidate) because it felt kinda wrong to take them while down with covid. And since then I've been quite enjoying the effects of being unmedicated. While the meds have helped me a ton with focus and other extra things over the past year, recently I hadn't really noticed much benefit: I was getting forgetful again, getting distracted easily again, struggling with social anxiety again. The only difference is I felt a bit too stimulated by them. Now I just feel back to my old self, and it's a pretty pleasant feeling. Going to give this a couple more weeks at least, and see how it goes.