September 10, 2022 - Saturday



Man, did I go through some emotional ups and downs today. I woke up ready to get right to work, ate breakfast, and got outside doing stuff. While I was out there, I nagged at Ben about the wood pile and then got grumpy because he got mad. 🤦 We got past that and then came in for lunch, at which point, my body kind of shut down and I felt entirely depressed and exhausted. I let myself sulk for about an hour, then started painting the laundry room--aside, we decided to start working on some of our projects we need to get done before we sell the house--which seemed to reenergize me a bit. Ben came home from David's and we decided to get Chinese for dinner. I was going to go get it, but Ollie flipped the F out at the idea of me leaving, so Ben went instead. I set the table and continued working on the never-ending uploading pictures from our old phones to the external hard drive project. After dinner, we got ready for the Weingartners to come visit and then hung out with them until 9pm, which was such a blast! I've really missed them. Then, me, Ben, and Jonas decided to stay up and watch the new LOTR episode and I drank one too many glasses of wine. We all went to bed, but I felt like I had a UTI, so I came down here to do this instead, because I couldn't try to sleep with that very annoying feeling happening. It feels much better now, but I'm still in the midst, so I'll be having a very late night. 

I think I'm going to commit to another 365 project, starting in October again. I just got my '20 - '21 project printed into a book (VERY FREAKING EXPENSIVE, BTW!) and it makes me feel so happy and inspired. ALSO. Ben just bought me a drone!!!!!!!! I'm a little intimidated to learn how to use it, but I'm excited to start figuring it out. We're going to Marietta next weekend and I feel like that will be the perfect place to practice with it, if I don't work on it here first. 




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