100
Wow, I’ve blogged every day for the past one hundred days! I don’t think I’ve ever done that before!
I wasn’t initially planning a blogging streak, but I’ve stuck with it because it gives me some semblance of control while my life is feeling a bit chaotic. I know – two moves for someone who works from home a lot and doesn’t have kids? Doesn’t seem too chaotic.
But what makes me feel anxious (and chaotic) is not having control of my schedule, and I’ve (we’ve) had A LOT of that over the past few months. It’s funny – what are our instincts when something major is changing? KEEP AS MANY THINGS THE SAME AS POSSIBLE! Ha! Flexible, I am often not. But I am working on it.
New longer commute? No problem. Finding new stores and figuring them out? Okay, I can do this.
But I stupidly tried to keep other things the exact same after our moves – how much I work out, how much free time I have, how much we cook, how many movies we can watch a week, and so on. Some big things, some little things. All important things.
And my point is, things are up in the air as construction is on going at our house, and even though it’s ours, we’re still in a bit of a limbo. We’re not settled.
So it’s nice, with all that, for me to have this space as my constant. And to share things with you each day and interact with people, for fun. Thanks for reading!
(And me mentioning this means the streak will probably end soon – ha ha – that seems to be how things go!)
Themocracy
Congrats on your streak! That’s awesome! You have such a talent for finding the little, mundane things most of us would overlook and turning them into stories. I can’t blog unless I feel like I have something worthwhile to talk about, so I admire that in you!
Good luck getting settled. I can imagine the stress. I think it’s a normal human instinct to try and keep everything else routine in the midst of change. People thrive on routine and, in general, dislike change – it’s a natural coping mechanism.
Aww, thank you 🙂
YES! I know it’s just human nature to crave a routine, and I try to tell myself to deal, but I don’t handle it so well!
I feel you on using blogging to keep a sense of normalcy! That’s pretty much why I’m keeping blogging right now with so much going on. And I feel ya- I’m trying to keep to my routine as much as I can even though it’s pretty silly!
It’s so silly, but it’s our human nature! HA!
Congrats on the triple digit streak! I bet it does give a sense of normalcy or routine when your world is turned a bit upside down due to the move. I love reading your stories 🙂
Aww, thanks! 🙂
Congratulations – I am impressed! My oldest son and I just agreed yesterday to do a joint piano playing challenge for the next two months – we each play minimum of 5 minutes a day and keep track and when we have a total of 90 days (45 each) we’ll treat ourselves to lunch out at our favorite vegetarian restaurant! We are hoping the challenge will get us back in the habit of daily playing for fun.
Thanks!
Oh cool! That is a great challenge! I hope you track how many minutes each day so you can look at the total when you complete it!
Congrats on your 100 day streak – that is impressive!
I totally get what you mean about transitions and feeling out-of-whack. Again, no kids and not even pets, but it’s hard to have so many questions up in the air.
It sounds as though your house is REALLY coming together, which is so awesome!
Thanks 🙂
Yeah! You just feel all out of sorts with all the unknowns. And for me, it’s stressful to be making decisions ALL. THE. TIME.
The house IS coming together though 🙂
Congrats on 100!
BTW adulthood and responsibility suck.
Thanks.
Yeah, adulting really sucks sometimes!
Wow, that is an amazing streak! Many congratulations! I also relate to the feeling of being in limbo and not having control. I’m going through a similar situation at work right now, and it makes me feel really anxious not knowing what might get dropped on me at a moment’s notice. Adulting really does suck sometimes. I miss being a child and having my biggest concern be what to wear to school to look cool. Sigh. Here’s hoping we all get some clarity and control VERY SOON!
That’s really hard when it happens at work! When we take our yearly work satisfaction survey I always list uncertainty as one of the biggest stressors at work! I hope your transition goes well! And that you look cool while it happens, HA!
Your blog streak has been a lot for me to keep up with (see how I’m commenting on 3 posts at once???)! I mean, uh, congrats! It’s interesting that you find yourself writing more often with everything else going on – usually blogging is the first thing to go when things get crazy! Or I just clam up and share NOTHING.
I definitely try to keep things the same while others are changing, but sometimes that’s hard to do! Or not realistic, I guess. But I do hope things calm down soon and you can settle into a nice groove 🙂
Buah ha ha! 😛 Blogging is usually the first thing to go for me when I am really unhappy, which I haven’t been much, since moving (just hella frustrated from time to time, ha!).
It is hard to do! As it should be! I really hope they are done working in our house soon so I can do a deep clean and finish putting things away, etc 🙂
Congrats. How awesome is that. I need to blog more. I get distracted with many things in life and then I remember that I have blogs that would love for me to post on.
Thanks! 🙂
I bet you have a lot of fun little stories to share with us! Post them if you remember! 🙂
Congrats on the 100-day streak! That’s awesome, especially since you’re doing it because you enjoy it, not out of some sense of obligation. I really like the act of sitting at my computer and writing a post, so I can see how that is helpful when your life is chaotic. Since I’m commenting late, I hope I’ll read in more recent posts that you’re feeling less stressed (even though I know house stuff is on-going!).
Thank you! 🙂 It does help! Things are not less chaotic and you called it – it’s because the house stuff picked back up 🙁 Maybe later in May will be better? ha ha