It’s been a good while since I have written here. A LOT of stuff has been going on. Suffice it to say I have been reasonably good at keeping the family up to speed on everything by posting pictures over on facebook. But the maelstrom that is a <6-month-old has been wrecking our sleep patterns, work patterns, his sister’s nap patterns, mama’s nap patterns… pretty much everything.
But he’s been sorted on sleeping through the night for a couple of months, and I’ve just been lazy about getting my systems back in place to get stuff done. Consistently. I did start writing in a ‘5 minute journal’ in the morning and evening for a bit over a month now, and it’s finally become a habit. Which is good, because starting the day with gratitude has helped keep my spirits up as we’ve bumped through infancy.
Also, since the last time I posted, I got onboard at my Training with Industry fellowship at IBM:
Which brings us to why I’m posting this here now: I need more practice writing. This is a free-form outlet where I can figuratively spill my brain on the page and not worry so much about format, etc, etc. And it’s not tied to whatever topic is lined up for my ILE coursework, so I don’t hate doing it. I started the 5 Minute Journal in response to prompting from Tim Ferriss’ podcast, and am doing this as an extension of that habit. Two crappy pages a day. Of course the assignments need to come first, but on days I’m not bashing my head against the wall in response to ‘Army Education’, I plan to try and catch up on what’s going with, well, everything.
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