And I think it's also hard to distinguish between "things I gotta do for my own good" and "things expected of me by family or society or whatever that I am actually better off without" because they both feel like obligations.

Yesssss!

I need better self-care strategies than just looking at pictures of CEvans.

Your Tumblr is so soothing to me.

I feel very proud of my adulting today. I called in this morning to say I had to take the car to the shop, I then took said car to said shop. That didn't take as long as I thought it would, and I maturely decided that I'd come in and work the second half of the day. With a few hours to kill, I did the grocery shopping I'd expected to have to do after work, and I even had irrelevant conversations with a couple of fellow residents on the planet (it's kind of horrible how accomplished I feel when I have meaningless social interaction with strangers, but I rarely talk to anyone outside of work anymore). I took the groceries home, had lunch at home, then headed to work. It's always lovely to only do half the work I expect to do in a day.

Part of my feeling of accomplishment comes from the lack of dithering I allowed myself before deciding on actions. I get bogged down in "Is this the right way to do this task? Is this the right order I should do these things?" I have a horror of looking incompetent. But I did stuff!

But I did stuff!

I always feel like I should get a gold star when I get shit done and cross things off the to-do list. Your morning sounds very satisfying to me.

Your Tumblr is so soothing to me.

I seriously pay for a Wordpress account that allows me to back it up and store the images there just in case Tumblr goes BOOM.

Oh, I think I figured out what caused the light to come on--lowering one of the windows while driving. I remember last fall, when we were still in weather where open windows were an option, I had that light come on, and they said that the windows used a lot of power, and that could put a higher drain on the alternator at that point. Which seems like a bad design or sign of bad things to come, but I will avoid closing or opening windows while moving and see how that goes. Combined with the Jeep's growing fussiness about starting smoothly when it's been sitting in the rain, I am very done with this vehicle (thank God I ponied up for the carport parking spot). Electrical things are such a bitch.

WOO! I don't have to report for jury duty tomorrow, which means I'm in the clear for a year.

Woo!

Rubio's has $5 burritos for Natl Burrito Day (which my coworker is sure is supposed too come around later in the year but I do not care) so I am using the savings from my shrimp burrito to subsidize a cup of sangria. Yum.

Timelies all!

Mr. S is bathed and in bed. Other than wailing when I put him in the crib so I could get the bath ready, he was actually pretty good. Still, I'm tired. Ah, well, time for watching things off the DVR and eating Ben & Jerry's(flavor:Truffle Kerfuffle)

I did not turn on mac's internet before going to the gym (he only gets 2 hours a night due to grades). I come home, see he has done a chore, turn on his wifi, and find him asleep in a chair. He is so tired all the time, and without visual stimulation actually fell asleep by 6:30. I am not waking him up.