I be tired. 🙃
One of the things that I’m starting to remember about having a set schedule is that catching up on sleep tends to be a bit of a challenge. 🙃
If my brain won’t turn off, like it wouldn’t again last night, then I don’t fall asleep for a good while, then I don’t get enough sleep, but I still get up at the same time.
And I don’t do well taking naps, because if I take a nap during the day, then trying to fall asleep at night is… well, I generally just lie there–for hours.
It’s brutal.
I could try going to bed earlier, but I’m so terrible at that. 😅. Even when I try and think I’m doing a great job, I end up just barely getting to bed on time, generally. Tonight being a perfect example. I was thinking to myself, I might actually get to bed a little early tonight, and while I suppose it’s still possible since it’s only 8:38 p.m. Right now, it’s much more likely that it’ll take me at least another 10 minutes to write this journal entry, and then I’ll have my chat with Mr. Big Shot, and then it’ll be 9.
🙃
I suppose I could sleep in, but even one day of sleeping in often completely throws me off for days or weeks.
Nothing against sleeping in here and there… It’s just a self-discipline thing for me. 😅
I’m generally much more effective when I just keep to the schedule then when I break it and try and go back to it. I can do that sometimes, but there’s a lot of risk to that for me. It’s just easier to slowly try and build up the self-discipline to get myself in bed on time in the first place and just deal with being tired until I’ve got enough self-discipline to get in bed when I actually want to be. 😆
Like tonight!
🤞😶🤞
Moving on… I had three main choices I was trying to decide between for what I was going to do today. One choice would be to keep my normal routine and when the work portion of my day came up, go outside and start working on the rest issues with my road trip van and my mini excavator. Another option was just to do my normal morning with my work time being spent on trying to get going on my book again. The third option was to scrap any semblance of sticking to my morning routine, and to spend time hanging out with my hill brother Jim.
Usually, when I spend any time at all with Jim, it’s just 5 minutes here or 10 minutes there maybe 15 minutes there, but we never spend much time together, so I felt like it was more important to do that today than to try and take advantage of the really good weather before it turns cold and work on my van. And I can work on the book anytime. Just felt like a good thing to do to put family first with this opportunity.
So I got up as normal at 4:30 and did my normal routine until 6:00 when, instead of going out and exercising, I started gathering up my things to be prepared to leave at 6:30. We were going to be gone all day in Oklahoma, so I wanted to have my phone charger and my pea protein container, and my mixing jar and spoon and all that jazz.
So I got everything together, walked down the driveway to the package delivery box, waited for Jim to pick me up, and then we were on our way!
He’s a church building inspector and coordinator to make sure that the LDS church buildings from I think Texas to Missouri are all properly taken care of. Something like that, anyway.
So the plan was to drive to four of the buildings that he’s in charge of in Oklahoma to take stock of everything, repairs needed, etc. I forget where all we went, but we were in owasso and bartlesville for sure. We also stopped off at the Sam’s club near Tulsa and then a Jimmy John’s for lunch.
It was kind of funny at the Jimmy John’s. Being vegan, I had only brought along my protein powder and figured I’d be fine just not eating much today, but then while we were Jimmy John’s and Jim was eating his sandwich, one of the ladies behind the counter was calling out the name of somebody who had ordered a sandwich, but they weren’t there.
So I mentioned to her that if they were just going to throw it away then I’d be happy to take it, so they just handed me the sandwich. 🙃
It was stuffed full of meat, but If something’s just going to get thrown away, then I’d rather eat it than have it go to waste. So, I enjoyed a tasty sandwich for lunch that I wasn’t expecting in the I didn’t even have to pay for.
Bonus. 🙂
When we went to Sam’s club, they had some sweatshirt thingies with fuzzy insides that look like they might be nice and warm, so I bought one of each color in my size.
🙃
I don’t have many clothes that aren’t stained from working on stuff, so it’s nice to have some warmer clothes that I can wear that aren’t going to look all grubby and whatnot.
First world problems.
So anyway, it was great to spend the day hanging out with and chatting with Jim about all sorts of stuff from his childhood to what’s going on in life now to where I’m at in my own personal journey this last month and a half.
Good stuff.
I’m grateful for a beautiful day today. Beautiful sunshine. Comfortable outside, perhaps even a little warm. I think it got up to 80 today, but I think the air was pretty dry today, so it was nice. 🙂
I’m grateful to have been able to chat with Jim about some of the things going on in my life that have been hard for a long time–grateful to hear his perspectives on things as I make my way down this path that I’ve been walking for a long time.
I’m grateful for the things that I’ve been learning. During my study time before I left this morning, I was working on a word study on the word “expectation.”
In preparation for the teaching that I did at a private school in Utah many years ago, I spent a lot of time in study to complete a program that they had that they called the master teacher development program. As part of that program, I did over 30 word studies. I won’t go into what all is included in a word study, but they are super informative. One of the most pivotal experiences of my entire life came while doing a word study on the word entertainment. That was back in 2009, and what I learned during the word study, and what I experienced from God after I finished the word study, massively changed my life forever.
Anyway, I’ve been working on this new word study, and I’m grateful for the things I’m learning as I go through it. I had a pretty cool insight this morning that’s been meaningful, and I’ve got a lot more to study before I feel like I’ll have done a decently thorough job with that stuf word. So I’m hoping to gain more insights. 🤞🙂
Grateful for word studies. 🙂
Well, it’s time for bed. It’s 9:09, So once again, even though I thought I might even get to bed early, here I am late and still yet to chat with the Big Guy.
Good night, my lovelies. 🙂
Lift the world.
~ stephen
Lift the World 