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It\u2019s been a minute since I last took some time to write.\u00a0 Long past the period of time where I begin to get anxious because I haven\u2019t written anything in a while, and to a point where I start to get dangerously apathetic about doing it at all.\u00a0 The problem, as I\u2019ve alluded to numerous times is that I\u2019m a peculiar personality that really likes to have so many conditions met before I find it possibly adequate time to write, and pretty much all month, they just haven\u2019t been met.<\/span><\/p>\n Most obviously, the time factor.\u00a0 It\u2019s not like this is going to devolve into an angsty dad brog where I make all sorts of poorly veiled remarks about how hard parenting under my circumstances are, because frankly the girls haven\u2019t really been much of an issue other than the fact that one or both of them seem to pick up some rando sickness every single month this year. \u00a0But they\u2019re eating well, sleeping is improving, and those are the key things at this stage of life, and I can\u2019t say that I\u2019m having so many ragey emotions at how overworked I am on account of the difficulty of parenting.<\/span><\/p>\n No, it\u2019s just that I haven\u2019t have any adequate<\/em> time to do any writing.\u00a0 I get up, feed the girls breakfast, go to work; if I\u2019m at the office, I actually get a good amount of shit done, and I get to hit the gym on most of those days which elevates my feeling of well-being.\u00a0 Or if I\u2019m working from home, my days kind of wrap up sooner, and regardless of which, I go right into the fires of the chaos of a toddler and infant until it\u2019s dinner time, bath time and then bed time for them.<\/span><\/p>\n But by the time they\u2019re down it\u2019s usually 8 pm-ish, and if mythical wife and I haven\u2019t eaten yet, then it\u2019s a mad dash to get something to eat because we\u2019re probably starving and we don\u2019t want to cook and every food option is close to closing since we\u2019re out in the burbs.<\/span><\/p>\n Then comes the nightly reset which somehow I\u2019m the only person who does any of it, which takes about another hour or so of cleaning, straightening, cleaning and filling bottles and just getting everything ready to get used up and torn up the next day.<\/span><\/p>\n Sometimes I have work I need to catch up on, and on my work-from-home days, I mandate treadmill runs to compensate for not going to a gym, to which yes, is an activity that would classify as a me-activity, but I treat exercise like a job in itself, so often times I don\u2019t want to run, which is exactly why it is that I have to.<\/span><\/p>\n And then the clock is at the point where I don\u2019t feel like I have adequate time to write something before I need to get to bed so that I\u2019m not completely dead the following day.\u00a0 I get angsty about this, and instead of starting and stopping something in text, I usually just end up playing Fire Emblem Heroes<\/em> on my phone or doing surveys or waiting for the next day\u2019s Wordle to queue up before going to bed feeling like I\u2019ve accomplished nothing for myself.<\/span><\/p>\n But TL;DR, I\u2019m finally at a point where I feel the compulsion to write about something, but also feeling like that because I haven\u2019t written anything in so long that this pile of word vomit needed to be stated first before I can actually get to the gradually growing list of topics and things that I\u2019ve earmarked as having to want to write about, and hope I can mentally get back into the right places to where I can.<\/span><\/p>\n Otherwise, kids are good, job is going fine, my health has been a bit wonky since I hit 40, and I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll delve into it more in depth if\/when things straighten up, but I\u2019m still able to workout and run.\u00a0 It\u2019s just the same old song and dance, with probably less angst than when my second kid was younger and still working out her sleep issues.\u00a0 Went to Savannah for a brief spell, for a wedding of a former co-worker, which was quite pleasant, so that\u2019s where the image above comes from, where I sacrificed sleeping in when I could, because I really wanted to jog along River Street while we were staying right on it.\u00a0 Priorities.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s been a minute since I last took some time to write.\u00a0 Long past the period of time where I begin to get anxious because I haven\u2019t written anything in a while, and to a point where I start to get dangerously apathetic about doing it at all.\u00a0 The problem, as I\u2019ve alluded to numerous … Continue reading Feebly attempting to play catch up<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,8,65,5,6],"class_list":["post-48764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-ohgeorgia","tag-travel","tag-update","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48766,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48764\/revisions\/48766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}