#mischyfmanaged

[Found on Reddit & wanted to share 😊]

There's nothing better than a cup of tea in bed. This is my studyblr/lifeblr/whatever, where I try posting non-fitness related stuff about my life, uni life and so on. I'm a first-year PhD student in the UK, I'm bad at doing chores and staying focussed on things that are not my current-special-interest, and not getting super distracted by things that relate to it. In 2017 I really want to get good at doing routines, such as all dishes done before bed, put away all rubbish and laundry right away & regularly check for deadlines. I also need to clean up my code, start commenting more and using Git. In 2016 I managed to start sorting life out better, get my hair/wardrobe/diet sorted out, this year I want to extend that to finances, home and cooking. So far this year I've made a rough dinner plan for January, a specific one for the first two weeks, and done a bulk shop for all the pantry staples we go through quickly, and all non-perishable groceries for the next two weeks. I did it online & got it delivered, so I don't have to waste my precious energy (spoons) grocery shopping. My main goals for Jan is to sort out the kitchen, keep it tidy at all costs*, stick to the dinner plan & do lunches for me & Eric at least three days a week. That's it for now, hope you all had an alright end of the year, and may your new one be all the better. *Not /literally/ at all costs.

6:45-7:00 am, alarm rings. Snooze. Repeat. 7:30 am, wake up and remember I need to iron a shirt. Attempt to bribe the fiancé into making breakfast tea so that I'll be awake when I iron his shirt. 8:00 am, drink breakfast tea. Realise I don't have time to iron his shirt before he has to run, promise I'll iron them all tonight. First reminder to take my meds, hit snooze as I hate taking them on an empty stomach. 8:10, second reminder, snooze it and start making breakfast. 8:20, last reminder, remember I was making breakfast, finish making it. 9:15, just finished eating. How the hell did time move so fast?! Hurry off to uni, the bus stop is 3 minutes from our door. 9:36, just missed the bus. Walking instead. 11:20, arrive at uni. Start loading up work, get distracted by a trivial thing I want to get sorted. 12:00, mid day meds alarm. Oh, right, I should take them. But empty stomach, I'll just finish up and grab some lunch. 14:45, oh right, I was going to take meds. 14:50, I need to get a GP appointment. 15:30, shit I need to call the GP. I'm getting zero work done and I don't want to call in the office because there's people and I don't have my calendar on me if I don't have a PC. Fuckit, I'll go home early. 15:50, at the shop. I need bin bags, bread, brie and crumpets. Leave with a pint of b&j, a large chocolate bar, 3 types of cup-of-soup, brie and a loaf of bread. 16:30, arrive home, eat half the pint of ice cream and a quarter of the chocolate. Think about loading up work, end up binge-watching Netflix. 17:10, remember to call my GP and set up an appointment. 18:30, fiancé gets home, I remember I forgot the bin bags. We go to the shop, return with 3 ciders and 3 beers. Remember we forgot to buy bin bags. Oops. 20:00, I cook dinner. 21:00, tea is done, we eat separately as the fiancé is working. 22:00 bedtime. Realise I forgot to buy crumpets. And iron shirts. A whole, long day, the only thing I accomplished was calling the GP. Today I had a quarter of the chocolate with my tea so I could take my meds, have already showered, ironed two shirts, done two dish loads and it's 9:30. Yay.

Yay! Monday! Luckily I did have some cool new stuff to show him, and a few potential points he hadn't considered. Phew! Crisis averted.

My code is working, I've read over half of the papers I was given, my bedroom is tidier than it's been in weeks, I brought lunch from home today and threw on some laundry as soon as I got home. Adulting!

Stupid question, I know, but I'm energetic enough to not be exhausted, and it's hard to leave work at work. I need to pick up a few things for dinner and then cook, but other than that... It's not like I don't have chores to do, technically, I'm just a bit lost in prioritising them I guess. Same with hobbies and self-care. (What do you even do when you get home from uni? I don't have a PC/laptop at home atm, so games are out of the question)

I got a bit of my code to work! Yay! Now I just need to go back to researching & reading papers to try and see if someone's already done what I'm trying to do. On the home/life front I have so much (too much!) to do... I need to call people, print, fill out, scan & send some forms (due tomorrow, got them late yesterday), tidy the flat because we're getting visitors, plan food for the week, go grocery shopping, talk to the landlord.. I have a beautifully long master todo list that I'm slowly refining and trying to check a few times a day. Slowly but surely building a routine. Tomorrow my headphones should arrive and I get to listen to music again, which should improve my mood & productivity massively.

I'm due to be allocated my postgrad study space tomorrow, touch wood. Today I spent the day arguing with arrays in C++ and reading/finding new papers. That's likely to sum up my week, yay.