Blogmas {Day 9, 10 and 11}

Helloooo, and welcome back to another blogmas accountability post. I have had a crazy busy weekend and been meeting myself coming backwards. All this busy-ness which included socialisation had the knock on effect of absolutely no sleep. Today I have been tired in my head. By this I mean my mind is completely exhausted by being over stimulated by socialising. So my body isn’t tired, just my head, which has been that tired sort of achy all day. It has definitely been a case of mind over matter as I forced myself to complete everything on my to do list today.

Health

I’m kinda proud though. Not once did I stray away from my food goals…well, actually I did have a MacDonald’s cheese burger and fries but I’d only eaten waffles, fruit salad and plain yogurt, so calorie-wise for the day I was fine. Aside from that, I’ve done well. I went swimming today and swam 32 lengths. It was very interesting. I was so tired and did not want to go. But Gary and I had planned to go straight after his work and I didn’t want to let him down.

Usually, no matter how I feel, by about length five I am feeling 100% better. Not so today. It took me twenty length before I began to feel a bit better. Exercise is really quite miraculous. I did twelve more, and absolutely could have gone on…only Gary was sat on the side waiting for me to finish. We concluded our time at the pool with 15 minutes in the steam room before heading home.

Master’s

I’ve spent most of today focusing on my master’s assignment. I don’t know why, especially given I felt so tired in the head, I chose to focus on studying rather than my small business but I just fancied it! However, it was a bit like banging my head against a brick wall. I knew what I wanted to say but I just couldn’t quite reach the words as they swirled around in that chaotic brain of mine. I watched the live video my tutor recorded about her expectations for this assignment. I’ve already written a very very rough first draft. Her video allowed me to get the assignment planned properly and according to her instructions.

I spent some time rewriting the introduction and reorganising the first paragraph to make room for some extra evaluation. I still have more to add to this but I’ve transferred most of my first draft notes for the first paragraph into assignment-worthy jargon. Honestly, I kind of enjoyed it even though there was a distinct lack of clarity to my thoughts due to the fogginess of exhaustion. I’ll probably read it tomorrow and wonder how on earth I wrote such nonsense, but today I shall rejoice in a (deluded) job well done!

Small Business

I did do a bit of work towards my business, changing up the about page of my Etsy shop and my YouTube channel so there is a bit more cohesiveness between the two. Oh, and I joined Link tree and created a page with all my links and a QR code! I’ve added it to my instagram page and need to decide where else I’d like to pop it.

I need to upload my ladybird card and my frog card to Etsy. But that is quite an elongated process and very detail orientated which I just didn’t feel up to today. Tomorrow is another day. Having not socialised at all today I intend to sleep tonight and arise tomorrow bright eyed and bushy tailed!

Reading

Yesterday I finished two books, one was an Agatha Christie Christmas book. And the other was a second read through of an Etsy how-to. I’m pleased to say I have learnt so much from the later. I just need to now find the time to implement. My lovely husband let me add a couple of books whilst I put in an order for Christmas pressies to Amazon. I can’t wait to start reading these two corkers:

So many wonderful things in my future!

How are you all doing? Did you have a good weekend?