Weekly rewind - W07-08 ⏪
I haven't been at my best lately. While it was reasonably calm at home with a week of holiday and Bart having another week off, I did not show up on many days. Somehow, my mental energy was low when waking up, causing me to just try to get through the day, searching for distractions,... Work was hard, and I tried to focus, but things just didn't move. Similarly, I didn't do a lot of the personal things that normally bring me joy. I just couldn't. I'm happy that I planned some updates for my Bits blog to keep that one flowing, however, working on this big blog wasn't something I could put myself up to. Hence, my weekly rewind is now published, covering the past two weeks.
⏪ Weeks in rewind
💊 Bart has started medication to help him overcome his ADHD behavior. While it can help him to be more calm and focused during the day, there is a risk of showing more ASS behavior, as well as outbursts in the evening. So far, we're fine-tuning the ideal dose, but it feels like it's working. On the other hand, the school has made some extra efforts that should help with decreased stimulus, which in turn also helps. We're not there yet, but the future looks brighter.
🏃➡️ I'm happy that although I had low mental energy, I did not skip my running. I kept to my 6-day/week schedule, and I feel the progress. Every morning, I see a lot of notifications on my watch of my HR going below 40, as a sign of my heart being in good shape. In fact, it's perhaps too well in shape as I now have to run further or faster to reap the same benefits as before.
⚡ I've been cutting down my phone and overall online time, in a way to reset my dopamine baseline, and to put my focus on more important things. In the morning, I now no longer touch my phone, but do push-ups, a cold shower and journaling instead. I feel it helped, although I now am not as up to date on the online world, and everything going on here on Bear blog.
📧 I've been enjoying my transition to Proton as my email provider and the use of SimpleLogin to create aliases for all the services that I use without compromising my real email address. However, while it's just an address, these aliases always felt a bit long and strange. As domain names are cheap nowadays, I bought one specifically for emailing and the creation of aliases. This feels great, and also if I ever decide to change email provider, I can still keep all email addresses.
❄️ The weather has been odd. While we had regular winter weather with low temperatures and often rain, the weather became hotter in the past weeks. However,on Sunday 2 weeks ago, that completely shifted. I went out for a run with some sun, and I arrived 1,5h later covered in snow. And within the next hour, we even got up to 5cm. And just as easy as it came, that's also how it disappeared, as the next morning we woke up like the snow of the day before never happened.
🚙 Last weekend, as the conclusion of the holidays, we took the weekend off and went to a family resort. The weather wasn't that good (rain), but luckily there was enough to keep us active with swimming, indoor adventure park, VR,... And as it was my birthday 🎉, we celebrated it by having a gourmet meal together, where everyone could cook what they wanted.
❓ With reading about ADHD and ASS to help and understand my son(s), I came to realise that a lot of symptoms also seem to apply to my behaviour and mindset. I've never been tested, but with all this knowledge, I start to ask myself whether or not I also have (some) ADHD. It's difficult to tell, and we all have characteristics of ADHD/ASS, but I'm now looking at my behaviour via an ADHD angle and see if any solutions might also work for me. It doesn't hurt to try, right?
📺 Watched
- 🎞️ We watched Rebel, about a young adult who goes to Syria to fight alongside ISIS, dragging his mother and little brother in the conflict. It was hard and confronting, but a movie we both liked very much. (4/5).
📚 Reading
📗 I continued reading Codename Verity.
🎧 After some searching, I found me next audiobook: Don't let go by Harlan Coben. Something different from the WW2 novels I've been listening to, but I liked the Netflix adaptations of Coben's books, so giving this one a try.
📱 Apps in focus
- Check out the App library.
🏋️ Fitness log
- 🏃 Running: 50km/35km
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