Today was fubar.
I barely slept last night, and the kid stayed home sick for the first part of the day. By the time I got him to school, I was already dragging. Errands ate up the rest of the morning. By the time I went to Dollar Tree and Walmart, what should have been a quick trip turned into a two-hour marathon. At Walmart, I parked between the pharmacy entrance and the garden entrance, but not close to either, and of course, I managed to leave my phone in the car. Between walking back to get my phone, waiting in line at customer service to do a return, and doing some light grocery shopping, I managed to wear myself out.
And then I had to go back to customer service to get money orders. Yay.
By the time I was on my way home, my body had given out. I was overwhelmed by the kind of fatigue where your limbs feel like lead and you have to haul yourself around by sheer force of will. I recorded a YouTube short in my car when I got home before I managed to drag my sad carcass into the house. It would be fair to say I was stalling.
I tried to rest, cooked dinner, cleaned up, and finally sat down in my office around 7 p.m.—just in time for the kid to pop in and clown around. I managed exactly two small Outlier tasks before calling it quits.
I’m too tired to think at this point, but I promised I would check in, so here I am. I explained my day to ChatGPT and we decided to put today’s unfinished tasks on tomorrow’s schedule and try to keep things relatively light.
Day 3… Let’s see how it goes.
Morning
- 7:00 – Wake up, breakfast, kid prep
- 8:20 – Kid on bus
- 8:30 – Morning cleanup (kitchen, bed, 1 weekly chore)
- 9:00 – Take meds
- 9:05 – Walk Dog
- 9:30 – Core business task: product outline
Midday
- 12:00 – Lunch + short reset
- 12:30 – Core business task: build one piece of product
- 1:30 – Quick admin: dentist + doctor appointments
- 2:00 – Light task (scan a few documents OR minor errand)
- 3:00 – Walk Dog
Afternoon
- 3:30 – End work, tidy workspace
- 4:00 – Kid home
Evening
- 5:30 – Dinner
- 7:00 – Blog (Day 3 recap)
- 9:30 – Wind down
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