mistressofmuses | Habit Tracking: Week 09 (February 22

Some koi this week! (Though we saw koi the previous week at the gardens.)

This week was all right. Not too thrilled about it ending in my country starting another global crisis. The days that Alex's knee was non-functional were not great, though while it now still hurts pretty badly, it's at least movable again. I managed to get a few productive things done, though not everything I'd intended to. I did do better on my reading, even though it's still slower than I wish it was. Still no fiction writing. Work went pretty well all week.

Goals for the week:

I did finish reading Hell Bent
I read and finished What Stalks the Deep
I called the hospital about my issues paying
I called my doctor's office to reschedule my appointment
I called Nielson to come pick up their equipment
I did not work on my reading page
I did not work on my WIP
I did not finish writing/post my February book reviews
I did not go get crickets
I did not clean the frog and toad ponds
I did put my laundry away
I took all the ornaments off our Christmas trees, lol
I set up a new small notebook (the one I take to work and such)

Tracked habits:

Work - 5/7
Household Maintenance - 4/7
Physical Activity - 3/7
Wrote 500/1000+ Words - 0/7
Non-fiction Writing - 2/7 - both over 500 words
Meta Work - 4/7
Personal Writing - 5/7
Other Creative Things - 0/7
Reading - 7/7 - I finished Hell Bent, read What Stalks the Deep, and some of my ebook side-read
Attention to Media - 7/7 - Sunday watched news coverage and game videos; Monday through Wednesday watched game videos; Thursday watched some explore videos; Friday and Saturday had various youtube stuff in the background.
Video Games - 0/7
Social Interaction - 5/7

Total words written: 1366 on reviews

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If you had social interaction five times this week, no wonder you're tired! That stuff is exhausting :) (Remembers the month you've had.) Oh no, no wonder you're tired regardless!

Well, most of my social interaction isn't really in person. I do count any sorts of intentional chatting with people to be "social," even if it's online or via texting, etc. so it's not really as exhausting as all in-person would be!

But I think I'm definitely still pretty worn out from recovery. I'm approaching the time I should truly be back to mostly-recovered from surgery, but I think the cold that knocked me down may have set me back just a bit. I'm ready to be well!

When I had my hysterectomy, they told me not to expect to be fully recovered before 5 months had passed. I am surprised you're expected to be well now. It can't have been more than a month? Either way I think you're doing really well. You were much more ill than I was when you went in, and your body has to recover from that too.

I was told four to six weeks to feel recovered, but I also feel unsure if that's quite enough? I'm close to the six week mark, and I'd say I feel... 85% of the way there? But still a little sore, especially after much physical exertion, and still a bit more tired than seems 'normal.' I also might have gotten set back a little with the nasty cold I caught, and it's hard to tell what is recovery from the surgery vs. the illness.

But thank you! And that's a fair point - I wasn't at 100% when I *got* the surgery, and that probably meant I was kind of starting from behind, ha.

I don't think that's enough! And you should be the final authority about how well you are - you're the only one who can tell. Besides, I'm sure the recovery times they tell you are only averages, and you started below the average and then had many knockbacks while recovering.

It seems only fair for the patient to tell whether they feel recovered or not! But I appreciate the sort of sanity check; I've been wondering if it's wrong of me not to feel like I'm really 100% yet, when apparently I "should" be. I'm most of the way well - eating normally, not in too much pain - but I'm definitely not quite all the way there.

I agree with

galadhir on the social interactions.

Question: Are the words written in personal writing covered in "Wrote 500/1000+ Words"?

Well, most of my social interaction is online or via texting and such. I still count it as being social (as opposed to hermiting away forever) but it's definitely not as tiring or battery-draining as the in-person variety.

I don't *usually* include the "personal" writing in my wordcount. The personal writing is mostly my posts here. I count more effort-ful posts, like when I review the books I read, or I think I counted the post I wrote about my friend who'd passed, but the stuff that's just "here's some pictures" or "what I did today" doesn't get added to the wordcount.

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