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I don't think I have ever, in my whole life, have been upset with the past-me. It's not like I make good decisions only but I also deeply believe that whatever decision I made was the right in the given moment - the fact that I often hate making decisions and spend hours agonizing over even the smallest ones sometimes helps. Or maybe just not making some necessary ones because it's too hard to tell whether I am going down the wrong path or not - which is then again not a good thing, but this is not about this.
I'm pretty thankful to the past-me who thought that a water-resistant phone sounded good, cleverly deducing that future-me may drop it somewhere. Yeah, I did. No, back pockets are really not a good place for phones. They fall out there. Yet my Moto is still alive and well.
There is also the moment in the evening when I force myself away from the living room and the computer, into the bedroom and towards a book and away from the monitors. I'm not always good at this and the general feeling is "but I still had nothing of the evening!", but it's mostly worth it. (Sometimes it helps that the bedroom, being small, is easier to get warm than the living room.)
There is also the fact that right now I mostly manage to reduce the time from my alarm clock sounding to getting out of the door to 50 minutes (I know this is a lot for some, but it's little for me) and part of it is daily due to last-evening-me actually pre-cutting all my snack veggies and putting them away in a box in the fridge.
Yesterday, I spent the evening making fist a lentil and sweet potato dal with rice tat I packed away for the lunches during the week and then mini-frittatas (in a newly bough muffin tin) and freezing them - for some reason, I crave warm breakfast at work. Last month, a while before leaving for the holidays, I made a giant bunch of syrniki, the last of which I ate on Friday. By the way, if someone has recipes for breakfast foods that can be warmed up in the microwave (we don't have a toaster so things like bagels or toast are out and so are scones if I want them warm; I do generally not like oatmeal although maybe I should try again), they are more then welcome. I'm drawing a blank - I could imagine making rice pudding or warming up normal pancakes instead of syrniki, but that's almost it.
I employ the same approach committing to social things of which I know that I will enjoy them but that my future-me will flinch away from them if she had to make the decision right before (right now I am fretting over D. visiting later today and staying over and hating my past-me for committing, but I know this will pass). I now need to apply this to some of my work/science/career (update CV, make some things for future projects, address some thing I hate and keep delaying because yes, I can) - I think this will be my approach for the next months. Do more things that make future-me's life easier (it helps that my new computer is to arrive on Monday and I will have to spend time setting everything up; and I do mean everything this time, not half-done jobs and "I will finish this later", it never happens).
I'm pretty thankful to the past-me who thought that a water-resistant phone sounded good, cleverly deducing that future-me may drop it somewhere. Yeah, I did. No, back pockets are really not a good place for phones. They fall out there. Yet my Moto is still alive and well.
There is also the moment in the evening when I force myself away from the living room and the computer, into the bedroom and towards a book and away from the monitors. I'm not always good at this and the general feeling is "but I still had nothing of the evening!", but it's mostly worth it. (Sometimes it helps that the bedroom, being small, is easier to get warm than the living room.)
There is also the fact that right now I mostly manage to reduce the time from my alarm clock sounding to getting out of the door to 50 minutes (I know this is a lot for some, but it's little for me) and part of it is daily due to last-evening-me actually pre-cutting all my snack veggies and putting them away in a box in the fridge.
Yesterday, I spent the evening making fist a lentil and sweet potato dal with rice tat I packed away for the lunches during the week and then mini-frittatas (in a newly bough muffin tin) and freezing them - for some reason, I crave warm breakfast at work. Last month, a while before leaving for the holidays, I made a giant bunch of syrniki, the last of which I ate on Friday. By the way, if someone has recipes for breakfast foods that can be warmed up in the microwave (we don't have a toaster so things like bagels or toast are out and so are scones if I want them warm; I do generally not like oatmeal although maybe I should try again), they are more then welcome. I'm drawing a blank - I could imagine making rice pudding or warming up normal pancakes instead of syrniki, but that's almost it.
I employ the same approach committing to social things of which I know that I will enjoy them but that my future-me will flinch away from them if she had to make the decision right before (right now I am fretting over D. visiting later today and staying over and hating my past-me for committing, but I know this will pass). I now need to apply this to some of my work/science/career (update CV, make some things for future projects, address some thing I hate and keep delaying because yes, I can) - I think this will be my approach for the next months. Do more things that make future-me's life easier (it helps that my new computer is to arrive on Monday and I will have to spend time setting everything up; and I do mean everything this time, not half-done jobs and "I will finish this later", it never happens).
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