Curveballs – The Climb #925

Saturday 4th September 2021

How do I know I’m busy? I realised today that I’ve not played Minecraft in several days, despite really wanting to. I said I’d do my weeklies in Warcraft this week as well, and it’s Saturday and somehow I’ve not found time. I even didn’t get to watch Marvel’s What If…? until last night.

My plan for today is to keep momentum going in written projects – little and often is my buzzword for this week – whilst trying to get my WP videos done for most of next week. The idea is to relieve some of the pressure from next week.

I got one done, and another filmed, with the plan to film another two or three tomorrow.

Except I find out that there’s a Pokemon Go event tomorrow that I didn’t know about, and it’s a special day with research and collections that probably can’t be done in 10 minutes and I need to do it. I mean, it’s a choice, but it’s choice where I feel not doing it will not sit well with me in the future

Which means I’m now stressing my whole week next week is screwed up, and I’m asking why I said I’d still do the Pokemon Go events. However, I’m acutely aware that if I’ve not had time for even a short spout of gaming I’m pushing myself hard and I’m likely to feel the burn next week. I’m (possibly unfairly) annoyed at friends for not telling me, and for automatically assuming I will drop everything to do it, which of course, I will, so they are not wrong.

I could possibly take the laptop with me to the support bubble sofa tomorrow, but the only problem there is I can’t do video editing on it. So I’m feeling a bit screwed, and whilst I’m sure it will be fine, I’m having a mini panic.

I have wisely said I’d only keep the daily cadence on video content for a couple of weeks, the idea being to give me a nice foundation of videos. And I’d hoped by getting the Write Productively ones done at the weekend, I’d free up some time. But I guess not.

One things for sure… there’s going to be a huge Minecraft session at the end of this.

One of the good things was I did get work done on a number of projects today and whilst the numbers on any of them weren’t crazy, I got a decent amount of writing done.

And I am still enjoying myself keeping busy and juggling all these projects. I just don’t like spanners, and this event is a potential spanner. I’m sure I’ll have calmed down in the morning and everything will be fine.

I’m just afraid that I’ll do my usual thing of having one spanner in the works and shutting down the entire factory, instead of pushing ahead with everything else.

This next week is likely to be a test, not only of my energy levels but how well I adapt when I get thrown curveballs. And as we know in Pokemon Go, curveballs are generally a good thing, even if they prove difficult at first