Opening thoughts:
The aim of the game at the moment seems to be reducing the number of plates I have spinning to the most necessary and useful ones, including just reducing the amount of data entry I’m doing, so there are a couple more archives this week! Some of them are the results of tallying the “ugh field”, some of them are just realisations about what makes most sense for me at the moment.
This is a day early, because it’s already getting super long in draft form, so I want to split it off now so any more goes into next week’s post.
Derailments:
- /dailyweight - I am retaining water a lot at the moment and I think that’s most of this jump-up, but whatever, I’m happy to get some extra headroom by derailing.
Changes to existing goals:
- /finishline - This is a good goal in many ways; it was definitely a good idea. However, right now it’s not as relevant because I don’t have a lot of books on the go at once, so it’s retiring for now.
- /micronutrients & /esomeprazole - I’ve decided these can archive and I’ll maintain /medsbeforemidnight for both purposes, giving me a little more flexibility and a bit less double jeopardy.
- /timeforme - I don’t think this goal has a meaningful impact on anything at the moment, other than it being sort of nice to see the numbers. I could ratchet it so that it has real bite, but I’m not sure that would do me any good either, given at the moment I most seem to need a lot of flexibility and a minimum of “mandatory fun”. Given the aim of simplifying things a bit, I’ve set this one to archive as well.
- /iqoro - I’m archiving this one because it’s comfortably a habit now, and it just adds extra life admin to worry about the data. I’m also well beyond the initial six months of “training” with it recommended for seeing benefits, so I might also be deciding to stop using it (though I need to look at my data on symptom tracking first to decide on that).
- /waterpik - In practice, I use this at the exact same time as I brush my teeth, 100% of the time, so I don’t need a goal for this – at least not now that I’m well in the habit of remembering it (it helps that I keep the waterpik right next to my toothbrush). So this is also archiving.
- /teeth - Speaking of, this goal is demonstrating very clearly that it’s a solved problem for me, so while I’m reducing my life admin… this one can archive too. It’s a proud moment, honestly. If you never read my blog post about my difficulties, check it out.
- /magazines - I’ve lowered the rate to just 1/week, because in practical terms I am only reading New Scientist properly; the others I might maybe skim, but overall they’re a bit too highbrow and waffly for me to be interested in.
- /gratitude - This has been a very long-running goal, and I still intend to drop into the gratitude thread if it stays active, but it’s become more admin than it’s worth to me as a Beeminder goal.
- /snackattack - I think this is another case of a goal I’m doing really well with and can archive safely. It’s mostly automatic at this point!
- /postcrossingtasks - Aaand another one, same story – I’ve found how to fit my Postcrossing tasks into my day, and it happens automatically.
- /postcrossing - This one isn’t working for me at the moment; I’m taking a bit of a break from receiving postcards while I get a forwarding service set up for safety, and it hasn’t been working to get me sending postcards/going for walks. I might revive it later.
- /ffxiv-login - This is a “mandatory fun” goal which has actually been going quite well – but I think it’s mostly become a habit again, and the problem it set out to solve isn’t the same anymore. Since we’re in the business of slimming down what I’m worrying about on any given day, I think this one makes sense to archive too – and hopefully as things ease up a bit, some of my other FFXIV-related goals will stand in for it anyway, as I don’t plan to archive those until I’ve got the related achievements.
Closing thoughts:
In other news, the other day I put my right hand down to support my weight (cautiously), and discovered that it can indeed bear weight again without much more than a tiny twinge. Clearly sticking to my physio and slowly working my way up through the different strengths of resistance band has ultimately made a difference, and helped my torn ligaments heal, just as we hoped.
I didn’t think it’d take so long, and in retrospect I should’ve gone back to the GP for imaging because probably a little bit of surgical repair would’ve been good… but we’re here now, and partly thanks to Beeminder keeping me at it. (Also thanks to me for actually doing the thing, even when it was hard.)
I’m not ending my physio goal yet; I’m doing fewer sets at the moment (though with a higher resistance band than I was before) and just feeling out if I can stop and move to just general strength training instead of this very specific targeted exercise.