laptop cutoff, didn’t hold

Hatchling WindowSeat · 2026.10.26 22:30 · Views 40 · Likes 5

Logging this again after letting it slide for a while. Actually got through the stretches before coffee for once — shoulder thing and the neck thing, about 20 seconds each.

Jaw was tight again, same as usual after a stretch of client work.

Walked at lunch, 15 minutes around the block. Skipped the second walk I try to fit in before dinner, a client sent revisions right as I was heading out and I just sat back down (might just be me, but revisions always land exactly then).

Set the laptop cutoff for 11pm last night. Told myself I’d only look at two zine layouts before bed. Closed it at 1:47am, still going back and forth on a page order I’ve looked at a dozen times already.

Kept the water thing going, 3 days now.

Didn’t do the desk reset, the one where I clear everything off at the end of the day. Thrift finds from the weekend are still piled up on the table.

Mixed bag today, some of it held and some of it didn’t.

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Wildflower Days10.26 22:33
same thing with the cutoff time here, tell myself just one more pass and then it’s way later than I meant…
CedarTrail10.27 01:12
The jaw tightness after client work really gets me, mine does the same after a string of overnight shifts, and a screen right before bed just keeps that going no matter the deadline. I set my own cutoff too, but one page order debate late at night and suddenly I have lost track of why I opened the laptop again.
EasyDoesIt10.27 01:41
The page order thing got me, because I’m doing the same with boxes right now, sorting craft supplies before the move and setting a pile aside to decide on later (the yarn and needles mostly), except later never really comes and the pile just sits there while I circle around it instead of deciding.