3-15-2026 Log
Work Night
  • Rough dream while waking up. :/
  • Warm-ups and yoga only. I don't want to start back into my normal exercise routine too hard
  • OOF! RCS was having an emergency when I got there! Day shift started triage, but was kinda clearly getting anxious so I took charge.
    • Where did this level-headedness, anxiety contained, confidence come from?!
    • She ended up being okay thankfully!
  • Only staff member for a few hours. Luckily we have a very low census and they're a pretty good group so made it through
  • Another small incident with a client. She's okay though.
  • Tornado warnings. Thank goodness no watches or touch-downs!
  • Rest of the evening okay. Paperwork heavy with incident reports and prep work but manageable
  • A bit irritable, but I was aware of it at least so that's good.
  • Glad it's a split work-week. I don't go back in until Friday night.

🐝 Regular Quests:
🐝Optional Quests:
  • None
 
3-16-26 Log
Whoops, time sneaked away. Slept in a little bit, though not as much as some days. Pretty chill day overall though. Main thing of note was spending time in that fishing VRChat game since they have a St. Patrick's day event. I did loose track of time and didn't get to my workout like I meant to. I'll have to prioritize it for tomorrow. I did do my light time though!

Well, I guess there was two things of note. I was slightly cranky when I checked work messages. (I try to check emails and teams messages once a day on off days so I can keep up with things.) So ended up having a bit of a talk with the mate about my frustrations. And, yeah, mostly just tired. :/

But other than that, good day. And tomorrow I'll be able to see my crew so that's gonna be nice.
 
3-17-2026 Log
Other than needing to get up early, today was a good day. Had to get up early because of a virtual staff meeting. Honestly was pretty good. Part of it was going over our new Teams based communication system which I am much more excited about than I should be. (It's gonna be so much easier to find and quickly check things now.) The second part was more focused on the face that we'll soon be getting more acute diabetic clients, which adds a whole new level of complexity to their eating disorders. I think a lot of us at work were pretty anxious about that idea, myself included. But got more information with a bit of a Q&A at the end (even though that ran overtime) that had me feeling a bit more reassured about the whole thing. Still a bit anxious, not gonna lie. But better.

After that was family day! A bit of ups and downs (one person learned some bad news, one was fighting inner thoughts a little, and one had some back pain going on), but overall it was a really good time. Part of that is because the GF made up her homemade, from scratch, mac and cheese. I did NOT know how much work went into that when requesting it, but she really wanted to make it for me and it was delicious. Plus we got lots of leftovers from it. <3

After that was a bit of relaxing. I remembered to get my workout done at a more reasonable time so I actually did it, haha. Definitely struggled with it some but felt good to be back into it. Especially since, after that, was snack time and then jumping onto VRChat with the mate for the fishing game's event. They dropped a special event shark and I just had to catch one. I wanted that more than the actual prizes, lol. Then just relaxing, reading a little, watching a bit of YouTube, that kinda thing.

Now off to bed. Looking forward to tomorrow with it's lack of plans, haha.

🐝 Regular Quests:
  • Daily Hug Challenge - Done
  • First Thing Water - Missed
  • 10 Minutes Daily Meditation - Missed
  • Light Therapy - 10 minutes - Missed
  • Universal Warmup - Done
  • Momentum - Day 14 - Lv 2 - Done
    • I remember this day being difficult last time. And it was still difficult this time, haha. But this time was two more sets before I felt dead, so I'll take that as growth. :)
  • 30 Days of Cardio - Day 14 - Lv 1 - Held
  • Better Sleep - Done
  • Daily Gratitude Challenge - Done
    • I'm grateful I got to see my chosen family today
    • I'm grateful I got to eat my GF's homemade mac and cheese (and got a bunch of leftovers too)
    • I'm grateful the mate helps me out with games like the VRChat fishing game.
  • Counting Victories Challenge - Done
    • Back into my normally scheduled workout
🐝Optional Quests:
  • None
 
3-19-2026 Log
Yay for days with no real plans~ Though there were plans the mate had I forgot about, haha. Slept in for a bit and then relaxed until dinner time and youtube. We had to keep it fairly short, though, because the mate reminded me that their discord had Stargate Night tonight. (Every week, they've been playing a few episodes of the series.) Was actually pretty happy that I could attend it. That show has no right being as good as it is! Plus, it was fun hanging out in the discord with folks commenting while watching it. <3

After that was more of the Fish! game on VRChat which I've really been enjoying. Especially since I've occasionally seen others at least briefly when jumping on. I'm thinking tomorrow (Thursday) I may do VRChat in two sessions so I can also attend a party and actually socialize without getting too tired. (I'm slowly gaining my "VR legs" with it again. And relearning how to drink stuff while in VRChat with minimal mess, haha.)

After that, was a good workout. And then just kinda hanging out until bed time. Gonna do more productive stuff tomorrow but super chill days like this are kinda nice sometimes.

🐝 Regular Quests:
🐝Optional Quests:
  • None
 
3-19-2026 Log
Today was one of those mixed bags kinda things.

Started out kinda rough. I've been so use to sleeping in late that waking up on time (to make it easier for tomorrow) felt like getting up early. XD But shortly after that, I found out the news that my boss that I just absolutely love ... is quitting at the end of the month. I'm not gonna lie that I had a slight break down. I was mostly fine, but still accepted the comfort that the mate offered me. This is a pretty big blow to our nursing department and makes me worry about the future. I was kinda tempted to go ahead and pull the trigger on going PRN but trying to hold out a bit longer if I can.

After that, though, it was a pretty good day. We got food out and went grocery shopping. Did really well keeping to the list with just a couple of exceptions. Then I took a nap which was suppose to be 25-30 minutes and ended up being an hour. Whoops~ Probably need it, honestly. We also got a phone call from the MiL. She had texted asking us to call when we woke up, but with the work news we kinda forgot. Turned out okay, though. We're gonna meet up on Tuesday for dinner and hanging out. Not long after that, the mate and I hopped into VRChat. A friend of ours on there hosts a party on Thursdays and it's been literal months since I've gone. Good seeing her and a few other familiar faces. And met some nice new people as well. Ended up socializing much longer than meant. Was gonna pause there before going to the fishing game for another nap, but moved onwards instead. It was close but I managed to get enough even tokens and currency in the game to get the cute event pet and all but one of the other items. Shame about the other one. But considering I won't be able to play for the next few days because of work, I was hoping to just get the title and maybe one of the other prizes so I'm thrilled.

Though .... was accidentally in VRChat for ... 5 or 6 hours? I'm surprised I was able to last that long, honestly. (Though that does include a couple of bathroom breaks and a snack break, lol.) Usually the fatigue of the heavy headset hits me before then. But I guess I was just excited about getting so close to the prize.

After that, got sucked into the manga "A Cat From Our World and the Forgotten Witch." Nearly forgot working out entirely. Much too late to do Momentum, but I barely squeezed in my warm-ups and yoga at least. I'll take that as a win.

Tomorrow starts the next set of 3 work nights in a row. Let's see how it goes! Honestly, a bit anxious about it. We've gotten some new admits and with the news about my boss, well, I'll have to judge how it goes when I get there.

🐝 Regular Quests:
🐝Optional Quests:
  • None
 
3-20-2026 Log
Work Night
  • Found out this "morning" that they are gonna try to make the nurses wear scrubs instead of letting us wear business casual/jeans and t-shirts. Not even fun ones, but just solid colors!
    • This ... may be the last straw? Or one of them. It's not about the scrubs, per say, but that it's a sign of a culture change at work. And for me personally, it feel hypocritical to the vibe higher ups have preached they wanted.
    • I feel validate that the mate is also a bit concerned with work too.
  • Was able to compartmentalize to comfort and help the GF with an issue.
  • Felt irritable on the way to work. Reached out to the BF, and that helped a lot.
    • GF asked about me (she said I always help and support her, and wanted to know if there's anything she could help me with) so opened up to her about work too.
  • Got to work with a night shift RN I like and haven't seen in forever.
  • Smoothest division of labor I've had in a while!
  • Busy and rough at times, but not too bad of a shift overall. Better than I thought it would be
  • LOL! Multiple of my coworkers are kinda planning to just ignore the whole scrubs thing come April. "I'll wear them if they buy them for me" attitude.
  • Did NOT see the mouse that's apparently plaguing work.
  • Trying out yoga before bed to help reset my mind. I think that worked pretty well.

🐝 Regular Quests:
🐝Optional Quests:
  • None
 
3-21-2026 Log
Work Shift
  • Woke up in a better mood.
  • Figured out a game plan for handling work and such
    • May end up dropping to PRN after May
  • Day had gone well so was optimistic about the night
  • Apparently a little delayed getting it but got a nice card from my boss
  • Did an oops. Made a joke that landed poorly. :C
    • Made it okay though.
  • Got asked to work extra next week (or, ahhh, this week)
    • Had to say no. Partly because I had plans. But also I have no desire and I would get tired. I always feel bad saying no like that but work-life balance and boundaries are important
  • Tasty bread and cookies at work
  • Crocheted a little with a show about African wild cats that was, well, okay
  • Eep! Haven't seen this mouse that's at work but found evidence of it's carb-tastic feast
  • Yay, a worrisome client is (surprisingly) doing better tonight!
  • Oh no, day shifter (one I'm not a fan of) is by herself today and already in a tizzy. That doesn't bode well when I'll be back tonight.
    • Also had to firmly tell her that, basically, if she doesn't have work-life balance she's gonna burn out hard. We aren't volunteering at our workplace.
  • Got to clock out a little early and with good traffic, home before 8am for the first time in forever!
  • Distracted for a bit, so tired when heading to bed. Skipped yoga. Doing it at the end of the day is good because it relaxes me, but gonna have to prioritize it when I get home so I don't skip it.

🐝 Regular Quests:
🐝Optional Quests:
  • None
 
3-22-2026 Log
Work Night (written down day of, typed up much later, lol)
  • Tired. Not sure I slept well.
    • Better mood though. Sometimes the ol' "turn it off then turn it back on again" applies to humans as well
  • Only warm-ups and yoga before work
  • Day shift wasn't as bad as feared (it makes such an impact on how much shift will go)
    • Report was super quick!
  • Sad face! I've missed snack with the clients the last 2 nights so I figured that would happen again. So already started on my snack when asked about it.
  • Definitely better, at least at first. Was singing and dancing a little
  • Busy shift. Smooth, but busy.
  • Rocked the morning.

🐝 Regular Quests:
🐝Optional Quests:
  • None
 
3-23-2026 and 3-24-2026 Logs
Combining these since both are short and simple.

Monday I slept in a good deal. Hung out for a bit, mostly relaxed and chill. I did jump into VRChat for the fishing game. The St. Patrick's event lasted longer than we were expecting, so I was able to be on long enough to get the last prize on there. I thought I was pretty good after sleeping in, but one point I became emotional and realized I was fatigue so went to bed very early.

I then proceeded to not get out of bed until 11-12 hours. Yeaaaaah, that's probably not a good sign. :/ But I felt much better at least. Which was good because the MiL was visiting. She wanted to take us out and catch up a bit. It's always good talking with her. <3 Plus, I got a steak so I'm not complaining since I never get steaks. (We actually all ordered almost the exact same thing, haha.) After that was just chilling like the day before. A bit of youtube, a bit of phone game, bit of reading, bit of VR fishing. I can tell I'm a bit tired, so going to bed early again. I've got a sorta date night tomorrow (Wednesday evening); the BF and his wife were gonna get food at this gathering so the GF and I were invited to go. Should be fun, though I'll have to watch my energy levels. Fortunately, I'll have Thursday off before going back so I should be okay ... I think.
 
3-25-2026 and 3-26-2026 Logs
Just keeping this brief since I'm about to go to bed.

Wednesday was a lot of fun. The GF talked me into dressing up with her (because she loves dressing up and I did have a new vest I wanted to try out) which isn't something I do a ton. I'm a t-shirt and jeans kinda person mostly, even at work, haha. Got to the BF's place and then once everyone got ready, we all headed out to this bar for a get together. It was a lot of fun. Been a minute since I did an in-person gathering. Was a bit anxious at times, but was fun and made some new friends. Plus, the restaurant was really cool; geeky vibes and good food. Ended up with leftovers to take home to the mate as well as a brownie to split with them for dessert. Hung out with the BF and GF for a bit afterwards before heading back home, which was nice. Though mostly cuddling since we were worn out, haha.

The rest of the day was pretty relaxed. The mate was happily surprised by the leftovers (chicken, bacon, ranch flatbread) and dessert. Parallel played a good bit, though I did jump onto the fishing game for a short bit. My neck was aching a little, so didn't stay for long this time. But that was nice, proving I could jump in for just a short bit. I also had a heart-to-heart with the mate about my work. They were able to talk me through it and give me some concert ideas on what I can do to improve things. For one, I'm gonna stop venting about specific coworkers as well as stop participating when others do that. I think that alone will help.

Thursday was honestly quite lazy in a lot of ways. Partly because shark week is here. The mate got us Chinese take-out, which is always a joy. Watched a bunch of YouTube videos as well. I did do a little bit of tidying up, since that also helps my mood. We also took a lap around the short route. I could tell I'm struggling with fatigue because that felt like a decent amount for me. Which ... is most definitely frustrating. I suppose I'm just in my "winter season" at the moment, focusing on rest until ready to blossom again. I did do warm-ups as well to use some some antsy energy work was giving me. (Anxious and not excited about the start of the work week.) I did some casual meditation today and yesterday as well.

So work tomorrow. I may go back to a more formalized workout with the victory counting and gratitude and such. Not sure about the work-out though. I feel like just warm-ups and yoga are too little, but I definitely don't feel up to my normal one. Maybe just random workouts for the time being? I'll have to think about it.

But anyways, I'm up later than I meant to be because I got distracted. Off to bed for work tonight. Nighty night bees~
 
3-27-2026 Log
Work Night
  • Weird dreams. Not all bad, just weird.
  • Taking it easy with the workout
  • Got to chit-chat with the mate a little before work
  • Meditation time spent reminding myself of all the nice parts about work
    • Part of my current strategy for improving my outlook at work. Because I do actually like my job
  • Saw deer in a field on my way in. Like, 5 or 6 of them. <3
  • Good shift report for the client's info part
  • Found out my boss is suddenly gone now. O.O ?! Our guess is that there was one annoyance too many but dang!
    • Also that the main chef is being investigated or something. Mixed feelings on that one TBH.
  • Got to eat snack with the clients. Always fun.
  • Saw a raccoon at work. And looks like it managed to not get into the trash this time, haha.
  • Overnight RCS called out. And the second shift one couldn't stay. Couldn't get ahold of anyone so I just told her to go on home.
  • Soooooo, I was covering the floor by myself. Fortunately, smooth night where everyone just slept. Bit busy doing both roles tasks though.
    • Pulled it off somehow though.
  • I had messaged our facility director (since we'll basically report to her or the NP for now) and she was VERY apologetic about the situation. I like her and knew it wasn't her fault so I wasn't mad at her or anything.
  • Hopefully that's the most chaotic of my 3 nights in a row.
  • Somehow, my mood stayed pretty okay. Wanted to frustration cry at one point, had a mix of concern and annoyance here and there, but overall much better than previously. So that's a good sign, I think.

🐝 Regular Quests:
🐝Optional Quests:
  • None
 
3-28-2026 Log
Work Night
  • Sleepy! Slept well though! Just wanted more, lol
  • Forgot workout, whoops~
  • Enjoying the 100 GF's manga before work
  • Stress relief tactic attempted: Allowed a short moment to "act like a toddler" (with warning to mate first). Basically allowed myself a short burst of of a fully body "I dun wanna go!" temper tantrum
    • Surprisingly effective, lol
  • Got to have snack with the clients again. Always a treat
  • Work had ordered Greek for dinner. Plenty of leftovers, yum! Even some for the mate.
  • Got to take a nice nap
  • Chill shift. ^_^
  • Seeing lots of wildlife this work week it seems. Yesterday was deer and a raccoon. This time it was a bunny and a woodpecker.
  • Bit of trouble getting to sleep and a bit moody. I'll have to keep that in check.

🐝 Regular Quests:
🐝Optional Quests:
  • None
 
4-27-2026 Log
Try number 2 ... START!

Hi all. It's been a minute, hasn't it? Honestly, I thought it was a couple of months or something since I was last on here. I was surprised that my last post was just shy of a month. Strange how differently your mind can perceive things. (As an aside, so sad I missed out on the treasure hunt! That was fun last year.)

I suppose people aren't too surprised that I put Darebee and exercising down. There wasn't one specific reason, but a bunch that came together into this giant cluster of ick. Work was getting stressful and I felt exhausted all the time. (It was not unusual for me to sleep 10-12 hours the first night after a work week.) I was feeling guilty because I was trying to keep up with threads I was following even though I knew that I didn't have to. I was struggling to even do the bare minimum of a workout. And work was becoming more understaffed which made it more difficult. And all of this kinda compounded to cause a bit of a depressive slump, if I'm being honest. I won't lie, it was kinda rough there for a little.

Fortunately, the sister facility was allowed to be closed due to staffing. Our temporary director of nursing (DoN) (the one for a facility in Ohio is helping us out) figures that unlike last time, we probably don't need two nurses on staff for one building. So she's been letting people take a day off if they want to. My fellow nightshift fulltimer passed on that so I've been able to have a few weeks at just 2 days a week instead of 3.

You would not BELIEVE the difference it has made for my mood and energy. I feel more rested. More playful. More energetic. I don't completely loose a day to fatigue and sleeping. I actually felt like drawing and doing my hobby stuff a bit more. I talked it over with the mate and my whole crew and decided to make this a permanent change. I talked to my temp DoN (who was absolutely on board with it) and to my facility head. I had to do a bit of bargaining as, well, she would have rather me go into a more leadership role if anything and that was the opposite of what I wanted, haha. I was going to go down to PRN but agreed to a part time schedule. Basically, PRN (or as needed) can range from part time hours to as little as 3 days a month. Part time is a set 2 days a week schedule. I actually started the job at doing 2 days a week, so I feel like that should be doable for the time being. I can always drop it down more if need be in the future. So I'm optimistic about the future. Especially since I've got a little bit of vacation coming up in May that'll be nice.

Sooooo, there was just the elephant in the room. When do I pick up the workout again? Because I'll be real, I don't particularly like working out. ^_^;;;;; I like making achievements. I like how it's made me look and how much stronger I've gotten. But, yeah, working out is a bit of a drag, haha. But it also helps my mood and my sleep. And it's something I honestly do want to pick up again, if that makes sense. At first I was worried about how to go about it; do I jump straight in or go to a lower difficulty? What if I hurt myself doing too much? What if ... what if ... what if .... Yeah, I realize now that I was kinda making some excuses for it. This guide here was helpful in validating some of those feelings, while also helping to affirm that I was kinda making excuses.

So here I am! It's late in the evening, but I'm gonna try to get back into this anyways. I figured I would reset Momentum level 2 and Cardio level 1. I initially started them at the same time, but since I stopped with alternating them each day, I plan to alternate between these two programs again. I plan to just adjust if I need to. I am also planning to allow myself a day off during the week; if my work week has me working two days in a row, I can take a rest day from exercising on that second day of work since I'll have less sleep that day. I also went ahead and just cleared my entire notification queue. Feel free to share anything fun that I missed. (I did see that the bookmark system changed. Wow!)

So that's my plan. I'm hoping I can stick with this pretty well. I still feel a bit ... awkward, I guess? I know people take breaks all the time and that's okay. I didn't fail, I just took an extended break. Still feels weird and awkward though. But learning to move forward, even if I feel that way. SO LET'S GO!

:pmode:



🐝 Regular Quests:
  • Daily Hug Challenge - Done
  • First Thing Water - Missed
  • 10 Minutes Daily Meditation - Missed
  • Universal Warmup - Done
  • Momentum - Day 1 - Lv 2 - Done
    • Reset
  • 30 Days of Cardio - Day 1 - Lv 1 - Held
    • Reset
  • Better Sleep - Done
  • Daily Gratitude Challenge - Done
    • I'm grateful for the supportive family I have
    • I'm grateful for the long break as a chance to recharge (I've been off since Monday night last week and I don't go into work until Friday night)
    • I'm grateful I was able to get a copy of the first Dungeon Crawler Carl book. Pretty good so far. ^_^
  • Counting Victories Challenge - Done
    • Returned to Darebee and exercising again
      • Honestly? Felt awkward and all, sure. But once I did the workout, even if not a particularly intense one, it felt good. :)
🐝Optional Quests:
  • None
 
4-28-2026 Log
Good day today. The plan was to go visit with the MiL today. There's a specific soda she likes that her local grocery stores had largely stopped carrying that we managed to find at ours. So we bought a bunch as a surprise as an excuse to go visit. She took us out for dinner (Italian, yum!) and we just visited for a good bit. We even briefly saw the BiL but he was giving us space to visit with MiL on our own. (He lives nearby her, so they visit all the time.) We'll have to catch up with him at some point too though. It was a wonderful visit. Caught up a bit with what's been going on with our lives, both her and I talking about reducing work soon (I going part time and her retiring after this school year is over with), and discussing trips we were hoping to take together. We're hoping to go to the Smokey Mountains since I've been wanting to go to Dollywood for a bit (and maybe a bit of other things in the area). We also might plan a trip to Yellow Stone and visit with Bestie S while she's working out there.

Kinda lazy once we got back though. I meant to do my workout earlier in the evening but got distracted. We chilled for a little and then played Helldivers 2 some. Then got a meal and watched shows. Then I had some unfortunately blood sugar issues that I had to even out. (My diet hasn't been the best lately, along with stress, so my tendency for blood sugar crashes has been bad lately. On the list of things to improve now.) So a bit later than I meant, but workout completed. Cardio was about to kick my butt though! I'm just glad I'm only doing level 1 of the workout right now!

Now to relax for a bit. Not entirely sure what I'll do for the rest of the evening but I know part of it will be reading more of the Dungeon Crawler Carl book. I started it last night and I am HOOKED! ^_^

🐝 Regular Quests:
  • Daily Hug Challenge - Done
  • First Thing Water - Missed
  • 10 Minutes Daily Meditation - Missed
  • Universal Warmup - Done
  • Momentum - Day 2 - Lv 2 - Held
  • 30 Days of Cardio - Day 1 - Lv 1 - Done
    • How was this harder than the Momentum one was?! My poor leggies~
  • Better Sleep - Done
  • Daily Gratitude Challenge - Done
    • I'm grateful we were able to visit with the MiL for a bit
    • I'm grateful we got Italian (I don't eat pasta nearly as much as I'd like to, haha)
    • I'm grateful I'm enjoying this book as much as I hoped. (More, actually, TBH.) It would have been a real shame if I didn't!
  • Counting Victories Challenge - Done
    • I handled my frustrations with getting killed a bunch in Helldivers 2 pretty well. And actually was doing a lot better than it seemed. (We tried a higher level, going from level 3 to level 4.)
🐝Optional Quests:
  • None
 
Welcome back :)

How are you feeling after the exercise sessions?

Also, Dungeon Crawler Carl has been on my to-read list for a while! I finally reached number 1 in the hold queue at the library to get it but some friends wanted to start a book club in the meantime so now I'm reading something else instead. Glad you're enjoying it.
 
agc said:
Welcome back :)

How are you feeling after the exercise sessions?

Also, Dungeon Crawler Carl has been on my to-read list for a while! I finally reached number 1 in the hold queue at the library to get it but some friends wanted to start a book club in the meantime so now I'm reading something else instead. Glad you're enjoying it.
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Good question! I can definitely feel it. I mean, I did before, admittedly. But definitely feels like I'm struggling with it more than I would if I didn't take a month off. Though that's also very hard to tell if that's the case or not.

It's day 3 of restarting the workout. I'm still in the "making this a regular habit" stage so still not wanting to put up with it. But that first day was the hardest with that.

I'm feeling it in my arms and shoulders from the jumping jacks. So definitely a good workout.

But I'm also feeling proud of myself. Proud for getting past the funk and picking it back up again. My normal proud feelings of completing a workout.

I'm also feeling like a return to normalcy. Back to feeling and acting like how I was before my work stresses, etc, got me into a rough funk.

So lots of feels. Some the same as before. Some new. :)

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I hope you end up enjoying Dungeon Crawler Carl when you get to it! But the book club also sounds like a ton of fun. :D
 
4-29-2026 Log
Slowly getting back into the habit of doing this. :) Though I feel like I'm not getting all the notifications I should be. I was following a lot of check-in threads before. So I'll have to figure that out at some point. But that's a later issue, since I don't want to overload myself while starting back up. ^_^;;;

Had a date night with the BF and the GF. The GF wanted to cook for us so that was exciting. (And a bit intimidating since I didn't know what she was making.) It was basically a teriyaki chicken and very tasty! <3 We had a really good time together. There was one mishap that happened, but fortunately resolved very smoothly. Overall, a really good time. I also took home a plush the GF got me. She found a Pomni plush at a second-hand store recently and got it for me. She was gonna clean it, but I went ahead and took it home and asked the mate to since I figured they would get to it faster, haha.

After that, pretty relaxing. Did a bit of fishing in VR Chat. Did get around to my workout, though again it was a bit later in the evening than planned. I'll have to figure something out about that. But overall, a pretty good day.

Now for one last day off before going in for a couple of days. :)

🐝 Regular Quests:
🐝Optional Quests:
  • None
 
4-30-2026 Log
Not copy/pasting my quest log because I didn't do most of it. ^_^;;;;

A bit of a busy day but pretty good overall. Woke up and fairly shortly got dressed and out the door. Since we were wanting Taco Bell before and didn't get it, we ended up going there for dinner. But sat in instead of doing take out and had a good time with it. Then we hit the grocery store. I had joked about going by Tim Horton's afterwards for dessert (and coffee, since I hadn't had any at this point). Fortunately, the mate realized I was only half joking so off we went, lol. Still weird having those in the US. Got a nice, overly sweet Oreo blended coffee drink and some timbits (doughnut holes) to snack on over the next couple of days. We also sat in there for a little bit.

It shouldn't have surprised me that I needed a nap after all that, lol. And nap I did. Trying to get better about doing those. Yes, I realize I have been saying that for ages, lol.

We had a VRChat party after that we went too. And a bit of fishing when the party died down. Snacks and show watching afterwards. And by the end, I was kinda tired again and just hung out. Time slipped away and it got to be too late for cardio before I knew it. Though I am also aware of how much of an excuse that is too. Allowing myself a bit of grace and will work to do better tomorrow. ^_^
 
So very behind in typing these up. But I did write them out! At least cliff-notes style. So typing them up and getting them posted (so I can get rid of the scrap paper on my desk, lol).

5-1-2026 Log
Happy May Day~
Work Night
  • Always feels weird having a work day after multiple days off, lol
  • Woke up feeling fairly well rested. :)
  • Attitude going into and at work was better.
  • Yuck! A bird poop-bombed my lunchbox! D:
    • Fortunately easy to clean and food is safe
    • Supposedly getting pooped on by a bird is good luck? The only good luck I noticed was that it wasn't on me!
  • Quick, smooth report. Always nice. And the day shift nurse was happy to see me, which is always nice.
  • Easy going shift. Better than I thought.
  • Yay, a coworker I like was there!
  • Eep! Coworker had a BAD migraine. Helped her work through it.
  • Work is struggling with mouse invaders. Definitely conflicted on how I feel about that. :C
  • This book gets super dark at times! O.O
  • Borrowed nurse from Ohio again, yay! I like her. There's the potential of her staying and taking the nurse director position. I'd be cool with that. :)
🐝 Regular Quests:
🐝Optional Quests:
  • None
 
5-2-2026 Log
Work Night
  • Experimented with skipping workout (giving myself a rest day) and sleeping in
    • More rested, but I'll need to keep an eye on the time. So may try that again or reduced sleeping in time
  • Early enough into work to stop by Dollar Tree on the way in
  • Same song, second verse kinda day. Which isn't a bad thing when it was a good, smooth day. ^_^
  • Lots of reading. Supposedly the author said that the Dungeon Crawler Carl series is horror pretending to be comedy. Pretty accurate statement.
  • Same day shift nurses and weekend lack of traffic meant I got home very quickly
  • Still getting back into the habit of journaling. Day 2 out of 2 of forgetting it until I got home, lol.
    • I'll get there eventually though. :)
🐝 Regular Quests:
🐝Optional Quests:
  • None
 
5-3-2026 Log
Not a work day. Just forgot to journal until bed time, so did the bullet point style again, lol
  • Woke up, found out the crew was still a bit away, went back to the bedroom to snooze some more. XD
  • Family day, yay!
  • The crew brought banana puddling and chocolate chip cookie dough. YUM!
  • Bestie S. is at her campsite for her temp job.
    • We were able to do a video call. And confirmed we could play a movie to do a movie night potentially.
  • BF feeling super crafty. Makes me feel pretty crafty too!
    • I'm hoping to make the BF a set of bunny ears. <3
  • Played Side Effects. It's been a while since we've played. It was also the GF's first time playing it. Still a family fav. <3
    • We didn't get enough time to play Hex Effects which is a remake of Side Effects with a fantasy/medieval feel to it. Planning to play it soon though!
  • Tired puppers. Took a nice nap after family day.
  • Lazy for the rest of the day, but did get a workout in.
🐝 Regular Quests:
🐝Optional Quests:
  • None
 
5-4-2026 Log
Good day today. Even if I had to get up fairly early (for me). My MiL asked if the mate and I could come to her retirement party that her school was throwing for her. How could we say no to that? So we made sure to go to bed early and get up at a decent time. It was a nice lil' gathering. And a good opportunity to catch up with both the MiL and BiL. We have the party, hung out at her place, dinner, and then hung out at his place (since we hadn't seen the BiL in a while).

Needless to say, I was kinda tired when we left and took a small nap in the car. Afterwards we ate on leftovers and finished off an anime series. Mostly just hung out afterwards. I did manage to get my workout done in a more reasonable time. And also got the last 3 days of journals posted. ^_^;;;;

Good day overall. The only negative is still working on my feelings and thoughts about work. Both adjusting to part-time instead of being full-time (and not insisting on doing more than I really need to or should) but also to not over-worry or cling to frustrations with it. Especially since I've got work tomorrow. Another work in progress, but getting better. But before bed, thinking I'll do a tiny bit of helldivers farming and maybe read a little. Nighty night folks~

🐝 Regular Quests:
🐝Optional Quests:
  • None
 
5-5-2026 Log
Again, eventually I'll post these in a decent time after a work night, lol~
Work night
  • Icky dream but fortunately the feelings from it didn't stick around too long
  • Yay, the mate was able to get my medication refilled
    • And they were able to get some groceries too. Though not the "treats for puppers" like I tried to sneak on there, lol.
      • Though I did get some treats from the Dollar Tree last week anyways, hehe~
  • Quick and easy report. Good to see a part-time day-shift coworker who was gone for a while
  • They are celebrating nurse's week at work. Lots of decorations in the nurse's station and on our door. And we got a few small goodies including a Starbucks giftcard.
  • Happy I was able to dress up a little for their "step into summer" spirit week.
  • Smooth, chill night shift.
  • Report was super easy and quick
  • Now off until Friday night. Part-time life RULES!
🐝 Regular Quests:
🐝Optional Quests:
  • None
 
5-6-2026 Log
Good day today. Snoozed for a bit, but woke up at a pretty decent time and felt fairly refreshed. The mate was ready for dinner shortly after, so we had food and show watching. We then remembered that we had show-night on a discord so more of the same, haha. Short lil' break and then did some helldiving. The mate accidentally did an SOS call during one of the dives which asks for help. I ... thought that since we were doing a private dive, it was just an AI player. So I kinda embarrassed myself when I realized it was an actual person. ^_^;;;;;;;;; Fortunately, they were amused and we have a good couple of dives with them before stopping. Kinda chilled the rest of the evening afterwards. I did realize that I somehow never got my second cup of coffee. O.O Once I realized, it was too late so I treated myself a decaf, lol. Managed to remember to get a workout in though. Cardio is gonna kill me, yo~ Which is frustrating because I thought I was pretty decent ... comparatively, anyways. -_- But I'll get there. But over all, good night.

I also shared a picture I bought from an artist onto the first page of this thread. It was too perfect not to. I'm not sure if I shared it before, so here it is (featuring me and the mate's fursonas).

Muscles YCH by mogilenetc FA - Small.jpg

🐝 Regular Quests:
🐝Optional Quests:
  • None
 
5-7-2026 Log
Oh wow, time kinda slipped away from me at the end of the day. Time well spent though.

Had a date night with the BF and GF. A little later than I meant to get over there, but good times. Which started with playing a game Hex Effects (which is similar to Side Effects) with Metamour K invited in. She really wanted to give it a go so we agreed to play today. We all kinda agreed that we liked it, but liked Side Effects more. After that, despite filling up on way too much pasta with dinner, I had to stop by McDonald's due to a random strong french fry craving, lol. Super amusing, late night so the drive thru person and I got to talking. She noticed my lil' dragon figurine in my car (the BF gave him to me ages ago and I have him in my car as a travel guardian). Then asked if I liked audible stuff. Ended up getting some recommendations for LitRPGs to read once I'm done with the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, haha. (Though one, I think I misheard the title of so I'll have to do some digging to figure it out.)

Mostly chill after that since I got home kinda late. Got my workout in and it about killed me with all of those lunges and such. My poor legs were dead. Even though I don't really need to take a rest day from exercise tomorrow, I think I might anyways. Especially with how late I worked out and how early I would need to tomorrow. Also did a bit of reading on 100 Girlfriends. A big thing was that I started working on a gift for the GF. Well, I technically lightly started before, but really started today. I'm making her a pair of bunny ears on lil' hair clips. Might try to make her a tail to go with it too. Been a while since I've sewn so this'll be fun. And since it's black and white, and I have faux fur in those colors, I don't have to worry about trying to dye them either. Thank goodness!

Work tomorrow night. Should be alright. I've got one day on, one day off, two days on, and then vacation time soon after. I can do this~

🐝 Regular Quests:
🐝Optional Quests:
  • None
 
NightWolf714 said:
Had a date night with the BF and GF.
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You get to have 2 partners? I struggle to find even one :tears:.

Don't take me seriously, I'm being a sausage:imp:.

It's so nice to see such a diverse community here.
We are all so different and so similar at the same time, and we all form a very harmonious Hive. It is precious.

Also well done on doing the yoga workout despite not feeling motivated.
Battles against our own mind are the hardest. I often ask myself "Will doing/not doing x give me pleasure or will it give me long term happiness?"

NightWolf714 said:
Work tomorrow night. Should be alright. I've got one day on, one day off, two days on, and then vacation time soon after. I can do this~
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Have a good night shift! It's not full moon, so I pray it goes smoothly.

Take care.
 
LiteraryMatcha said:
You get to have 2 partners? I struggle to find even one :tears:.
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I actually have three. The mate is my husband. :giggle:

LiteraryMatcha said:
It's so nice to see such a diverse community here.
We are all so different and so similar at the same time, and we all form a very harmonious Hive. It is precious.
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I love that part too! This community is much nicer than I thought it would be when I heard about the site. And definitely part of why I've been able to keep up with this for as long as I have.

LiteraryMatcha said:
Also well done on doing the yoga workout despite not feeling motivated.
Battles against our own mind are the hardest. I often ask myself "Will doing/not doing x give me pleasure or will it give me long term happiness?"


Have a good night shift! It's not full moon, so I pray it goes smoothly.

Take care.
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Thank you thank you! And that's a good way to think about it. Might have to steal that. Honestly, this check-in log and my current workouts are meant to help me mentally as much as physically.

And thank you! The full moon thing is so real, haha.
 
NightWolf714 said:
I actually have three. The mate is my husband. :giggle:
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John Cena Wwe GIF

Massive respect.
NightWolf714 said:
Might have to steal that.
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Not stealing. It's yours now. Ours (for whoever has read it too).
 
5-8-2026 Log
Yep yep, another entry in the "I'll write this down and type it up later oh oops, I forgot logs." XD
Work night
  • Woke up feeling fairly rested
  • Thighs sore. Rest day was a good call.
    • Unfortunately got worse during the night. I definitely over did it with the lunges.
  • Had a spoiler about one of the GFs from 100 Girlfriends and finally got to that point.
  • Had a specific dinner craving. The mate made it happen and this pleased me greatly.
    • They also made me a particularly yummy (aka more sweet than bitter) cinnamon roll coffee <3
  • Had an orientee with me. It was her last day and had previous experience so she was pretty good to go. I'm holding out judgement on how she'll do, but I think it'll work out well.
  • Think I figured out a pattern for a bunny tail (more realistic than just a cotton ball style) to go with the ears I'm making the girlfriend.
  • Had snack with the clients. Always nice.
  • Apparently a few of the clients got the group to play Cards Against Humanity. For a couple, it was was their first time. I opted not to play (I did not trust myself to be professional or appropriate in the least) but I could hear their laughter from the nurse's station.
  • Getting so close to the end of Dungeon Crawler Carl book 1. Already trying to figure out how to read book too.
  • Almost left early, but decided to stay a little to catch up with a coworker I hadn't seen in a minute. Always nice.
🐝 Regular Quests:
🐝Optional Quests:
  • None
 
5-9-2026 Log
Wanna guess how my legs felt? Because they felt bad when I woke up, ahaha ... ha ... .... ha. ;n;

Otherwise, good day. Though a busy one. I'll be heading off for a small geeky convention this upcoming weekend on Wednesday. I figured I would totally have time to do things on Tuesday and that's still days away. Well, no, not really. With work Sunday and Monday nights, Tuesday will be spent largely sleeping. So, ahhhh, today was a main day for doing prep stuff. OH BOY!

The first thing was going to the liquor store downtown, lol. A friend of mine at the con hosts a private whiskey party at the con every year. The mate (who is going to the con for the first time) is planning on bringing a bottle of one of their homemade meads. (Specifically the fall equinox's pumpkin spice mead. I told the mate they had to do that for fall, lol.) I wanted to bring a bottle of my favorite cookie dough whisky. We're not huge drinkers, so it's nice to share with others. We also got into a couple of different conversations there including with one of the cashiers warning me about the purple Mad Dog 20/20 I was eyeing, lol. (IYKYK)

After that was a short break for food and a couple of episodes of our current show, Reincarnated as a Slime. (We're a season behind current.) Then I needed a short nap, lol. Got up and moving afterwards with the mate's suggestion of a nice long walk. My legs did not like the more hilly parts, but it was a nice time. Once again, someone commented on our light-up shoes we use at night and was amazed at them. XD I joked we could totally start a night-time walkers group with them, haha.

Cracking down time after that. I wanted to refresh my hair before the con. We decided not to re-bleach it yet (especially since that's the longest part of it) but we did refresh the shaved half of my head, a nice trim on the other, and re-dyed the streaks of greenish blue. I'm looking good, y'all. Just believe me on that, lol.

A lot of the rest of the evening was spent alternating between reading 100 Girlfriends and working on bunny ears and tail. I ... grossly misestimated how long this was going to take and started much too soon. I'm glad I'm not dying the faux fur (since it takes forever to dry), but since I'm giving the ears large patches of colors it is still taking a bit to cut and sew together. One ear is about halfway done, one ear about a third maybe, and the tail is about a third maybe. I might bring it into work to work on during the middle of the night, but I'd have to bring my hand vaccum for that. Even with using an X-acto blade instead of scissors to cut it, they still shed pretty well. (Life pro-tip for cutting faux fur there). But I already warned the GF that it may be finished at the con instead of before, haha.

I also ended up watching an episode of Record of Lodoss War since I haven't in quite a while. Luckily I was early on so not too much to remember. While doing that, I also found out that a fourth season of Welcome to Demon School Iruma Kun. I was downright giddy to find that out. I had to immediately text the BF and mate about it. I think the BF is more excited than I am since he'd ask if a new season was out every so often. <3 <3 <3 (It's a pretty cozy and fun show.)

So a good day of somehow feeling both busy and having done nothing at all, lol.

🐝 Regular Quests:
  • Daily Hug Challenge - Done
  • First Thing Water - Done
  • 10 Minutes Daily Meditation - Missed
  • Universal Warmup - Done
  • Momentum - Day 6 - Lv 2 - Held
  • 30 Days of Cardio - Day 5 - Lv 1 - Held
  • Better Sleep - Done
  • Daily Gratitude Challenge - Done
    • I'm grateful for little outings and fun conversations with strangers.
    • I'm grateful there's a new season of a show I and two of my partners like. (Probably the 3rd, too, once I force her to watch it, lol.)
    • I'm grateful I was able to get my hair refreshed. It's always so nice (both the process and the look afterwards.)
  • Counting Victories Challenge - Done
    • Even though not finished, happy with the progress I've made with the ears. Especially since I had to trim part of the fur and, since I'm new to that (I've only really done it once), it's taking a little to do.
🐝Optional Quests:
  • Long walk around the neighborhood
 
5-10-2026 Log
Work Night
  • Legs a little sore but much better. Gave myself the okay for workout today.
  • A character in 100 GF's doesn't want to work, just be cat. Too real, lol.
  • Managed to NOT hit Dollar Tree on the way into work, haha. The ears and tail I'm making are just fine without the bows. At least for now.
  • Dayshift did one of my labs since they had to get some additional labs on that client anyways. (I expected it to just be added to the ones I get.)
    • Plus, she figured we could move one person's lab day over to our other lab day to lighten the load (which our NP had no problems with).
    • She also did some of the admit prep I planned to do. 🥹
  • Showed off my improve skills to a client by coming up with a fake story about where she got her sweater from. XD
  • Saw part of a movie. I want to see it now since what I saw was pretty good. It's "Remarkably Bright Creatures."
  • Client side of things, smooth shift. Paperwork prep for tomorrow ... smooth but that was a LOT. (Mostly counting meds). We have 2 admits and 3 discharges lined up for tomorrow. (This whole week will be interesting.)
  • Managed to only snack a little. Well, other than joining the clients for their snack. But what I did snack was more of a conscious decision. I had fallen into old habits, so I'm proud of myself. <3
  • Got tasty leftovers to take home.
  • Smooth and quick report, yay!
  • Caught up with a coworker, our facilities tech (I think his title is). Great guy.
  • Boo! My phone holder in my car fell ... again. ;n; It does that every so often since it's suction cup styled.
  • One more day until a great big ol' break!
🐝 Regular Quests:
🐝Optional Quests:
  • None
 
5/12/2026 Log
Didn't really do much, haha. Woke up early (for me) and most of the day was spent getting things ready for a trip. After this post, I won't be back for a little. I'm gonna try to use stairs and little things to keep up at least a little bit of exercise though. Love y'all~

5/11/2026 Log
Work Night
  • Slept in, though only 30 minutes.
  • Held on workout fore rest day.
    • Not sure fully how I'll handle it on my trip, but I'll try what I can!
  • Some difficulty with focus when first woke up
  • Enjoying the obvious excitement of the mate's newest hobbies
  • Day shift handled the chaos of today better than I thought she would.
    • The clients and our new RCS did too!
  • Not as crazy of a day as yesterday thankfully!
  • Finished book 1 of DDC, on to book 2 now. :D
  • Good progress on ears and tail. Almost done with most of the sewing (sort of). More to go, but getting there.
  • Bit more snacking but not extremely so ... I think.
  • Almost left early, but stayed to help some as the 1st shift RCS was running behind (she thought she was doing 2nd, not 1st today).
    • Left at a good time still though.
  • Saw a chipmunk when I got home. <3

🐝 Regular Quests:
🐝Optional Quests:
  • None
 
Whoops~ I picked up working out again after my trip, but kept forgetting to journal it. ^_^;;;

The trip was a lot of fun! I always enjoy this con. And it was the first time going for the mate and GF, so it was fun sharing it with them. I didn't work out (there actually was a yoga class someone ran, but it was too early), but I did take the stairs almost the entire time.

I was pretty exhausted afterwards, though. It didn't help that the monthly curse started pretty much right afterwards. So I kinda just lazed around for a few days afterwards. Due to work scheduling, PTO requests, (and I think I confused them a little), I've been off and don't go in until Thursday. I picked the workout stuff back up on Friday and Saturday. (Or was it Thursday and Friday?) Didn't do the meditation, but did drink water first as well as my regular workout routine. Held off yesterday because we went to a wedding and that took almost the entire day.

Now it's Monday and I'm gonna try to get back into the full routine of it again!
 
5-25-2026 Log
Pretty good day. Slept in a little (not sure if I needed to, but it was nice too, lol). Got up and got to my workout pretty early, honestly. At least earlier than I often do on off days, so that was nice. Though I did pause briefly to help the mate with putting away laundry. And did the yoga part much later. But still, was nice doing it earlier. Then we had lunch and went for a nice walk since there was a break in the stormy weather we've been having the last few days. Kinda chilled after that until the BF came over. He's staying the night for a few days this week since he needs to be in the work place instead of his normal remoting. (I always have mixed feelings about it. I love seeing him so often, but I also hate that he has to come in when it'd really be best for him not to.) Then more relaxing afterwards.

Been doing a lot of reading lately. Good way to break up my phone games, haha. Still going through 100 GFs but I'm also on book 3 of Dungeon Crawler Carl at this point. <3

🐝 Regular Quests:
🐝Optional Quests:
  • Walked about a mile through the neighborhood.
 
5-26-2026 Log
Felt lazy for some reason much of the day. But a good day was had nonetheless. The mate and I caught up on Isekai Quartet which was a lot of fun. And then when the BF came for night 2 out of 3 over at our place, he asked to introduce me to the John Wick movie series. I've been meaning to watch them, so happily agreed. It was sooooo good! (Though, yes, we both needed to fast forward through that one scene at the beginning.) Better than I thought it would be, honestly. Definitely gonna watch the others. Other than that, not a lot went on today. But that was kinda okay, I think. :)

One more night off before going back into work. Feels so weird going back after so long being off. But it's just for Thursday, and then I'm not back for a little bit so I can't complain too much, lol.

🐝 Regular Quests:
  • Daily Hug Challenge - Done
  • First Thing Water - Missed
  • 10 Minutes Daily Meditation - Missed
  • Universal Warmup - Done
  • Momentum - Day 8 - Lv 2 - Held
  • 30 Days of Cardio - Day 7 - Lv 1 - Done
    • This one was kinda weird. While doing it, my arms felt like weak, heavy noodles. But afterwards, it was my legs that were grumbling at me!
  • Better Sleep - Done
  • Daily Gratitude Challenge - Done
    • I'm grateful I got to watch the John Wick movie and that I really enjoyed it. (It made the BF so happy to share it and that I liked it too.)
    • I'm grateful for how easy it is to find shows and movies online these days. While going to Block Buster and similar stores back in the day was fun, modern day convenience is pretty nice.
    • I'm grateful for folks wanting to help out and such. Not just with my knee health thread I made recently, but also just generally online. There's a lot of negativity online, so I'm grateful for all the positivity I see too.
  • Counting Victories Challenge - Done
    • Tried to get up and do things occasionally, even if I felt lazy
🐝Optional Quests:
 
Whoops~

I've been doing really well with working out. Not well with journaling, lol. I did pick up the June Perfect Balance challenge. I had to hold my workout for a few days since I got sick (nothing major, just a UTI that required some antibiotics) but was able to keep up the balance workout during it. Dang, that one is hard though. Some days are super easy for me and others are murder, lol. Getting back into it today though. ^_^

I'm also trying to get back into food tracking, if not calorie counting. On and off struggle on that one. I am honestly not a fan of it, but I need to take more control of what and how much I'm eating since my weight isn't were I want it to be.

In other news, been picking up art more. Especially with Art Fight coming up next month. And in general, doing well not being on my phone games nearly as much.

So all is a work in progress, but getting better bit by bit. It's not linear, but that's okay.
 
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