Accountability Check-in: 1/16 Saturday

  • Wrote 164 words (began a new “write every day” challenge)
  • Read at least 2 pages of fiction today
  • Watched 2 design tutorials (see below)
  • Did 2 push-ups and 2 sit-ups for the Tiny Gains Challenge (week 2 day 2)*
  • Practiced another language lesson (Spanishduolingo). I finished basics 1 today. I now know what “Yo como” means. I apparently still do not know how to say “I eat bread.” “Yo como el pan,” maybe? What I’d really like to be able to say is, “I’m going to bed early, tonight. Goodnight!”
  • Quit coffee and stayed quit today. :)

I’ll figure out something different for these accountability posts tomorrow. Tonight is done and done. See ya!

*My challenge is to do the sit-ups and push-ups 3 times a week, increasing the number of push-ups and sit-ups by 1 every week.

Both of these design tutorials showed me how simple it is to add a background. There are definitely tricks to making the images blend, but it’s not scary at all to do. The next biggest thing I’ve learned so far is to not be afraid to play around with the images, lighting, colors, etc, to make the composition come together. It’s art.

Caffeine Withdrawal—Again

Last night I decided I had to give up coffee again. I started slipping up about a month or two ago, having a home-brewed cup every so often. Then I gave up grinding beans and using my coffee press in favor of single-serving bags as a way to drink just a bit without the hassle. Just a bit turned into morning coffee 6 days in a row and afternoon coffee once. And yesterday, I had an episode of irritability that really reminded me of one of the benefits of quitting caffeine/coffee for me: mood stability.

So here I am, going through withdrawal—again—and struggling with a headache when I’m supposed to be writing.

I hope this is the last time. It might not be, but I have so many reasons to stay away from caffeine, if I can only remember them (and think them as important!) in the moment.