beccaelizabeth's dreamwidth journal

Today was Very Busy, we did the Monday and Wednesday tasks both at once, due to a cancellation.
Then I had an accidental nap for most of the afternoon.

I dreamed Torchwood was famous among museums for its collection of clothes, everyday items, and ephemera.
They didn't know what else the Torchwood Archive did, but they did know a lot of ordinary ish people had bequeathed all their worldly goods to Torchwood upon their deaths, so each death got you a snapshot of a life.
It's exactly the kind of comprehensive cross section that most museums don't have the space for but an Archive can preserve.

... obviously for this to be a Torchwood story there would be something about the outfits on carefully arranged tailor's dummies that went Horribly Wrong. But the dream didn't get that far.

I got a haircut at the hairdressers
for the first time in years
:-D

It took a bunch of arranging support and practice walking and suchlike, but, I went and now I have undercut hair and manageable length. Length on top will go in a ponytail neatly but is not long.

Sooooo much hair got cut off, it is quite a relief.

He put the buzzy trimmer half way through the elastic on my mask, but I had worn two masks for just such an event, so that worked out :eyeroll:

I did my half correctly and have much less hair now 🌞

I had forgotten how much fun it is to put on early Prodigy and wave your hands about dancing the way that makes the lights blink.

My exercise watch challenged me to do a dance today so I have reminded myself.

Excellent.

Move goal, exercise goal, and new dance workout record achieved *just* by midnight Tuesday
so I didnt get my spinny pixels for move and exercise
but new record is gold spinny ⭐

I hadnt been wearing my watch because it was Headache Day,
but that wore off for the evening
just in time for my 'exercise now or lose the goal you've been doing all month' alarm to go off.

Nothing much else happened yesterday, because headache, but, exercise achieved.

Did my exercise goals and got pretty spinny pixels and a happy noise :-)
I am easily pleased.
Also this is only the second time I did the exercise properly all week, so, excellent progress.

Also it is proper handy how you can press a button and just listen to the good dancey music whenever you want (kitchen disco remains varied but good)

Mum popped round in the daylight hours and helped put the blanket box back at the end of the new bed, which is excellent because now my living room is useable again, if I'm careful and rearrange things a bit.

Which I havent yet. Havent been settling to a task well today. Havent even read one short story in the short story book I picked.

Ah well, still did some progress.

I have met my exercise goals for the day with dance again
and achieved the monthly challenge (just)

I have a new exercise goal: get fit to do the cha cha slide properly again
all the moves, for it has defeated me.
(how low can I go? and get up again? ... does it count if you're leaning on something...?)

I like the Sophie Ellis Bextor on the BBC Sounds app.

I reached my exercise goal at the very last minute at midnight
and I am Pleased

it turns out racing midnight is very Motivating
for I cannot say In A Minute again


This does not make up for taking an accidental nap
for hours
all afternoon

but my watch says I met my stand goals
and even did some exercise minutes
so apparently I can punch the air
rapidly
without entirely waking up.

... useful?

Today I looked at my stack of pages of exercises
and I saw the one
Chair Exercises

it's just waving your arms around, I figure
how hard can it be?
... my arms went all noodley. noodle! y!

I am going to have to do those again until I do not have pasta arms.