The story of yesterday when I escaped the crisis of my daily posting coming to an end

66-Day Writing Challenge .
I am participating in a training-like project for someone like me who gives up easily, called 'Post every day for 66 days, or get kicked out of the magazine!' Yesterday was day 9.
Before today's 10-day consecutive posting milestone, which could be called a small celebration, yesterday was a close call.

Me yesterday

Yesterday evening, I had errands until just before 9 PM.
I got home while listening to Stand.fm, then rushed to take a bath and do other things. I watched some must-see TV from 10 PM to 11 PM. I intended to write my note after 11 PM, but I fell asleep before I knew it.

I remember thinking, 'Let me just lie down for a bit.' In my experience, if I lie down, I fall asleep. Even so, thinking 'Let me just lie down for a bit' is nothing but a devil's whisper.
I gave in to the devil's whisper, flopped down, and (I feel like) I fell asleep quite comfortably.

However, I woke up just before midnight. The TV was still on (sorry for not saving electricity💦) and the channel had changed from TBS to NHK. Why?

At times like this, you're confused for a second, aren't you?
Like, 'Huh? What time is it now?? What was I doing?'

Remembering about note

Oh no, I haven't written my note...

I instantly thought, 'Maybe I'll just stop writing today.' After all, I haven't been writing every day until now. I'll just go back to my old life, there's no need to push myself to write... the mean devil whispered again. No, really. For a second, I thought it would be fine not to write.

But I also thought, 'I can't quit, there's still time.' Quitting felt incredibly sad, and I thought I would probably regret it if I did.

An image flashed through my mind of me voluntarily abandoning a comfortable place where everyone walks together and stopping my own walk. I thought, 'Ah, I don't want that.'

If I don't want that, I have no choice but to write.
The explanation says 'expulsion' rather than 'might be expelled from the 66-day writing challenge,' so it would be 100 percent expulsion. Therefore, I have to write!
Considering the time left until the timeout, I decided to just write '3 Good Things of the Day'.

3 Good Things every day

Originally, a friend of mine was doing this, and I copied them. But I quit after a month...

Then, Yasu-san made a post like this.

Seeing this, I thought, 'Oh, since I'm going to the trouble of writing every day for 66 days, let me try looking for good things every day. Then, I might also develop the habit of looking for good things,' and I started writing with that two-birds-one-stone idea.

(For some reason, lately, I feel like I've gotten good at finding good things.)

With that, the NHK channel that was left on was saying something nice, so I jotted it down while listening... (Thinking about it now, was that just to fill up lines... lol)

Phew, somehow finished.
(Oh, I fixed the typos and omissions after publishing.Don't worry, I rewrote it🤣)

But, one miscalculation...

But, there was one miscalculation.
That 'Black Nennen' has realized that if I write '3 Good Things of the Day,' I might be able to get through it in a pinch...😎

Ha!! I won't do that!
But I might use it again only when things are dire (when I'm cutting it close on time) lol

Back-to-back with my laziness, I will walk along happily today, tomorrow, and the day after.

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#66DayWritingChallenge
Day 10 complete
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3 or more good things from today
・My relationship with my mother-in-law; it wasn't that we were on bad terms, but it's better than before. Have we ever been this close before... Yay!
・Helping my mother-in-law with her neighborhood association document preparation went smoothly! Yay!
・Today is also Day 10 of note, I'm proud of myself! Yay!
・The cherry blossoms near the office have started to bloom. I'm glad I went to see them, yay!
・My mother-in-law gave me some sushi rolls for dinner, so I had an easy night, yay!