[blog] 18. Daily Life

Good morning!
It's Yuyu♪

How is everyone doing?

Adjusting to my new life,
my pace on note has slowed down as well.

Thanks to you all, I am spending my days
in a calm, relaxed, and stable state of mind and body.

I thought I would write a little about that daily life.

Until now, I was able to read note
during my morning and afternoon commute, but

now that I commute by car, I can no longer
read note during my travel time.

Furthermore, since my work hours have become longer,
by the time I get home, it's time to prepare dinner.

Since I need two hours to switch between on and off modes,
I spend two hours just zoning out after that.

I take a break while eating.
I read a bit of note, look up work-related things,
watch TikTok or YouTube,
and just relax and space out.

Before I know it, it's already past 9 PM...
and my mind and body are in rest mode.

Ugh... I'm sleepy...

I worry about whether to take a bath or take a nap first,
but I don't have the energy to shake off the sleepiness
and get into the bath.

Yeah, I'll just take a nap for now.

And so, I decisively take a nap to recover.

Then, I take a nap that's like a night-time version of a day nap
for about an hour to an hour and a half.

Strangely, even after that nap, I wake up feeling refreshed.

After a nap, I've recovered a little bit,
so I can move normally again,
and from there, I finish getting ready for bed.

My relaxing bedtime routine takes about two hours, and
I spend about an hour relaxing after my bath.
I do some stretching or read a little on note.

So, I end up going to bed around 1:00 AM.
I wake up the next morning at 5:30 AM.
It takes me another two hours to get ready and switch gears for the morning.

And that is the kind of life I am living.

I should just take a bath without taking a nap first,
but I just can't seem to do that, haha.

Since my nighttime sleep is short,
I probably get sleepy before bed due to sleep debt,
a vicious cycle.

But the sleepiness hits right before bedtime, you know.
If I fall into a deep sleep at that time,
I end up waking up wide awake around 3:00 AM, haha.

I remember my mother when she was my age and the stories from my mom friends.

How my mother would always take a nap,
and wake up in the middle of the night to do housework.
My mom friends were the same.

Back then, I wondered why they didn't just sleep all at once.
I thought that vicious cycle was strange, but
now that I am in that situation myself,
I understand.

I can't move unless I sleep once!

Even though I'm not extremely tired,
my body just says it's sleepy.

Is it something related to menopause,
is it just my natural constitution of being a short sleeper,
or is it a vicious cycle of my daily rhythm?

There are many possibilities,
but since I don't feel tired,
well, I'm not worried about it.

More than that,
I haven't been able to find time for note!

That is what I'm talking about.
I've lost the time to face note.

Time to read, time to write a few drafts,
time to think and refine.

That time is gone,
and even on my days off, I'm not thinking about anything,
so I'm not using my brain.

In short, I'm relaxing a lot,
and spending my time with a blank mind♪

That is my daily life now♡

For my own time,
I don't use my brain much

Feeling my heart is also
gently and in moderation

I don't put unnecessary things in my head,
and relaxing feels good

Yuyu

..Thank you for reading..

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