Weekend Check-In 🌞

[u/Elefeather]

Hi everyone!

It's been a minute since our last check in and here in the UK we've had some unseasonably hot weather. Luckily for me it's now cooled to a more pleasant level and my brain has started working again. With the kids going back to school for their final term hopefully I can get some writing done!

So how is everyone doing? This is a place to chat about anything at all and catch up with each other 💜

[u/skyy-fall]

Been trying to work more on pre writing the chapters for my Deki fic before I start posting it again. Working on the last update really just threw me in for a loop lmao🥲 shitty week and bad news + writing teen angst = this is too much, this is hitting too close to home, I need a break:)

I’ve moved the rest of the details from the old ‘I thought this was going to be a long one shot’ doc into the editing doc. I’ve mapped and planned the chapters, added the key words and paragraphs from the old doc with lots of “[edit this?👆🏼 find way to shorten maybe?]” posted between them to help myself and I’ve finished one chapter as of now👊🏼🤘🏼 I’ve started on the next one and that process is a bit slow because I don’t have material from the old doc to fall back on and I‘ve had a ton of shifts at work recently🥲 me have very little time and brain is working over time. But I’m just celebrating the fact that I have at least gotten that far for myself atm🥳

Unrelated to the Deki fic, I went ahead and got some art commissioned of two characters in a fic I have on anon (the anon fic and the anon series as I call them) because I’ve felt so bad for not having had the time to update it in over a year🥹 it’s good art, though, because the guilt I’ve felt disappeared and like, those two are gonna get that date. They’re- they’re gonna get that date. I will give them that date. It has gotten better, but I need a bit better time management🥹 (Art is so good it’s one of the main reasons it pushed me to move all the stuff from the old Deki doc to the editing Deki doc)

The weather haven’t been able to exactly decide what type of season it wants to be yet, but that’s typical western Norway for yah🤪 I hate it because I have one jacket for winter and I have one for summer and the summer one doesn’t have a hood, so there’s been a few days where I’ve been rather freshly showered, smelled amazing, but it rained and made my newly dried hair wet again:p Would it be better if I got another summer jacket that has a hood? Yeah, but it’s risky because then there’s another jacket where I can forgot my cards and ids in🥲 I have been battling this thought ever since April.

In my attempt to become a buff minion this year as my New Year’s resolution, I’ve been to the gym regularly, made progress from January that I’m feeling a bit proud of ☺️ (muscle 💪🏻 beefcake!) and I’ve added some exercises from the lifting/squat/bench press section into my routine and I sort of realised recently after a session at the gym when I’d started adding deadlifts into my routine that the weight isn’t too much. It’s probably a good weight for me as I am atm when I’m trying to keep a good form. I just have a shitty grip and my fingers are double jointed on top of that:) I’ve gotten wrist straps and they are a great help, but imma still need to add grip strength into my routines.

I wanna get that muscle and grip strength ☺️🤤