Wow, been a while. I can do so many things from my phone these days that it’s almost easy to forget I’ve got a computer. Except when I really want that larger screen and keyboard.

Which sort of ties into this particular update.

First let’s update the fitness progress, then move on.

Sometime in the middle of April I finally… walked the second episode of Season 2 of Zombies Run.

Yeah, I’m pretty sure my pace hasn’t picked up that much in two years. (S2E1 for reference, but it was over 17 minutes for a mile if you don’t want to click… and episode 2 took 1.43 miles to complete, not kilometers.) Something’s screwed up in the app’s–or my phone’s–ability to actually track my distance etc. Which seems par for the course, the internal music player on the app still doesn’t work either despite it still being there and therefore implied to be supported. (Yeah, I can always play music in the background as an alternative, the only reason I’ve hesitated over that is that my phone automatically opens whatever I was playing last when I connect to my car and I listen to podcasts on my commute; I’m lazy like that. 😉)

Anyway, serial procrastinator that I am, I thought I’d mentioned somewhere–but don’t see it in any of my recent posts–that I planned this year to shift my sleep schedule so that I’d be awake an hour earlier and have more time for this stuff. Yeah, didn’t happen. Oh, I’ve been waking up an hour earlier (as of mid-April) than what I did last year but so far all I’ve spent that extra time doing was reading in bed. I had intended for hitting that hour difference (shifting it by fifteen minutes every month starting with New Year’s) to coincide with when the weather was decent enough for outdoor walks, but aside from the above image I just haven’t acted on it. Shame on me.

I’m still wearing a 33-waist pant size, still wearing the literally largest bra size Kindly offers (sport style bra at Walmart, first one in a while I’ve found that fits relatively comfortably without paying an arm and a leg for it–I wear the triangle bralette though I think they’ve come out with other styles at some point after I started wearing this one), still hovering around 195 pounds, and once again my work pants are getting holes in the pocket where my phone sits long before I can expect to replace them with a different size.

And still exploring easy meal prep options so I can wean myself off of junk food, both for the reasons above and for baby-steps ingredient control to see what helps with migraines.

As for the other part of the update, the socials? Well, I’d gotten involved in a couple of different conversations about hobbies recently, and at some point afterwards I realized… YouTube was never a hobby for me. I never got into it out of a desire to make videos.

Sorry, I’m one of those YouTubers. I saw it as a handy way to make money playing video games. Not a lot of money, certainly–calling it “pocket change” would probably be generous—but reasoning that any at all is better than none. And I had joined up when even internet introverts like myself qualified to earn without having to do more than upload a video and pray someone likes it. Sure, there’s always been actual skill required to make good videos and get fans, I just mean that when I started out the specific hoop of already needing a following before you were allowed to earn money simply didn’t exist.

Which brings me to the point of the update. I like the idea of showing workout videos from the amateur’s perspective, and I still want to be able to show off (insert random thing) that occurs in my other games. But I’ve noticed that I’ve put off playing so many of my games, fitness and otherwise, in the hopes of finding a quiet moment to record. And that’s not good for anyone, least of all me.

The declutter’s done as far as space to exercise is concerned (knock on wood that it stays that way) with only a reorganize for hygienic reasons planned (I literally can’t move my bed to vacuum under it right now), and I need to test a new (ish) microphone to see how it’ll work for those alleged “quiet moments.” I still want to use this space to share my fitness journey (read: I want easy money and I haven’t won the lottery yet), I just need to figure out the logistics of what I’m going to keep sharing. As well as what I was sporadically using the space for before I came up with this idea.

In the meantime, I need to play my games for the sake of enjoying them, focus on the exercise even if I’m not recording… and there is that backlog to tackle for my motorcycle channel….