I left for a few days and my plant died, I guess it needed me more than I thought

I'm starting to leave my earphones behind. It's just that extra little push - that hurts later, in the moment that I reach for them - that reminds me why I left them behind and reminds me of my goal again. I could watch TV without sound, but it's not what I want. Now there's less joy in the naughty habit, and the reminder that comes with it persuades me to be good. Just like that, I'm on track.

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Saturday's been and gone and I didn't do my wand craft. I guess that means that it just wasn't important enough for me to prioritise. In my defense, on Saturday I was unavoidably busy in a way that left no time for extra crafts (and I wouldn't have had it any other way), but I did have time throughout the week and I just didn't turn to the project.

I used to think that I was a slow eater. After twenty minutes of wolfing down my food, I'd get slow and push food around the plate with a fork and take hours to finish the rest. It only took me years later to realise that I'd actually finished eating after those first twenty minutes and now felt I just had to finish the whole plate after feeling full. No wonder it took so long.

This craft project feels like that, like I have to finish it - when actually, I don't, so, I won't.

I had hoped to DO more off this list, I didn't think choosing not to do them once they were already on the list was an option, but it is and I'll get rid of the stuff too.

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Today my phone overheated and told me I have too many photos to be able to take any more. In my typical fashion, this lead me down a different rabbit hole (that I've been down before) about how to set up a shortcut to automate deleting several photos every day. When the shortcuts didn't work for my phone/ version (like they haven't in the past), instead of trying again with a tangential solution to not-quite the problem at hand: I shutdown my phone and will try again in a few hours, hopefully after the phone has cooled down. Oddly enough, before I shut it off, the camera did seem to allow me to take more photos despite it's earlier message. [I'm sure that says something about the state of the phone industry or the company's comfort in misleading consumers in purchases towards storage that they have too much of, more than we'll ever have but we must watch our consumption so they can ignore theirs and charge us - or something along those lines, but we won't talk about that].

Phone OFF. Feels fine. It felt odd at first, like "oh, no, but surely I'll need it... for something, idk what ...." but now it feels fine. It means I'm able to code today which is something I've only recently got back into, after spending several months forgetting how long it's been since I coded before. I can do it now when I didn't before because previously, I'd not thought twice about spending my free time on my phone and assuming the days were just that short, but now that I'm off my phone (forcefully or not) I can get on to my laptop and do the things I actually crave and thrive on.

Really, unless I'm out and about and need a telephone or tracker for emergency and peace of mind, or am looking at a map or a translator or my camera (all things that I could get a alternative for - albeit phone being very advanced and convenient), phone is boring. I've had these moments before, where I look at my phone like I'm trying to remember a word on the tip of my tongue I can't recall. Like there should be more here. When I don't want to go to video, or tv show, or film, or social media, what is it that I search for on my screen? Nothing grabs me the way they do, so I'm searching my phone for the good thing that isn't those (bc I've said those are bad, and I don't want to be on them just now) but what's left? It feels like there should be something worthy. There's nothing really. So that leaves not-phone, only, because I've been on my phone so long, I have nothing set up in not-phone for me to escape to. Does that make sense?