I got up early today. Around 3:30am, worked on painting some of my miniatures for awhile in the early morning while listening to an audiobook. Then I fell back asleep around 6am to 11:30am. So though it was broken up I got a total of 9 1/2 hours of sleep which is good. I was gonna push through and just stay up but I'm glad I let myself go back to sleep. I forced myself to sit outside in the sun for 30 minutes and socialize a tiny bit. I have been having a hard time getting myself to go out of my apartment lately so I've been doing small things like that to get myself out of these four walls for awhile because otherwise I get cabin fever and feel like I'm losing my mind. It's kind of a cunundrum because going outside gives me anxiety but staying inside all the time makes my anxiety and paranoia worse so I really need to make an effort to get used to going out more. I go through phases where I don't struggle with it then phases where I do struggle with it. Tomorrow I'm gonna take a walk to the library.

I also cleaned today! Which is huge because I struggle with getting myself to clean mainly due to procrastination. I'm always putting it off and it never gets done. So I'm really proud of myself for cleaning today. Motivation always follows action, I have to realize I can't wait for motivation to strike, because 99 percent of the time doesn't come till I start actually doing something.

So it's been a good day. I finished one audiobook today, listened to some of another audiobook, read a lot on my kindle and am almost finished with an ebook on there. So I've been getting a lot of reading done lately and I'm happy about that because it's so much better than scrolling on my phone all day.

I don't have much going on this weekend. I have a volunteer shift on Sunday with the rescue cats but thats it really. Just gonna make time for exercise and practicing violin. I might do yoga tonight. Tomorrow I'm getting on the treadmill. I feel better mentally when I'm regularly getting physical activity.