What Is It About Wednesday Nights Recently?

While this household still very much tries our best to do something that feels like a little bit of a treat on Wednesdays for lillördag, lately, Wednesday nights I’ve been feeling quite run down and inclined to skip writing altogether. I want to order take-out, settle into bed, and watch a movie. With daylight saving ending this past weekend, this Wednesday evening is particularly draggy for me.

By the time the end of the workday rolls around and it’s full-on nighttime outside, it feels like 10 pm, and this lady is ready to settle in until the morning. I detest it. Our post-workday walks have been put on pause until we figure out a new routine (lunchtime walks? morning walks?) because it’s simply too dark out for our comfort. All motivation to finish writing, say, my rug post, flies out the window. Perhaps it’s a bit of “senioritis” as some call it. Turning the corner on the last few weeks of this writing project for the year.

In fact, I was thinking about that last night. How back in January or February, I couldn’t fathom making it this far. A third of the way into November, with only seven weeks to go…wow. That alone motivates me to keep writing on these nights I feel sluggish. And while I know my daily writing project has changed a bit since giving myself the weekend off, it still feels like a tremendous accomplishment. WE’RE ALMOST THERE FRIENDS! Wow. I had an idea to comb through all my posts, pull out my favorite ones, and print them in a book for myself, like a trophy I can keep on a bookshelf forever. I thought this prior to getting pregnant, and now, even more so, I want to do it. To show it to my daughter and say “this is what mommy was doing the year you came to be.”

Sometimes, I go back and read things from earlier on in Project 365. My writing has certainly evolved over time, from storytelling (my favorite) to motivation (mostly for myself) to just chatting with you all. We’ve grown together this year, gotten to know each other, found refuge, made friends. I’m not entirely sure what I expected to come from all of this but I’m glad it was kinship and friendship amongst the community.

I’m sure once little lady comes, the things on my mind will change, what I want to write about will pivot, my tolerance for sitting and typing away at a laptop will ebb and flow (maybe more ebb than flow at first ha). But I don’t want it all to end come December 31. I’ll figure out Arlyn Says 2.0.

So anyhow, I’ll work on finishing up that rug post I mentioned this weekend for next week, for sure. And come back tomorrow for Friday’s 5 Quick Things as per usual.

See you all then!