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tired thoughts matter too

Friday July 17, 2026

night time, 9:45 pm

Greetings Thinkers,

An end of day email when I like it in the mornings.

Folks I am TIRED!

I am tired but I am here.

Streaks count. I'm on a streak. Maybe I AM a streak. Streaks motivate. Streaks go both ways. 193 days in, it's easy not to miss.

I woke up tired. I'm ready for bed tired.

I asked Joe today - "have I been saying I'm unusually tired a lot recently?". I think I have. What is that about?

Is it the weather, the HEAT, my age, my habits, my hormones, menopause pre or peri, my diet. Is it alcohol related or compounding? Is it some unknown health problem killing me? What about that latest big bug bite on the back of my knee, the one that got big and purple?

Tired. Unusually tired, kind of tired. Why?

Today started weird. Woke up in not my bed, kind of weird. When you start your day out of sorts, it can be hard to ever get (back) in sorts.

Aiming for sorts tomorrow

heading to bed soon.

But first, a little more about today:

Today was an out day. Once I got motivated at all, that is.

My first wake up, my phone was dead. Thus no Wake up in Love for those who noticed.

Then I was so tired I went back to bed when I got home. Embarrassed to admit that.. but it's true. Would that be considered back to bed or a nap? Getting up at noon was weird and "makes me" feel lazy. Hard to admit I got up at noon...

And nothing terribly unusual happened yesterday other than it was also an unusually tired day, extremely hot as well. And we didn't go home at the end of it. Slept in not our beds.

Anyway. Today was an out day, weird and random errands. (How many times will I use the word weird before being done with this email today?)

1 appointment, 2 Goodwills, 1 Harbor Freight, 1 total bust at Home Depot - I waited an amount of time that annoyed me for no one to be at the paint counter, so I walked out. I went for pink.

I looked up the pink colors in Steele Magnoials on Google to make sure my note was right.

blush and bashful

I didn't find blush and bashful in Behr, but I can make up my own alignment for blush and bashful.

I almost bought a cheaply made and cheap doll house. I did not and may be haunted with some buyers remorse on that one. which reminds me is "buyers remorse" regret if you DID or DID NOT buy the thing?

coming home tonight, there was a cat in the road that wouldn't move out of the way. on closer look I could tell it was looking at something, staring something down. on closer closer look and 1 call a friend later, I confirmed it was a copper head. I got out of the car to try to shoo the cat away before continuing my drive.

today was 8 days (PINK) Christmas in July and now it's pretty much SEVEN

What does this have to do with you today?

🔺

KG

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standouts / other thoughts

My journal writing is where I go to write what's in my head, and what's in my head isn't rainbows and flowers, although I did once do a drawing to that effect.

why does the expression "rainbows and butterflies" cover so much?

Soon it will be August,
soon it will be Fall,
soon it will be Christmas in December
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word of the day

TIRED

quote

Some fatigue belongs to a life well lived.

A tired mind mistakes every hill for a mountain.

Energy to you.

prompt:

What kind of journal are you? What kind of thinker are you? What are your dominant thoughts? How would you categorize them?

reminders:

do your desires

you can become the kind of person who doesn't require certainty before acting

the things we do, do things to us

write that down

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What would Idgie (pronounced Eddie )and Ouiser (pronounced Weezie) do?

Things you could know about me:

Newest added to oldest

I am not the person who gives "responsible advice" ref: D190: taking the leap before it will work, IS what makes it work​

revere what you say

I don't know. I continue to wonder about life and the meaning of it and if I'm doing it right, spending it well. These are normal and regular thoughts for me... nothing to feel concern for me about.

when did I become a person with a "good dog"?

I don't understand or like people who don't look for sea shells at the beach

I LIKE rules and I value integrity, authenticity, honesty.

ever green perennial Kym

I make things bigger than they are, and I use them.

Camp burritos and dog food are the most labor intensive things I make

you should never say "just my thoughts" about your thoughts

how is a process, what is a thing

To be close to me in this life, you run the risk of having your life be part of me and I exhibit about mine. The folks who are close, are close in part because they know that and accept it.

I have never been CAGEY about my age and I don't like people who are.

Old plants are special. plants given to you from people you love, plants that out live those people. God help me when one of those plants dies.

"man made" doesn't bother me

I will do spider surgery before I "put them out of their misery"

I'd rather be dirty or wash out of a mixing bowl than shower somewhere else (sorry Mom)

I was not a whiskey drinker. I don't know when I become a whiskey drinker. I have hated whiskey and all dark liquor all my life. Now I drink old fashioneds. Who have I become?

You will often find me "wrapping my head around that good thought"

vague. I don't like vague. don't be vague with me, I won't be vague with you. at least not on purpose.

defines WEIGHT as: the quality of the quantity of matter you are carrying

I like to antagonize common sayings and typical perspectives

Everything is a choice and authenticity is supreme.

Reflecting on my life whether it's looking back at the last month or doing a "this time last year" thing, shorter or longer time frames, doing this at all is a reflection of who I am. That I care to consider who I am, who I have been, what I have done, so that I may use all of that to inform what I do and who I am in the present and the future. That I reflect is a reflection of who I am.

running with turtles

I know, I'm a horror to say anything to some times..

when all my identities are umbrellas

I love a good double negative!

Plan in quotes because I'm so averse to "plans" and "goals".

I chunk out my days, to the minute, in Gcal.

I love to putter so if it becomes "I puttered my life away" so be it.

I'm not a cherry picker, of anything. I like to use things that exist rather than start from new or scratch.

I am an ostrich about politics, news, current events, pop culture and media.

I dislike clichés and most positive quotes, under thought things meant well, commonly said quotes and phrases.

Don't tell me what to do, don't ask me "how how are you?" or say "I'm sorry for your loss" unless you want to annoy me or you really, really mean it. And know it can be hard to tell which it is, and I'm wrong not infrequently.

30 Day Challenges are my thing. I have a tendency to make things every day things. This is where 30 Day Challenges come from!

Like yourself. Know yourself. Express that self.
Think about things. Don't feel like you have to dance in the rain to have a good life.
Don't have a plan. Stand for what matters. Read when you want to. Don't smile when people tell you to.
Don't have goal. Tend plants. Leave marks. Do what you say. Change YOUR world. And your mind!
Be a friend and a daughter and a partner and a sister and a dog mom.
In a world full of "accept who you are" messages, don't forget to be a "work on that" kind of person.
Don't put kindness above truth. Try new things. Be honest. Live by ideals. Have some whimsy.
What you do for money matters; strive to like what you do for money. (job)
If you have a hobby you need a life.
Use what attracts you and let what you care about matter!

Peepers are my favorite sound.

Triangles are my favorite shape.

54 is my number.

I never need to talk but thank you for offering to listen.

If you say I'm overthinking it, I'll probably say you are underthinkig it.

why I do what I do: I want to "make you" THINK. I don't mind if your experience and perception of me "makes you" be more mindful, use your brain more, "think too much" or consider something more carefully, or differently, or moves you to be (more) thoughtful or intentional or authentic.

I am a hugger and I mean my hugs.

I don't like to have scheduled things. The days where I have something scheduled are a certain category of feeling. I'm not very fond of pre sign ups, committing to things in advance externally. My favorite days are the ones I call "blank slate days". Nothing scheduled, nothing formally EXTERNALLY committed (I am full of internal commitment and ideas all the time, so no day is truly uncommitted).

use the moons

I love rules and I am a ruler follower.

I like a cup to fill.

So which is it Kym. Do you like wide open clean slate no commitment things?
Or you "need" want and thrive in containers, defined spaces, rules and limits?

Geez what a walking contradiction. A biggest when to which Witch!?

SOC life - what you allow in, turns into what you spend your time on. Can you see it?

Tomb raider hot is my favorite kind of girl hot, my favorite hot to be.

Resources

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• what does it mean when Kym sends you a triangle (put a LINK here KG!)

Thank you for being here. Energy to you. 🔺
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Ciao for now!

KG

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