I failed in my habit-establishing today. I either slept through my alarm or just fell asleep again. Either way, my body was apparently telling me I needed to rest a bit more. So I did.
I'm not going to let this discourage me, however. Establishing new habits takes time and willpower, and there will be failures along the way. And that's fine; failures are part of those challenges, and when they're failures that don't really affect anyone or let anyone down, I don't mind them too much. (Failures where I do feel like I've let other people down, meanwhile… I will dwell on those for weeks, months, years afterwards.)
I've been up and down fairly wildly in terms of mental health and overall emotional wellbeing recently, but today I'm feeling reasonably positive. I'm pleased with how the latest episode of The MoeGamer Podcast came out, I'm enjoying the things I'm writing about and I'm making my best efforts to improve myself in a few ways, both physically and mentally. There will continue to be struggles, I'm sure, but for today at least, I don't feel too bad. Aside from the usual desire for the working week to be shorter, but I don't think that's particularly unusual for anyone to be feeling at this time on a Tuesday.
I spent some time recording some new Atari ST A to Z videos last night, including a number of games that I haven't tried before — Quartz by Paul Shirley was a particular highlight, and you should see that later this week. I've also been playing a bunch of games on the Atari Flashback Classics collection and found myself worryingly addicted to Pool Shark, which is a stupid game, but an entertaining one. Sometimes stupid is good. Sometimes stupid is ideal for playing on the toilet. Sometimes you want to keep playing stupid until you achieve some sort of arbitrary goal like, say, potting all the balls in the space of 30 seconds. (I did it. Eventually.)
Later today, we've got a new Atari A to Z video and an article about a long-awaited (by me, anyway) sequel to an RPG/visual novel/life sim hybrid I liked a lot when I played it a few years back. And more Atelier Meruru… God, I love that game.
In the meantime, I have a working day to get through, so wish me luck with that, and I hope you have a good day!
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