- take a stupid walk for my stupid physical and mental health. If it's sunny and not hideously cold, outdoors works. If it is rainy or hideous, there's a fitness center run by the village that I can use for free that has a perfectly functional walking track. Boring, but gets the job done. (When I have to work in-office, I usually take the commuter rail downtown and walk a mile to the office, then I get to take the L train home which stops right outside the building.)
- plan small joy things. Make a date night to a favorite low-key restaurant. Plan to go to a museum event (or food festival or whatever.) During October and November I keep an eye out for events I might like to do, because having them set up ahead of time reduces the angst of "don't wanna do anything." I may still completely fail at doing the thing, but it removes a level of friction.
- my BioWare fandom server is doing a cute tiny exchange (500 words) called Holiday Hangover where we planned the signups for just after New Year's and the fic is due this week, intentionally low stress to help get through the darkest part of winter. I think it would be fun to maybe do a small fic swap with friends or something for the same happy brain chemicals.
...looking at these they're all kind of Obvious but in my experience it's not so much knowing what I need to do as actually doing it, and I'm slowly getting better at working around my brain for this. (I say this, and then I spent all of today lumping sadly in a blanket and my brain is sufficiently off kilter that I was vaguely mad that the meal kit I made for dinner turned out delicious, because I didn't want to cook in the first place, how dare it be tasty. I mean. I'm very aware this is an incredibly silly brain space, but here I am.)
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- take a stupid walk for my stupid physical and mental health. If it's sunny and not hideously cold, outdoors works. If it is rainy or hideous, there's a fitness center run by the village that I can use for free that has a perfectly functional walking track. Boring, but gets the job done. (When I have to work in-office, I usually take the commuter rail downtown and walk a mile to the office, then I get to take the L train home which stops right outside the building.)
- plan small joy things. Make a date night to a favorite low-key restaurant. Plan to go to a museum event (or food festival or whatever.) During October and November I keep an eye out for events I might like to do, because having them set up ahead of time reduces the angst of "don't wanna do anything." I may still completely fail at doing the thing, but it removes a level of friction.
- my BioWare fandom server is doing a cute tiny exchange (500 words) called Holiday Hangover where we planned the signups for just after New Year's and the fic is due this week, intentionally low stress to help get through the darkest part of winter. I think it would be fun to maybe do a small fic swap with friends or something for the same happy brain chemicals.
...looking at these they're all kind of Obvious but in my experience it's not so much knowing what I need to do as actually doing it, and I'm slowly getting better at working around my brain for this. (I say this, and then I spent all of today lumping sadly in a blanket and my brain is sufficiently off kilter that I was vaguely mad that the meal kit I made for dinner turned out delicious, because I didn't want to cook in the first place, how dare it be tasty. I mean. I'm very aware this is an incredibly silly brain space, but here I am.)