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casual-owl · 3 months

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Day 1

So today started out pretty poorly. I woke up with a plan: I was going to clean my room, shower, do all of the homework I could, and that's basically it. Probably also read a book that I keep trying and failing to finish.

As of me writing this part of the post it's 2:20 PM and the only thing I've done is shower. To be fair, it's better than nothing. On the other hand, it would've been completely realistic for me to be done with most of the other tasks as well by now.

It kind of feels like my brain and my body are two separate entities. Not like how when I disassociate, which is more like my brain is a passenger in my body. This ADHD paralysis is more like my brain is desperately begging my body to go do my tasks, but my body has noise-cancelling headphones on.

Getting out of this paralysis is a method of trial and error. My first attempt shall be listening to music and dividing up cleaning into predetermined steps. For anyone needing similar help, here are my steps:

- Make the bed (messy beds for me always seem to take up the most visual space and make cleaning seem much more daunting than it really is)

- Pick up near the desk area (the clutter near my desk makes walking around my room really difficult and annoying, which then makes the cleaning process more effort)

- Sort clothes into clean and not clean (a lot of my clothes on the floor weren't even worn, I just tried them on and left them there instead of putting them back, so the two individual piles will look like two smaller tasks instead of one huge task)

- Put away clean clothes (this is more difficult than throwing the dirty clothes in the laundry basket in my opinion so it goes first)

- Put away dirty clothes (duh)

- Gather all small things where they belong (this is just a mess of skincare and makeup that will take just a few minutes to clean up and will feel more like a "finishing touch" than a task I hope)

I added the reasoning for each step because maybe you have a bit of a different set of cleaning tasks but can apply a similar logic, making the process of creating a step list easier! (Or at least I hope it will!!)

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Finally, just under two hours later, my room is clean! I took my meds earlier which really was a game changer, and so was making the step-by-step plan.

Now my options are between making lunch and doing my homework.

I think I'll do homework first, because lunch would require me to leave my room and therefore it feels like a much more drastic task transition. Not fighting my brain right now is the most frictionless path to task completion.

Plus, after I finish homework there's nothing stopping me from watching YouTube on my laptop without guilt, while if I did lunch and YouTube before homework I'm just all the more likely to get stuck in paralysis like I was this morning.

Task steps for homework:

- First do my literature homework (it's the least difficult part of my homework, which makes the task transition easier)

- Then math homework (it's not difficult but it is tedious, and in my opinion long and tedious is worse than short and challenging)

- Put away homework supplies (storage is in desk and backpack, which are both accessible without having to even leave the desk, which makes the task as easy as possible)

Okay, we just did the worst task (in my opinion), and we've got momentum going. I'm hoping to be done by 5:30 PM (it is now 4:13). But of course, we shall see.

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Guess who finished before my goal time?? Me!! That's who!! Finished ten minutes before my goal, and as I'm writing this I'm warming up a frozen pre-made meal for a late lunch/early dinner. (Woo love having fewer steps for stuff!)

I found a new show to watch, I've got one of my favorite foods cooking (and it smells good), and my tasks for today are done!

I'll probably try to read a chapter of the book I mentioned in the beginning before bed :)

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What we learned today

1. Minimize task shifts (make changes between tasks as minimally drastic as possible)

2. Break up big tasks into a series of steps before beginning the task (this is to minimize the mental effort of deciding what to do first, I believe that's called decision fatigue?)

3. Have something to look forward to as a reward after tasks (this could be starting a new show, doing your nails, anything that would make you happy)

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Reflections for the day

Grateful for: warm showers, easily accessible food, support from others

Proud of: Finishing my tasks before my goal time

Feeling right now: satisfied and a little tired

Goals for tomorrow: to go over chem lecture slides with a friend, meal prep for the week, and recharge before Monday

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Thank you for reading this far, I'm still exploring how I plan on formatting these posts but I think I'll definitely keep the reflection portions as they are now. In regards to the "going through my day" I think that part will vary depending on the day I'm having and what I find most important to discuss at that time.

#mental health #adhd #productivity tips #adhd productivity #executive dysfunction #emotional health #introspection #reflection #journal blog #journal

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adobe-outdesign · 2 years

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since you’ve already done nidoking, how about the two nidorans and their evos? your reviews are really cool, and i haven’t really seen someone do em before :) it’s nice to hear opinions on design that doesn’t feel hostile or nitpicky, or overly biased

(Thank you!

Nidoking's review is over here, for anyone curious.)

This might be a Hot Take(TM), but I'm gonna say it anyway: Honestly, I think the Nidoran line should've started out as being non-sexually dimorphic, and then gained the gendered versions at either the second or even third stage. It's just weird that Gen 1 started out with 190 Pokemon and then had to be cut down to 150, and yet this line with a total of six (6) similar Pokemon made it through without any cuts.

And even putting the 'dex cuts aside, I can't help but feel like the entire line being dimophic clutters it a bit. As I'll go into in a moment, none of the designs are bad; it's just more that they're really not that distinct until they fully evolve. Merging them would've also fixed the weird name issue, wherein Nidoran has the same name regardless of gender but the rest of the line has different names for no real reason.

Anyway, Nidoran is nice looking, even if I don't think we really needed both genders. I like the female a bit more than the male, though I'm not sure why. I think it might just be the whiskers--that's just an interesting attribute to give to something that's only vaguely mammalian. Plus the red eyes pop better, and the overall color is pleasant. So as a whole, a pretty nice porcupine rabbit thing.

I like that Nidorina is bipedal while Nidorino is quadrupedal. In a way, I wish they had kept that up with the final evos, with the male staying on all fours, just because it helps make the genders more distinct and overall feel more purposeful.

The designs continue to be solid, gaining more spikes and a more intense body shape. Between the two, I once again find myself liking Nidorina more. In this case, it's because the bipedalness mixed with the stockier anatomy gives it a unique flair for a middle evo, looking neither like its pre-evo or evo. Nidorino looks a bit too much like male Nidoran to be all that distinct. With that said, I think these are my favorite stages out of the line.

Also, I love the shape of Nidorina's ears, and the red eyes really pop against the lighter blue.

Nidoqueen, however, I'm a bit more mixed on. I like that it's still plenty badass looking, having a lot of the classic early kaiju-mon traits, and it's pretty distinctive from Nidoking as well. However, at the same time, it is effectively wearing a bikini thanks to the placement of its markings, which kind of screws up the more neutral sexual dimorphism the line had going for it previously.

And just some other oddities too--like, what happened to the teeth? It had them in both of its previous forms, and the weird toothless maw stands out a lot compared to Nidoking. It's especially bizarre because it did have teeth in the original Red/Blue art, look:

Also, I wish it kept the red eyes. They just popped nicely against the blue and it's a shame to see them go, especially when they further differentiate the genders.

Side note, I love this 'dex entry. Bad and naughty offspring go in the S P I N E G A P S to atone for their sins

So overall, all of these are pretty solid designs from the kaiju era of Pokemon, but it just feels like there are a few too many of them and more distinction between them could've been made.

#nidoran #nidorino #nidorina #nidoqueen #pokemon #pokemon reviews

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