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Sidequests Week 14

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My sidequests for this week included meditating for 5 minutes, learning to make a better paper airplane, and to do 15 minutes of yoga.

See – already we’re meditating again. Good thing I downloaded that app. And also once again I used darebee for my yoga – this time keeping in mind to go with “Easy” for my fat lazy ass. So those were pretty easy to do. I almost considered cheating because there is a darebee one that had a few stretches and then 15 minutes of meditation, but I decided to do the 15 minutes for the meditation card, and do 15 minutes of yoga on top of that.

Then there was making the better paper airplane. This was also not going to be hard because I really only know how to make the basic of basic bitch paper airplanes and they never fly well at all. I did a google search and came across this youtube video posted about a year ago discussing the design for a literal world record paper airplane. They admit that the design that they have is not the actual final design used to break the record, but rather one of the prototypes. I followed the instructions on the video and made this:

Owing to the fact that I don’t have a large space to test this in, I don’t have any impressive video of the flight, mostly just of me causing it to crash immediately into the wall and then doing a really weird laugh as a result. But, it does fly significantly better than any paper airplane I’ve made before. The folding is a bit of a pain in the ass, but the guy in the video explains it really well, and it’s easy to pause at each step to follow the directions.

Sidequests Week 13

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A few simple ones this week. The sidequests were to go to bed early or sleep in the next day, to meditate for 10 minutes, and to spend 5 minutes alone.

Thursday night I crashed early and slept quite awhile.

It was actually quite nice to get a lot of rest, though I still felt a bit tired the next day because I probably overshot and slept way too much. And then proceeded to not sleep much the next few nights. Oops.

Being alone for 5 minutes is easy – I live alone. I do live with three cats, but I can isolate myself in my office area and be really alone for a full 5 minutes.

I don’t meditate often, but when I do I find it fairly refreshing. I like guided meditations, specifically the ones in the Headspace app (the guy’s voice is incredibly calming, not sure if it’s the accent or how he speaks), but I try not to keep too many subscriptions rolling at once, so I haven’t had that on in awhile. However, I decided to splurge for a yearly subscription just for this year to see how that plays out. I’m sure there are probably a few more “meditation” cards in one of the decks, and it’s not a bad practice to try semi-regularly.

The particular one I chose was one of the sleep meditations for getting comfortable and in the right headspace (heh) to fall asleep easily. I’m usually out like a light when following it. I wouldn’t take that as endorsement to how well it works though, just on the fact that I always fall asleep quite easily when I clear my mind and focus on resting. Usually when I stay up very late it’s less due to insomnia and more because I chose to be easily distractible.