My sidequests for this week admittedly underwent a little shifting. What I ended up with included taking a long shower or bath, drawing or painting a picture, and having some tea or a warm drink.

I find long showers very relaxing, so that wasn’t very hard to do, and that sidequest was knocked out quite early in the week. All it takes is a very long day of work to motivate me to do something like this one though.

I have been working on a drawing off and on for the past month or so, but haven’t spent a lot of time on it. I honestly did not spend a lot of time on it this week either, but instead of starting something new, I forced myself to sit with it and make some corrections. I may have made it worse instead. Hrm. It feels a little like cheating to make that how I meet this sidequest, but I haven’t felt very artfully motivated for awhile now. Of course, that’s all the more reason to force myself to work on something – you really shouldn’t just do things only when you feel like it.

It’s been really hot where I am – the weather is very regularly in the triple digits. So having tea is probably the last thing I would normally want to do. But when I had gone to the farmer’s market before, I had bought some loose leaf lavender chai tea. So I decided to have that. I have a sweet tooth, so I dropped about 8 cubes of sugar into the cup. The spice blend was quite potent. I like it quite a lot, and might have to remember to buy a full size bag the next time I visit their booth.