About 12 hours ago (around 4 in the afternoon), a migraine hit. Not bad enough to warrant a full pill to help the migraine dissolve, but still required medication.
Kinda felt like my brain was swelling and pushing on my skull from the inside.
Fun times.
So, as usual, within an hour of taking the halved medication, I was out. OUT. I wound up sleeping until about quarter to ten.
Whoops.
I knew that meant I would have a hell of a time sleeping overnight.
I tried! I really did. I was lying down, practicing deep breathing and some meditation exercises, I put away all thoughts of plans and schedules and to-do lists, and I tried to sleep.
No luck.
So I thought I would maybe colour on the app that I have - staring at mandalas and focusing on calming colours.
I felt sleepy enough to want to stay in bed, but too awake to actually fall asleep.
In the end though I just got up, put some sweats on, and decide to practice doodling.
I have been working on trying to draw and paint flowers. Little tiny flowers, everywhere. I have been saving tutorials and videos from Instagram, along with close-up pictures of doodled flowers that other people have done.
Then I tried to copy those. Getting tips on pencil strokes from the videos and dissecting each little doodle as close-up as I could.
The result?
Not too bad! I am actually pretty thrilled with the progress. Who knew I could learn how to draw?? (I mean, it's nothing special, but I have a difficult time drawing a cube. Or a square. Or the most basic cartoonish doodle).
The next step is to learn how to get some of these drawings into watercolor pieces to keep in a gorgeous little rice paper notebook. Little tiny flowers with simple watercolor drops. Pops of colour.
I may be having a tough time sleeping. My muscles might be super tight and my joints might be inflamed. My migraine might be returning and my eyes might even be starting to burn... but that doesn't mean that I can't try and do something relatively productive for a little while.
Okay, back to bed.
Feeling accomplished.
That's a win in my books.
