Had Only 2 Hours of Sleep But Was Somehow Extremely Productive

12:05 AM (of Tuesday, October 8th 2024)

Today is Monday, October 7th 2024. I woke up at around 4 AM today with some back pain, after falling asleep at 2 AM. I think I slept in the wrong position. I can be a very heavy sleeper, especially when there's nothing requiring me to wake up at a certain time the next day, so it was extremely strange for me to wake up at 4 AM. I don't even know what happened, but I was wide awake from then on.

Oh yeah, I experienced some unusual lower back pain this morning which came out of nowhere. I've never experienced this before. This might be what woke me up. I remembered that Wahl stretches for around 30 minutes after waking up, stretching and warming up every part of her body. I joined her whenever she stretched when we were together so I knew a bit of the routine. I felt like I needed to stretch this morning because of this back pain, so I did a few different stretches and positions.

The back pain subsided after around an hour or two of being awake, but it was some very acute and obvious pain. I wanted it to stop no matter what and it just disappeared on its own. Maybe I slept on top of some pillows or something? There's like 6 pillows all over on my bed, so that's possible. It's just strange that this is the first time this happened.

I messaged Wahl again this morning because of the date, October 7th, just to wish her a great day. I had no idea about Hurricane Milton yet, which she would be in the area of, right after Hurricane Helene too. I also messaged my friend Ami about the hurricane and asked what he was doing about it. So after messaging Wahl, I continued with doing my brain training for the day. I usually just reserve this as one of the last activities I do, but because I was checking off tasks on Strides, and I had a perfect streak so far since using it yesterday, I wanted to do them first to get them out of the way.

I finished up all my brain training and vegan activism posts before 9 AM and accomplishing this felt so great. I then went off to start working. When I opened up my computer to check the work emails, one of the people I work with said she was evacuating because of Hurricane Milton, and that's when I found out about this hurricane. I messaged Wahl and Ami about it since I knew they were in the area.

I also became a bit concerned because my CPA hasn't filed my taxes yet. It's due on October 15th and they are also in the area for Hurricane Milton. I sent them an email today, after completing some things I forgot about, and no one replied. Usually they reply within an hour or a few hours. I think they were all evacuating. The person I work with who's evacuating said she won't be back until Thursday. This is a big deal.

So yeah, my biggest worry right now is having my 2023 taxes filed by my CPA.

Throughout the rest of the day, I worked and was extremely productive. I have gotten so much more done today than most other days. I also completed all of my workouts.

Wahl also replied back later at night and I have a bunch of messages now to reply to. I would reply to them right now but it's pretty late and she's probably already asleep. I'll do it tomorrow. I have a few different tasks to work on tomorrow such as messaging my CPA about the urgency of my taxes being filed, and messaging Wahl again, and other work related tasks, as well as my dailies.

I'm feeling pretty good about everything again because I got so much done today. That's pretty much the main thing lifting my spirits right now, otherwise I am extremely stressed.

Anyway, that was my day today.