I might have the right amount of cellular data for my internet usage. It resets tomorrow or the day after, and I got a notification this morning that I've used 80% of my data for the month. This month, I did one morning of working from home and was sick for three days last week, which meant that I was using up more data than I otherwise necessarily would be. Also, I've been on a roll with calling my parents. I've been talking to them on a near daily basis the past week or so.
I haven't noticed any increase in mental peace due to the lack of wifi, which I'd been sort of hoping for, but I have been drawing more, which gives some sort of mental peace, so I suppose I shouldn't complain. Not having wifi doesn't mean that I just wake up every morning feeling refreshed and rejuvenated and like you can take on the world, unfortunately. But if more time for my hobbies is what I get out of this, I'll take it!
I've got a few more projects up my sleeve and I actually feel confident that I'll do them. I have spent about 30 hours drawing Christmas gift drawings for people since last Wednesday (of course, largely due to the fact that I was sick and home from work) and last night I sewed a sauna hat for my boyfriend (to go along with the sauna guidebook I got him for Christmas). It took maybe an hour, tops.
Sometimes, when I'm doing tasks at work that take a lot of time and only little brain power, I listen to youtube videos like they're podcasts. Yesterday, I listened to one about how the hands are an extension of the mind and so fidgeting is not only a physical manifestation of your mind wandering, but literally is your mind wandering. The goal of the video was to try to figure out how to stop being on that damn phone, and what she said is that you need equally mindless tasks to do with your hands. One day, I will have wifi again, and maybe by that time I will have picked up some hobbies that help me stay off my phone.
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