Surprise!

October 12th, 2026

I noticed I used to date these then it stopped, so there it is. 😀

Surprise! I am blogging today and did not blog yesterday! I’m sure so many of you were disappointed. I just had to break my routine a bit. I was beginning to hate Sundays when I used to enjoy them. It took everything I had to get my butt to clean this morning — but I did it! And so now I’m here, blogging after cleaning as I normally would on Sunday and the world didn’t fall apart, which is something I’ve been working towards believing in: flexibility.

I’ve been gradually shifting and fidgeting under the hammer of my own schedule because as much as discipline is important, I needed to learn how to relax. go with the flow. breathe.

Besides! I was getting sooooo booooooored *pulls face* I had to shake my schedule up a bit, so every day would stop blurring into the next. I even got bored, get bored with Coke sometimes and I love it. Don’t tell anyone, but there’s a reason why they say you can have too much of a good thing. I left my shitty job to be free and here I was still trapped under rules zombeing out, except they were mine — at least the only boss I had to negotiate with now was: ME. Thank God. Which can be easier, but not easy. So I made an effort to find space again. Movement again. Break the routine, my own rules a bit, and feel alive. autonomous. present.

Boredumb (spelt this way purposely) and even laziness can be useful triggers, I think, when used properly. They ask us to reevaluate our routine and explore, search for new experiences — like tweaking your cleaning schedule, as a start.

Nessa Grey 💜 🩶


Are you serving your schedule or is your schedule serving you?

3 responses to “Surprise!”

  1. Oh Nessa, I love this! 💜 I think we sometimes get so caught up in our routines that we forget we’re allowed to change them, even when we’re the ones who created them in the first place. 😂 There’s nothing wrong with having a bit of discipline, but life shouldn’t become one long list of things we feel we HAVE to do.

    I especially love what you said about learning to relax, go with the flow and breathe. Sometimes we need to give ourselves permission to do things differently without feeling guilty about it. And that question at the end is such a good one! Are we serving our schedules, or are they serving us? 🤔

    Sometimes a quiet morning with my little man, Rambo, a garden discovery or a blog post I genuinely want to write is worth far more than ticking off another box on a schedule. ❤️🌿

    Here’s to a little flexibility, a bit of spontaneity and allowing ourselves to enjoy life without having to follow a set of rules every single day. ❤️😊

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    1. It’s like consistency and discipline are cool, but so is spontaneity lol

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  2. I used to have two! bosses. At least now, I only have to work with one 😀

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