Good morning Crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-one of Operation Achieve Anything. I don’t know why it seems that every single time things seem to be turning to head to where things are starting to go my way, there always has to be one little thing, that’s completely irrelevant, that comes along to ruin my ability to enjoy the experience.

Right now, I’m excited over the fact that I’ve gotten a lot of paid work since the start of the month which will allow me to buy a few things that I thought I’d have to save up forever to get. This inspired me to do a full on cleaning of my living space since a couple of the items in question are home furnishings that may a little more comfort and entertainment to my tiny little world.

Everything was going great until my sink got a clog, and now I’m stuck unable to focus on anything else until I can resolve the issue. This happens all of the time since my sink is tied into the piping of the master bedroom's add-on bathroom and all that it takes it for a piece of rice to get paste my drain protecting strainer device for the whole system to back up.

Normally, I can fix these issues quickly with a plumbing snake that I bought the first time I saw that this was a reoccurring issue. The problem is, the way that the two sinks are tied together there’s a fork in the piping so sometimes it takes many tries to get the snake to pick the right path. For this clog, the snake seems to be wanting to travel the path less followed since I’ve been trying for two days and haven’t made any progress.

The sink does drain slow enough to where it’s more of a nuisance than an emergency, but it’s hard for me to focus on anything else with this on the back of my mind because this is just a matter of not giving up since it’s not a simple issue that will resolve on its own over time. I keep getting hit with nagging thoughts that if I just buckle down and work until it's fixed, I can free my thoughts while working on everything else.

I also don’t want to move forward with cleaning my room because that would involve putting items back in the sink’s splash zone so I want to avoid creating a new mess. I’m going to try some draino this afternoon in hopes that even if it doesn’t solve the problem, which it never does due to the weird plumbing set up, it could still clear my mind for a couple of hours while I tell myself that the chemicals need time to do what needs to get done.

When I first started to write this rambling intro about my plumbing issues, I didn’t really expect for it to go on this long and contemplated deleting it all when I struggle to find out how to tie it into yesterday’s assignment where I was simply supposed to, “Just be myself,” as per the Achieve Anything… book’s demands, in order to create a smooth transition.

After a second I realized this mini-rant fulfills the needs of both yesterday’s and today's assignments. For yesterday’s assignment, where, as I said, I was tasked to, “Just be myself,” that’s the whole reason that I started this Daily Breaker feature in the first place. Right now, this plumbing issues is my main struggle, even though I’m still broke and have no idea what I’m doing with my life but the real me, the “myself,” always gets more hung up on the micro over the macro at least when it comes to living life. When it comes to my writing, however, there’s a bit more balance involved.

Anyways, as I was saying, the rambling intro is truly me just being myself, highlighting how no matter how well things are going, I can always find an issue for my mind locks on to, like a tongue locked on to a sore tooth. The storyteller in me then takes these problems and processes them into stories in an effort to explain myself to the world which does help to calm my nerves. This might be why I’ve always been so self-deprecating when telling my jokes as a way to acknowledge feeling I don’t want to have by minimalizing the effects since my inherited family default is to hold it all in and act like the world is always perfect.

So yeah, me “just being myself” is me over analyzing my world to not only find problems that stick in my craw, and even though I may never address the issue directly, I am fascinated and figuring out how and why I end up so bothered, almost like analyzing the joke that my life has become, keeping in mind that I’ve always been a huge fan of comedy.

As for how this intro relates to today’s assignment where I’m supposed to reflect on the seven-year-old’s quote of the day, “You can’t hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk,” I think this is a perfect example of how I could easily hide the issues and live with the slow drain, but it’s not all that hidden consider how much I would keep thinking about it in the back of my brain, especially considering that I do have a real solution available to me.

Granted, I just shared my plan to add some milk, meaning the Draino that I plan to use even though I know it rarely ends up helping the cause, but this plan is more of a band-aid than a stitch, that I just need to get me by for a while until I can get through my daily obligations, which are a priority, so that I could then spend the rest of the day focused on plumbing without fearing that my efforts will affect any of my deadlines.

Of course, I’ll come up with more to say about this broccoli in milk themed task when I check in with tomorrow’s update but until then, it’s time for me to wrap this up as usual by saying, good day and good luck to you and all of your projects.

Talk to you soon.

Sincerely,

The Wicker Breaker

P.S. Below are links to my novel, which I plan to promote as part of Operation Achieve Anything, as well as a link to where you can buy the book that is providing the structure to this project in case you would like to purchase it in order to play along.