Ah man it took me almost a month, but my recall is back on track. Last few nights I have remembered ~4 complete dreams.

And I have had a few lucids along the way that I was able to keep stable using the ideas I talked about here. They weren't particularly long, and I still didn't do much of anything; but it's an undeniably huge step that I was able to extend my LDs to 60 seconds or more as opposed to waking up the instant I get lucid. My focus on getting lucid without a physical RC has worked great. In all my recent LDs that I can think of, I have relied only on mental recognition of the dream. I pretty much only use physical actions to RC if I am in waking life and my awareness doesn't reveal that I'm in a dream.

(Ignore my weird sentences, too lazy to think of better wording )

Thanks for reading my nonsense! I know many people have "been there, done that." and I'm glad that I've finally gotten past that roadblock.