It’s been a little 2 weeks since I posted but it seems like a lifetime. After I recovered from the RA flare, I felt as though I needed a small break from my digital life. I am not addicted to being online but I did spend time on the internet…Facebook because that’s my virtual social life; playing Trivia Crack because it’s fun, it exercises my brain, and I’m really good at it as well as the fact that I’m super competitive, and watching series and movies on Prime and Netflix. I won’t give up Facebook because all of my succulent wild friends are there and they are true friends, not virtual ones. As I’ve said before, they art my tribe. I’ve cut back my time on Trivia Crack and I’m actually beginning to enjoy the silence that comes from not having a movie playing in the background. I’ve never done well in complete silence but I’m finding myself actually enjoying it when I’m writing. I listen to music but that usually isn’t conducive to writing because I’m hoping from 1 artist to another and song to song so I can’t concentrate on the writing because I’m too busy DJ’ing the music. I’m working on it though. I’m trying to meditate but my brain never shuts up. I have downloaded a bunch of guided meditations that Audible has at no cost so hopefully, that will help. I’m also keeping a gratitude journal. And now that I really am feeling pretty great, I’m ready to work on the weight loss thing again. It’s not really a choice…it’s something that I have to do so that I don’t just drop dead in my tracks one day. I used to walk up here at work on my lunch hour but the company has banned it for safety reasons, however, I am the Safety Coordinator and I have to do inspections so I could just do a few more inspections. But it would have to be early in the day because we just had our yard blacktopped and I’d probably have a heat stroke out there if I do it any later in the day. I’m working on my goals…healthwise, career-wise, for life in general, and my writing. I’m feeling ambitious right now and I think that I can actually accomplish the things for which I’m setting goals. I’m going to go slow at first though so I don’t become overwhelmed and end up setting myself up for failure. I think that we have a tendency to do that. When we are ready for change, we want to change EVERYTHING and then we eventually quit because we hit a brick wall after trying to accomplish everything rather than concentrating on one or two things. It’s okay to write down all of your goals and get an idea of where you want to end up but it’s another thing when you go after all of them at once. I’m going to start slow…small goals and changes. Drinking more water, eating smaller portions, cutting down on my junk food consumption. My husband is an excellent cook and loves to cook for me so I have that in my corner. And our garden is coming along really well…tons of tiny tomatoes on the vines already. I could practically live on tomatoes. Tonight I’m having a tomato (store-bought)/cucumber/onion salad with balsamic vinegar, olive oil, garlic and a tiny bit of Splenda because I like it a little sweeter than Rick does. It’s wonderful. I left the entree up to him because he knows my likes and dislikes (which unfortunately outnumber my likes by a lot). Well, I need to get the payroll checks put on everyone’s desks then get out of here. I have my yummy salad waiting for me at home.
Inspired Writer 