Roller Coaster
Today has been a hell of a roller coaster. Some great highs, some really sucky lows, and overall a feeling of instability. The highs: The lows: There are things I can control. There are things I cannot control. The key for me is to know the difference and not let the things that I cannot…
The Weighting Is The Hardest Part
I signed up for a weight-loss program tonight, with the intention of tomorrow being Day 1 of Let’s Do This Again And Make It Work This Time. I need to lose weight before I get to the point that I have damaged my body permanently and have no options. I’m 53 years old and I…
Dream Interpretation – Unwanted Tenants
I haven’t been sleeping very well in the overnights, so I have generally found myself taking a nap after I get done with work. One afternoon this week, I evidently slept deep enough to get some decent REM sleep because I had a really weird dream. I enjoy analyzing my dreams to try to figure…
Tiny Habits, Tiny Steps
I have been using my Audible subscription to try to find self-help books, with mixed success. One of the best finds I had was Dr Rebecca Ray’s “Breakthrough: Overcome Self-Sabotage, Achieve More, Be Your Best Self” podcast series. I listened to the ten episodes several times, and it helped me gain some insight into my…
When All Else Fails, Reboot
I knew it had been a while since I posted here, but I didn’t realize it had been nearly two years. Yikes. A lot has happened since then, and a lot has stayed the same. I have a new job at my same company, and I’m not sure if it’s where I want to be…
The Next Chapter
The oddest things have happened over the past week or so. For starters, I was flipping through an old notebook (circa 1998) and came across the name of a character that I had created but never done anything with. I really liked the name, and after mulling it over for a bit, I ended up…
Dream a Little Dream
I have always had vivid dreams (at least as long as I can remember), and while some are fun and entertaining, others are disturbing and unsettling. I started dabbling in dream symbolism several years ago to try to identify recurring themes and symbols – I don’t believe that they are prophetic, rather that they are…
Dance Into the Fire
This past weekend I attended my dance studio’s annual convention, where we have three days of workshops with guest instructors from around the world, and three evenings of shows with performances and competitions. I have been a member of the studio since 2008, but had fallen away from it for about the past 2 years.…
A World of Pure Imagination
A couple of weeks ago I was given some clothes from a friend who is moving. Among them I found some pieces for a costume that I can wear to our local Renaissance Faire, which got me thinking about what additional pieces I would need to buy to complete the outfit. I found myself looking…
Through the years
Over the past month or so I’ve gone through boxes of notebooks that I have had stored in my garage for decades. I pared them down to the stories and writings I wanted to keep, then organized them into three-ring notebooks so I could find them easily. They date back to 1984, and reading the…
Just Write.
Obviously I haven’t been as consistent with my blogging here as I could have been. There are lots of reasons excuses, none of which are really good. Fear is the largest one, fear that what I write isn’t good enough, isn’t interesting enough, isn’t important enough. Isn’t “enough” enough. Today I came to the realization…
Reframing My Goals
I made it to water aerobics on Tuesday and even though I knew I was going to really feel that workout, I went home with a pleasant feeling of tiredness that I really kind of enjoyed. I could tell I had exercised, but I wasn’t so tired and sore that I regretted it. It was…
Water Water Everywhere
Last night I couldn’t sleep (no big surprise), so I did exactly the wrong thing and started surfing on my phone. I found our local community center has water aerobics classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so at 11pm on Wednesday night I signed up for the Thursday class. I almost talked myself out of it…
Waxing and Waning
This week is the waxing moon, which symbolically is representative of setting intentions, reaching goals, and increasing energy. I’ve never really done a lot of work with regards to moon phases, aside from full and new, because so many of my intentions are about things decreasing – my weight, my stress level, stuff like that.…
Moose Adventures
For the past decade I’ve loved the idea of getting a travel trailer and taking road trips across the country. My family had a van and a pop-up camper when I was growing up, and those were some of the best memories I remember from my childhood. But I’ve never had a vehicle that could…
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