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Slow Progress
Oct. 22nd, 2004 05:54 amAt work yesterday I listed five things I wanted to accomplish in the late afternoon/evening: go to the Gold's gym near my house to check out their facility and the cost, pick up my favorite vitamins from the Co-op, do my Hebrew Scriptures homework (which is due today), and email the Grail group to see if they will accept Paypal for a tape series I want, and spend 10 minutes in contemplative prayer.
I did not get to the gym or get the vitamins. I've discovered that running errands right after work seldom is a good idea for me. I'm usually tired and hungry, and anything that requires sustained attention is not a good idea (like visiting and evaluating something). So I changed that item to Saturday. Also: I do have vitamins right now, so I moved that task to Saturday as well, since the Co-op is a bit out of my way.
Instead of those tasks, however, I cooked dinner (made baked chicken and pesto pasta) instead of simply making a quesadilla with my little grill or going out, which I do too often. Then I invited The Ex's Goddaughter to join me (she was visiting to do laundry), and I had a great talk with her. After dinner, I did all the dishes (one of my new 1-thing-a-day resolutions). When my mom brought the child back from their visit, we read Harry Potter, I put her to bed, and then did my homework. This morning I sent the email about Paypal.
Also yesterday I paid off two old creditors. I've been capable of paying them for a while. It was sheer cowardice and denial that had kept me simply sticking the envelopes in the holder on my desk and not looking at them. I finally realized how ridiculous I was being and sent one a check and called the other to pay off the entire balances. I still have an $800+ medical bill from a year or so ago when I suffered a panic attack, thought I was having a heart attack (the wife of an acquaintance of mine had died suddenly after suffering a heart attack at work about a month prior to that), and called 911. I turned that one over to the consumer credit group I have helping me handle the rest of my debt.
I didn't do the contemplative prayer, but I'm not going to beat myself up about that. What I did do is find my box of little colored sticky dots, which I'm going to take to work and place a few strategically around my cube. The idea (from my spiritual director) is to use them as reminders for attunement.
Tonight, I'm having dinner with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lexicat and royalbananafish!
I'm feeling good.
I did not get to the gym or get the vitamins. I've discovered that running errands right after work seldom is a good idea for me. I'm usually tired and hungry, and anything that requires sustained attention is not a good idea (like visiting and evaluating something). So I changed that item to Saturday. Also: I do have vitamins right now, so I moved that task to Saturday as well, since the Co-op is a bit out of my way.
Instead of those tasks, however, I cooked dinner (made baked chicken and pesto pasta) instead of simply making a quesadilla with my little grill or going out, which I do too often. Then I invited The Ex's Goddaughter to join me (she was visiting to do laundry), and I had a great talk with her. After dinner, I did all the dishes (one of my new 1-thing-a-day resolutions). When my mom brought the child back from their visit, we read Harry Potter, I put her to bed, and then did my homework. This morning I sent the email about Paypal.
Also yesterday I paid off two old creditors. I've been capable of paying them for a while. It was sheer cowardice and denial that had kept me simply sticking the envelopes in the holder on my desk and not looking at them. I finally realized how ridiculous I was being and sent one a check and called the other to pay off the entire balances. I still have an $800+ medical bill from a year or so ago when I suffered a panic attack, thought I was having a heart attack (the wife of an acquaintance of mine had died suddenly after suffering a heart attack at work about a month prior to that), and called 911. I turned that one over to the consumer credit group I have helping me handle the rest of my debt.
I didn't do the contemplative prayer, but I'm not going to beat myself up about that. What I did do is find my box of little colored sticky dots, which I'm going to take to work and place a few strategically around my cube. The idea (from my spiritual director) is to use them as reminders for attunement.
Tonight, I'm having dinner with
lexicat and royalbananafish!I'm feeling good.
