Still Here
Sep. 22nd, 2005 06:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qosGot up at 5:00 yesterday and today to exercise for the first time in forever. Both days it didn't go quite the way I expected, but I did work up a sweat both times, so that puts me ahead of the game. I've learned a few things: don't open my email before starting a work-out (because I won't get up again), oatmeal does make a good pre-workout breakfast, and it distresses my daughter when I wear headphones when I do the treadmill because she can't hear me. (My Ex's latest waifs/his SO's daughter and two grandkids, are now sleeping above that room, so I can't just blast the music). So Friday night I'm going to remind her that I'm going to up be up and on the treadmill with headphones and not able to hear her, instead of waking her up briefly in the morning, which has been our usual practice. Alternate days are weight lifting in the living room, and she can hear that.
I won't be able to meet with my shamanic teacher for a while because of financial issues, but we're going to keep in touch via email. She's working on opening a shamanic healing practice, and has asked me to journey on the topic of whether or not I want to embark on specific training to be part of that. That's exciting, and will require serious reflection. One thing is certain, however: I am not going to quit my dayjob to become part of a full-time entreprenuerial undertaking again. I've done start-ups twice, and it has not worked out well. (Well, the rocket company was a marvelous experience -- until it shut down.) I can't afford to disrupt steady income right now. Besides, not all clients will be able to visit during the day, so someone has to be available to work evenings and weekends, right?
Tuesday morning I got out my Covey planner and decided on three goals to pursue. They are: fitness -- get my weight down to 130 pounds and/or feel good about how I look; finish my novel by the end of the year (that is, have the entire story written out, all narrative gaps filled); and to finish developing and teach my workshop "The Lamp and the Mirror: Illuminating and Reflecting on Personal Theology." I don't have a finish date on that one. Maybe by the of the year I will have a place/time set to teach it, even if it isn't until after the first of the year.
Exercise six days a week, work on the novel every day. Those are my two big goals.
Weather permitting, The Child and I go to a smaller regional zoo on Saturday, then to my parents house with some LOTR movies to take advantage of their new flatscreen tv, and then on Sunday I'm going back to my Swedenborgian church, where I haven't really been in attendance since my unfortunate learning experience as president of the church board.
As always, reading LJ puts me behind schedule. Better hurry to get to work. I've been reading everyone, but not commenting much. Hope to do better over the next few days.
I won't be able to meet with my shamanic teacher for a while because of financial issues, but we're going to keep in touch via email. She's working on opening a shamanic healing practice, and has asked me to journey on the topic of whether or not I want to embark on specific training to be part of that. That's exciting, and will require serious reflection. One thing is certain, however: I am not going to quit my dayjob to become part of a full-time entreprenuerial undertaking again. I've done start-ups twice, and it has not worked out well. (Well, the rocket company was a marvelous experience -- until it shut down.) I can't afford to disrupt steady income right now. Besides, not all clients will be able to visit during the day, so someone has to be available to work evenings and weekends, right?
Tuesday morning I got out my Covey planner and decided on three goals to pursue. They are: fitness -- get my weight down to 130 pounds and/or feel good about how I look; finish my novel by the end of the year (that is, have the entire story written out, all narrative gaps filled); and to finish developing and teach my workshop "The Lamp and the Mirror: Illuminating and Reflecting on Personal Theology." I don't have a finish date on that one. Maybe by the of the year I will have a place/time set to teach it, even if it isn't until after the first of the year.
Exercise six days a week, work on the novel every day. Those are my two big goals.
Weather permitting, The Child and I go to a smaller regional zoo on Saturday, then to my parents house with some LOTR movies to take advantage of their new flatscreen tv, and then on Sunday I'm going back to my Swedenborgian church, where I haven't really been in attendance since my unfortunate learning experience as president of the church board.
As always, reading LJ puts me behind schedule. Better hurry to get to work. I've been reading everyone, but not commenting much. Hope to do better over the next few days.
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okay, I'm FINALLY catching up some!
Date: 2005-09-22 02:14 pm (UTC)And the zoo gig with the wee one sounds like fun. Hope you make it there!
~ Siobhan
Re: okay, I'm FINALLY catching up some!
Date: 2005-09-23 02:41 am (UTC)And thanks for the help during my crisis. He never came around, and your spell-working may have contributed to that.
The zoo is one of the smaller ones in the area. We've never been there before, so it should be fun. She's such an animal lover.
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Date: 2005-09-22 03:58 pm (UTC)Try sending to my work email- mfox@psr.gtulink.edu
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Date: 2005-09-23 12:34 am (UTC)If you don't get it this time, please send me your snailmail, and I'll print and mail!
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Date: 2005-09-23 02:05 am (UTC)She doesn't know it yet, but I splurged today and bought the complete Bone from Amazon for us to read together.