Forums

aaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-     aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa   So, if I still had hair, I'd have lost it by now on account of it being on fire. Such is the way of the overtime worker.   But the very short version of things is that I kept up and managed to keep my cleaning up over 80%. Meaning that I have purchased additional tools since the last time I was here. This is dope.   Also, working to clean up my space has led me to doing some additional cleaning around my place - regular vacuuming and wiping up the sink, and also finally scrubbing down the drying area for my dishes and getting a waterproof mat to keep the surface dry. There's more to do and keep doing, but I've kept those up and I'm surprised at how natural it feels. It's not perfect, and it'd be easier if the job would let me just work at home, but it doesn't and isn't going to for the foreseeable future despite my efforts to the contrary. Perfect must not be the enemy of good enough, but the guidepost for "better than before."   Training's been going well. Mat time has been hard to come by. I took one class last week on my lunch break just to see how the workweek would go, and everything wrecked. I haven't narrowed down why that was; I refuse to accept that a single hour taken off for my mental health could wreck me that badly, especially since I had multiple medical appointments last week that just ate and ate my time. But OTOH, mat time is negotiable, and medical stuff is not. And I seem to coincidentally have more of that to deal with last week and this upcoming week. It's... hard to parse out what's making what happen here, meaning that it's going to take some study. I'm worried that I'll figure it out just in time for the OT situation to change again and suddenly I won't have the flexibility to do mat time anymore during the day.   But I'm feeling better in my body than I have in a while. I've managed to successfully integrate some mobility training in my home setting that I'll speak up about next challenge. Also, I achieved my goal weight 12 days ahead of schedule and then some; went from ~206 lbs on Mar 17 to a weekly average of ~193. Did so eating a lot of tasty food, meditating, walking a lot, and sleeping through the night, which is a novelty that I haven't experienced in a while. I'm genuinely shocked that it worked at all, let alone as well as it seems to have.   Guess this RP Diet app is the real deal. Hm.   I've got a pretty good idea of the next challenge and what it'll entail. Might even be able to make it nerdy, which I haven't done in a minute. We'll see.   In the meantime, my thanks to all y'all what stopped by and cheered me on. It helps. I mean it. Special thanks to (in no particular order) @Sovalis, @TimovieMan, @Mad Hatter, @Scaly Freak, @Mistr, @Everstorm, @sarakingdom, and anyone else I missed along the way.   See you next round!  

I"m going to take a moment to pause and celebrate this sentence. HOORAY!! HUZZAH!! Go You! 🎉🎉   Back to the challenge at hand: I'm really interested in how (if?) this shift affects your meditation itself. I noticed a huge difference in the meditation and in my day and in a whole bunch of other things, but that might just be me.   I hear you about this, too, especially about being willing to do nothing more than being willing to do something over the lunch break. I think this is wisdom.   This insight is so liberating, I can almost see you float.  It's beuatiful to realize we aren't letting anyone down.   Very encouraged by the insights in your Not-Changing list as well.

I have Supernatural, too! Maybe we can do that as an Oculus meet-up. Always love your pictures. Good to see you again. Here to cheer you on. ❤️   

Oh good, for a second I was fearing an Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull gif. But that's not possible because that movie doesn't exist. 😒😇

That was a time when a) we were young and had less real-life obligations so could just game away, b) there weren't big game releases every week or even month, and c) the average game didn't take 100+ hours to finish back then... 😅 I'm just glad there are walkthroughs for some of those old games... 😁

I hear you on trying to survive these last weeks of school.  Some days it feels like the school year will never end (and unfortunately, mine really is getting longer 😭).  Good luck to you!

Me too!  I slept 10 hours last night and feel much better today already.  Not well, exactly, but less like warmed over death.     Thank you 😊      Welcome!       Hunger thing is going well.  No workouts yet.  May try for GMB tomorrow depending on how I feel.   Nothing much happening here, but here are some gratuitous photos of my recent art project for the Botanica Collective and my garden (natch)    

Im especially bad when it comes to shinies. Clearly corvid somewhere in the family tree. Trying to reduce the amount of crud i have that is sentimental is hard but nessisary . My sister is excellent at this, so unsentimental about getting rid of things.  Trying to channel that at the moment, but its a struggle. 

Maerad appears from the aether and delivers a salutation of "Happy Beltane!" before sitting at the bar with a request for cider.