FlyLady (Days 3-5)

Day three: Doing what we have already done

• Getting Dressed to Lace up Shoes: Okay, I'm kind of failing on this one. I got dressed, but I haven't showered or done my hair. I'm kind of resistant to actually getting dressed, because I really, really, really need to go buy clothes. I don't know what happened to my clothes, but I can find about one pair of pants and 3 shirts, excluding my work uniform. I hate spending money on clothes, but I am gonna suck it up and buy some on sunday I guess. (its entirely possible that the creepy old man who I SAW steal my underwear out of the dryer has escalated to stealing my clothing, I guess. Sometimes apartment living is weird.)
• Shining the sink.
  Well, I made Troy (my partner if I haven't clarified that yet on this blog) do the dishes last night. Does that count? :P And did them this morning. Troy and I do not live alone, so after we go to bed dishes pile up.

Day Four
Basically, sign up for the newsletter. Theres enough crap in my inbox to make me reluctant about doing this, haha.

Day Five
Your supposed to like, write down some negative thoughts and make them happy. Ugh, See, this is where I resist the FlyLady. Doing this sort of thing reminds me of this class I was forced to take in 9th grade because the school decided I was at risk of dropping out. Essentially some really annoying guy screamed at us for an hour telling us to unlock our potential or some shit.

Day six is Hot Spots, so, at least it will be interesting again.

FlyLady (two days in)

I don't know why I always try to do this thing, but here goes again. I know a messy house is bad for magic, but now that I'm with Troy, we aren't really messy, just very disorganized. Now that I have a job,  am going to school, and doing Magical Circle School.. I really need to stop chasing myself around every time I try to do something. So, maybe the whole flylady thing will help with that, at least the house keeping aspect.

Day one is Shine your Sink.
I don't really see the point in actually shining the sink.. clean it out, yeah, but make it all pretty? When five minutes after I am done somebody will pour coffee in it, or put some dirty crap in it? Nah. Oh, I have a sink peeve. Seems to be a thing old people do, mostly, but anyway, when people put the dishrag over the faucet of the sink. Gives me the germ willies just seeing that!

Day two is Get Dressed to Lace Up Shoes.
 Okay, I'll do this today. (Yes, I am posting this blog in my PJ's.) Tomorrow, I work, so I don't know. I am not wearing my work clothes all day, because they smell like wet dog and other unsavory things. But, I don't really want to take the time to change before I leave. Yeah, lazy lazy.

Doing the Melomeals?

(Yes, by the way, this is the food post I was talking about in the last blog.)

I'm thinking about it.
Today, I am throwing together some crock pot chili.
I'll probably freeze half of that, unless its disgusting. (Never freeze food that you aren't sure you like. it will sit in your freezer like a space hogging brick... forever.)

Tomorrow, I have off, so IDK what I will cook. I cannot cannot cannot do crockpot cooking while I am home, I keep poking at it, lol.

Friday, I will probably make a stew recipe I found. It is also Shopping Day, so I will try to plan out what to make before next week before then.

The easy way to post a blog.

Amanda has a video on this same phenomenon.. only with boiling water. I've had days where I've done this with every single task I try to complete. Usually, not at work, or I'd lose my job, but sometimes, yeah.
At home though, its like, 50% of the time.

Posting a blog goes like this.
Decide to post a blog about... anything, but lets say food.
Pick up knitting.
Put down knitting.
Remember you were going to post a blog.
Knit a few rows.
Try to count how fast the fan goes.
Remember you were going to post a blog about food.
Decide to cook food instead.
Walk to the kitchen.
Walk out of the kitchen.
Feed the fish.
Remember you were going to cook.
Open cupboards.
See hot chocolate mix. 
Decide to make hot chocolate.
Set hot chocolate mix on the counter.
Walk to the living room.
Sit on the couch.
Remember you were going to post a blog about food.
Walk towards the bedroom.
Go into the bathroom instead.
See the toothpaste.
Decide to brush your teeth.
Open bathroom cabinets.
Get your tooth brush.
Close bathroom cabinets.
Decide the mirror needs to be washed.
Carry your toothbrush to the closet.
Get the window cleaner.
Spray window cleaner on the mirror.
Remember you were going to post a blog.
Turn on the computer.
Check email.
Finally, post a blog about posting a blog.

Life is.

I finished another essay. One more to go before starting the Big Hairy Research Paper. No its not really that bad. (Or is it?) The paranoia thing is really getting to me, so I am escaping into study. I think I am going to write it on Ethics in Paganism.
I am reading An It Harm None by Shelly TSivia Rabinovich and Meridith MacDonald.
I  flaked on Be A Goddess, and I think I know why. So I am taking a break and will tackle it when I am more able to deal with it. Even still, it kind of enhances the frustration of never completing anything.

Progress and Procrastination

I have two more essays and a research paper to complete to be done with the Entrance class. Unfortunately I seem to have a monthly "motivation roadblock" which has totally derailed me. Explains why to date, I have accomplished absolutely nothing in my life. I am a freaking useless human being, except for that one week a month when I get shit done. Argh.
If I ever finish up this class I want to take the Basic Wicca class and the Cross Stitch Basics class. I do eventually want to take the degree program but I can't actually see myself accomplishing that.

Taking some classes.

I've joined The Magical Circle School, and I am currently almost done with the Entrance Class. I've learned a bit already. The entrance class is pretty involved so the actual classes are probably like college level. I've always been a knowledge devourer, and not so good at taking it and reforming it into coherent thoughts of my own. I definitely blend things that I have read into my own use, but I'm not really good at putting that together as something I could tell to another person or write down. Having to write a whole lot of essays should fix that eventually.

GOYB week 2 and 3 check in

Combining the last two weeks, because they tell a story when placed together.

Week Two:
Did great on my goals for the first half of the week, despite a serious feeling of exhaustion on Wednesday. Woke up on Thursday feeling like I was drowning. Nearly passed out on my bike ride but blamed it on the weather. Drank electrolytes like crazy but did not feel better on Friday or Saturday.

Week Three:
Remained absolutely miserable until Wednesday, when I started feeling better. Finally by Friday I feel like I could walk around without dying. Haven't attempted the bike yet.

This week I need to get back on it. And hopefully not get all blarghy again!

Get Off Your Broom Take two Week One check in

Woo, the check-in is up so I can post this. Anymonkey, on to my progress with my goals. (Reading my prior post compels me to apologise for my terrible typographical errors. Its very hard to type coherently with a broken keyboard. I have a new one now, though.)

Earth
I did a So-So job here. Did really good until I went on a bike ride that accidentally lasted 5x what I planned because I got lost, then got lost again, then almost ended up on the freeway. Anyway after that I came home and ate a lot.

Air
Well.. I dragged my bum to class, so that counts right?

Fire
I'm doing pretty good at both of these, strength trained 5 times this week and biked 4. Plus various bike rides around town.

Water
Doing pretty good on the water front, I just need to remember to get electrolyte solution on board before I feel dizzy.

Spirit:
Epic fail.. I forgot all about this one.
There's always next week.

Goals for the week:

Earth: Write down what I eat. Plan meals and snacks so I don't just start eating randomly. Take my vitamins everyday.


Fire: Strength train 5 times this week. Bike 5 times this week.

Water: Drink a little bit of electrolyte solution every day. Passing out in class should NOT be repeated. :P

Spirit:
Get back on track with the book.

Overall I think I'm off to a good start. There are a few things that I want to change this week but I'll post about them next check-in.

An Elemental Fitness Challenge

This challenge was cancelled, but was revived just in time! Yay!
Im talking about Get Off Your Broom. This challenge is called Spring Into Fitness and to be truly pagan-oriented the goals are based on the Elements.

So here are mine.

Earth
I personally associated Earth with food, because most food grows. If you eat meat, you are usually eating herbivores as well, so the earth in my mind is pretty relevant to our dining. So my earth goals are to pay more attention to my eating habits, and get an adequate ammount of protien. The second one is not usually a problem for most popl bt my body dosnt digest most protien sorces well at all so it is an issue for me.

Air
Exercise the mind. I couldn't find a good association in my mind for air, besides say, cardio, but exercise in general seems to fit under fire for me, so this is it. A reminder to not focus on one thing to the exclusion off all others, a significant struggle for me.

Water
Drink water, but not too much.
I'm restricting myself to drink only water for the duration of the challenge, with two exceptions. I can have one caffinated drink each day, and sports drink to balance my electrolytes, since I am very prone to fainting all summer long.

Fire
Bike for 30 minutes at least three times a week, excluding my commute.
Follow a strength training routine.
Pretty straightforward, I guess. The more mundane fitness stuff youd expect from any other challenge. I'm excluding my commutes to class and theatre geeky goodness because due to my town laws, the fact that my trips around are multi-stop, and not wanting to die, there's a lot of walking, stopping, and waiting at red lights. I need 30 minutes of actual bike time.

Spirit
Complete the Be A Goddess book I have already started.
Meditate daily.
Walk barefoot daily.
None of these things seem particularly fitness related at the surface, but we need to be entire people, not just focused in one area. In my mind anyway. Being barefoot for me is deeply connecting and centering. My bendiness has called the quits on running for now, so I think its important to get in touch some other way.

I am sure many people have integrated their Pagan beliefs into the challenge far better than I have, so what are your goals in the challenge?

Be a Goddess!

I am reading Be A Goddess by Francesca De Grandis.
I have just started the second and I really like the visit layout. I have a bad habit of reading a book and reading over any hands on parts and going "Oh interesting! I should try that." and turning the page. This book reminds me not to do that. For sure, after I finish this one I have to go back to other books I have read and make sure to do the exercises.
Which brings me to another thing I like about this, something about the format makes me unlikely to read ahead.. in the few other books with a scheduled format I have read I've had a habit of reading way ahead of myself.

Well, that's all I have to say for now.
Blessed Be!

Where have I been?

Yeah, good question.
From the beginning..

Had to move out of our old apartment because the lease expired. Moved to a new town.

Started taking a class. Its mostly a huge energy drain (The other class members are all significantly older and give off vibes that they "own the class" and are always yelling back and forth. Not a conductive learning environment.) but I'm doing okay. Slowly learning some math, learning how much I love mathematical concepts even though I'm completely inept with the numbers.

Fell in love. Yay. :D

My mom went out of town for three months (She's still gone for another two.) Helping me to get my head screwed back on. (Trying to be as respectful as possible, she tells people to do things but whether you take her advice or not she gets very upset. For somebody who struggles figuring out people's meanings and intentions the inconsistency is terrifying.)

Moved out of the second apartment, because the city came in and condemned the entire apartment building for a mold problem. Ewww.

Decided the two moves in such a short period of time was a kick in the ass from Goddess. Decided to work on a viable career path, and go back to the goal I sort of got distracted from. Currently working on that, basically two things have to be lined up and I am headed Onward and Upward.

I hope to get to writing a little bit more on here as well. Maybe every two weeks or so.

Blessed Be.