Updates
Going to try again to start writing more often in my journal. I really need to get myself back into the habit of writing in this daily or weekly. Well, here's what's been going on anyhow...
I've been on Weight Watchers about two months now, and I've lost a total of 21.7 pounds. I'm starting to try and do more active things - walking, plus-sized yoga, and I'm going to start riding my bike again now that the weather is warmer. I also have a plan- I would like to see all the NJ state parks this spring/summer. I have a book with them listed in them, where you can collect a little sticker from each. It'd also be nice to combine it with geocaching, which I've been meaning to try. If any of my NJ friends want to go with us to a state park sometime, let me know!
My PTSD has been kind of bothering me a lot lately. The nervousness /anxiety is increasing. They've upped the dosage on my meds (heh-- triple what they were when I first started taking them), but I'm still having a lot of stress reactions. Other things too. But I've been trying to fight it down and do what I need to do regardless. It's just not very comfortable at times. My doctor suggested I get a hobby - something I can enjoy at regular intervals that gets me out of the house by myself, that's a positive kind of activity. I have been checking around but so far haven't found anything that fits the bill. I might try taking a writing class, or a craft class, or even doing some poetry again.
I watched a documentary on the Dust Bowl that makes me want to write something involving that era. Not directly, like set in that time period - but from the point of view of someone who grew up like that as their childhood / young adulthood. The close proximity of the 'Dirty Thirties' and WWII era makes me consider that, writing someone who is in the war who came up out of those circumstances. It's also noteworthy that from that era to the sixties even is only a span of thirty years. So someone could've grown up in the Dust Bowl, enlisted in the second world war (maybe even Korea) and be an adult in the turbulent sixties. What kind of mentality would that person have, having experienced three very different eras.Come to think of it, the person could be an older person still alive now- and wow what an amazing span of life that would be. How much our world has changed since the 1930s. It'd be a lot of research though, and I'd have to have some overall plot or purpose to it. Could be interesting someday, though. Maybe as an RP character, or just a little writing project.
I've been on Weight Watchers about two months now, and I've lost a total of 21.7 pounds. I'm starting to try and do more active things - walking, plus-sized yoga, and I'm going to start riding my bike again now that the weather is warmer. I also have a plan- I would like to see all the NJ state parks this spring/summer. I have a book with them listed in them, where you can collect a little sticker from each. It'd also be nice to combine it with geocaching, which I've been meaning to try. If any of my NJ friends want to go with us to a state park sometime, let me know!
My PTSD has been kind of bothering me a lot lately. The nervousness /anxiety is increasing. They've upped the dosage on my meds (heh-- triple what they were when I first started taking them), but I'm still having a lot of stress reactions. Other things too. But I've been trying to fight it down and do what I need to do regardless. It's just not very comfortable at times. My doctor suggested I get a hobby - something I can enjoy at regular intervals that gets me out of the house by myself, that's a positive kind of activity. I have been checking around but so far haven't found anything that fits the bill. I might try taking a writing class, or a craft class, or even doing some poetry again.
I watched a documentary on the Dust Bowl that makes me want to write something involving that era. Not directly, like set in that time period - but from the point of view of someone who grew up like that as their childhood / young adulthood. The close proximity of the 'Dirty Thirties' and WWII era makes me consider that, writing someone who is in the war who came up out of those circumstances. It's also noteworthy that from that era to the sixties even is only a span of thirty years. So someone could've grown up in the Dust Bowl, enlisted in the second world war (maybe even Korea) and be an adult in the turbulent sixties. What kind of mentality would that person have, having experienced three very different eras.Come to think of it, the person could be an older person still alive now- and wow what an amazing span of life that would be. How much our world has changed since the 1930s. It'd be a lot of research though, and I'd have to have some overall plot or purpose to it. Could be interesting someday, though. Maybe as an RP character, or just a little writing project.