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I've been off soda and all carbonated beverages for over a week now. I still get the occasional pang, but weaning slowly was the way to go -- I didn't experience any withdrawal headaches or things like that. Do I feel different? Well...no. But maybe I will? Or maybe it's gradual and I won't notice but over time I'll feel much better. Who knows. But I do hope it helps...I feel like I've been working really hard and it will be frustrating if I can't see/feel the results. I feel like my fitness is still kind of stalled out. I'm still running 10 miles a week, but I'm rarely getting more than 10, and I had kind of hoped to bump it up to more like 15 a week after the first few weeks. But my plantarfasciitis is back with a vengeance, and right now I'm still such a slow runner that if I wanted to do more than 10 miles a week, that would be all my cardio, and I do like to mix it up with the elliptical. I can play games on my phone while I'm on the elliptical. Can't do that on a treadmill.
I feel both very busy and very lazy most of the time. My time is spoken for, but I'm not getting a lot really done...need to shift this balance. This is something I've struggled with for my entire life, though. It's not new. Just every time I think I manage a solution, it turns out to only be temporary. Sigh.
Mandolin is going well. I feel like sometime in the last month or so, I've leveled up. I'm still very much a beginner, but a few things have been clicking more and I've been enjoying practicing more now that I have more skills. I have a few huge books of traditional bluegrass tunes, and there's a lot in there that I know well enough to play and sing. It's fun.
My priority list is a little overwhelming, as a lot of items are high priority, but it looks something like this:
Keep focusing on health (physical and emotional), dedicate more time to mindfulness each day.
Work on getting the house cleaner, getting rid of stuff I don't need.
Taxes (this involves a scary conversation with my dad, which I'm sure will be fine, but is still intimidating and difficult to initiate -- I need to cash out some stock to pay what I owe this year, and any money conversations with my dad that aren't "look how well I'm doing with money!" are frightening. He controls the stock I need to cash out, because it's an inheritance from when I was a kid.)
Amp up my real estate efforts -- hold more opens, do more marketing, update my website
Food. Do better.
Another foster dog? Maybe?
Craft time. Craft time is very important. Part of the mindfulness goal, also part of the clean my space goal, because right now all my crafts are spread out everywhere and I need to organize this shit so its mere existence stops stressing me out. That's exactly the opposite of the point.
I feel both very busy and very lazy most of the time. My time is spoken for, but I'm not getting a lot really done...need to shift this balance. This is something I've struggled with for my entire life, though. It's not new. Just every time I think I manage a solution, it turns out to only be temporary. Sigh.
Mandolin is going well. I feel like sometime in the last month or so, I've leveled up. I'm still very much a beginner, but a few things have been clicking more and I've been enjoying practicing more now that I have more skills. I have a few huge books of traditional bluegrass tunes, and there's a lot in there that I know well enough to play and sing. It's fun.
My priority list is a little overwhelming, as a lot of items are high priority, but it looks something like this:
Keep focusing on health (physical and emotional), dedicate more time to mindfulness each day.
Work on getting the house cleaner, getting rid of stuff I don't need.
Taxes (this involves a scary conversation with my dad, which I'm sure will be fine, but is still intimidating and difficult to initiate -- I need to cash out some stock to pay what I owe this year, and any money conversations with my dad that aren't "look how well I'm doing with money!" are frightening. He controls the stock I need to cash out, because it's an inheritance from when I was a kid.)
Amp up my real estate efforts -- hold more opens, do more marketing, update my website
Food. Do better.
Another foster dog? Maybe?
Craft time. Craft time is very important. Part of the mindfulness goal, also part of the clean my space goal, because right now all my crafts are spread out everywhere and I need to organize this shit so its mere existence stops stressing me out. That's exactly the opposite of the point.