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This is my first post of 2007. (I'm behind on reading LJ, too.) Lots has been going on, in my life and in my head... good things mostly, I'm glad to say.
I'll try to catch up with life things soon, but for my first post I want to name a resolution of sorts: simply to cultivate better habits. To take better care of myself. I can't pursue any of my other dreams properly until I do that, after all! I'm going to pursue better habits with sleep, food, exercise, home, organization, work, punctuality, leisure time, etc.
One of my worst habits is staying up very late. Sometimes it's insomnia, but sometimes it's just me being ridiculous for no good reason at all. I often don't get to sleep till 4 or 5 am. And though I can sleep till 11:00 (my work begins at noon), that's not actually enough sleep for me and I'm useless the whole next day. So -- I'm happy to report that for the last few nights, I've been going to bed not long after midnight, and I've actually been asleep before 1:30 am. This is almost unheard of for me. Also unheard of is me waking up naturally before 10:00... but that happened too. i am very pleased about it.
Regarding exercise, well.... there's a gym in the basement of my building, and the manager stopped in to my store and gave me a free week's membership. I've never belonged to a gym before, and I've never exercised regularly (since I was a child anyway). I'm heading out of my mid-30s and into my late 30s, and it's high time I cultivated the habit of exercise. So maybe I'll try this gym for a bit, and then see what it costs. I'm sure the cost will be offset by increased income, resulting from increased productivity, resulting from increased well-being.
So I've gone so far as to bring to work a bag containing exercise clothes and shoes; I just haven't gotten up the nerve to go downstairs and check it out. It's the kind of thing I'm intimidated to do by myself, for whatever reason, and especially because I'm totally unfamiliar with gyms and how they work. I have no idea how to use a treadmill, etc. I'm sure an employee of the gym will be glad to show me around; I just feel like a dork for wanting to be coaxed along and guided. And I'm afraid the gym will be full of supercilious exercising yuppies, who will give me the vaguely hostile, blankfaced, I'm-superior-and-who-the-hell-are-YOU yuppie stare, while they exercise their perfect bodies clad in expensive exercise clothing, listening to yuppie music on their tiny expensive electronic doohickeys.
I'll try to catch up with life things soon, but for my first post I want to name a resolution of sorts: simply to cultivate better habits. To take better care of myself. I can't pursue any of my other dreams properly until I do that, after all! I'm going to pursue better habits with sleep, food, exercise, home, organization, work, punctuality, leisure time, etc.
One of my worst habits is staying up very late. Sometimes it's insomnia, but sometimes it's just me being ridiculous for no good reason at all. I often don't get to sleep till 4 or 5 am. And though I can sleep till 11:00 (my work begins at noon), that's not actually enough sleep for me and I'm useless the whole next day. So -- I'm happy to report that for the last few nights, I've been going to bed not long after midnight, and I've actually been asleep before 1:30 am. This is almost unheard of for me. Also unheard of is me waking up naturally before 10:00... but that happened too. i am very pleased about it.
Regarding exercise, well.... there's a gym in the basement of my building, and the manager stopped in to my store and gave me a free week's membership. I've never belonged to a gym before, and I've never exercised regularly (since I was a child anyway). I'm heading out of my mid-30s and into my late 30s, and it's high time I cultivated the habit of exercise. So maybe I'll try this gym for a bit, and then see what it costs. I'm sure the cost will be offset by increased income, resulting from increased productivity, resulting from increased well-being.
So I've gone so far as to bring to work a bag containing exercise clothes and shoes; I just haven't gotten up the nerve to go downstairs and check it out. It's the kind of thing I'm intimidated to do by myself, for whatever reason, and especially because I'm totally unfamiliar with gyms and how they work. I have no idea how to use a treadmill, etc. I'm sure an employee of the gym will be glad to show me around; I just feel like a dork for wanting to be coaxed along and guided. And I'm afraid the gym will be full of supercilious exercising yuppies, who will give me the vaguely hostile, blankfaced, I'm-superior-and-who-the-hell-are-YOU yuppie stare, while they exercise their perfect bodies clad in expensive exercise clothing, listening to yuppie music on their tiny expensive electronic doohickeys.