So... It's now been somewhere around five years since I started trying to eat better, be more physically active, etc. There have been various incremental changes along the way, such as getting a bike last summer, but one thing I've been sort of meaning to do for pretty much that entire time (and some while before, really), and yet not gotten around ( Read more... )

Wow.

I just spent the weekend and then some (to be specific: Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings plus Saturday and Sunday daytimes) at the Radical Business Intensive, a really amazing business and marketing seminar for green or otherwise socially conscious business people ( Read more... )

A few years back, when I discovered I'd lost 15 pounds without trying, during the year following our acquisition of our dog Kiska, I decided that if just moving from an almost-entirely-sedentary lifestyle to one involving regular dog-walking could do that, perhaps more could be accomplished by actually trying to eat better and exercise more. And ( Read more... )

OK, so back on New Year's Eve I reviewed my goats, er, goals from the previous year, along with progress of lack thereof on each one, and said I'd cull the herd and assemble this year's goats in part two. So that would be now. Some of these are carried over or adapted from last year, some are new.

So, ( behold the 33 goats of 2006! )

Well, the new year may have officially started back in November for many pagan folk of various stripes, but there's something about the secular new year that seems to inspire planning and the making of resolutions, or the setting of goats, er goals. (The goats/goals thing is a long-running joke chez nous, most of you are probably used to it by now ( Read more... )

Well... Tonight I finally got around to doing something I'd been meaning to for a very long time: went to a meeting of an ADD Support Group. Very interesting and very enjoyable. There was a screening of a video by Dr. Hallowell, one of the authors of Driven to Distraction, the book that first made me start considering I might have ADD. And ( Read more... )

OK, whatever trickster deity or deities have been having fun with me this April Fool's Day, please stop. It's really not funny any more, and I'm running out of "think positive".

( How has this day sucked? Let me count the ways... )

Yes, I know it's a cheesy practice, and yes, I know the new year for me technically started at Samhain, but what the hell... (Goats = Goals. There's a story behind that...)

1. Get ladyjane's immigration sorted out and finished once and for all.
   
2. Be more organized, especially on business stuff, and in particular, manage my time better. I've noticed in retrospect ( Read more... )