I keep planning to sit down at my new little home office desk and type away like Virginia Woolf in a room of my own, of course she most likely had a pen and paper, no MacBook for her!
First, my defeat, my goals bombed big time! But, it wasn’t my fault I tell you! Well, I did something horribly wrong to my neck in the first week of May - I went to swim on a beautiful morning, in an empty pool, with sun streaming in the windows. After two laps, I gave it up, my neck was fucked! I couldn’t breathe properly when going for breath during the front crawl. In fact, it even hurt to wash my hair. I went to my acupuncturist that same day, he worked on me, the next day I had an emergency appointment with my chiropractor. This felt like the sign I needed to maybe slow down a bit. I took a week off of working out and tried to just heal. I still have some pain, though it’s much better, but swimming still presents a bit of a challenge, I think I am close.
So I’m sticking by my yoga, still doing my stairs and jogging, and looking forward to making it back to swimming eventually.
My time on probation came to an end which means I am moving onward and upward. I am not at Station 3 any longer, now I have a cycle that puts me at Station 25 (SE 52nd and Mall), Station 11 (SE 92nd and Foster) and Station 20 (SE Bybee and 21st) - it should be noted that I visited Station 20 when I was in kindergarten! Alas, all this SE action feels like it’s telling me something, though I still, financially, can’t bear to listen, so I am staying the course in Beaverton. It is a bit tough, as I sorta live out of my car right now. It is not my favorite world, but for now, it’ll have to do. I have gotten to work at some cool stations, my favorite being at SE 92nd and Foster. It’s nice to be fairly familiar with the area in which I’m serving.
My house is winning the battle as well - all this defeat - what’s a girl to do? I took the door from the garage into the house off of its hinges and I’m stripping it, though I took it to my brothers, because he’s stripping too, I only have a little bit to finish, but for some reason, those lazies catch up with me! I also got a plot tilled up, but my garden helper suffered a heart attack, so I’m flying solo, I just need a helper. I saw on facebook that a former student of mine was looking for a job. I messaged her to see if, in the meantime, she’d be interested in being my assistant (though I didn’t word it as my assistant), she’s on board and starting on Saturday. I hope this is the nudge I need to move in the right direction.
My niece, Stella, is doing great and is a bundle of FUN! I will post pictures and videos. I get to babysit occasionally and she’s pretty dang easy.
My friend Madeline made some “disconnect” turning off her blog and tuning out facebook to focus on more human connections. I feel good on my human connections - do you agree, Humans? But, I do feel like I check this computer, iphone stuff way too often in a day. Today I made it a goal to read for two hours, and I did, I have a stack of New York Times that I have been trying to get to reading, I think I am on my way. I’d like to get a reading chair with a reading light, sit in the corner and read.
Per usual, I am making really poor decisions in the boy department.
