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3:00 snapshot #1780: Tuesday
Oct. 15th, 2014 08:50 pm
This is me throwing my New Year's Resolution (no sweets) out the window.
This is me throwing my New Year's Resolution (no sweets) out the window.
Taking care of the body
Jan. 1st, 2014 12:02 pmIf I don't write these things down they will not happen.
I'm giving up sweets again this year, mainly to avoid compulsively eating whatever garbage my coworkers put on the desk nearest mine. Cookies, candy, donut holes, cinnamon bread, it's been a constant stream of sugary crap all year but climaxing with the Halloween/Xmas vortex. The last sweets I ate off that desk were some stale anise cookies (which I don't really love even when fresh) that I had to power through in order to chew and eat them. It's ridiculous.
I'm giving up fried potatoes for the year, since I actually love fried potatoes and I could take or leave sweets. I had french fries with almost every meal on my trip with my dad and I could see myself get fatter with every selfie.
I intend to hold to being vegetarian on Thursdays. Seems pretty stupid since I was veg 7 days a week for 15 years, but it's so damn easy to eat meat. It's fatty and salty, and it's already cooked and edible, unlike plants, which are bitter and tough and awful until you cook them in butter and salt. So yeah, meat-free Thursdays, which will coincide with yoga class. I actually don't feel like eating meat (or drinking booze) after doing yoga. It probably releases the same feel-good endocrine system dope that meat and booze do.
Yes I should probably do something to moderate my alcohol intake. Not on the list this year.
I should also go to the doctor for a regular check-up. Haven't done that in several years. They will likely tell me to do all of the above, plus knock out the drinking. I really need that albuterol fix, and maybe they'll give me some of those sweet anti-dementia drugs before it's too late.
Stay healthy everyone!
I'm giving up sweets again this year, mainly to avoid compulsively eating whatever garbage my coworkers put on the desk nearest mine. Cookies, candy, donut holes, cinnamon bread, it's been a constant stream of sugary crap all year but climaxing with the Halloween/Xmas vortex. The last sweets I ate off that desk were some stale anise cookies (which I don't really love even when fresh) that I had to power through in order to chew and eat them. It's ridiculous.
I'm giving up fried potatoes for the year, since I actually love fried potatoes and I could take or leave sweets. I had french fries with almost every meal on my trip with my dad and I could see myself get fatter with every selfie.
I intend to hold to being vegetarian on Thursdays. Seems pretty stupid since I was veg 7 days a week for 15 years, but it's so damn easy to eat meat. It's fatty and salty, and it's already cooked and edible, unlike plants, which are bitter and tough and awful until you cook them in butter and salt. So yeah, meat-free Thursdays, which will coincide with yoga class. I actually don't feel like eating meat (or drinking booze) after doing yoga. It probably releases the same feel-good endocrine system dope that meat and booze do.
Yes I should probably do something to moderate my alcohol intake. Not on the list this year.
I should also go to the doctor for a regular check-up. Haven't done that in several years. They will likely tell me to do all of the above, plus knock out the drinking. I really need that albuterol fix, and maybe they'll give me some of those sweet anti-dementia drugs before it's too late.
Stay healthy everyone!
Winter is crud. There are moments of magic, but I find it hard to rise above the long months of cold and damp and dark. My enthusiasm and creativity plunge, when I should be taking advantage of being homebound, time that could be spent writing and learning and/or making art. I end up writing depressing screeds like this one.
I should say that I am writing this on a new computer, one that has a battery that charges and can be moved from room to room or even outdoors. One that I could plug my microphone into and record my podcast without the electronic interference of the power cable. I read that's a problem from someone on the internet. Also the speakers are twice as loud as those on my old computer. (I'm the kind of person that would replace the radio in my car before the engine.)
Many thanks to my friend Rachel who greatly facilitated the upgrade. I don't make important decisions without being pushed or pulled over the edge, so I can only understate my appreciation. Thank you Rachel!
My goals for the new year are the kind that I'll only fulfill if I have someone there to help me along or give me a substantial shove. The help I need on the "learning to play a new instrument" goal may come from my friend Kiki, who is offering to lend me one of her pointy guitars, and show me a chord or two. The "brew my own beer" goal will be met when the scoffing about how easy it is (supplied by my friends and relatives) gets to be too much and I go buy the damn kit already. I'll also have to stop buying beer for a few months to save up for the kit.
The first Urban Nature Walk of 2013 will happen Sunday the 27th, location to be announced. A good friend who works for the Department of Conservation and Recreation has tentatively agreed to co-lead the walk. She wasn't enthusiastic about leading a walk in places that have been degraded in her mind as "work" but I'm hoping to tap into her knowledge. I also hope that having a group of interested amateurs listening to what she has to say will help spark some of that enthusiasm.
Maybe it's just winter.
I should say that I am writing this on a new computer, one that has a battery that charges and can be moved from room to room or even outdoors. One that I could plug my microphone into and record my podcast without the electronic interference of the power cable. I read that's a problem from someone on the internet. Also the speakers are twice as loud as those on my old computer. (I'm the kind of person that would replace the radio in my car before the engine.)
Many thanks to my friend Rachel who greatly facilitated the upgrade. I don't make important decisions without being pushed or pulled over the edge, so I can only understate my appreciation. Thank you Rachel!
My goals for the new year are the kind that I'll only fulfill if I have someone there to help me along or give me a substantial shove. The help I need on the "learning to play a new instrument" goal may come from my friend Kiki, who is offering to lend me one of her pointy guitars, and show me a chord or two. The "brew my own beer" goal will be met when the scoffing about how easy it is (supplied by my friends and relatives) gets to be too much and I go buy the damn kit already. I'll also have to stop buying beer for a few months to save up for the kit.
The first Urban Nature Walk of 2013 will happen Sunday the 27th, location to be announced. A good friend who works for the Department of Conservation and Recreation has tentatively agreed to co-lead the walk. She wasn't enthusiastic about leading a walk in places that have been degraded in her mind as "work" but I'm hoping to tap into her knowledge. I also hope that having a group of interested amateurs listening to what she has to say will help spark some of that enthusiasm.
Maybe it's just winter.
3:00 snapshot #663
Dec. 29th, 2010 08:57 pm
This is as good a time as any to announce my New Years Resolution to give up sweets. As you can see, my office is a hotbed of ice cream (CANDY CANE! YuM) and donuts. Also chocolates, candy, cookies, ice cream cake, pastries, and so on. I could stand to eat fewer empty calories, and since I'm not giving up booze (did that for a month--man parties without booze are boring) it may as well be sweets. Moderation is the better way to do it, but I seem incapable of moderation. I went from being a vegetarian for 15 years to eating pork sausage at least 3 times a week. (Also, I recently realized that what they call "binge drinking" is the activity that I call "drinking." That's a different issue, I guess.)
If there are donuts in the office or cookies at home I WILL EAT THEM, not because I derive any special pleasure from them, but because they are there. Depriving myself of them categorically is my only route to avoiding this behavior. Which brings up an interesting point: what counts? Well, I've pretty much listed what counts: candy, pastries, and ice cream. What doesn't count? Sweet drinks, soft or hard--except those that include ice cream. Jelly, even though it's mostly corn syrup, doesn't count, in fact I'm going to give myself a pass on anything that it primarily fruit. I love fruit. I could give up chocolate for life tomorrow and not care, but if I had to go a week without fruit I'd be sad. Maple syrup doesn't count, as long as I'm putting it on a breakfast thing like waffles. My rules. Also I can eat blueberry pie.
For my birthday this year I will specially request something which is made of mostly fruit, instead of a birthday cake. My coworkers (who today provided candy cane and red velvet cake ice cream, dunkin donuts munchkins, and caramel filled chocolate bells, in addition to the pound of fudge I got for xmas) have been notified; they think I am insane.
I'm not complaining--really, I'm not
Dec. 21st, 2008 08:41 amI don't usually do New Years Resolutions, but this year I want to resolve to stop complaining. Winter will not be the easiest time to do this, since I hate winter weather so much. It'll be a challenge right out of the gate.
As I shoveled snow until I felt bad this morning (only took a half hour) I was thinking about complaints: what constitutes a complaint? If you state a fact ("it took us almost eleven hours to drive to Long Island in a snowstorm") is that a complaint? Or is the intention of the statement what makes it a complaint?
I used to be very aggravated by my coworkers complaining at my last job. My belief was that the complaint didn't accomplish anything. If there is something that can be done about it, then do it. If not, then shut up and stop making everyone around you feel negative. Maybe it's the negative energy that makes a complaint what it is. Perhaps instead of resolving to stop complaining, I should resolve to have a more positive outlook.
Any thoughts?
As I shoveled snow until I felt bad this morning (only took a half hour) I was thinking about complaints: what constitutes a complaint? If you state a fact ("it took us almost eleven hours to drive to Long Island in a snowstorm") is that a complaint? Or is the intention of the statement what makes it a complaint?
I used to be very aggravated by my coworkers complaining at my last job. My belief was that the complaint didn't accomplish anything. If there is something that can be done about it, then do it. If not, then shut up and stop making everyone around you feel negative. Maybe it's the negative energy that makes a complaint what it is. Perhaps instead of resolving to stop complaining, I should resolve to have a more positive outlook.
Any thoughts?
