What a gorgeous weekend. Both days were that lovely, golden warm weather we get well into October. Saturday I went for my acupuncture treatment, then out over to the other side of town to spend the afternoon and evening with my family. It was a celebration for my brother's birthday the day before, and for Hanne passing the bar. Andrew's college roommate and his girlfriend also came over; Dan has the ability to work from wherever he wants, so the two of them trekked out here to spend 4-5 months living out here, and then plan to head down to Northern CA; somewhere north of SanFran. I think they're crazy for wanting to leave here -- but that area of California is absolutely gorgeous. I miss it sometimes.
Work has been busier lately, which is nice. It had gotten a tad slow there, for awhile, both for business, and, thusly emails or phones to answer. We recently launched a new four-lesson coaching course to go with new purchases of our initial meditation program, and that's been very popular. We rearranged our work schedule so that we're open from seven in the morning until six at night; I'm here (I'm on lunch at the moment!) from eight until four; I do like having more hours, but I'm usually dead and useless by four, anyway, so it's actually been nice getting off at that time.
It has taken some adjustment (having come to work at 8:30 for the last seven years), and, when I get home, I keep wanting to fall into the routine I had for arriving back around 5:30 -- like getting dinner together. It's been nice to have the extra time for writing or whatnot. However, with the new schedule, I now have an hour of phones to do during the 12:30 - 1:30 lunch shift (mine is from 11:30 - 12:30), and I've actually liked taking more calls than I used to do. Changes things up from doing emails and emails and more emails.
I haven't been waking up as early as I was, but 4:30-ish seems to be what my body's settled into...at least for now. That's okay with me; it gives me time to have a more leisurely morning before heading off to work. Been having really odd dreams lately, too. But I can't really recall them upon waking.
We did have kind of a wild and crazy summer -- long time to warm up, then BLAMMO right into a heat wave like we haven't had in 20 years (strange year for weather -- the blizzard back in Dec-Jan, then that weird heat...very annoying in a third-floor apartment!), and now we're into the Fall weather...but I find myself liking the change of seasons, even if we didn't have much of a summer. I kind of go into a kind of mental hibernation mode that's nice.
Not much to report on the vegetable end; the heat wave zapped pretty much everything. Next year I'm trying hanging tomatoes, however. And it should be easier, given heat waves like that are very rare (I get the radiant heat from the blacktop and cars below me; one day, the worst of the heat days, I checked the thermometer, and it said it was 115 out there on my terrace. Bleah.)
The other thing I've been doing lately is being much more mindful of how / what I eat. I have generally good eating habits, but, upon taking a long hard look, I realized I'd slipped into some bad habits and was lacking in certain areas. I've put on about 30ish pounds over the last year or so because of the decline in what / how I've been eating, as well as becoming more of a slug. So with the newly-improved regime of better eating and a daily 30-minute practice of yoga, I think I'll be seeing improvements. I've also been factoring in more walks. I've also decided to let my body lose the weight as it needs to; my other attempts, I realized, were more about trying to coerce myself into doing better and losing the weight, and even coerce my body into losing. Not the healthiest way to do it.
Well, that's all, folks, as Porky the Pig would say -- at least for now.
-- H
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