Weekly Check-in: Breathing is good
Date Posted: July 16th, 2010
The Weekly Check-in is where I let you all know where I am on the path. “The Hard” is stuff I struggled with this week. It’s complaining except hopefully not as annoying. “The Good” is what went well this week. “The Learning” is what I realized this week. Learning could be related to The Hard or The Good but it might not be. The format is similar to the one FluentSelf’s Havi uses in her Friday Chickens.
The Hard
Exercise Please?
I didn’t bike to work on Wednesday or Thursday, and felt gross because of it. Brain fuzzy, can’t think straight, gross.
Nique needs to exercise consistently. Sewiously.
Not Enough Time
I want more time. I want energy to use said time. I don’t want to give up things I love doing. Can’t I have my cake and eat it too?
The Promise Breaking
I promised myself I’d get up with the kitty and either read (if the weather was nice) or use the exercise bike (if the weather was crummy). This didn’t happen. If the weather is nice I still bike to work, but getting up with the cat is hard. Especially when Rorschach decides that 4AM is a good time to start caterwauling. Rawr.
Maybe I need to face the fact that 8 hours of sleep is what I need. Getting up at 7 isn’t so bad…
Maybe I need to find some other time to exercise. Or something.
Also didn’t do as much writing as I would have liked to. (And I did want to do writing.)
Guilt Guilt Guilt
Not keeping promises to myself brings on the guilt.
Unfortunately while guilt will get me to sit on the bike or open the journal, it won’t make me want to exercise or want to write. Bleh.
The Good
Books!
Finished World Without End. Started Voluntary Simplicity. WWE was very good. I’m kinda sad it’s over. Voluntary Simplicity is looking like it’s going to be good too.
Finishing books is definitely a good thing. It makes me feel like I can accomplish something.
Meetings can be useful
I run a weekly progress meeting for one of my projects at work. Normally when I hear about meetings it’s about how long they are and how they take away from actual productive time. These meetings are different.
For one thing these meetings are short. This last one was 15 minutes? Maybe?
For another stuff gets done in the 10 – 20 minutes before the meeting. On both sides. No one likes to hear that they’re part isn’t done.
Happiness.
Crêpes at the Farmer’s Market
On Wednesday Aaron and I went to the Farmer’s Market on our way to work, and in one of the stalls was a crêpe stand. 
Very unexpected. Very tasty. I would have them again, though not every week.
It was nice to do something spontaneous and not feel guilty about it afterward.
Improving at Recorder
On Wednesday evenings I’ve been spending some time honing my music skills. Recorder has been my primary instrument for about 4 years now, so unsurprisingly I’ve been using some of that time to focus on it.
I’m happy to say that improvement is being made. I’m able to play more of the notes the recorder is capable of and I’ve discovered that the alto is better suited for many pieces I have until now usually played on the soprano.
I’m really glad I decided to block out one evening a week for practice.
The Learning
I feel terrible if I don’t exercise
*Writes note to self.*
Breathing is Good
Yep.
My Self-Worth is tied up in silly things
Like how productive I am and how well I keep promises to myself.
I need to remind myself that me not keeping promises to myself doesn’t mean I’m a bad person. It means something’s misaligned.
I need to remind myself to keep putting one foot in front of the other.
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