Project GMST

Day two of meditation and yoga. Feeling good about working on Getting My Shit Together. I’ve felt far too bad about how I’ve (not) taken care of myself for far too long.

A secondary goal of GMST is to be more social, and to get out and meet new people. Tonight, I accompanied a friend to Bad Movie Night with a group of his friends. Everyone brought horrible movies to choose from, and then we voted on what to watch, and made jokes and hilarious commentary. Tonight we watched Flash Gordon and Red Dawn. It was awesome. I had forgotten about how amazingly bad Flash Gordon was. We may have to implement some version of this for our OPN.

Putting myself back on track

I dug out my meditation cushion today and did sitting meditation for the first time since moving to Austin. I kept it to 10 minutes, knowing that I don’t want to push it or get frustrated. I also pulled out the yoga mat and did some Sun Salutation, and I’m downloading some classes from Yoga Today. If I want to get back into a serious meditation practice, I have to work on opening my hips. They’ve been extremely tight since my motorcycle injury several years ago, and I just can’t find a well grounded position or sit comfortably for very long at all. They’re both tiny baby steps, but at least I feel like I’m moving in the right direction again. Once I can do a solid 30 minutes of yoga without wanting to pass out, I’ll work on getting to the classes at 24 Hour on a regular basis.

Personal health goals for the upcoming week:

- Meditate for 10 minutes each day
- Do at least one round of Sun Salutation each day
- Journal my progress

Other goals:

- Submit at least one Examiner article
- Accomplish three work-related things from the ToDo list

Trying out Ping.fm as a way to update across all my social sites.

Trying out MacJournal

In an effort to make it easier to blog, and to update to several blogs from one place, I’m using a trial version of MacJournal. I’m curious if anyone else has tried MacJournal, and would love any feedback or tips you can provide.

It's been an interesting year...

I just realized it's been almost a year since I posted anything here.  In that time I've (finally) graduated from college, become COO of a small business, challenged everything I've known and believed about love and relationships, moved to Austin, and said goodbye to my grandfather.

I've theorized in the past that I only feel the urge to write when I'm upset or stressed about things, and yet through most of this last year I wrote almost nothing here.  I believe that's because I've found someone who I can talk to about these things in order to work through them, where in the past I had to write about them to get them out of my head.

I also discovered Live Journal and Facebook during the last year, so I now have multiple outlets and I'm not certain where to put what anymore.  The one thing I do know is that I need to start blogging regularly again, because there is a different kind of sorting out that goes on when I try to express something in writing.

So, my goal is at least one post a week here, and another weekly post on my vegan blog.  Facebook and Twitter will be my day-to-day update places, and LJ will likely be more for informational sort of posts - links to articles, random thoughts and observations...  basically stuff too long for Twitter, but not really blog-worthy either.

Final day of working for the man

I went in late, and did almost nothing work-related all day.  It was kind of anti-climatic for being my day of liberation.  

So now I just have to finish up school, and get moved to Austin - while learning an entirely new OS on the side.  I've just switched from Windows machines to a MacBook, and am still getting used to how everything works.  It's not too bad.  I just have to learn all new shortcuts after having used DOS, then Windows machines my entire computing life - which is pretty damn long considering I've been using computers of some sort or another for over 20 years.  

But, I'm nothing if not adaptable, and I do love playing with new toys and figuring out how to do things in new software, so I'm sure I'll get good on it in no time.  Which is pretty important since I'm entering into a new venture with Melomel creating iPhone software.  

Also, in other news...   I had the final test for my Essure procedure Thursday, and I am confirmed sterile.  I was just a little sad leaving the office - not that I now want kids suddenly, but perhaps mourning a possibility that is now gone for good.

Freedom at last!

Yesterday I put in notice at my job. My last day of work will be May 4th. I'll be taking the remaining 12 hours needed to finish my degree over the two summer sessions, and I'll be graduated with my BA by mid-August!

It's a bit nerve-wracking to be unemployed for the first time in about 17 years. I've been continuously employed for all that time. I've always had another job lined up before I quit the current one, so this is a little scary. But it's also very exciting to feel as if the future is wide open for me.

As soon as I finish the BA, I'll be moving to Austin, starting my new life with melomel, and enrolling in grad school at UT. The future is looking very bright indeed!