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Hello again, internet. It's been a long, long time. This being the first bit of the month, let's see if I can post two or three times a week all month, hey? (I've learned that I do better one or two small steps at a time, instead of adding everything at once and then flailing under it.)
So, in the state of the Corry, we have:
I've been running, when the weather cooperates. Doing the Zombies, Run! app and the 5k training app related to it. It's keeping me motivated to run in the first place, and to do at least 30 minutes when I do. My current week has 60-second runs, and my goal is that by the end of November I want to be able to run for a whole 30 minutes. I don't know yet if this is reachable, but I'm definitely making progress toward it, so we'll see where that ends up. I also think I might have cold-induced breathing problems, but that should go away very soon.
Cleaning. Um. I've made the pile smaller a few times? The bedroom is still pretty cluttered, and one of the main sticking points is that I can only haul so much trash downstairs per week, *and* until very recently I could only haul a certain amount downstairs without it kicking my ass into panting exhaustion. Which leads me to...
I'm feeling better, and that means I can work out a bit more, which is making me feel better about life and stuff because now I can actually haul trash down the stairs without wheezing for air. As a side note here--
In my job at the piranha store, two people have the key to the thermostat, and neither of them are here this week. This is not as dire as it might sound, because we have a fancy-feenancy model that switches from heat to cool as needed. Unfortunately, it cools way down at night, which would be great for sleeping, but not great if you're supposed to stay awake and work. So, I have taught my fellow supervisors (and the employee who just got her teaching degree, because this is super useful for educators who often have locked thermostats too) the trick where you put the ice pack on the thermostat and it cools the surrounding air and kicks the heater on. So it's a balmy 70 in here, woo!
Plans for this upcoming week: I want to work on the Symbia wiki, maybe a couple of new articles-- I want to talk about traffic patterns in a society without vehicles-- and do some name work for various abilities. I want to go out running, and by Tuesday it should be nice enough. Tomorrow the kid and I are going to the library, which means today I have to finish my book from there. And if I'm lucky by the end of the week I should be getting a shipment of some running gear I ordered.
And it's nasty-awful outside, so wish me luck getting home from here.
So, in the state of the Corry, we have:
I've been running, when the weather cooperates. Doing the Zombies, Run! app and the 5k training app related to it. It's keeping me motivated to run in the first place, and to do at least 30 minutes when I do. My current week has 60-second runs, and my goal is that by the end of November I want to be able to run for a whole 30 minutes. I don't know yet if this is reachable, but I'm definitely making progress toward it, so we'll see where that ends up. I also think I might have cold-induced breathing problems, but that should go away very soon.
Cleaning. Um. I've made the pile smaller a few times? The bedroom is still pretty cluttered, and one of the main sticking points is that I can only haul so much trash downstairs per week, *and* until very recently I could only haul a certain amount downstairs without it kicking my ass into panting exhaustion. Which leads me to...
I'm feeling better, and that means I can work out a bit more, which is making me feel better about life and stuff because now I can actually haul trash down the stairs without wheezing for air. As a side note here--
Corry's opinions on depression and exercise: When you start getting over depression, you start being more willing to do things. This doesn't mean forcing yourself to exercise would fix depression any more than it would fix a broken leg. Part of the healing process is the starting to feel better, which causes the being willing to do things. "You should exercise more" is fix-ology, I think. And it doesn't work, it just makes me feel guilty about yet another thing I just can't make myself do when I feel like staying in bed 22 hours a day.
In my job at the piranha store, two people have the key to the thermostat, and neither of them are here this week. This is not as dire as it might sound, because we have a fancy-feenancy model that switches from heat to cool as needed. Unfortunately, it cools way down at night, which would be great for sleeping, but not great if you're supposed to stay awake and work. So, I have taught my fellow supervisors (and the employee who just got her teaching degree, because this is super useful for educators who often have locked thermostats too) the trick where you put the ice pack on the thermostat and it cools the surrounding air and kicks the heater on. So it's a balmy 70 in here, woo!
Plans for this upcoming week: I want to work on the Symbia wiki, maybe a couple of new articles-- I want to talk about traffic patterns in a society without vehicles-- and do some name work for various abilities. I want to go out running, and by Tuesday it should be nice enough. Tomorrow the kid and I are going to the library, which means today I have to finish my book from there. And if I'm lucky by the end of the week I should be getting a shipment of some running gear I ordered.
And it's nasty-awful outside, so wish me luck getting home from here.
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Date: 2014-03-02 10:51 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2014-03-03 02:53 am (UTC)From:It says that happiness leads to productivity although generally people believe that productivity leads to happiness.
Good luck getting home. I'm glad you're doing more to take better care of yourself. I just wish we didn't seem to alternate who was doing okay.