Little Things Updates

While I still have ups and downs on my eating healthy (more downs than ups - crap), I AM engaged in getting things done.  This is a good step for me to get back to the GOOD STUFF.

When I'm in a funk, I have ideas and then let those ideas fade away to nothing.  When I'm out of my funk, I actually DO things - imagine that!!

In order of my brain thoughts this morning:

GRADUATION BINGO is designed, printed and bingo pens have arrived.  I saw this on Facebook 8 months ago and saved it.  It's a fun distraction during a long a boring ceremony!  The prize is a box of chocolate smores candy from Trader Joe's.  Yum!!  I saw it and thought - so fun, so perfect.  The fact that I'm actually doing it is a yea-me moment.

READING.  I'm on a roll.  Reading is different than watching.  There is something about it that gives me the feel-goods.  I'm reading a book about Paris life and the author's adjustment to the Parisian way of living. He's a pastry chef, so lots of information and recipes on all yummy french pastries!  I figure this is a good idea heading to Paris.  I didn't love it the last time I was there - the snooty stereotype was alive and well.  Maybe it was ME, not THEM.  When in Rome ...
"The Sweet Life in Paris" -- David Lebovitz

CROSS TRAINING.  You know all about my boxing effort.  I learned a lot lifting and doing tabata.  Some stuff to take with me, but life pivoted and changed again.  So I'm continuing on ... trying and trying until I find IT.  This might not be IT, but it will surely give me some learning and steps forward.

LEARNING.  I'm on the hunt to learn new things.  Little things, big things, whatever.  Documentaries on Netflix, asking questions when I'm out-and-about, looking up things I wonder about, listening more to people ... brain food. I forget this sometimes.  It adds a whole bunch of interest to my day.

BEING FLEXIBLE.  This is a new project for me.  I tend to get an idea and then want it to flow PERFECTLY as I imagined it should.  If it doesn't, I get pissy or upset or give up on it.  I'm embracing the path (as best I can - it's not easy LOL).  Embracing and (sometimes) even welcoming a different direction.  Very zen-like of me.  (I can do this for awhile and then I have a fit ... and then zen-ME comes back.  It's an endurance issue LOL!!)  Practice, practice, practice!!

ADDING to the CALENDAR.  VARIETY - my old friend, glad to have you back.  I'm a CERTAINTY girl, but too much is too much.  Adding some fun to the calendar, out of the box stuff, doing it NOW (not waiting until the next time), asking different friends to come along, fitting it in to my schedule.  It all is good. I do this and then I fade back into my CERTAINTY role of same-same.  I'm focused on this balance and it feels good.

Now the HARD part - my dang diet!!  Trip to Europe and then I must get things in a better place (where have I heard this before?!?!?).  Have a great weekend!  Later gators.