I love my little town I live in. Lately I’ve been having friends trying to talk me into moving to JP. A bunch of friends from my old job all live there and it’s a great little community. I do consider it occasionally and then I’m reminded of the wonderful attributes of my area. Case in point: this morning I was running out the door, a few minutes behind schedule which is all it takes to see the last of my buses drive by. Meaning I’ve got about 10 minutes to wait until the next batch. As I’m walking up to my bus stop, across the street I recognize the figure heading towards their car. It was Bill who’s on the town committee with me. He’s this dynamic retired fellow who is quite a character. He even invited me to Thanksgiving dinner a few years ago – his 5 grown children with their families were all descending on their place and he still thought to include me. Well, it turns out being two minutes late meant that I was on time to catch a ride down to my subway stop which happened to be on his way and put me at least 10 minutes ahead of schedule. So this morning on my way into work I had an enjoyable animated chat. We are often on opposite voting sides of the committee – I’m pro environment which sometimes means a little extra spending – he’s pro not spending money on extras unnecessarily. Anyways, it was nice running into someone I knew and having a small change in my morning routine. Good energy.
In other news, I have to say I’ve really benefited from understanding why I was so tired all the time. Last month when I went in for my annual physical, I was half hoping the test results for the Lyme disease test would come back positive. Not really, as I don’t want to have to deal with something like that. But at least I’d know. I’d know why I was tired. And now I have that. I really worry a lot, to the point it was almost like white noise and I didn’t really realize I was doing it. And it’s exhausting. My therapist had me do this exercise. She had me write my name while at the same time counting backwards from 100. It was hard. Doable. But hard. If that’s how I went around in my life I’d get exhausted quickly. Which it turns out is what I’m kind of doing right now. If only diagnosing it could shut it off, but at least I’m starting to put it in check. Not all the time as it’s hard identifying it. But I’ve seen progress. To the point that I’ve been able to start chipping away at the long “to do” list that was starting to get out of control. Oh, that’s the other thing, I have unrealistic expectations of what I can accomplish with my time. So I’ve started putting that in check too. And interestingly I’m getting more stuff done. One thing I’ve started doing is, in the mornings as I get ready for work, I tackle one of my chores I put off doing, usually it only takes 15-20 minutes anyways. Yesterday I did the dishes. Today I cleaned the floors. This way I don’t feel like I have to get all this unfun stuff done on my weekend and leaves me worry free to enjoy my weekend jaunts. Which is particularly good as this weekend is completely booked up and I’m leaving town next week. Which means my landlords will be up checking on the boys and I want the place to be super duper presentable. Almost there.
And finally, a special shout out to my biker friends, err, bicycle friends. Between when I posted the last post and now I have swung back to maybe coughing up some money and buying a new bike. I even made plans Sunday to go to Belmont’s Wheelworks - the place that keeps popping up in recommendations of places to go from folks. It’s supposed to have a huge selection and I started reading up on the styles and came to the same conclusion as some of the recommendations people posted. I don’t need anything fancy or fast, just for commuting and running errands. I’m going with a gal friend who knows bikes which I appreciate as I’m always worried about getting hoodwinked into not such a good deal. We’ll see what I have to report on Monday!
1 comment:
ugh, i did that 'background worry' thing in grad school, and i slept terribly during that time of my life... i couldn't even turn it off at night!
i hope you end up with a new bike that you love - can't wait to hear all about it!
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