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2015 – Update on body goals – Week 7

The Writing Life of a Tadpole
February 24 2015

Time to do a quick update, here at the end of week 7.

My body goals, the red ones in the pie, are going absolutely horribly. I am one lazy git. Pushups, crunches, lunges, back extensions, finding a new doctor, finding a new dentist, giving blood? All pretty much zero since the beginning of the year.

If I was looking for excuses, I could find them — I spent weeks 1-2 pretty much focused on getting the goals going and blogging. Weeks 3-5 were pretty much wiped out with a flu bug that was crushing my lung capacity. Week 6 I was starting to feel a little better, more myself, but not quite there. Week 7? I was just plain lazy.

I have a little light progress here and there. I’ve managed to do my back extensions here and there, pushups here and there. I figured out some internal walking options at work, and I’m considering a FitBit / pedometer to track steps rather than the 100K walking goal.  » Read the rest

2015 – Update on heart goals – Week 7

The Writing Life of a Tadpole
February 24 2015

Time to do a quick update, here at the end of week 7.

I’m not doing that well on my two big goals — better engagement with Jacob and random acts of romance. While I’ve made some progress on both, I haven’t yet rolled over the tipping point to make it 3-4 times per week, which was the goal.

On the social side, I’ve continued to reach out to my siblings, and to my male friends for the “mid-month meat madness for men” i.e. wing night. Tonight is my second outing for the wings, and since my brother Mike is coming along, I’ll double-count that as a win. On the sibling front, I think it will be a difficult time for one sibling + sibling-in-law over the coming few months, and while I certainly don’t want to get actively involved in their reconfiguration of their life, I also want them to know that they have my relatively-unconditional support and empathy for the journey.  » Read the rest

2015 – Update on mind goals – Week 7

The Writing Life of a Tadpole
February 24 2015

Time to do a quick update, here at the end of week 7.

For my astronomy, considering that I haven’t actually dug the telescope out and got it set up yet, mostly because I’m rapidly coming to the conclusion that I’m a fair-weather (i.e. warm-weather) astronomer only, I’m doing okay. I’ve played around with a few things, even managed to get a photo of the Mars / Venus / Moon conjunction on the weekend. While I had hoped to be doing something astronomy-related at least once a week, I’m at a combined total of 3 so far.

For the kitchen reno, we got going a few weeks ago with our first meeting with the designer, but haven’t heard anything in the last two weeks (contractor needs to come talk to us about moving a wall, see what the options are). I’m going to follow up this week and see about booking them for a specific 2 weeks in the summer.  » Read the rest

So what else did I get?

The Writing Life of a Tadpole
February 13 2015

Without naming names, someone read my post about controlling my temper, and said, “Okay so what else did you get from your tadpole years?” Which is a pretty good question, so I’ll see if I can elaborate a little.

First, as I said, my tadpole years were triggered by a realization that I had almost no idea what I wanted in a partner, and to be blunt with myself, no real clue what I was doing when it came to dating, etc. I was just “drifting”. Which is fine if you’re relatively mentally healthy, not so good if you aren’t, yet still care about your impact on others.

Which means I started to figure out the kind of woman I wanted to be with. Up until that point, I did have an occasional “damsel in distress syndrome” going on. Some call it “DIDS”, others call it the “wounded bird” approach. Which means that sometimes I was attracted to wounded birds who needed help mending their wings.  » Read the rest

I lost faith this weekend

The Writing Life of a Tadpole
February 2 2015

I confess, as excited as I am by my year-long quest, I lost faith this weekend. I did, I completely and utterly lost faith. The cause? I got sick.

I’ve been fighting a bit of residual congestion from a cold a few weeks ago, and since meds that I’m on prevent me from taking anything resembling a decent decongestant, I’ve always had trouble clearing congestion anyway, and it lingers. Annoying, energy-sucking, etc, but manageable. Which doesn’t mean I don’t probably whine about it more than I realize. But just annoying.

Saturday was different. Got up, felt relatively okay, climbed in the car and off I went to the Nissan dealership for service. It’s been on the list for a few weeks, but wasn’t urgent. Small rotational noise in the rear passenger tire area, but not affecting driving or anything, just a noise. Turned out to be bent dust plate, nothing of consequence, easily fixed, no charge, probably bent when I had the winter tires put on.  » Read the rest