Resolutions

What would I like to change in this next year of my life?

1) Improve my health. That’s my main pri­or­i­ty right now. The changes I’m mak­ing to do that are:
A — no more caf­feine. I drank the last of my cof­fee this morn­ing and I’ve asked Sam not to buy any more for me.
B — keep work­ing on find­ing a way to get the meds I need. To that end, I’m apply­ing for Social Secu­ri­ty disability.
C — find SOME way to get access to a pool heat­ed to the Arthri­tis Foun­da­tion’s stan­dards for water exer­cise. So I’ll be going to the near­est YMCA to see if I can man­age a mem­ber­ship somehow.
D — change what I eat. I’ve already done that in some ways, but I need to keep it up. I plan to start the South Beach Diet as soon as I’ve got­ten past the decaf­feina­tion process. I’d be hap­pi­er if Sam were to do that with me, and I know it would be easier-but I don’t want to delay anymore.
E — find some kind of body­work I can afford on a reg­u­lar basis. Pan-Dimen­sion­al Heal­ing has been very good, so I should talk to keira­cait­lyn about that.
How will I know when I’ve reached this goal? Well, being able to man­age the oth­er things on my list con­sis­tent­ly would be great! But quan­tifi­ably, most of my days are cur­rent­ly at a 7 at best, an 8 at the moment, on this pain scale (and since I don’t HAVE painkillers like Ultram, that real­ly sucks). I’d like to see that change so that my aver­age day is no worse than a 6, and prefer­ably more like a 4–5.

2) Be a bet­ter student.
I need to be more orga­nized and more real­is­tic about my course loads. I want to get As in all my cours­es with­out send­ing myself into flare doing it.

3) Inter­act social­ly with peo­ple in the real world more often.
I’ve with­drawn into my shell a lot in the last six months or so due to my health prob­lems. I’m hop­ing they’ll improve soon, and then I won’t have an excuse. Get­ting into anoth­er singing group would cer­tain­ly be a good moti­va­tor. I need to set an actu­al “goal” though, and one social event out­side the house a week seems reasonable.

4) Keep my Artist active.
I stopped doing The Artist’s Way a while back. I need to get back on the Way and hon­or my cre­ative impuls­es in oth­er ways, too. Quan­tifi­ably, I want to do some­thing cre­ative every day, if only for 15 min­utes, and do some­thing just for fun for at least 30 min­utes each day.

These are all things with­in my con­trol, that I can do. There are cer­tain­ly many oth­er things that I’d like to see hap­pen, but I’m focus­ing on my stuff. That’s what res­o­lu­tions are for, right?

Cyn is Rick's wife, Katie's Mom, and Esther & Oliver's Mémé. She's also a professional geek, avid reader, fledgling coder, enthusiastic gamer (TTRPGs), occasional singer, and devoted stitcher.
Posts created 4255

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Related Posts

Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search. Press ESC to cancel.

Back To Top