I’m not sure if it was because you showed me that 80’s free download pack yesterday or if it was just blasted in from another time but I woke in a neon feeling futurist chinatown laundrette style this morning — the air heavy with clothes drying, the future feelings of a job well done, shadowing the hunger to come but replaced with acknowledgement that I had done the task.
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‘The block on the chain and the notch in the belts’ — your title therefore a perfect fit this morning, we do that a lot thou don’t we, bit like our five minute countdown the other day, super weird, connected in some way for sure, who knows the reason or the why but it’s the very reason why we fight through each day trying to slow time.
I slept pretty good I think, I kinda got to the point of passing out again — I had got to that stage you know, where I just passed out, eyes were heavy and as soon as the headphones were off and unplugged I cast the phone aside and slowly turned over almost in automatic pilot and snuggled up, I was out, then I woke around 7am this morning, I had set no alarm, I’m already in some ways two hours behind.
I’ll catch it up thou for sure.
I’m so glad you remember the Matlock fish and chips — that was important to me that you had that memory for sure, we have to go back there in a summer time, I think you’ll love it even more and we have to take in more of the sights and sounds, when we return there we must go with camera equipment and the ability to stay from dust to dawn style in some kind of van situation — I think that’s the only way to really cement in that feeling, we have so much exploring to do around there.
You mentioned food, yeah I’m out pretty much, maybe a little bit of a bread for some toast but aside from that the larder and the fridge is pretty much dry, I’ve got maybe half a pot of some sauce in the fridge for a pasta later on but we are hitting the wall for sure — I have the rice next to go at so I need to get inventive there, times like now I wish I had a rice cooker to just throw that in for fluffy goodness (I miss our sushi times)
But you know what, even thou all these things are a challenge and a test I really feel good — I’ve got my usual aches and pains (sure) but I’m positive and more upbeat than I have been in a while, maybe it’s because I’ve got real things to be doing, everyday, there is something I can be working on or working towards, I think that’s a huge plus in life when you can turn your hand to something or feel that you have the mental capacity to reflect your creativity.
Listen if your feeling SORE that’s awesome, just remember that you need to give yourself at least twenty four hours before you go in on that again so that muscles can repair — sounds like it’s getting to the right spots thou so keep that up, great to hear also that you can do yoga again. I know how much more centred and chilled you are when you have managed to get out on the mat in the morning (as boy brings coffee and eggs to the mat!)
Also getting the teeth done was a big one, you’ve come so far with that stuff, I know you really wanted to get a handle on that and you’ve done it — anything that removes that pain and allows you to move forward is a blessing for sure, if I think about it I’ve really cut down on sugar from my week to week, I certainly don’t have sugar in my drinks anymore.
You bring up a great point in your post to me this morning about ‘brain bandwidth’ — I think that is such a good way of defining it. It’s crazy how much we allow that bandwidth to run on without filtering, I guess some would see escapes like drugs, alcohol to be some sort of regulation but yoga, meditation are just as good as grey matter firewalls.
Especially since I started seeing progress and knowing how much better life could be without pain
I also think this can be applied across the life journey too, exposure to things and not putting a ‘design’ on them — just allowing them to flow and join your own flow (of course making informed decisions on them) are what takes us and course corrects us into a different direction, we have no idea what time periods are opened up to us because we decided to walk down one path over another. I say always be embracing the change, hopefully you’ll always run with that.
Yeah you’ll know when you are ready to do a thirty day challenge again, don’t go greedy about it, just learn to listen and lean into what your body and brain is telling you, iteration is the key, thirty days of 1% improvement to then do a life time of 30 day challenge to ultimate lead to 30 days at a time without needing it to be a challenge, that’s the key.
Pumped to have the fresh clothes feeling, it had to happen, my shorts have split as per usual when it comes to that crotch life, I tell you I’m just BUSTING out over here so yeah it’s nice to have some tracky bottoms slack life, it makes a difference when getting through the day and I’m very aware that the weather can start to change over the next few weeks — I’m kinda slightly prepping for the next season change.
.. . even thou we have a high day of 75f from 2pm till 5pm, not super bad but low winds and overcast skies, stealth sunshine, gotta watch that one, I’ve got a bit of time until that starts kicking in thou this morning so I’m pumped that I can all my things recorded this morning — add another forty minutes to my course, up to 1hr 30 minutes in, get my usual videos and modding done (I’ve only got thirty minutes to do there as I did a bunch last night)
Overall, I’m stepping through, I know I could be doing more, maybe ‘framing’ a piece of the puzzle for the landing page, I guess I still to put that together, I’m still reflecting on that one — I also wanna get into making some headliner videos for our two podcasts and steemhunt, I think we could make some rad stuff there, also the stats on the positively look good, we certainly should get another one up, it get’s quite addictive after a while!
Forgot to say the washer and the dryer are really good, I think the washer is newer because it seems to work faster so that means you get more dryer time, I’ve got stacks of clothes to be washed, I need to prep my other batch, get my heavies done next, I miss the comfort of my blue jumper, oh winter why do I love you so much when you so so cold? :)
I’ve not caught up with the new couples therapy yet, I think I’ve still got a chunk of the last one to go at, I think I’ll down tools around 6pm today and get that in, I have no idea yet if poppet is gonna be here today or not, I’m assuming not actually because I’ve not heard anything because her mum is off from work this week so I presume they will spend plenty of time together, in some ways I hope so, I’m running on little resources this week and time has become extremely precious.
Right, half way through the coffee and already the #2 is calling my name, need to drop the kids at the pool and set about my day, get back and get straight into recording some parts for the course, all I needed was the start, the rest is easy from now — I’m expecting this course to probably end up about six hours long and it’s been interesting to read all the reviews I got on skillshare, I got some MEAN ones as well — maybe I’ll read them out on the podcast for shits and giggles, it’s incredible how MEAN and LOVELY polar opposites of people can be!
Hoping for a fairly straight forward kinda day today, I know I need to catchup but it’s the kind of catching up that I enjoy to do, at least with this I know I have a purpose rather than cascading through the world waiting for my ‘government’ to come save me! — I’m certain that at some point in our very near future EVERYONE is gonna really need to apply the CREATIVITY gene just to get by on a daily basis, ya know? :)
WE HAVE RESOURCES,
LET’S USE THEM TO CREATE MORE,
APPLY THE SKILLS, RINSE & REPEAT.
I’ll speak to you shortly.
Lots of love and hugs and stuff,
Da Mouser,
T E A M H U M B L E
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