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You can doooo it!

How are things in Stardew Valley?

What a fabulous vacation!

Sounds like an upright row if elbows are bent and out: Cheering for you to meet your goals this week!

Enjoy Cancun!

So cool to meet an expert in the sport! Fingers crossed you can keep a job with your company until you are ready to leave.

Well, I was supposed to be limiting sugar and eating veggies twice a day, neither of which are really contraindicated for illness. It's mostly that I have had a depressive episode (which started before the illness) and haven't had the bandwidth to do unpleasant things. I seem to be heading out of it now, which is nice. I am feeling enough recovered from the cold to consider swimming tomorrow. I'll make the call at that time. I made soup last night and ate the leftovers this morning, so that's veggies starting to get back on track. No sugar at breakfast, but I make no promises about the rest of the day. I think the goal was unrealistic yo start with and I am just not up to pursuing it right now.

Seconding all of this

I might have to look into that!

*wants* How do you use them? In drinks or something? Good series! I really liked it.

Oh no, that must be so stressful! Do you have any other job leads still open?

I'm looking forward to getting my hands on the full copy next month! In the meantime, I found out that the author has an app with exercises that correspond to the ideas in the book and I have been working through those. It's quite eye-opening to see how much of my behavior works against my values and how it all stems from backlash over the failure to find happiness 24/7. It was part of school when I lived in Texas, but not in my current state 🤷‍♀️ I'm not dead. Annoying sore throat has turned into annoying throat cough, but I still don't feel all that bad physically. GMB Elements 6/7 done today. Just need 1 more in week 5! Skipped the swim for week 4 because stoopid infectious disease protocols. Can't be helped. Maybe possibly could do 2 in week 5 to still hit 7, but we'll have to see how it goes. Diet goals...what diet goals? Do not recall having such a thing... 👀

Have a great time in France!

This is exactly what ACT is: making room for the feeling to exist (because it already does exist) while also recognizing that it isn't the only thing that exists. Our bodies and the world exist around it. We are not being swallowed whole by it. We can continue to move our bodies and be in the world around it. Yay! So happy you have a happy resolution to this situation, even if it was a bit long in coming.

Thank you! It was really nice to look back and see how far I have come with swimming in quite a shirt time. BuJo ftw If it follows the pattern my boys experienced, I expect the sore throat to last one more day, and then it's just a week or so of sniffles. As illnesses go, I'll take it. My throat doesn't even seem as sore as they were complaining of. I definitely like having a motivating training goal. It helps me be consistent when I'm not feeling it. I'm not sure what the prize is actually, but it's fun to commemorate big milestones, anyway, so even if it's just a bumper sticker or something, it will mark the achievement, which is cool. Oh, cool that your school offered swimming (and prizes). The ones around here don't, so we had to pay for our boys to have lessons.

That was my count, too. You beat me to it lol

Mom Brain™️ hard at work. I won't tell you how many times this week I asked my husband "what did I eat for lunch yesterday?" so I could record it and he knew when I didn't. 🙈

Not according to the scale 😭 Also, I am coming down with the cold my boys caught last week. Boo. It doesn't seem to be a particularly nasty strain, but being sick is never fun. And public safety protocols probably call for me to abstain from swimming this week. Double boo. On a more positive note: I have known for some time that my gym offers unspecified prizes for reaching certain mile markers in swimming. I didn't bother to register at first because my swim distances were so small that the lowest level prize for 50 miles would have taken me years to earn. However, my swim distance (and frequency) has increased so much that I decided to go ahead and register. Here is where my BuJo practice paid off in spades. I have my swim distances written down for the year thus far, so I can record 8ish miles already!

This is me in a nutshell right now. There has been a ton of promising research into Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for bulletproofing your brain, and I have been checking it out. The basic idea is that avoiding or fighting negative emotions often leads to destructive behaviors (eating to soothe, procrastination, alcohol/drug addiction, etc), so building a mindset that allows space for negative emotions to exist without overwhelming while you still soldier on towards your goals is something to practice. Might be something worth looking into.

Got a lot done today!

That's so interesting that the scent changes over time or even smells different on different people. I know my sister always loves my perfume on me (always asks what I am wearing) but then she remembers she didn't care for it on herself when I gave her a sample bottle 🤷‍♀️

Yay for super fun soccer game! So lucky the dress came clean. I couldn't even tell you how many sets of clothes I lost to diaper blow-outs. Once, I even had to throw out my own shirt. *shudders*

I hear you on avoidance brain lately, and spring weather is a tempting distraction. Can you make a plan to fit some outside time with your other goals? Handstands in the park?

You're welcome! My ridiculously long spring break is officially over, so school is back in session. GMB Elements workout 5/7 done, then went out in the outrageous heat (89°F) yo work on the raised bed for my vegetable garden that I should have finished a month ago. It still isn't done, but it was really too hot out, so I will have to work on it some more tomorrow. As for my other goals, vegetables were consumed today. Unfortunately, too much sugar was also consumed because the only thing hotter than my boys and I after an afternoon of hard work was everyone's tempers, so we cooled off with ice cream.