Move

Image description: a Bitmoji cartoon of me,
a chubby, fair-skinned, green-eyed,
brunette-with-gray person wearing blue
winter clothing, in yoga warrior pose

 Yes, folks, that is my resolution goal single word.

One of my favorite communities on Facebook had a thought that rather than making resolutions or even setting a goal, we might want to try just choosing a single word to represent these things for 2023.

My word is MOVE.

Not as in moving house (I sure hope not), but as in moving my body.

Resolutions such as "lose 80 pounds" or "exercise x minutes every day" or even (god help me) extra super-duper-specific ones like "forego this particular favorite food (like most dairy) out of your diet because it's Bad For You" have not served me well.

Simpler, more general goals like "lose weight" or "exercise more" or "cut down on x food" or (heh) "don't be a bitch" are better, but I still run into trouble with feeling guilty for not doing "necessary things" before self-care things.

I got an Apple Watch for Christmas (thanks, Dad!) and I'm finding it very useful. Those Activity Circles had best be closed by the end of each day, people. And I decided to hell with it, I'm 54, and I refuse to be embarrassed anymore about doing yoga modified for the elderly or the obese. I'll do what I can when I can, and I'll try to close those circles, but as the nice yoga-for-seniors instructors on YouTube keep reminding me: if I can't do some move or another on a given day, that's fine. Just modify (or skip) and move on.

Same with food. Today was a bad day for food, probably because I've been eating all the rich (and often dairy-laden) food for two weeks. So I'm backpedaling to stuff I know is safe - baked potato, asparagus, and leftover pork roast.

So that's it.

MOVE

Random Thoughts, December 2022

A bitmoji cartoon of me, a fair-skinned,
 green-eyed, brunette-with-grey person,
looking thoughtful, in a blue sweater and a
black cap with a blue flower. There is also
a thoughtful emoji in a thought bubble.

Random Thoughts, personal, professional, political, emotional, mental, social, you name it, there's probably a thought about it here.

• I am proud of my kids.

• People need to find something else to do with their lives besides defaming other folks on the internet.

• I wonder if some of those very people will be annoyed at my use of the gender-neutral term "folks" since my blog posts almost always go public instead of friends-only.

• I really adore some of my students this year. All so different, and awesome in their own ways.

• Lizzy is making a birthday card for her sister (Abby was 20 yesterday), as well as giving her three presents and cooking her favorite meal. 

• When Lizzy is invested in something, she does not fool around.

• That reminds me; I need to help Lizzy with her google search terms for a Biology project.

• I was pretty down this fall. And then it rained and I suddenly felt fine. Rain represents normalcy in my area in November and December.

• Had a lovely time yesterday; Dad took the whole fam (except those unable to make it) on a Christmas Cruise and then out to dinner. Lots of masks in evidence, which made me feel safer.

• Pouring down rain, though.

• I did not know that my brother is prone to motion sickness until yesterday.

• Twenty, for crying out loud.

• Not feeling icky anymore, as stated above. But I do still want to hibernate. I mean, fish, berries, honey, sleep. Sounds pretty good, actually. Soy una osa.

• Thank goodness school is out at the end of this week.

• Is it wrong of me to be happy that one of my students isn't going to school on the last day before break, just because I want to sleep in?

• I broke out the socialist snowplow meme again a couple weeks ago. I'll probably need it again in February or so.

• Hoo boy, some of my workmates love their soccer.

• Must put "buy gift wrap" on my to-do list. 

• Must write said to-do list for the week.

<wanders off to google "bone marrow" and to write to-do list>