weekly check-in post (TM)
May. 25th, 2012 11:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
floatingleafSo, it's a long weekend. Monday is Memorial Day, and today our office closed early - so I took advantage of that and scheduled a day off (leaving work in the early afternoon isn't very convenient for me, since the bus line I take from the office to the closest transit station runs only about once an hour during the day, while in the early morning and late afternoon it runs 3-6 times an hour; plus, if you do come to work on an "early close" day, you have to stay there 5 hours, while you only use 4 hours of vacation time if you choose to take the day off). My highly ambitious plans for this long weekend include dying my hair (accomplished!), cleaning my apartment (hopefully tomorrow), doing some laundry (Sunday) and visiting my parents (Monday). In addition to, obviously, grocery shopping (accomplished!) and cooking - or, to be precise, making salads, because it's supposed to get really hot starting tomorrow; and when it's really hot, using the kitchen stove OR toaster oven is simply out of the question for me (I don't have central air conditioning, only a single window unit, and the temperature in my kitchen easily reaches 30C/90F in the summer). Microwave is OK, but I don't actually want hot food when I'm feeling toasty, so I mostly eat salads/sandwiches/fruit etc. Btw, I am collecting salad recipes which don't involve any cooking, for this very reason - so if you know of any tasty ones, please share.:)
In other news, I must have really overdosed on the internet in the past few months (years?...), because I seem to be experiencing some sort of allergy to the computer screen. I can no longer stare at it continuously for hours - I need frequent breaks. Otherwise I completely lose focus and/or get a headache. So no matter how much I'd love to keep up with LJ, I'm afraid it's simply not doable for me at this point. I have to get more selective about which posts I read and/or respond to. I also have to get more selective about which topics deserve an entry. I mean, I love to ramble endlessly and pointlessly about everything and nothing just as much as the next person - but from now on I'm going to have to "cut out the fluff" and write only about things that are actually important to me. Those things may still be entirely irrelevant to anybody else, since it's MY journal, after all - but I want to make sure I'm not just spewing random words into the digital void, as it were. *snicker*
But like I said before, my new daily habits/priorities etc. are a work in progress. I am still feeling like a child whose toys have been taken away when I choose to go to bed earlier instead of staying up to leave "just a few comments" -even if I know I am doing the right thing. I still struggle to incorporate regular exercise AND some sort of spiritual practice into my daily life; I have attempted to meditate a few times so far, but I can't really tell if I am "doing it right" at this point. I sometimes get this weird feeling that it's a tremendous waste of time - because, you know, there is all this stuff I COULD be catching up on while I'm sitting there, staring into space, trying hard to think about nothing.:P But I instinctively know it is precisely that feeling which prevents my overloaded brain from achieving any sort of inner peace. That feeling of never being able to catch up with things, of always running behind, short of breath. That feeling is exactly the problem which needs fixing - for me and for the entire human race, LOL. We need to get off that speeding wagon and smell the roses. Not because the roses won't be there forever, but because the wagon is about to derail and tumble off a cliff. And I'd much rather be in a field of roses when that happens...;)
I wish I could expand on my profound symbolism, but it's getting late and that computer-screen-allergy thing is kicking in again.:/ Therefore, good night.
In other news, I must have really overdosed on the internet in the past few months (years?...), because I seem to be experiencing some sort of allergy to the computer screen. I can no longer stare at it continuously for hours - I need frequent breaks. Otherwise I completely lose focus and/or get a headache. So no matter how much I'd love to keep up with LJ, I'm afraid it's simply not doable for me at this point. I have to get more selective about which posts I read and/or respond to. I also have to get more selective about which topics deserve an entry. I mean, I love to ramble endlessly and pointlessly about everything and nothing just as much as the next person - but from now on I'm going to have to "cut out the fluff" and write only about things that are actually important to me. Those things may still be entirely irrelevant to anybody else, since it's MY journal, after all - but I want to make sure I'm not just spewing random words into the digital void, as it were. *snicker*
But like I said before, my new daily habits/priorities etc. are a work in progress. I am still feeling like a child whose toys have been taken away when I choose to go to bed earlier instead of staying up to leave "just a few comments" -even if I know I am doing the right thing. I still struggle to incorporate regular exercise AND some sort of spiritual practice into my daily life; I have attempted to meditate a few times so far, but I can't really tell if I am "doing it right" at this point. I sometimes get this weird feeling that it's a tremendous waste of time - because, you know, there is all this stuff I COULD be catching up on while I'm sitting there, staring into space, trying hard to think about nothing.:P But I instinctively know it is precisely that feeling which prevents my overloaded brain from achieving any sort of inner peace. That feeling of never being able to catch up with things, of always running behind, short of breath. That feeling is exactly the problem which needs fixing - for me and for the entire human race, LOL. We need to get off that speeding wagon and smell the roses. Not because the roses won't be there forever, but because the wagon is about to derail and tumble off a cliff. And I'd much rather be in a field of roses when that happens...;)
I wish I could expand on my profound symbolism, but it's getting late and that computer-screen-allergy thing is kicking in again.:/ Therefore, good night.
