Nov 23 2009
Where are you?
Hey it’s me!
Don’t you just love spring? For me however, though I know so well that the seasons effect me, it’s not just spring that has got me buzzing today.
It’s not politics, nor a monetary windfall, not the size of my bank account or anything else :-), it’s just simply this. I am glad to be alive and maybe, just maybe I feel so good because I am managing to have some kind of control over my life. TRUST me I am no control freak or policeman when it comes to life, BUT what I am is tired of feeling like I am not doing what I need to be doing.
AND at this moment in time I am making headway in just a few areas.
In this world we live in we can and do feel so powerless. We are bombarded with media messages about what we need and who we could be. THAT’S on top on the messages we bombard and condemn, define or judge ourselves with.
My biggie lately has been my health.
I was heavier than I ever was a few months ago, after 2 years of sitting mainly at a computer being creative and trying to build some kind of income.
NOW I find myself sitting on my couch at night feeling pretty healthy and on a journey towards wellness.
When will I ever learn, when will I ever forgive myself for being so slow to just do something about what I feel bad about.
I joined the gym, I have a weekly appointment with a nutritionist, I ride my bike and am becoming food wise.
I don’t feel powerless against my biggest enemy (xcuse the pun), who is the enemy? Its me!
I am not particularly flush with cash at the moment and maybe never will be, BUT I can live on a shoestring if needs be and I can live better than most of the world. I feel glad and grateful that I can survive and be content going without stuff. We have so much really.
SO YES I am buzzing. I am blessed, I am springy, because just like the seasons change and have a purpose, so am I changing and so do I have purpose.
That is a wonderful thing.
And I have a 1kg bag of coffee beans that smell divine in my pantry.
Even though I can really only do one cup of coffee a day…………..
Such small pleasures.
Glad to hear you are in such high spirits and health as well in close reach of the coffee beans. Sounds like life is pretty good!
I had to chew on your question, “Where am I?” I’m sure not where I imagined to be several years ago. That’s not to say life is bad, in fact it’s pretty good also. But, what I’m chewing on and have for several months is my health. My weight has not increased so much but the waist sure has.
I no longer have the discipline of exercise routines and my eating habits have gone the way of fast foods. The proportions have also increased. These factors are the reason for the increased waistline.
Hey Monte. Coffee helps but I need to listen to my body sometimes when it feels like its already walking the cliff edge with butterflies from the coffee rush. I do one cup a day, in the morning and made from my coffee machine with fresh ground beans…..yum, and if I am not still feeling buzzed out maybe one when I get home from work.
Incidentally, I was watching this top chef competition last night and several of the dishes used coffee, like seared salmon crusted in coffee and a wild boar fillet treated the same. Interesting. So next time you go pig hunting you better try it.
Waistlines are interesting. Situps and stuff like that can pull it in a bit. Cant imagine you tho, you look like one of these always trim body types mate! And a wee bump you think is a big bump.
For me I live just up the road from a gym and a park, so its good I go there. Coz I live alone its also like going out, not that I talk to everyone, I go there to work BUT its nice just being around people. I get the same insane feeling of community and pleasure from grocery shopping. I know I am a bit sick!
I am doing well on the eating proportion front. Mine had got out of control. The other thing is not eating late at night. Hard to do after a mismanaged day of eating.
Fast food i don’t do anymore, but I used too.
So brother, thanks for being human with me. And honest.
Kia Ora,
Hey Mr. Happy, it is inspirational to hear you talk about food, eating, excersice, etc. I to need to get back to my regime I have been so slack about in the last couple of years. Thank the Lord for my lake, the walk is good now I want to start the jog aspect of it, as long as Mr. Coyote and his family stay away it will be good…….Happy is a choice I know that………confusion makes for insanity…….sometimes I find myself so confused, maybe menopause, unfortunately that is part of it. We women certainly got the brunt end of the stick………….that is why our health is so important in our latter years but most of all I can’t stress enough that if you are young it is even more important to stay healthy so when you do reach the senior years your body is strong and ready for those inconviences of the elder years! Your awesome you should write a book, LOL…………Po Marie