This is a good day
Jan. 15th, 2007 04:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebratqueenI am on my couch with my laptop in my lap and two kitties curled up in contented balls of contentment on either side of me. It is physically impossible to be unhappy under these circumstances.
I updated my craft blog for the first time in a billion years. There are even pictures, ooooooo!
Late breaking update: Luna is now not only curled up beside me but purring. Far, far too cute.
So with the new year I'm trying new methods of organization and handling things, because I've come to the realization that yet again I've got to teach myself how to work under new health paradigms. Don't get me wrong, so far I'm doing much better health-wise than I was a few short months ago. But as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lucifrix wisely pointed out to me I'm doing better yet I am still sick. This is more of a managing thing than a recovering thing.
The last time I had to deal with this was in college when my thyroid knocked me for a loop. It took a while but eventually I figured out how to notice the symptoms of me reaching my limits and needing to step back and recover before moving on. Likewise I started to get a feel for what would be too much to take on ahead of time so I could adjust accordingly.
Now I've got all new symptoms (comparatively) to deal with and I am without the cues and signals to let me know when I've gone too far. I go along thinking I'm fine and then one tiny (wafer-thin if you will) thing will set me over and WHOOSH! It all goes down like a house of cards.
So a goal for right now is to try to notice what those symptoms are so ideally I can recognize the danger signs before it's too late. Also to try to set up new methods of organization so that less of my energy is taken up by mundane things that I really don't need to stress over.
I've only been trying my new system for a few days but so far it's been going rather well. Things are getting done and the stress over doing them (or not being able to do them) is decreasing. Supposedly as I do this more and more it will free my mind up for more fun and creative things, and dear God would it be nice to get back into writing again.
In other, totally unrelated, news I am officially on board the SPN train now. Though my mom gets the toaster oven for this since she's been trying to pimp me into it the longest. ;)
I updated my craft blog for the first time in a billion years. There are even pictures, ooooooo!
Late breaking update: Luna is now not only curled up beside me but purring. Far, far too cute.
So with the new year I'm trying new methods of organization and handling things, because I've come to the realization that yet again I've got to teach myself how to work under new health paradigms. Don't get me wrong, so far I'm doing much better health-wise than I was a few short months ago. But as
lucifrix wisely pointed out to me I'm doing better yet I am still sick. This is more of a managing thing than a recovering thing.The last time I had to deal with this was in college when my thyroid knocked me for a loop. It took a while but eventually I figured out how to notice the symptoms of me reaching my limits and needing to step back and recover before moving on. Likewise I started to get a feel for what would be too much to take on ahead of time so I could adjust accordingly.
Now I've got all new symptoms (comparatively) to deal with and I am without the cues and signals to let me know when I've gone too far. I go along thinking I'm fine and then one tiny (wafer-thin if you will) thing will set me over and WHOOSH! It all goes down like a house of cards.
So a goal for right now is to try to notice what those symptoms are so ideally I can recognize the danger signs before it's too late. Also to try to set up new methods of organization so that less of my energy is taken up by mundane things that I really don't need to stress over.
I've only been trying my new system for a few days but so far it's been going rather well. Things are getting done and the stress over doing them (or not being able to do them) is decreasing. Supposedly as I do this more and more it will free my mind up for more fun and creative things, and dear God would it be nice to get back into writing again.
In other, totally unrelated, news I am officially on board the SPN train now. Though my mom gets the toaster oven for this since she's been trying to pimp me into it the longest. ;)
