Tag: busy
Life is being too good,
The Facade – 15th July 2023
Growing up being told a mystery
Was the most interesting thing to be
A facade, facing out
Where I can keep and claim the real me
Trying to make sense of the times
Dizzy with the fumes of youth
The facade falls down
At the telling of a vulnerable truth
Vaguely inspired by (and first two lines borrowed from) Spinning Visions blog
Today I’m feeling:
It’s started already. I turned off my 8 a.m. alarm and enjoyed dreams of hanging with my students when the pleasure was broken with the scream of ‘AUOOON! Fix this for me please’ Well, good morning! It’s an hour later now, on my second coffee after a cold shower and still I feel not awake.
Today I’m grateful for:
The plumber who came to fix up a few things around our house this morning. He nearly got away without fixing the main issue because Amy told me it was done but when I checked it wasn’t. Back to the frustrations of miscommunications!
The best thing about today was:
Amy making me busy. If she’s not here I will relax the day away, enjoying it but not getting most of the things done that we did today. Most of it is cleaning and tidying which I’m motivated to do in a different time frame to her.
When I went to Utopia I joked with Art about Amy being back, shaking my head and looking up to the heavens. Art said, ‘You prefer to be alone?’ I said ’No, both are ok. It’s just the change that is difficult.’
Besides the plumber coming, the electrician also came and fixed the electric shocks coming from our oven as well as fixing some issues with our cameras. Our home feels slightly less dilapidated now.
What was out of your control today and how did you handle it?
Almost everything was out of my control as I submitted myself to Amy’s whims and direction. I did lose my temper in frustration this morning when I couldn’t use my mobile banking app on this new phone and setting it up proved to be impossible without going to an ATM. Frustrating at the time but easily resolved in the end.
Something I learned today?
I watched a few iPhone videos before for tips and tricks to set it up the way I want but stopped watching when I realised my old iPhone 8 couldn’t do a lot of them. Today I was able to catch up.
Brain dump (by mouth) – 11th September 2020
Attempting morning pages exercise using dictation with phone (Samsung)
The first time using computer for morning pages
911 – In my head Chile 1973 – 911 has more than one meaning
Tired not sleeping – Intervention – Can’t remember my dreams
Three cats in the kitchen – Tigger crying
Kimchi with energy
Looking forward to classes today
Difficult to think and speak sometimes easier to write
This is first time so let’s try
Cool morning
Stretch body and brain
Snail on verandah
Gratitude Journal
I am so happy and grateful for a busy Friday. I like this feeling as it motivates me.
We got that attitude! – 23rd February 2020
I am so happy and grateful that we have drinking water in our house. Not everyone has that.
A man gets an answer to his questions in accordance with his fitness to understand and his one preparation.
The Food Of Paradise
To-do list
- Remind yourself again that you may die now
- Record another TCRAH ½
- Spend 15 minutes planning Bruce’s lesson ✅
- Register for Payoneer ✅
- WDS spreadsheet ½
It was an enjoyable morning playing basketball and chatting with Bruno. Not so negative and I can tell he really enjoys teaching his students.
Time ran away way too fast today and somehow I managed to squeeze a lot of things in though no time to meditate today. This next week and a half is going to be busy too but I feel quite positive about the way things are going.
School should be easy this week and I’m taking things quite easy now anyway. I’m expecting to be working a lot more next semester.
I’m struggling a little with what to write here as I haven’t been sitting and thinking about things so much today as I was so busy. I do feel happiness though.
Back on the thought train tomorrow.
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