Time is moving too fast for me these days, I have 10 days to get my application for grad school ready and it’s moving slower than I need it to be done. To be sure, it’s my own fault, I am struggling with executive disfunction and trying to defeat the need to be perfect with the need to be done.
I start my classes this week with MENTOR, a program I heard about from FloridaSNMOM here at DKOS. It’s a program that does classes by Zoom and covers health coaching, nutrition, mindfulness and exercise. It is a free program, but I think it mainly is for disabled people. They sent me a box full of exercise equipment and I am looking forward to it, it gives me structure during the day. Mondays are my heaviest days, with 3 classes back to back from 11-2.
This is my year to get myself in order, I don’t wan to be fat in my elderly years. So I am doing all the things — gym, these classes, meal prepping, physical therapy, needling, even chiropractic and massage care. And the dentist too, for a good cleaning and look over of things. Lots of appointments and juggling of money going on, but I am going to try and make it work. I need to lose about 120lbs (~54.5kg) to meet my goal, I’m looking at a year or so of working to get rid of it all.
I am also making a concentrated effort to be more global in small ways. I’m working on my second language, French, and my third, Hebrew. I’m using a 24 hour clock now, and working on really learning the metric system as well. It’s not necessarily for the possibility I have to flee the US in the event of a second trump term in office, but it wouldn’t hurt either. There are also fourth and fifth languages as well, Spanish and Russian, they are just on the back burner for now.
I’m still working in the lab as well, going out at least once a week to care for the fish and the research is about to begin again.