I love the point about being more efficient. I am not efficient. I resent my 9-5 and use that resentment to fuel huge wastes of my precious free time. Enough's enough. This is very inspiring, thanks!
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I love everything about this post, especially how happy you sound. For some reason, the line about holding your breath stuck out for me, maybe because I faint easily so try to never hold my breath. So don't faint, OK?
Congrats on the new job. You sound so excited and I'm excited and happy for you.
To borrow your phrase, I've spent 16 years in a job I really only enjoyed for...uh-oh. I'm a little jealous of the time you spent doing something different ("being a nobody"). I often wonder how much clearer my thinking could be (about what I really want to do) if my current job didn't require so damn much thinking!
I'm sorry to hear this. The Ron part of the story sounds like an only in NYC kind of thing.
My skin sounds exactly like yours. I tried this awhile back (and wrote a frustrated post about it) but didn't find it to help (it didn't make a difference either way and it took considerably longer than slapping soap on my face and rinsing). 5 minutes doesn't sound like a long time until you're late for work or exhausted and want to go to bed.
But I never did it every night (The articles I read seemed to suggest every other day)...and I only did it at night, in the morning I kept using Cetaphil. So you do it every day, morning and evening? Maybe it's worth a more committed try?
I too am interested in psychology and have a thing for personality tests. The Myers Briggs frustrates me though. I'm only really sure of two of the four components. When I read the questions for the other two components..."do you prefer x or y?" I often think "both," or "it depends." So I'm an IS/NTJ/P. Congrats on the courses. Can't wait to hear more about the Improv.
"Eventually, though I am not exactly sure when, the boys will grow up and get over the sex thing." Let me know if you pin down some evidence on this...I asked my husband how long he can go without thinking about sex while awake and he said not more than an hour. He's 40.
I do too much bitching about where I live and it would probably behoove me to try to focus on the good stuff, of which there is a lot. But summer here (May through Sept, really) is ridiculous. It is so hot and humid most of those months that every time I leave my air-conditioned house, I actually say out loud (even if I'm alone) "Why do I live here?"
I like your positive attitude, even in the face of a crappy day.
I've been dying to write more too and just not making enough time. And I totally hear you on being heavier than you'd like. I reached an adult low about a year ago and was just so comfortable with myself, only to gain, uh, a lot, over the last year (deciding to explore starting an ice cream business has not helped). I'm so annoyed for digging this hole for myself, for making my closet such an angry, hopeless place again. But I'll also say this...when I saw that photo of you in your last post with your husband and your new nephew, it didn't jive with how you describe yourself. All I saw was a stunning woman. Really. I just went back to look at it again in light of this post, and yep, still stunning. Keep writing. I love reading and I hope it helps you heal. And it's funny that you mention s'mores. I kind of blame the s'mores we ate on our beach vacation for the start of my weight gain. We had a small outdoor grill that we used to make a fire to toast the marshmellows. We bought too many ingredients to finish while we were at the beach and brought the stuff home, where I proceeded to microwave two per night until the ingredients were finally all in my belly. So dumb. But so tasty.
I have nothing I can say that will help at all, but I just want to say how sorry I am to hear this.
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