Weekend Plans Post: New Year, Old Me
New Year’s Resolutions.
Sigh.
They say that New Year’s Resolutions never work. People promise themselves the moon when it comes to going to the gym and going on a diet and next thing you know they’re in the basement with a “do not disturb until February” sign on the door eating a tub of cookie dough.
While I pretty much agree that the Traditional resolutions won’t work, I do think it’s good to have a goal of some sort for the coming year. Start doing something, maybe. Stop doing something else, maybe. Instead of doing something once a week, do it twice a week. Instead of doing something twice a week, do it only once a week. That sort of thing.
As such, I am thinking about things that I want to do more in the coming year and things that I want to do less.
I have been pretty good about going to the climbing gym, believe it or not. I’m still not fully recovered from the month off that I took last year, but I’m back to climbing twice a week and there are things that are easy that remain easy and the only problem is trying to wrap my brain around the things that are medium but are, for some reason, still impossible. (Today, for example, my foot slipped on a slippery hold and, dang, I had brain-lock and needed to get on the ground ASAP. I know, intellectually, that if I am not falling then I am not pushing myself but, dang, when my foot slipped off, I said NOPE NOPE NOPE GET BACK ON GROUND NOW. I need to overcome that.)
I have not been pretty good about jogging. I need to get back to being merely crappy/mediocre on jogging.
I eat too much bad stuff. I don’t eat enough good stuff. The bad stuff tastes soooo good, though! The good stuff takes too long to prepare and doesn’t taste as good.
Wine has a LOT of calories. They need a low-calorie altered-consciousness substance.
As such, this weekend will be devoted to trying to figure something out for the coming year. Maybe not a list of resolutions, but a plan to nudge a habit or too in the appropriate direction. Oh, and a D&D game in my bud’s basement. Oh, and Maribou’s back so maybe I’ll get a decent night’s sleep again.
So… what’s on your docket?
(Featured image is The Cradle by Berthe Morisot. Painting is in the public domain.)
I have a suggestion about eating “the bad stuff”. When you are thinking about eating bad stuff, consider not only how it will make you feel right now, which I assume is “Yum!!!11!”, but how you will feel an hour from now, 6 hours from now, and 24 hours from now after eating it. That’s probably “Not so yum (sad face)”. If it’s worth it, it’s probably ok, actually, and maybe not as bad as you have been told.
If you are bingeing, you probably need to not let yourself get so hungry, and if you are hungry, eat some “good stuff” first so you are not so hungry.
And be patient with yourself. These are transformative practices, and I’ve been using them to modify my binge eating (which I acquired back in high school wrestling).Report
I’ve discovered a small thing that helps: Metamucil.
Sure, it isn’t so great in the moment but, 6 hours from now (or 24 hours from now), I feel like I’m in my 20s again.Report
So, we went and bought a new mattress yesterday, during which I talked the wife down from buying the most expensive one to a set that was half the cost (“did it really feel 2x better? No? Well…) and later that night I found out that the furnace at the rental was going out.
So I have that going for me, which isn’t so nice. I think that whatever I do with my weekend, it will be on the cheap side.Report
The furnace thing sucks. As for the mattress… it’s not just the “twice as good”, it’s also the whole “how long are you going to have it?”
25% better might be worth twice as much amortized over 8-10 years.Report
I broached the subject of turning the guest room into a library with a couch or murphy bed that can be depoloyed when we have guests because seriously…what’s the point of having a room in your own gods damned house that isn’t fully useful? She was surprisingly, readily agreeable and I’ve started hunting for a good bed hybrid/substitute (and I might have already found one).
Looking forward to the aforementioned D&D game, which will include a necessary retcon to something the DM (me) did during the last sesh to restore some tension/integrity to the game.
No Premier League this weekend but there is FA Cup, so I get to bask in Arteta’s first win as Arsenal manager (2-0 over United) until the FA Cup fixture against Leeds United on Monday. Oh, and there’s KU beating Bob Huggins and WVU in Lawrence this weekend, too.Report
In all my curiosity about the other stuff going on in your house, I forgot to mention that I really really approve of the general decision to make the guest room into a library.
I mean, that’s what we did. And it has a comfortable (full size, never bigger than that!! i kept getting more bedlike over a decade until I hit full, with a deployable twin airmattress for people’s kids if I MUST move out my own stuff, and stuck) bed in it anyway! because you know what turns out to be great? Having fullon lounging /napping / flopping about capabilities in your library! You just need enough sizes and kinds of pillows to make non-lying down positions delightful ….
Anyway I hope y’all have lots of fun!Report
Time to start taking care of some deferred maintenance for us, so to the hardware for me this weekend.
As for low calorie mind altering substances, IL just legalized one. All you have to do is wait in an hours long line.Report
And pay cocaine prices.
I mean, no politics.Report
I’m buying a car this year. Definitely once June 1st hits and the car insurance rates return to normal. I’m going to save up and hopefully put my living partner on the straight and narrow when it comes to budgeting money. After that, I’m going to re-budget and start saving up for other things since I currently live with a spendthrift who has no concept of the future.Report