I went to church this morning (don’t fall out of your chair). I decided that if I was going to be attaining physical health, I might as well work on my spiritual health too. There was a bit of pride-swallowing involved, because of my convictions concerning the Sabbath and the way most churches conduct themselves, but I know I won’t find I church here that follows the same lines as my own beliefs. I had a good time this morning.
Got home, called my mom for Mother’s Day and promptly fell asleep. I have been sleeping a lot this weekend, but that’s ok because I am getting a lot of things accomplished too.
At any rate, I hope everyone had a lovely Mother’s Day!!
We went to a concert last night, with the group Soul Cages (a Sting tribute band). It was a pretty good time, even though I am not a huge Sting fan. The mucisians were awesome, and the production was nearly flawless. Heh, I don’t really have too much else to report today. :)
I find people to be exceedingly interesting. Once upon a time I thought that girls, women, chicks, whatever you wish to call them, were simply annoying. Now, girls in general are not so irritating, but rather, I watch the personality quirks, and I am learning to back away when they are vicious, and press forward when they are reticent.
I noticed that sometimes even the best of friends can be quite irritating at times, and it is possible to love someone and hate them all at the same time.
I am currently reading The Present by Spencer Johnson. It really had a lot of good points, although I usually despise self-help books. Maybe that’s because I don’t implement good advice very well. However, this book outlines ways to truly enjoy each moment as if it is your last. I have spent far too much time dwelling on mistakes in my past, and feeling like shit about them, instead of learning from those mistakes, as a way to know how to conduct my life in the now. I don’t really worry about the future…but I don’t really plan for it either. I make a lot of half-baked promises to myself, and come up with some truly hare-brained ideas about what I might do with my life (National Guard? I mean, really…), which I generally never follow through on. I really think I got this trait for my Dad…he was a dreamer, still is actually, but never a doer. I have been shaking that boat a bit with my new fitness routine (2 lbs of body fat, baby!!), and with my desire to be a more centered, focused person, doing what I think is the right thing, rather than acting on impulses, empty desires and flighty emotions. I can’t just stop being me, but I can start to slowly prune away my dead branches and knock some birds away. :)
