Having a good time
Mar 15th, 2009 Posted in Living my passions | 2 comments »Life is pretty good at the moment, and there’s a few reasons why:
My own little morning thing
It’s only been the last two days, but I’ve found my own little morning practice that has proven to be pretty darn tooting awesome. Yes, it’s really that good.
It basically involves me sitting still (so, there’s a meditation-y aspect, but nothing so formal as to make me feel ‘shoulds’) and feeling (note: not thinking!) and then writing down exactly what I feel (so my left-brain gets to do something and keeps busy).
It comes from something that Joely suggested in our fabulous Shiva Party last weekend (that would be the ‘write down what you are feeling’ part). It works for me because it’s something that I can achieve, with some effort. It’s a challenge, it makes me work, so I feel that I will be giving various synapses a workout, but it’s not totally alien or out of my reach so that I feel unsure that I’m doing it right or never feel like I can finish (I like finishing things, finishing things makes me happy).
The end result is also pretty spectacular. Though I fear to jinx it (rational mind steps in to scoff at superstition) the last two mornings I have found that as I go through and write down a list of the emotions that are milling around (In Just a Minute style, so no repetition, deviation or hesitation) that each one (and the count stands at 35 and 83 for each day!) gently melts away and I’m left with a real sense of calm that has lasted a long while, and even returns after a while if I get wound up by anything.
A new thing with no name!
One of the reasons that today saw such an increase in feelings was because I started a new thing last night, and it’s all about putting myself and my dancing out there in 12 second chunks! Much whirring of emotions, but ultimately a determination to create lots in order to create good stuff. That’s the way it works, or so I’m told.
Anticipation of food
It really is telling that my sole focus on the gardening is around how much food I can get out of it, but there you go. Today saw me planting out a load of seeds into trays, but I’m a little worried that I got it all horribly wrong. Fortunately, I made sure I didn’t use all the seeds in one go, so in a few weeks time, whatever happens, I shall start my second batch – continuous cropping FTW!
Tweetdeck on Ubuntu
Yes folks, I’m a geek, and that includes running Linux on my laptop (though it’s the super user-friendly Ubuntu – even your Granny could use it) so it was a joyous moment when Adobe finally got the Air application system thingy working for Linux users too. Now I can run Tweetdeck actually hold decent conversations with people and see what’s going on without being overwhelmed. I’m now on a mission to find as many Dancing Geek’s as possible, and get to know some of the cool people in the UK that also use Twitter (thank you @StephenFry for the big push).
Home Pilates studio
Well, a laminate floor now exists in my little corner of the house (it’s also the spare room and piano room, but ostensibly it’s my corner and is respected as such. Which is a good thing, because it’s a real pain to have to piss over the door to mark the boundary). Coupled with my new favourite toy, aka a fitball (think Space hopper without the handles and spherical – or just think big fuck off bouncy rubber ball), a foam roller (thing over-sized and over-priced pipelagging without the middle hollowed out) and a yoga mat I now have enough bits and pieces (not forgetting my dolphin massager and spiky balls) to do a good bodywork session.
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