It's not that I haven't had much to talk about. In fact, life's pretty 'interesting' right now. And my head is teaming with a swirling soup of fantastic ideas which may simply be blog stories in the future, but may also be the seedlings of something larger.
I've completely changed my way of living in the past couple of months. Part of this whole 30s/looking after myself/being healthy thing which began about 10 months ago with giving up smoking. I've joined a gym (and still regularly attend!), I've had some personal training and am keeping a food diary. I have no burning need to lose heaps of weight (although some would be nice), but I do have this strong internal feeling that I haven't really been all that healthy for the past 30 or so years, and it's time to turn that around.
That in itself is pretty monumental. By nature I'm a fairly sedentary creature, so being fit and active is a 180-degree turn. But that hasn't been the be-all and end-all of my activity lately. There's an edgy feeling around my workplace at the moment, with whispers and rumours flying everywhere. Suffice to say, with 5 years under my belt at this workplace, I'm a little excited and a little apprehensive about what the future may hold in that regard.
Add to that a renewed musical activity, which is keeping me busy at least 2 nights a week. Nothing too ambitious or thrilling - just a loose collective of 4 mates with a semi-decent grasp of their instruments getting together to belt out a few numbers after work and on weekends. It's been good to get that creative outlet up and running again.
It's been a pretty cool couple of months, actually. A sort of rediscovery of myself in a way. For the past couple of years, my life's focus has been on the complicated and time-consuming elements of conducting a long-distance relationship, then the visa hassles, then the wedding drama and then just settling into coupledom life (can't believe our first wedding anniversary is this Monday!). It's been really enlightening to spend the past few weeks turning a little bit inward again and finding the joy and passion with those purely "me" things again.
And now tapping back into that writing vein... wonder what this will bring. Hopefully not a heap of boring diary entries like this one. But thanks for indulging if you got this far.
Right now, I'm intrigued by shuffle on my iPod. It's really loving Alex Lloyd tonight. Strange.
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5 comments:
You are the best communications officer ever!!! I really would love to know the rumours LOL am such a mushroom on night shift!! But will be joining you on days as of next Thursday woo hoo. Congrats on the mile stone of one year married, it gets better too.
BEC
Shouldn't you be working, rather than surfing blogs?
Happy Anniversary!
I'm glad to hear you quit smoking and are trying to be more healthy.
I've been trying to exercise more. I think we feel so much better when we're active.
I say that as I sit here on the computer for hours....Yikes.
Thanks Dina. Physical activity is great. But motivation to get away from the computer screen is difficult with wonderful blogs such as yours to read. It's been great seeing my world through your eyes.
Oh...thank you : )
That's very sweet of you to say.
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