Monday, August 22, 2022

Firsts: skateboard, cuffs, day without M

Friday: COMMUTE 3.5 miles on Bird
Saturday: 10K steps in Arboretum! and a visit for the cuffs (haha)
Sunday: BIKE a squidge under 17 on the Metroparks trails with LA

I've been trying to come up with goals to work on, prompted by a question from LA about why I don't feel like the strong, steady, determined, fearless person I used to think of myself as. I feel lost without some solid goals. H100, now only 40 days away and entirely out of the question, was my goal for the fall. 

I need new goals! Some I've come up with, to be pared down and defined with subgoals:
1. Speaking Russian: not just Duolingo reading, able to read a simple book, converse
2. Watercolors: to the point I feel comfortable giving it as a gift this Christmas
3. Skateboarding: Just practice. Is this a good goal? 
4. Gym/Cardio goals (see tomorrow for meeting with guy at gym) I'm not sure how to set goals for this yet. Body composition? 
5. Killing M, using IF to heal.

Yesterday was the first full day in (over?) a week that I killed on the M. Didn't IF though. 

I've been wanting to write more on my thought processing this weekend. Will I have time? As a start, I called up old posts with M in them. The first is Aug 13, 2014 in which "he reared his head" and from that I figure it's the first tagged post with him but not the first post or instance. 

Later he's mentioned in January 2016 when I had reached 400 days. Back-calculated to be 12-25-2014. I think I remember that now. I also remember being really messed up at that time. 

Skip in time. Then later again, Aug 25, 2018 he's mentioned. After that, he's a regular customer. Mentioned regularly and obviously a common problem, although he was certainly around between 2016-2018. Numerous quit posts. Plenty of recurring posts. More than I care to count. 

So here's another quit post. What's 400 days from now? Sept 23, 2023. But why stop there. Just get started. Remember I told LA this weekend that coaches, in order to get clients to go to the gym, just tell the clients to go for 5 minutes, meaning -- Just Go. Same here. Just Stop. 

Lots of firsts this weekend! And more on all this later. Just got a big chore at lab - spending $20K!

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