2020-12-14 — Not the Fuel Pump

Hola, peeps. I hope y’all have had a peaceful Monday. 🙂 I’m gonna try and just be positive in this entry, looking at the silver lining in everything. Wish me luck. 🙃

#1. I’m grateful I was able to sleep well last night. I think the steroid was playing with my sleep a bit, and I nixed finishing the last round of both prescriptions–the steroid and the antibiotic. I actually had barely started them, but I felt they were just completely overkill, way too much. I feel good about the decision, and I got sleep and don’t have super uber powerful antibiotics in my system.

#2. I’m grateful that I didn’t have to work out in the snow today.

#3. I’m grateful that I was able to get the Durango and Thomas’s car up the icy, snowy driveway tonight.

#4. I’m grateful for fun foods and trying new things. I ordered my B12 supplement today, and we got soy milk, oat milk, vegan cheese, nutritional yeast flake, and more to try out. Fun fun fun. Meanwhile, I’m still pounding down the old food storage, and mom’s looking up vegan recipes.

#5. I’m grateful for a better day today. I did better today in my choices, choosing to do what I want most over what I want now.

I might put out a plea to y’all to help me stay focused, committed, etc. (no pressure) Maybe a daily text at a certain time that goes something like–“Have you been choosing what you want most over what you want now for the last x hours?” (thinking maybe of requesting a handful of people to text me that once a day, maybe?). Maybe a text at 8 a.m., 11 a.m., 2 p.m., 5 p.m. and 8 p.m? Five people, once a day? I don’t want to burden anyone, but I do want to grow, and a continual accountability throughout the day might do wonders for me. I’ve tried something like that before, but I think the people I asked to help thought they were bothering me, even though I asked for it, and so they stopped texting. Or maybe it was just too much to ask. I don’t know. Anyway, I’m thinking about that.

Loves and hugs, my lovelies.

Thought of the Day: “We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.”
~ John Newton

Lift the World.

~ stephen