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Nov. 2nd, 2007 12:25 pm My face feels like it might fall off because it is FULL of PHLEGM, but I feel the most human I have in days. Which is good, because I am going to McLeod tonight. I am BORED of my apartment, although Steph and Ryan were very nice and came over to amuse me last night.
Everyone is talking about health lately, for the fall, and so I've been thinking about it too. I'm making acupuncture and eye doctor appointments (because I already go to the doctor and dentist regularly), and if I stick to my 'wearing my glasses outside more often' plan, I hopefully won't get yelled at for treating my eyes so badly when that appointment comes up. And I need to start seriously reconsidering my eating habits, which are awful, and it's a lot easier to just try not to gain too much weight than it is to try and get rid of it once it's there. (That beer cheese soup I just had for lunch was probably a bad idea, but...so yummy.) But it's a difficult balance for me, because if I think about it too much, or try to completely cut things out of my life, I tend to stop eating altogether. And I am pretty good at eating slowly and stopping when I'm full, rather than eating everything just because it's there.
But I have been thinking a lot about chemicals. Most of the things I put on my body, with the exception of my makeup, are organic and come in recycleable containers--all of my shampoo and soaps and lotions and hair products are either MOP or Lush. I think I'm going to start cleaning with more vinegar and baking soda, or at the very least more Method products, rather than things full of petrochemicals. (Especially in my bathtub, which keeps turning orange because the construction down the street keeps hitting water pipes.) I'm still planning on starting a worm box sometime this month to get compost for growing some of my own vegetables in the spring, to keep trying to avoid chemical pesicides. Chemicals really freak me out.
So my plans for November are as follows:
Eat better lunches
Have my eyeballs looked at and my humors straightened out
No drunk eating
Fewer salty snacks and less ranch dressing and cheese (although not no cheese, because I LOVE cheese, and that would be so lame.)
Pay attention to High Fructose Corn Syrup
Remember to use my inhaler before I leave to go to and from work, so I can walk faster without wheezing
Maybe try and be less afraid of gyms
Avoid having my picture taken, which always makes me feel like the ugliest pointy-faced girl ever, so I should just go eat three bags of doritos or something.
I feel like I've spent this year trying to live vividly, in the brightest colors I can, and I think that part of that is continuing to slough off the layers that aren't working, to change my habits so that some of the things I get so OCD about just don't come up at all.
Everyone is talking about health lately, for the fall, and so I've been thinking about it too. I'm making acupuncture and eye doctor appointments (because I already go to the doctor and dentist regularly), and if I stick to my 'wearing my glasses outside more often' plan, I hopefully won't get yelled at for treating my eyes so badly when that appointment comes up. And I need to start seriously reconsidering my eating habits, which are awful, and it's a lot easier to just try not to gain too much weight than it is to try and get rid of it once it's there. (That beer cheese soup I just had for lunch was probably a bad idea, but...so yummy.) But it's a difficult balance for me, because if I think about it too much, or try to completely cut things out of my life, I tend to stop eating altogether. And I am pretty good at eating slowly and stopping when I'm full, rather than eating everything just because it's there.
But I have been thinking a lot about chemicals. Most of the things I put on my body, with the exception of my makeup, are organic and come in recycleable containers--all of my shampoo and soaps and lotions and hair products are either MOP or Lush. I think I'm going to start cleaning with more vinegar and baking soda, or at the very least more Method products, rather than things full of petrochemicals. (Especially in my bathtub, which keeps turning orange because the construction down the street keeps hitting water pipes.) I'm still planning on starting a worm box sometime this month to get compost for growing some of my own vegetables in the spring, to keep trying to avoid chemical pesicides. Chemicals really freak me out.
So my plans for November are as follows:
Eat better lunches
Have my eyeballs looked at and my humors straightened out
No drunk eating
Fewer salty snacks and less ranch dressing and cheese (although not no cheese, because I LOVE cheese, and that would be so lame.)
Pay attention to High Fructose Corn Syrup
Remember to use my inhaler before I leave to go to and from work, so I can walk faster without wheezing
Maybe try and be less afraid of gyms
Avoid having my picture taken, which always makes me feel like the ugliest pointy-faced girl ever, so I should just go eat three bags of doritos or something.
I feel like I've spent this year trying to live vividly, in the brightest colors I can, and I think that part of that is continuing to slough off the layers that aren't working, to change my habits so that some of the things I get so OCD about just don't come up at all.
