Marsia's Diary
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No, that was just cleaning and putting things away - our house is on a hill and there are tons of steps between levels which cascade down the hill, so when I clean, I get good stair exercise - the Fitbit says I did 43 sets of stairs! Nice to have an organized house now, too! Hope your weekend is really great, too!!
Thanks LaMa and Petal!!!
Got up this morning and was happy I now weigh 176.8. Put on some pants in the dark and realized they are size 14, a size I haven't fit in for years! Also I am wearing a sweater that is form fitting, and I look nice! So happy, but this takes getting used to, too!
It's raining cats and dogs outside, so maybe we will ask the improv people if we can eaves drop a little here and there. I realized that what the teacher is about to teach is also why he is such a great conversationalist. I think I could learn a lot from him. This may get me to try improv (but don't tell my hubby that - maybe this is just a moment of extreme braveness and it might pass!)
Got up this morning and was happy I now weigh 176.8. Put on some pants in the dark and realized they are size 14, a size I haven't fit in for years! Also I am wearing a sweater that is form fitting, and I look nice! So happy, but this takes getting used to, too!
It's raining cats and dogs outside, so maybe we will ask the improv people if we can eaves drop a little here and there. I realized that what the teacher is about to teach is also why he is such a great conversationalist. I think I could learn a lot from him. This may get me to try improv (but don't tell my hubby that - maybe this is just a moment of extreme braveness and it might pass!)
Congratulations, that´s awesome! Very curious to hear about the results of your eavesdropping
Cate
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Well, didn't get to eaves drop as much as I hoped. The teacher is so interesting and said so much, and I am so tired, it's all a blur. I cooked a ton and then went to the ocean with my kid and mom while the ribs were in the oven, and the waves were huge from the rain and there was a ton of sea foam being strewn about by the wind. Really dramatic and fun to play in. Then it dumped down buckets of rain and hailed a lot and the guest room/my room flooded because the deck above it was put in wrong and makes the wall leak, which I thought I had fixed temporarily with tarps on the deck, but no, so my kid made up a song about standing in a puddle in my room while mopping - luckily it's sort of a basement space with flooring that can handle water. And the water was pouring from our driveway into the neighbor's, so I dragged sand bags to the entrance to our driveway and stopped the waterfall going into the neighbor's from our house. That meant I didn't have enough sand bags for the door to our basement, which floods, so bailed that out a few times. So I lost a half pound yesterday and did 20,000 steps. More heavy rain tonight, so need to make more sand bags. Time to get up and make breakfast for everyone and get the house nice for the improv troupe coming again soon!
Hi all, yes, very quirky house. We are almost to the point where all the roofs and really bad potential disasters are fixed, but not quite. But it's in a beautiful location and will be wonderful when we ever finish it. The basement actually flooded, so I got all of my boxes out and put the rest up on plastic storage bins, so have a week or so of sorting and cleaning and giving things away. There are now pictures drying all over the house because I hadn't realized that my portfolios were stored on the floor in there by someone who shall remain nameless. He helped rescue everything though, and only a few books and artworks were unsalvageable, and not things I cared about luckily. It's really fun looking through my old artwork back to about junior high school, and most if it will be ok once it dries out on the bottom. So I am very tired!
I loved the teacher who came and taught improv. He reminds me of the wonderful people I met in art school and is making me enthused to do my art again! I'll write more about our conversations when I get the rest of the artwork dried out and all my stored knick nacks cleaned and sorted. Right now, you can't really walk through the kitchen and dining room!
I loved the teacher who came and taught improv. He reminds me of the wonderful people I met in art school and is making me enthused to do my art again! I'll write more about our conversations when I get the rest of the artwork dried out and all my stored knick nacks cleaned and sorted. Right now, you can't really walk through the kitchen and dining room!
Cate
Long term member
Love the beachy chorus line of happy people and the birthday wishes - thanks Cate! Will definitely be going out for my birthday as the entire dining room is covered in damp artwork! Maybe we'll go out for poke bowl and then bakery (might get a Napoleon - my favorite!)
I didn't get that much done today because I was so tired from yesterday. Must have hauled 25+ boxes of heavy books mostly out of the basement and hadn't really recovered from all the days of intense cleaning and stuff. I looked back at my activity tracker and am burning about 800 calories a day. Lost another pound, so at 175 today - 14 pounds until official normal weight!!! I feel so good getting all this done though, and the house is looking really nice (except for the pile of boxes from the basement). Decluttering is really satisfying!!
I didn't get that much done today because I was so tired from yesterday. Must have hauled 25+ boxes of heavy books mostly out of the basement and hadn't really recovered from all the days of intense cleaning and stuff. I looked back at my activity tracker and am burning about 800 calories a day. Lost another pound, so at 175 today - 14 pounds until official normal weight!!! I feel so good getting all this done though, and the house is looking really nice (except for the pile of boxes from the basement). Decluttering is really satisfying!!
Thanks for all the birthday wishes! 
The sun is coming out, after this morning's hail and rain, and it looks like it's going to be a beautiful day! I am having a good time looking at all the different eras of artwork. Just dried out figure drawings from 1986 when I took a fantastic anatomy and live model class, and some of the drawings are really nice and make me happy to look at. In college, I was a figure drawing model, and I found some beautiful creative drawings people gave me of me from then. It's really interesting looking back at my life through my art, and through art from friends. One thing is crystal clear from how happy and alive I felt talking with the acting teacher. I need to get back to doing my art. Life is in technicolor when I do!
This house is like it's own character in a book. We fix one part and save up for vacation, and the second we do, another part of the house fails and we have to fix it. I think it's psychic! But more and more of the house has been tamed and made functional. I picture the house like it's a wild horse that bites and kicks, and slowly is won over. By the time we are old, it will be tamed for the most part, and then we can pass it on to our daughter. I think about how I didn't do art for a couple of decades, but I learned work skills that made getting this property possible, and it makes me happy because we have a homestead that will be passed down from generation to generation, like my great grandmother's farm was.
I bought a lot of shade loving perennials like primroses and lots of interesting shade bulbs including pink and red astilbe (false goat's beard) and want to plant them in the next few weeks. Got some foxgloves, too, and think I will make a cactus rock garden from all the cactuses that I have in pots and mix the cactuses and foxgloves and a few other perennials. My favorite flower is lavender colored wild asters with the yellow centers, because of fond memories of picking them in the fields when growing up and from a beautiful art poster I got while living in the arts and antiques district in Seoul. I got a really cool brown glazed pot from Thailand that actually looks like a cross between tropical art deco and African designs and will pot an aster in it and do a nice still life for my room from that.
The thing that sticks the most from talking to that acting teacher is how he talked about how as artists we just have to do our art, our job is not to critique it or compare it or judge if it is good or not. Our job is simply to keep going, keep producing things, keep expressing what wants to come out next. When I think about this with regards to health, I am learning from you all that the same is true - just keep exercising and eating well and feeling feelings instead of stuffing them or eating them, and the body and mind will take care of themselves. No need to judge progress, compare myself to other people, or freak out about weight fluctuation. Just keep moving and eating good things and making yummy good food, and things will sort themselves out in their own time! Happy day!!!
The sun is coming out, after this morning's hail and rain, and it looks like it's going to be a beautiful day! I am having a good time looking at all the different eras of artwork. Just dried out figure drawings from 1986 when I took a fantastic anatomy and live model class, and some of the drawings are really nice and make me happy to look at. In college, I was a figure drawing model, and I found some beautiful creative drawings people gave me of me from then. It's really interesting looking back at my life through my art, and through art from friends. One thing is crystal clear from how happy and alive I felt talking with the acting teacher. I need to get back to doing my art. Life is in technicolor when I do!
This house is like it's own character in a book. We fix one part and save up for vacation, and the second we do, another part of the house fails and we have to fix it. I think it's psychic! But more and more of the house has been tamed and made functional. I picture the house like it's a wild horse that bites and kicks, and slowly is won over. By the time we are old, it will be tamed for the most part, and then we can pass it on to our daughter. I think about how I didn't do art for a couple of decades, but I learned work skills that made getting this property possible, and it makes me happy because we have a homestead that will be passed down from generation to generation, like my great grandmother's farm was.
I bought a lot of shade loving perennials like primroses and lots of interesting shade bulbs including pink and red astilbe (false goat's beard) and want to plant them in the next few weeks. Got some foxgloves, too, and think I will make a cactus rock garden from all the cactuses that I have in pots and mix the cactuses and foxgloves and a few other perennials. My favorite flower is lavender colored wild asters with the yellow centers, because of fond memories of picking them in the fields when growing up and from a beautiful art poster I got while living in the arts and antiques district in Seoul. I got a really cool brown glazed pot from Thailand that actually looks like a cross between tropical art deco and African designs and will pot an aster in it and do a nice still life for my room from that.
The thing that sticks the most from talking to that acting teacher is how he talked about how as artists we just have to do our art, our job is not to critique it or compare it or judge if it is good or not. Our job is simply to keep going, keep producing things, keep expressing what wants to come out next. When I think about this with regards to health, I am learning from you all that the same is true - just keep exercising and eating well and feeling feelings instead of stuffing them or eating them, and the body and mind will take care of themselves. No need to judge progress, compare myself to other people, or freak out about weight fluctuation. Just keep moving and eating good things and making yummy good food, and things will sort themselves out in their own time! Happy day!!!
That´s just beautiful.
Well, things are going slowly. I had to take my mom to a couple of doctor's appointments which each seem to take up half the day. And I shoveled more sand bags so maybe the basement won't flood any more. And reinforced the ditch across the street. I got all the artwork dry and now am sorting and cleaning all the books. It takes forever and there are also knick nacks everywhere - I plan to get rid of a lot of those!
The sugar in the chocolate birthday cake I had didn't make me sick, but I have been sluggish the last few days and not that energetic. I don't think I'll eat stuff with sugar in it anymore. It makes me feel very weird and not myself. But it was a nice birthday with a nice meal out and we went to the ocean to see the sunset with a lot of seagulls circling in the river that empties out into the ocean. And I opened nice gifts - a few lovely books that my mom got me on drawing seascapes and wonderful gardening and other books I requested from my hubby, and warm socks, which I love.
One of the things I have been thinking about is that I try too hard and wear myself out. I try too hard with conversations and exhaust myself and with housework and many things. I am starting to relax and think about things more before I dive in. I haven't been exercising except for all the housework and moving boxes of books up and down stairs. I'm still low energy and just relaxing between things for a few days - it feels like I really need it. Also bracing for the next hard rains!
The sugar in the chocolate birthday cake I had didn't make me sick, but I have been sluggish the last few days and not that energetic. I don't think I'll eat stuff with sugar in it anymore. It makes me feel very weird and not myself. But it was a nice birthday with a nice meal out and we went to the ocean to see the sunset with a lot of seagulls circling in the river that empties out into the ocean. And I opened nice gifts - a few lovely books that my mom got me on drawing seascapes and wonderful gardening and other books I requested from my hubby, and warm socks, which I love.
One of the things I have been thinking about is that I try too hard and wear myself out. I try too hard with conversations and exhaust myself and with housework and many things. I am starting to relax and think about things more before I dive in. I haven't been exercising except for all the housework and moving boxes of books up and down stairs. I'm still low energy and just relaxing between things for a few days - it feels like I really need it. Also bracing for the next hard rains!