New years resolutions?

[silverthorne]

I actually hadn't thought about them. Oops.

Ah well, here's a not-so-comprehensive possible list thing. Consider it more like New Years gonna do the best I can list.



1) Am going to upkeep the masseuse thing. One, it's helped the pain levels (yes, I'm getting old enough now that my job does cause pain on occasion. :P). Two, I deserve a little fussing over. Even as I cringe saying that, I know it's true...because everyone deserves a little fussing over, and I need to include myself in that opinion.

2) Will take advantage of my new employer's insistence that their workers stay healthy in all ways and get myself hooked up with some counseling. I'm by no means bat shit crazy, but my 'tude could use a little adjusting, and there are things I still need to work out.

3) Will continue with the story I started in November and stick with it until I'm done with it. That letting 'working on it' include drawing character sketches, back tracking to re-write things when I realize they don't make sense, and yes, even resurrecting old character concepts, especially since I've realized that this was the story I'd meant to tell with them years ago when I originally started writing. (I actually dragged out the remnants of my old sketch books to compare stuff I used to draw with what I've been sketching the past week off and on. Sure enough; I know these guys.)

4) Um...chill out? Heh.

5) Get back on track with the weight loss thing.

6) Call the family a little more often. Without having to be called first.

7) Get on that damned path. Been staring at it for years and it's not going to walk itself. :)

Comments

[goes-kaboom.livejournal.com]

#1 sounds like an AWESOME investment. @_@

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

it's definitely done me a lot of good, especially after the entire muscle structure on the right side of my back seized for a whole damn week and then stayed in knots I couldn't sleep on for another month before I got in for the first session.

Really don't ever want to repeat that. :P

[notorious-mar.livejournal.com]

#6 is so, so true for me too!

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

*nods* I need to keep on it, too. I have one grandmother left, and she's 88. I really can't afford to be MIA for too long for her sake. Especially since she's been feeling lonely even with one of her sons living in the house with her and Dad visiting every three months for at least a month at a time. :/ I can't go there all the time, but I do have a phone.

[rebl1969.livejournal.com]

re: #1, if the massages help with your overall well-being and keep the pain away, it's not "fussing over", it's "preventive medicine". I mean, I wouldn't put them in the same class as mani-pedis or getting perms or something.

I just found out that CARTI offers all their radiation and chemo patients massages once a week. They pay to have the masseuse come in, so Mom got her first-ever professional massage last week. Doctors wouldn't pay for patients to have massages if massages were mere primping and fussing. You know?

Shoot, I need to make some resolutions, even vague ones. And here it is the 3rd already. Tsk.

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

True true, but I also consider it 'fussing over' since the past three sessions had minimal therapy and mostly relaxation (although that's preventative as well, since getting all tensed up is what caused the problem in the first place). Either way though, it's covered, and I'd sooner be fussed over than have to go back when it'll require another month and a half of deep tissue work that's...um...painful in and of itself.

And yeah, the appointments are actually partially covered by my insurance--as well as providing a discount since they apparently have a 'deal' going with the place.

I don't 'use' resolutions like I used to; people sometimes make them carved in stone (and that can lead to self-recrimination and disappointment for some when it doesn't pan out). They make for good goals and something to aim for, though, so it's always worth the exercise, in my humble opinion.

[rebl1969.livejournal.com]

I was thinking I might resolve something like "Have more fun this year."

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

That's always a good one. :)