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Coming soon: more work from someone creative, ambitious, and determined - often called a variant of insane/crazy. Notes: Genderfluid. Preferred pronouns (they/them) [& denotes married couples] Immediate Family: soon-to-be-ex-Dilbert, Tempest, Dogbert My Extended Family: (s)Dad, cousins (K, D, G, J, F, N) I guess it's good to be on speaking terms with someone. Voluntarily. AuntS Dilbert's Extended Family: SIL (+5 kids)& BIL, FIL's gf (only for holidays, mostly) Important People I Don't See Enough: Owl + Partner, Paradise ICON crew (which owl is a part of) People I've Known a Long Time/Long Distance: Doc & [husband], Sheer & DocSheer, Mrs. Light & [husband], Trillium & Diego (not married but close enough), Steph Local People: MotherDroid, Owl&Partner ... There are about to be new people on this list, because, well, I'm evolving. And it hurts. DnD: used letters, S (DM), D(doctor), Y(because I like him!), K(old RPGer friend who also attends church), P(church guy who does game night and is local and our families are also friends), A (went to church but moved back to Chicago, moved back locally then i moved) Tempest's friends: I don't know very many of her local friends. She's got an internet buddy who also talks to CousinK's younger daughter. the younger daughter is DRAMA. Dogbert's friends: Has a new group of friends based on a Pokemon thing and they have a DnD club at school and outside of school. Lucky kid! |
| Tempest took her shot at the gymnastics team today. I don't think she realized they invited her for a tryout. She's close - a strong maybe. She says "i'm scared" a lot, and she can't quite do a back handspring by herself on the floor. But all the other girls are 10-18, and she's 8. Which everyone has trouble believing because she looks like a six year old. The coach likes her- her strength is good and she has energy. [Coach was worried that 2.5 hours of class would be too much for my girl to take. T did great that way.] I have a favorable opinion of the coach. T cried a bit after we got into the car. I repeated the good things coach said about T, and that she did a good job. I understand being sad, but I also told her it might be to see what she does with the disappointment - does she quit or does she work harder? She says she's going to work harder. That's my girl! Dogbert has been off with my mom this morning, because 2.5 hours is a long class. I'm sure he's having a good time. Dilbert said it wasn't worth teaching my Monday class for that, to go to Milan, back to Bettendorf, back to Milan, back to home. (Home is 5 min from the B'dorf Y, and Milan is 20 min away. So we'd trek to gymnastics, turn around and go back to the Y, then I teach my 45 min class - arrive at Y approx 9:50, class at 10:15 to 11, then back to gymnastics leaving by 11:30 to pick her up at 12. And somewhere in there i'd prefer to shower. Dogbert could hang at the Y, as long as they still allow him in Y-pals. I told him it wouldn't be that long, maybe for summer and that was it. She's not even on the team yet, so I guess we can worry another day. Would've been so nice if that girl had taken me up on grabbing this class for the summer, right? Oh well. Still on my quest of personal improvement. Looking at changing diet to remove sugar - my last real vice - and while I'm not going to get rid of all of it, I'd like to have some options that are healthier that way. Like oatmeal instead of poptarts for breakfast, right? And not with a bunch of brown sugar sprinkled over the whole mess. It's far from a perfect no-sugar diet, but it's at least better. See how I feel with that. Also on the list - probiotics, a specific yoga practice that involves gut-brain and brain health, and adding in meditation, a breath practice, an possibly a mudra. Nothing big, right? But it is going to be a change where I am mindful about it. I haven't done that in a long time, and it's an important change. I feel a little bad I didn't do yoga when I got out of bed this morning despite all the hours I've spent researching this weekend. However, I have a bit of time this afternoon and I'm going to be continuing to find this path. It's important - maybe no-more-antidepressants-important. (and i mean, like, ever.) As a side note, the more I read the yoga books the more I feel I need a better handle on Sanskrit. I'm also working on Habit RPG (called Habitica now but wasn't the first time I downloaded it) to keep track of a few things. I've also reintroduced Duolingo in the last couple weeks. Only Spanish at the moment, but that could easily change. I feel like I have a good idea right now. Watch it just morph into a story on me. My teacher this weekend knew the sci-fi lingo. So when I said grok was the third (manipura) chakra, he got it. He said prana was the force, and thank you George Lucas for giving us that in pop culture (paraphrased) and he pulled out LOTR by calling a bunch of people where he's from (Sedona, Arizona) like Lothlorien Elves.  Next up: asana! |
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