My, I don't know where my head is today. Actually, scratch that. I will give you, reader, a review of my day thus far. First off, I had a nightmare last night that woke me up a little before my alarm this morning with a start. People were yelling at me like it was my fault like it was all my fault (I don't know exactly what "it" is or was, but sometimes the mysteries of a dream make them all the more terrifying). They were acting vengefully on me and the people that I loved, and they were going to attack, and that was right when I woke up with a start. I was only too glad to find that Michael was still lying beside me (caught in a sweet dream, for all I knew) and it was all only a dream. Phew! My alarm went off a few minutes later, and have found that that the previous circumstances were only a nightmare robbing me of good sleep, I hit the snooze button, shut my eyes again, and tried to fall asleep. When those few lethargic minutes passed, and I found myself saying my morning prayers (I am trying to get back into that habit) in the monotony of morning. After doing so, I don't know what happened, but it was as if I was stuck with a cattle prod. When I want to be fast I am. I was in the parking lot at work all too soon, when I realized that I wasn't even working the morning shift. I assume that I should have been more firm with Brandon about making sure my work schedule gets sent to the new email that I regularly check (emails are to be the death of me!) (actually, even though it has many good uses, I guess I just don't understand it yet in full, do technology is to be the reason that I die in the end). I know that everything falls on me and is my responsibility in the end...sorrowfully (JK!), so hopefully these monthly goals will help. Gulp.
1) Limit empty calories. There is just something about living on your own that makes you keep an extra eye on the food that enters your body and whether or not it is actually good for you. That can be seen as either a good or a bad thing (or both...). I am saying right now that it is a good thing, or I am at least trying to. (Unhealthy food always seems to be cheaper though and is less likely to just plain rot in the back of my fridge or cupboard.) Healthy food is good, so this month, I plan to keep an extra eye on my diet with this goal. I won't just ignore the ice cream in the fridge in my work break room. Gotta start somewhere. 💁 Also, for those of you that don't know, empty calories are the calories that come from solid fats or sugars. They are found in things like donuts, fruit drinks, and pizza (did I miss anything?). Don't look at me like that!
2) Clean Tupperware and get in the habit of hand-drying it. Along with a little joke...Here goes.
I am a firm believer in the kitchen appliance/tool/storage unit of Tupperware. They just make things easier to keep, like my sanity. This isn't a recent discovery either. I have always loved this thing, and its many uses, or rather the many things that it can store. In fact, I thought up an invention for those of us that simply can never find the lid to the container, or vice versa. (I am now telling you this because I swear that I am not the only one who has come up with this idea, or rather solution.) Just make the lid and the container attached. Let me illustrate, like the lid to those little packets of M&M's at the movie theater, or like a pack of sticky notes, or even how you open a hard-cover book (or any book...this is just easier to describe if one part of the book is firm (the cover) and the other flimsy (the paper). Now, before I get too carried away with this idea (who knows? maybe it will become one of my goals in the future.), let me backtrack. I have a wonderful dishwasher, its only issue seems to be with this particular type of dish. And since I and my husband both have jobs and one of us is studying to become a doctor (and the other an inventor with crafty ideas like the aforementioned Tupperware Wonder) (I'm still working on what I will call it!), we are both firm believers in the lazy (had to be said) idea of air-drying. So, this goal is just me saying, no more! I will make sure all of my dishes, Tupperware particularly (always the wettest), are dried to their sustenance, even if I have to use a towel in doing so. It may not be a flood right now (though there was a thunderstorm the other night...loud noises frighten me), but I should always be doing what I can to help, even if it only be in the small ways. The wise man built his house upon the rock (I should really give Michael more credit).
3) Earn money writing. Now, with this one, I do admit that I am not some epic published author who has sold millions of books that tell stories that I wrote, but as you might have noticed with some of my other blog posts, I know how to write a story and enjoy doing so. Everyone has different favorites when it comes to reading and writing, and though I haven't quite found my niche yet, I am trying to, with responses to random writing prompts that I am given with the writing and publishing pages that I follow on Facebook and Instagram, I am noting the ones that I would like to continue with, and make a bigger story, maybe even a novel someday. Currently, I am working on writing a story that I call (or will call if I don't change my mind...which I am known to do), Chasing the Abyss. It is the story of Zechariah Taylor, who feels like he isn't headed anywhere in life with the small Wisconsin town that he grew up in, and he can't wait to get out. That is until life threw him another curveball testing him on how much he really loves his family and if he will stay with them until the end of their trial. Going nowhere, but going everywhere. That is the theme that I am trying to chase, or rather track down with this particular story idea. Stories are designed to make others think, and in the process of their creation, they make the author think snd discover several parts of themselves, at least that is how it is with me (though I am nothing big...yet, and I do not know if I will ever be.)
4) Talk to flowers (or plants). Before you say how crazy I am, this is legit! Talking to plants can indeed help them grow, especially if you happen to be a woman. Now, I am not quoting the Botany class that I have taken in the past, but I a not just going off of a gut feeling either. In a study that the Royal Horticulture Society conducted, researchers discovered that talking to your plants does indeed help them to grow healthily, and faster. Also, they found that better results were given in response to a female voice rather than a male one. (I think of vague attachments to the Bible there, which is either odd or proof that God patterned even things like this for a special reason). This can be my own little experiment, though I doubt that Michael will ever feel like talking to plants. What can I say? My last name used to be Gardner (which though it was spelled differently, sounded like a gardener, and it was an English name). Maybe I should study my own genealogy more (and Michael's because though I am more English and Danish by blood, he happens to be more Italian and Hispanic in the same way, and if you think about it, so am I now too).
I am a forward, progressive thinker, and I don't think that is a bad thing.
