Thursday, July 16, 2015

PinkNinjaLaura

PinkNinjaLaura

Val hope you're feeling better today. Is this related to your prior fevers, or something new?

Marla how does it go living with someone? Are you still at an Airbnb? Nice you'll have a week to yourselves. I hope someday to be able to eat like that. I'm not done losing weight yet and I don't seem to be able to lose without tracking.

Well I've eaten well 2 days in a row, so I'm happy with that. Baby steps. My trainer has me on the "take one day at a time" plan. My boss is reading a book they recommended at the Mayo Clinic about reducing stress that's based on scientific studies, including brain scans, on what actually works to reduce stress. She ordered a couple extra copies of the book for the office so I'm going to borrow one of those. There are a series of exercises and the first one is pretty simple - before you get out of bed in the morning think of 5 people that you are thankful for and why. It sets the tone for the day of looking outward with gratitude instead of inward with negativity, so I started that yesterday. The book recommends leaving a note where you'll see it so you remember, but I use my iPhone for my alarm so I renamed my alarm to "Gratitude" instead of "Get up for work."

Yesterday I also started the 100 days of happiness challenge, where for 100 days you pay attention to the things that make you happy, take a photo of one of them, and post it on social media. I'm posting on Instagram since that's photo-oriented. My niece did it last year, and one of my MFPs is doing it now. I looked it up online to check the "rules" and it said 71% of people who start it don't complete the 100 days.

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We are in a private apt under her house, private entrance, so can go for days without seeing her, but when she is home we hear her walking above us so always feel like we have to be quiet, etc. just nice to feel more relaxed. Yes all of our rentals are thru airbnb no problems so far at all.

Next place which starts Aug 1 for 2 months is more private it is a larger apt on top of a 2 car garage that is not attached to house. They say they don't use garage for cars just storage so very private. It also has larger kitchen which i am looking forward to, this place is ok but has hot plate, no stove and mini frig. We brought our cooler and having to use it to have room.

Spent morning cleaning, laundry, sweeping deck, nice covered deck here. We won't have that at next place. I am finding every place has its good and bad...