The Circle of Life Keeps On Rollin'

Getting back in the mindset of "eat great, exercise!" is a real challenge when life is lobbing fastballs at you and trying to upset your stance. My little hearing aid debacle last week is setting me back $400 I had earmarked for important things, like clothes storage for my bedroom, and, oh, food. Never mind the lost iPOD. That'll be whined about in February.

I've been on a bit of an emotional rollercoaster, hoping madly that good luck would come my way and the aid would be covered under warranty, and got the bad news yesterday about its repair costs. So, now I'm sort of screwing the pooch and just hoping like hell January ends sooner than later, but I'm trying to get myself in a good headspace so that I set great groundwork for February.

Still, I hope to have a pretty accomplished weekend this weekend. I'm too broke to do anything, so I'm gonna finish the organizing I started at the holidays, and make me some cheap food for the week ahead. Mm, broke food. Bring on the bean soup! (Made a great lentil soup last night for work today, looking forward to that. Spicy, mm!)

As much as part of me is bitter and angry at everything that's happened this past week (and another part of me tells me I'm full of bullshit and as far as life challenges go, this is a blip on the radar), I've also had moments where I've realized this is life just giving me a free lesson, that it's telling me to stop spending money on stupid shit and start being more focused about where it goes, and why. For instance, working in the downtown core makes spending money on food all the time really fun and easy. This needs to change, and is one of my goals this year, too...

...Because I have so many things I want to spend money on this year, experiences. I want to try things like zip-lining and paragliding and more. I figure I'll stay around the city this year, but I'll adventure the hell out of it, and a lot of the "cool" things will cost money. Like, perhaps a tandem skydive. I mean "adventure" and "living in BC" pretty much go hand in hand. We got it all, baby.

It's time to put my "I've stared death in the eyes and lived" good fortune on the line and start taking more chances and putting this second existential kick at the can to work for me. Right now, it means saving some money and ending this bleeding of the wallet. So, no more stupid spending money on food at work. Time now to save for all the experiences I want to enjoy this summer.

Which means also getting back on the eating/exercising track. Change in one area affects everything, remember? I make my lunches to save money? Well, I can also make them healthier and lower in fat, thus getting on the eating-right track. Want to experience tandem jumps and other maniacal fun? Must be more fit than I am now. Ergo, back to working out... which gets me out of the house, but economically, AND helps me meet people.

Ahh, life. Never stays dull for long, huh? Time to keep on keepin' on and get some granola in me and get me out in the world. Enjoy your day, folks. Looks like a stunner here on the West Coast. Another blue-sky frost-heavy icy day out there.

(And to the Manitoban who thinks my punk-ass whining about our little cold snap is... so very West Coast of me, just a reminder: The moisture in the air here, and the marine winds, make it seem much, much colder than the numbers (or even the windchill) convey. Just speaking from cold weather experiences up north. :) So, -5 here feels like -20 elsewhere. 'course, it's not -5, but hey. Snicker. Take that, you chilly Manitoban. ;)