Daily Communication

Learned: My lovely Doc is 40 and is too busy to have a FB account. His son is questioning why he should listen to him. My T-cell count is higher than most healthy people. Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson (R) doesn’t think the current healthcare planning is a good plan. GC also has no religion, which doesn’t surprise me.

3. That I walked 125 miles since April 1st. That I walked 5000 steps today. That I appear not to be an invalid anymore. 3.

Seems: Like I am well-recognized in the clinic, I just never noticed before. Like it takes three hours for a lot of water to become peeable. Like I haven’t lost being able to be all Zen about being in a crowded waiting room. Like Freedom in the U.S. is still just an unrealized part of the American Dream. A little like I’m forgetting something. Like “What if I made this easy” is an appealing question to all who hear it. Like the thing I should never say to another person is “I want to be a part of your life.”

New Habit(s): Create and use a Sleep Ritual. Record intake. Plan Ahead. Healthy Fats. Smart Carbs. Lean Protein (at every meal). 5 colors a day. 80% full. Slow down. Make time. Breathe.

Accomplished: Dr. appt this morning. The 125+ miles since April. Walked home from clinic today. Communicated what’s what to most of the CMG PC. Leaked the “end of registrar” to one man. Started Laundry. Tried to push the cross over—It’s stuck real good. VG said, “You’re a bit of a Wizard, aren’t you…” (bon travay in the “them-to-me” dimension of communication).

Thinking about: Needing to make Golden Milk a ritual. Lipitor. That new drug that could replace Truvada. My desires to sneak bites of flour and sugar. Having another square of 85% Dark Chocolate, even though the habit would be “One square with morning pills.” Sugar-free BBQ sauce.

Q: Same as yesterday, and maybe this question will appear often in the coming months. “That thing you’re concerned about… What if you made it easy?”

Video: https://youtu.be/0Wr6MTix-VY

Reading: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, and this by one of my most favorite communicators, KING: Here’s why the United States is not the best country in the world

Note: You actually got it, I will move forward with the plan to invite others to communicate daily.

Learned: I’m playing a good game and getting freedom from playing. There’s a high-protein ice cream at Safeway called Halo-Top that has 240-380 calories per pint and around 22 grams of protein — makes Ice Cream possible for chubby diabetics.

3. The question “What if I made this easy?” Good smells from the kitchen. Coming home to a clean house after time away. 3.

Seems: Like my skills are not wanted or needed here (in the CMG). Like I have it that things will be better if I help perfect the visual identity (of the CMG). Like I just need one super sleep to help heal the toes and the back muscles (but I can’t get it). Like I’m getting ready to be more different than ever before.

New Habit(s): Create and use a Sleep Ritual. Record intake. Plan Ahead. Healthy Fats. Smart Carbs. Lean Protein (at every meal). 5 colors a day. 80% full. Slow down. Make time. Breathe.

Accomplished: Big toe surgeries, which also created learning opportunities for three podiatry students. Grocery order (designed & delivered). Hulled two pounds of strawberries. Made sugar-free freezer jam with “Cornaby’s Sugar-Free Jam in a Jiffy.” I declare the Fall Gathering as my last to run as registrar.

Thinking about: How to avoid being triggered by the noize boyz with their bombz tonight. That achy part of my back. How to avoid getting infections on in my feet after the surgeries. How to not over-eat with all the great smells coming from the kitchen.

Q: That thing you’re concerned about… What if you made it easy?

My answer: I’ve been squirming over how to get free from my CMG post, and the answer to the question ends up being “I’ll resign at the end of the year – what they do afterward isn’t my problem.”

Video: https://youtu.be/ftkB5K7CJu8

Reading: The Bell Jar (still) and this: “21 Funny Tweets About Disney That Also Point Out Some F’d Up Sh’t”

Part that I should take out of the blog: Hey, I’m thinking of starting to invite a few others to contribute to the “Daily Communication” blog, just as soon as I can get some diversity into the main image catalog. I know you don’t want to contribute yours, but do you mind? I doubt that you would, but it’s your thing that I’ve been tagging along on, and now I’m about to have it be part of my game play. You will still get my original. You’re my cutest faux-boyfriend. Does that make it better?

I’m also building the new game. It’s called “Taking my life back: “What if I made this easy?” Possibility of being Magical, Practical and Patient, and a clearing for Gratitude and Possibility being expressed.

Learned: Dan’s in flood stage with the Springpot product. Larry is a hack or a least that’s my listening of him. Dave jumped off a bridge, leaving everything in order for a friend to access everything in his absence. That M&D still have little mini-arguments, but clean it up pretty fast. That D hates the additional clutter, and that he can give it up all by himself.

3. The ability to still do good work when I’m in the mood to provide inferior work. The drugs they give these days to help people deal with the side-effects of chemo. A day open to do what must be done. 3.

Seems: like I should clean it up with Larry, but I’d rather just dump him for being a big negative poo-head. Like the CMG is only good for a momentary feel good; that it cannot fulfill its mission because it attracts men with super egos (including me) to work on the board. Like I have 23 hours left to work on the Summer registration, and I want to punish everyone (the not-team) but not being ready instead of quitting. Like part of the conditioning for men makes it impossible for them to ask for help or live with themselves if they fail financially. Like I’m right and it’s true that I’m right. Like I have to give up my stand for quality to get along peacefully with poo-heads.

New Habit(s): Create and use a Sleep Ritual. Record intake. Plan Ahead. Healthy Fats. Smart Carbs. Lean Protein (at every meal). 5 colors a day. 80% full. Slow down. Make time. Breathe.

Accomplished: Hulled 12 pints of strawberries. Ran around a HUGE Safeway with a little cart for exercise and saved my mother $30. Wrote a bunch of hostile emails but didn’t send them. Looked at <10,000 cool bad drawings on 10000baddrawings.com.

Thinking about: How I won’t be able to walk today or do anything else until my work is done. How I want to complain about the never-ending stream of idiots I have to work with in my volunteer position. That I AM complaining about it and it’s in my space, and what keeps it there is me caring that things be less tacky and dysfunctional.

Q: Are you tolerating something (or someone) in your life instead of accepting that the best solution may be to sever ties?

Mine: Why yes, it seems I am! I feel like I cannot leave my volunteer post unless I’m willing to pass it back to a dear friend who I don’t what to have to do it. It’s a problem. I feel the need to sign up for a program so I could give it up quicker.

Video: https://youtu.be/WODx5T5OKkE

Reading: hostile emails I’ll never send, and this one. Room Upgrade descriptions.

Learned: What the new habits would be that I have magically already started. When my mother, brother and I are together, there is no silence. The bumps come when they do; I don’t know what stress is. My brother laughs at the terrible, so we have that in common, too. My father walks around the house in the morning with the rotary shaver running against his face.

3. People caring and really being there for others. Flexibility. A well-stocked pantry. 3.

Seems: Like when I leave my house and stay someplace else, I end up doing a little better in some categories. Like I am most comfortable in the black shorts and black tank top combo uniform.

New Habit(s): Create and use a Sleep Ritual. Record intake. Plan Ahead. Healthy Fats. Smart Carbs. Lean Protein (at every meal). 5 colors a day. 80% full. Slow down. Make time. Breathe.

Accomplished: Started new game design in spite of all that’s going on around me. Brother started chemo. Accomplishment for me because I rose to the occasion in communication. When not at home, I shave a few numbers off the resting heart rate.

Thinking about: All the weird food I’ve eaten from my past, like Dennison’s Chili. What’s the magic of my new game, and what was the magic of the one that ends on Saturday?

Q: Are you experiencing becoming stronger/more masterful at giving it up (the significance) and being in the moment?

Mine: Perceived hardship calls to my heart. I be with the thoughts. A passing storm.

Video: https://youtu.be/3XW-XdDe6j0

Reading: If I remember, the same things as before. Not a time for reading.

Learned: When Dan “Replies All,” with his Daily Communication, his words post on my blog page. Parents are now getting interested in Amazon Prime for the TV options. The climate of central Oregon was good for me, but Alfalfa crops would be a problem. Amazing multiple mountain views from Redmond; Three Sisters, Bachelor, Jefferson and Hood, all in one skyline.

3. Uncles and Aunts and Cousins. Space to be human, offered and received. Cooler days. 3.

Seems: Like I’m never going to catch up on my Precision Nutrition coaching program. (But I will.) Like I’m going to open registration late because of reasons and excuses. Like Tuesday calls will interfere with walking and shopping, or vice-versa. Like it’s been days since I’ve seen anything but Caucasians, except on TV.

*New Habit(s): That new one I still don’t know. Plan Ahead. Healthy Fats. Smart Carbs. Lean Protein (at every meal). 5 colors a day. 80% full. Slow down. Make time. Breathe.

Accomplished: Amazon Prime and Firestick research. An extended family weekend where I reconnected with many, surfacy as it may be. A new way to braid my hair super tight that stays for days, even though it gets a bit like a rat tail after days two.

Thinking about: Walking around Safeway with my mother as exercise. Tomorrow, today is my day off. Feeling pestered by the thread of bad men’s group communication. Tamale Pie and refried beans. And Ice cream, but that’s not for me. I’m still playing.

Q: What if I made this easy? OR What is there to give up?

Mine: Yeah, giving it up constantly while experiencing relative peace, but conversations are easier to give up when there is no predicted negative impact to my ending responding to thoughts. I linger over things and say, “I should stop this before it goes too far.” What I want to give up is having to be this kind of watchdog. Let people screw up in communication/marketing. It will be good for them. I’m no longer the snark police.

Video: attached (I would need to UPGRADE for that.) https://youtu.be/0tNFCWuOC6k

Reading: Same as before, only not reading. Too much going on.

 

 

 

Fedora and Floppy. Hat Auction at 1:00 p.m. for our Vets.

Learned: Extended family has old listening for me as highly energetic super-artist. Thonger died the same day Dad bought her a Bday card. Uncle John is grappling with 92 probably being his last year, the heart’s worn out. Super-processed fruit-flavored yogurt with sugar is gross should be outlawed. J will do a game with me July—Oct.

3. Only gave 2 last time, but called it 3 with no remorse. That’s 1. That I caused myself to come to this annual event for the first time on its 21st happening. New experiences that normalize relationships. 3. Air Conditioner.

Seems: Like that big drag queen feeling lives in Oregon. Like I’ve been so busy that I couldn’t take very good care of myself. Like manually making art messes with the nervous system. Like I can relate to Ol’ Uncle John better than probably ever.

New Habit(s): That new one I still don’t know yet. Plan Ahead. Healthy Fats. Smart Carbs. Lean Protein (at every meal). 5 colors a day. 80% full. Slow down. Make time. Breathe.

Accomplished: A big 2-sided hand-made sign to wrap John’s “EGGS” sign announcing the Fundraiser Hat Auction For Our Vets. Donation receipts beyond their wildest imaginings. A shower. Summer fake flower arrangement for in front of Aunt Judy’s Fireplace. Re-braided four-day-old hair.

Thinking about: Not walking so much.

Q: Still given it up or renewed suffering?

My A to “Completable easiest”: I’m thinking it’s sugar, but I dunno about easiest. Living out of bed maybe? Sometimes questions I ask you are designed to be answered by you. Okay, got it. Black Cherry Flavored Arrowhead bubbly water. They’re evil.

Video: https://youtu.be/yy7dg-6gO7k

Reading: Same, no progress, heavily social time & graphics production for aunt’s BBQ.

 

Learned: Getting the right help makes a difference. Attempting to do it all alone attracts opportunity for injury. My brother is not especially afraid and has only changed in stature. Chemo starts next Wednesday. Things have changed around here in that the house is full of cream. Virgin America must have a note on my file, they were over-the-top great with me. I packed so many t-shirts for my brother that I forgot to pack some for me. Traffic in Portland and connecting areas is a massive problem now, but power to create tricks still work on it.3. On the road again. The ability to be with Oregon rednecks. 3.Seems: Like it is hard to write this stuff and have calls in the family compound, which seemed larger with one less person. That’s a seeming in a seeming. Like I probably won’t have the energy to see a lot of friends next week.

New Habit(s): (that new one I may never get to) + Plan Ahead. Healthy Fats. Smart Carbs. Lean Protein (at every meal). 5 colors a day. 80% full. Slow down. Make time. Breathe.

Accomplished: Made it from my house to my parent’s house like a regular person. Significantly dehoarded my bedroom, even went into the closet, which has been buried for years. Slept seven hours.

Thinking about: How Oregon has developed in the 25 years since I left. Being away when I just got here. Ways to stay entertained and present to being a party to my own abduction.Q: Is there something sucking the joy out of life that can be quickly transformed or completed?

Mine: Ask me again later.

Video: Perfume ad to the max https://youtu.be/fJwE8edYEyw

Reading: same as before

 

Learned: Top Mac apps for 2017, many of which I already have. The foot doctor (yes, me, too) was not as gross as I thought it would be. I can post to my new blog by email at the same time I send this to you and other WordPressy tricks. The number of my brother’s cancer is 4, which adds a bunch of significance, but everyone stays optimistic. He’s in a study now, not just regular treatment. I walked back from the Hospital (mine, not my brother’s) today and didn’t buy anything I shouldn’t eat. Fruit, though, which could fall under accomplishments. I have very high arches.

3. For gaining insights into the unworkability of how I operate. For traveling, and not just for me. A cooler day than yesterday. 3.

Seems: Like I am having extra ankle problems now. Like the new habits of curly quotes and apostrophes is easy, but a hassle. Like I’ve let go of some of the habits I have been building this year, especially when I just copy and paste the below.

New Habits: Missing one, behind on lessons. Plan ahead. Healthy oils. Smart Carbs. Five colors a day. A palm-sized amount of lean protein at every meal. 80% full. Slow down. Breathe.

Thinking about: Travel, being exhausted by travel, being uncomfortable, legs hurting, the airport hurting, being disorganized, having to build and open registration for the summer gathering during my family vacation, my brother all wasted away, what clothes I can take for him, How I can give him great upgrades for his health but it’s all spendy, how I want to shave my head in solidarity, only he might not do it.

Q: Apply this question to something you’re making hard: “What If I made this easy?” Report back. I will report back, too.

View: https://youtu.be/drRQvzQLPxo

Reading: NYT & “The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath (audible versions)

The Judgement of Paris.

Photo & Caption. (optional, but more fun)

Learned: (three or more things you’ve recently learned)

3. (three things for which you’re grateful.) 3.

Seems: (…Like bla bla bla. The world’s not always what it seems.)

New Habits: (List three of them here. Every time.)

Thinking about: (What your thoughts are currently about.)

Accomplishments: (What happened that you wanted to have happened.)

Q: (A question for others to answer.)

Video: (A link to a video, so other can see something they never would see or hear some music they wouldn’t find on their own.)

Reading? (What are you reading?)

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