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Meanwhile, back at the Meanwhile Ranch....
Playing catch-up with bullet points four:
1) As part of our RelationshipBetterMaking, HealthBetterMaking, and LifeInGeneralBetterMaking campaigns (going swimmingly, thank you for asking),![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rain_herself and I have started doing yoga together in the morning, which means that due to the long commute and current working hours I have somehow become a person who gets up at 5:30 a.m. to exercise. I have no idea how the actual hell that happened, but given that my neck feels like something other than a wad of rice paper and that I can now touch the floor from a standing position for the first time in dear-gods-ever, I'm not about to complain. (Having Andrea around makes all the difference. Best part of yoga with one's partner? Shavasana footsie.)
2) Also part of the [variable]BetterMaking: trying the paleo diet, a.k.a. Carb-Free and Hold the Stupid. In practical terms it mainly means lopping off the grains and sugar, which is a challenge in a reality where Boston creme Dunkin' Donuts still walk the earth unfettered, but again having a shopping buddy helps, as does acknowledging that there are those days when pizza and/or pad Thai are basic human needs. (Some versions of paleo also prohibit dairy. Ain't goin' there, thanks.) I can't say as I buy the central tenet of "Eat like a caveman, because cavemen didn't have all the health problems we have today," considering that healthy cavemen had a lifespan of about 30 years, but I can totally get behind the "knock off with the processed crap, already" bit, which is what I'm running with. So far, so good. Between this and the yoga, I figure I'm a month from changing my name to Moonraven Shadowthorn. (I should go by "Steve" if I do that, though. Moonraven "Steve" Shadowthorn.)
3) Speaking of, since I don't think I've mentioned it here before, for those of you who read part 1 and wondered who the blazes Andrea is,rain_herself has chosen to change her name from Jenna to Andrea, her birth name. She can better explain the reasons for this than I can, but the basic gist is that she chose Jenna at a young and rebellious age, and having grown and made peace with certain aspects of her life she feels closer to the name she was born to than the one she grabbed as a teenager. It's a bit of an adjustment for me—mentioning her in conversation is still a two-step process in my head—but I'm starting to get to the point where I see her face and think "Andrea" first. A sign of a right choice.
4) Due to a still-upforked main computer and a situation with the current local wifi, my radio show is on indefinite hold, although I'm pretty sure you can still access the existing podcasts free of charge. Sad me.
1) As part of our RelationshipBetterMaking, HealthBetterMaking, and LifeInGeneralBetterMaking campaigns (going swimmingly, thank you for asking),
rain_herself and I have started doing yoga together in the morning, which means that due to the long commute and current working hours I have somehow become a person who gets up at 5:30 a.m. to exercise. I have no idea how the actual hell that happened, but given that my neck feels like something other than a wad of rice paper and that I can now touch the floor from a standing position for the first time in dear-gods-ever, I'm not about to complain. (Having Andrea around makes all the difference. Best part of yoga with one's partner? Shavasana footsie.)2) Also part of the [variable]BetterMaking: trying the paleo diet, a.k.a. Carb-Free and Hold the Stupid. In practical terms it mainly means lopping off the grains and sugar, which is a challenge in a reality where Boston creme Dunkin' Donuts still walk the earth unfettered, but again having a shopping buddy helps, as does acknowledging that there are those days when pizza and/or pad Thai are basic human needs. (Some versions of paleo also prohibit dairy. Ain't goin' there, thanks.) I can't say as I buy the central tenet of "Eat like a caveman, because cavemen didn't have all the health problems we have today," considering that healthy cavemen had a lifespan of about 30 years, but I can totally get behind the "knock off with the processed crap, already" bit, which is what I'm running with. So far, so good. Between this and the yoga, I figure I'm a month from changing my name to Moonraven Shadowthorn. (I should go by "Steve" if I do that, though. Moonraven "Steve" Shadowthorn.)
3) Speaking of, since I don't think I've mentioned it here before, for those of you who read part 1 and wondered who the blazes Andrea is,
rain_herself has chosen to change her name from Jenna to Andrea, her birth name. She can better explain the reasons for this than I can, but the basic gist is that she chose Jenna at a young and rebellious age, and having grown and made peace with certain aspects of her life she feels closer to the name she was born to than the one she grabbed as a teenager. It's a bit of an adjustment for me—mentioning her in conversation is still a two-step process in my head—but I'm starting to get to the point where I see her face and think "Andrea" first. A sign of a right choice.4) Due to a still-upforked main computer and a situation with the current local wifi, my radio show is on indefinite hold, although I'm pretty sure you can still access the existing podcasts free of charge. Sad me.
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Anyway, good luck with all this--sounds very positive :)
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Thanks! :)