Starting Over

Okay I'm going to have to face it that I've totally given up since my last post about a month ago. I haven't really done any of my goals/habits - except maybe I've brushed my teeth a couple of times at night. When I gave up my writing goal - I gave up on all. I tried to just move onto the next goal, but I wasn't trying very hard. So I've been coasting the past couple of weeks, and not falling all the way back into the way it was before, but almost.

I'm insured through Blue Cross (of Minnesota for some reason - probably because that's where SuperValu comes from) and they have a Wellness program. I get a discount each week if I participate in the probgram and so I do. Well, I got an introductory call today and I talked about how I'd had some goals up until the beginning of March etc. So I decided (with some help from the Wellness coach) to begin again on my goals, and at least with relation to the Wellness program, to focus on weight loss. So I need some way to keep up the pressure on these weight goals even if a goal in another area slips.

I think that I'll divide my goals in four areas. In Luke 2:52 it is talking about Jesus adolescence between the time when he was twelve and talked with the doctors in the temple and by the time that he was thirty-three and started his ministry.

"And Jesus increased in Wisdom and Stature, and in Favor with God and man." or you could split the last and in "Favor with God" and "Favor with Man". So there are the four areas Wisdom = Mental, Stature = Physical, Favor with God = Spiritual, and Favor with Man = Social.

So for now I'll get those physical goals that I had before, up and running again and then I'll add 1 goal from each area after 20 days. So for the next 20 days it'll be back to the basics. Brush at night, no candy, no pop, no picking + I will restart writing 30 minutes each day. That will be my Mental goal that I'll start today as well. I'm going to do this, because I wish to be in a writing class/conference this summer and I need to get into the habit of writing each day as soon as I can.

Another reason that I'm starting over, is because I want to feel better. I feel like I'm under a lot of pressure right now. I've been floating a loan of several hundred dollars since December, and I still need to finish my business files from 2008 to do my 2008 taxes, so that I can then do my 2009 business & taxes. Then I'll get back a bunch of money, but there seems to be so much that I need to do. It's pretty overwhelming sometimes. I try to break it up into parts...like okay today I'll do this folder of stuff etc.

I also need that money to get back up on the correct level of medication that I need to be taking. At the beginning of the year, I had to reach my deductible again. So I cut way down on the meds I was taking, and stretch out others, and took older ones that I had from earlier in the year.

okay - enough for now. walt

Adventures in Driving

Today after work I decided to go down and pay a ticket for "Fail[ure] to Display Insurance." I actually have a running light out in my backlight, and that is what allowed the cop to pull me over. But when I pulled out my insurance I realized that it was the old copy of my insurance which expired back in Dec '09. So anyway - ticket. It might have cost me $116.50.

So I got off work at around 1:30pm from Alb 5Mile & Overland (which by the way is a new blog that I started for Albertsons - look at it here). There was an accident blocking the north-west corner of the intersection. It must have happened while I was just down the street, and 1 of the drivers in the turn lane the wright of me must have seen the accident, she was in the street helping the man on his back. I couldn't even tell what vehicles the accident involved. When I first got there - not event he police, fire or paramedics were there. Just 4 concerned citizens standing over a guy.

So after a long wait (during which I was pretty patient) I could go, and went downtown to deal with the ticket. Went in, took a number and was immediately directed to a window (2 - 3pm must be the ideal time to visit the courthouse) and handed over the ticket and insurance card and she was back in a couple minutes and I was out of there.

Unfortunately as I was walking out I noticed that the insurance card from Liberty Mutual that I had given them, was the old one that I had when the cop pulled me over. So I continued onto the car, and got the new one - and went back in. It's funny because the gal that copied the page etc didn't catch it either. So when I went back in I got called to the window next to the original gal and I explained what happened. "Who did you see the first time" the new gal asked and I pointed next door. So she got to razz her friend.

So I was driving on my way back home - went freeway to Eagle, and down to Colombia and got stopped at another accident just past the horse corral and before the 10-mile church. That wasn't a long wait either, but I was real patient and it wasn't long before I was past it. Again - some guy laying in the middle of the road on his back and I beat the paramedics there a 2nd time.

There was also a rollover on the freeway (on the news). Last accident was relayed to me by Dad - he said that there was one on Victory somewhere as he was coming home.

It was good to only be around accidents - not part of any. walt