Betterments

[averygoodun42]

So. The exercise plan I'm on is starting feel like exercise. The partial sit-ups, especially, are making me breathe hard and go ouchie. Only while I'm doing them, but, yeah. Oh, and the leg raises suck, but that's because my flexibility is pretty close to nil. However, I've only missed one day of exercise so far (because I felt like crap for most of the day), and I'm hopeful that by the time I get up to level 10, the weather will be cool enough for me to take half hour speed walks to start working on endurance and real cardio health.


Last night I was a writing buddy to Keladry, and it felt good. I hope to do that again tonight and maybe tomorrow night, but it also made me think that perhaps the same thing could be applied toward drawing/painting.

Would anyone want to be my drawing/painting buddy?


Geoff and I got the t-moldings in, almost finishing the floor. The only thing that's left is putting the stair nose on, which I have determined needs glue. I think. :-( And then I need to cut up and install the baseboards and then... well, besides the kitchen trim, it's pretty much done. :-)

Except for the painting. :-(


And the weather is supposed to be lovely this week, so I will be working on the patio. I already undid the damage that Geoff wrought did a lot of digging today, and tomorrow I hope to get the last patch of rocks out of there so that I'll be able to start the true leveling* process.

I hope to be at the point of putting down pavers by this weekend. That would be so very, very cool, you can not imagine. Okay, you homeowners can probably imagine, what with various projects of doom and all.

(*'Leveling' is perhaps a misleading word, because in fact, the patio needs to be at a 10 degree (or thereabouts) slant to keep the water running away from the house. However, within that slant, it needs to be level and flat.)


I'm reading "Getting the Love You Want" by Harville Hendrix which, despite the rather horrible title, is a good guide on how to improve (marital) relationships. I think it will be helpful once Geoff reads it (we'll be reading it aloud to each other starting tonight) and we start doing the exercises. It's going to be really hard, though.

However, one of the interesting things that I've already determined is that Geoff and I are both "isolators", meaning we tend to withdraw when hurt or angry. Most couples, according to the author, anyway, are isolators paired with fusers. *shrug* Yin and yang and all that jazz. I wonder how the exercises are going to work with the different dynamic, though. Should work fine.


And that's about all. Now off to do laundry. woo. hoo.

Comments

[septentrion1970.livejournal.com]

It all seems to go in the right direction, right?

Good luck with the project of doom.

[averygoodun.livejournal.com]

Yes, it all seems to be moving in the right direction. :-)

Thanks. It's only been two or three years I've we've been at it. That not even a nanosecond in geological time!

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

This all sounds very positive. *hugs*

The 'isolators' thing is interesting. I only isolate when I am beyond normal anger. I think the whole family know that now.