It’s been awhile, this I know. A lot has gone down. I’ve been up, been kicked down, been overjoyed and devastated. And now I’m here.
I’ve been busily working on a ‘webinar’ for work. This thing goes down in August and will be seen by thousands of people. It’s all about blending different technologies together to automate your datacenter. I’m looking forward to it, it should be a crowning achievement for me.
So, what else has been going on..
Well, I was pulled over on the one single day I didn’t have insurance. Yeah. I haven’t been pulled over since 2005 or so, and this is when he decides to do it. I figured since I never drive my car anymore, I might as well try that little snapshot discount from Progressive. So I dropped my Geico and ordered Progressive. Only I messed up my dates. I canceled Geico on the 8th and my Progressive didn’t start until the 10th. Guess when I got pulled over?
I’m hoping that when I go before the judge that he’ll be a tad lenient of me, considering I’ve always had insurance on my car since I bought it 6 years ago. We’ll see.
Also, I was written up for a ‘driving on a suspended drivers license’ charge. But when I went to pull my car out of impound, the woman had to check it to make sure and guess what? Came back valid. So I’ll have to work on that too.
I tried out for a commercial for Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Minnesota last week.
It was my first audition ever – I was both “Smoking Woman 2” and “Smoking Man 4”. I sang a ditty about health procrastination to the tune of “Tomorrow”. I’m pretty sure I sucked hardcore at it, and the call yesterday saying I wasn’t chosen for a call back confirmed it.
But I’m alright with that. Life is all about new experiences, and that’s really what I was going for.
Tonight I’m going to learn more about Buddhism at the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center. There’s a dude that means the world to me; he felt a lot of what I feel when he was my age, and Buddhism helped him resolve all that. Now in his 50s, everybody in the world absolutely adores him and he’s a father figure for every male in a 500 mile radius. I figure if he can turn it around, then I can too.
Honestly, it’s more about learning to be more accepting of everyone that I’m trying to achieve. I was given a book called “How to be happy”. It’s a tiny little book, written by a monk. The gist of it is “Assume everyone around you is fulfilling all your expectations 100% of the time”.
It’s a simple message, but so powerful. Every time I read it I’m in this awesome zen mood where all is right. Only lasts about a week or 2 though. Hoping learning more will help me with that.
What else? Ummm, not sure. Oh, I’m going to try to quit smoking again tomorrow. And this week I’m cleaning out my fridge, defrosting that 1962 beauty, and vowing to reduce my outings to get food from ‘daily’ to ‘not very often at all’. Except for breakfast. I like going out for that.
Sometimes you have to reach your lowest point, it sets a marker, keeps your place. Then you go up from there, and you can see how much better you’re doing. Time to love myself for once.
Oh, also, I’m a blonde again.
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