Wow, I am off to a ridiculously late start today after my sleepless night. I don't know what the hell happened, but after falling asleep at around 9pm and waking up an hour or so later, that was it for me. I guess I really am back to me huh? My mind raced constantly with all the things I planned to do today and the rest of this week that I could barely keep still. In such a situation I grab my notebook and start one of my infamous lists, but this time I really tried to keep my head on the pillow and not start zipping around the house as I usually would. I even tried watching some anime from my laptop... technically I wouldn't have to take my head off the pillow for that. I was no good, before I knew it I was downloading some image merging software and watermarking pictures I had been meaning to do ages ago. Then I sent off a couple of emails, did some ab crunches, more skipping, watched a couple more episodes of One Piece, and next thing I know it was 5am. Noooooooo!
Fortunately the day is still young and I have time to catch up on myself, so here I am posting an entry as part of my 500 words for the day, before an excuse arises for me not to be able to submit a lil something. Next stop get a few skipping reps done and get my arse out for a walk.
Ooh and this week I'm going to treat myself to something super cool! I'm not going to speak of it now, but I will write about it before the week's end. There, I've said it, now I gotta do it. I will finish my 500 words in my Facebook as a part of another writing challenge I accepted yesterday (post a note everyday of February). Have a good one peaceples!
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Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Monday, 1 February 2010
Brighter Side of Life
Its a Monday, usually a drag for some, but today has been the best I have felt for some time. I'm in such a wonderful mood its almost silly. Its not that anything special has happened per se, but I feel so hopeful and as a result, I'm smiling from within.
I used to take a meditation walk first thing every morning and it was such a wonderful start to the day, but due to the downturn of my health I slowly ceased to get out there. I have been wanting to get back to it for sometime, but with all the crazy dizzy spells and the gasping for breath just to get down the stairs in my house, I was yet to venture out again on a regular basis. Anyways, I had decided that this year was going to be different from '09. I mean, don't get me wrong, last year was totally amazing for me in terms of personal achievements, but health wise, I was a mess with a total of four stays in hospital for sickle cell crisis so severe, I simply couldn't manage them at home on my own.
Off to a late start, I was still determined to slowly build myself up and out of the house, better yet, get back to the point where I was before; wearing weights everywhere I went, even after my meditation walk and a session of skipping. First of all though, I needed to be able to get up and down them damn stairs without hyperventilating and aching all over. Well, I semi-started last week, with the walking I mean, and pushing past the pain and dizziness, I felt very good for it. Though by the time I got home, I was good for nothing and would have to take a nap. Even so, I made an effort to go up and down the stairs at least five times a day.
Yesterday I decided to try out my jump rope again. I didn't have any high expectations and only aimed for a count of 15, but my hope was to do repetitions of the same amount a few times a day. I only managed to do two sets, but again I felt good. Today is a new day and with it came a new zeal. I wanted to do better and so far I have. Thus far I have raised my count to 40, I've done 5 reps AND gone out for a long walk, climbed stairs! No significant pain, in fact I'm eager to do more. Finally, I am getting back to ME!
If that ain't something to be happy about I'll take it a step further. I was doing some research about something I have been craving a lot of as of late, just to make sure too much of it wasn't bad for me and, it turns out that it naturally inhibits pain, hmmm. So I've been putting it to the test and so far, I have no complaints, in fact I'm in awe (I will be doing a radio show about it soon enough), but that's not what I was getting at. On one of the pages I sought information from, there was a link to a 1000 word a day challenge for writers. Just what I needed right now! So I followed it and for those who feel they may fall short of 1000, there is the 500 or 250 option. NaNoWriMo was a wonderful incentive for me to write and though I didn't complete the challenge (50,000 words in 30 days), I achieved so much! Some of my best writing was born out of it (even though I lost it all), but I'm so pumped. I'm not going to overwhelm myself, I'm going to go for the 500 option and maybe later try for 1000. So I am committing myself to writing toward my novel everyday, and if I'm not in the mood for it, you'll find the contribution for said day here.
I used to take a meditation walk first thing every morning and it was such a wonderful start to the day, but due to the downturn of my health I slowly ceased to get out there. I have been wanting to get back to it for sometime, but with all the crazy dizzy spells and the gasping for breath just to get down the stairs in my house, I was yet to venture out again on a regular basis. Anyways, I had decided that this year was going to be different from '09. I mean, don't get me wrong, last year was totally amazing for me in terms of personal achievements, but health wise, I was a mess with a total of four stays in hospital for sickle cell crisis so severe, I simply couldn't manage them at home on my own.
Off to a late start, I was still determined to slowly build myself up and out of the house, better yet, get back to the point where I was before; wearing weights everywhere I went, even after my meditation walk and a session of skipping. First of all though, I needed to be able to get up and down them damn stairs without hyperventilating and aching all over. Well, I semi-started last week, with the walking I mean, and pushing past the pain and dizziness, I felt very good for it. Though by the time I got home, I was good for nothing and would have to take a nap. Even so, I made an effort to go up and down the stairs at least five times a day.
Yesterday I decided to try out my jump rope again. I didn't have any high expectations and only aimed for a count of 15, but my hope was to do repetitions of the same amount a few times a day. I only managed to do two sets, but again I felt good. Today is a new day and with it came a new zeal. I wanted to do better and so far I have. Thus far I have raised my count to 40, I've done 5 reps AND gone out for a long walk, climbed stairs! No significant pain, in fact I'm eager to do more. Finally, I am getting back to ME!
If that ain't something to be happy about I'll take it a step further. I was doing some research about something I have been craving a lot of as of late, just to make sure too much of it wasn't bad for me and, it turns out that it naturally inhibits pain, hmmm. So I've been putting it to the test and so far, I have no complaints, in fact I'm in awe (I will be doing a radio show about it soon enough), but that's not what I was getting at. On one of the pages I sought information from, there was a link to a 1000 word a day challenge for writers. Just what I needed right now! So I followed it and for those who feel they may fall short of 1000, there is the 500 or 250 option. NaNoWriMo was a wonderful incentive for me to write and though I didn't complete the challenge (50,000 words in 30 days), I achieved so much! Some of my best writing was born out of it (even though I lost it all), but I'm so pumped. I'm not going to overwhelm myself, I'm going to go for the 500 option and maybe later try for 1000. So I am committing myself to writing toward my novel everyday, and if I'm not in the mood for it, you'll find the contribution for said day here.
Thursday, 21 January 2010
Progress Report!
After challenging myself to the completion of 6 tasks in order to force myself out of this slump, I'm pleased to report I achieved 5 out of the 6. I know, I know, I was supposed to do all of them, and as it happens I completed 3.5 of them yesterday. The .5 was my managing to update my myspace profile: Myspace.com/TosinCoker, but not my personal site. Believe me, it wasn't for lack of trying! I was up til past 3am battling with it. Yes I do webdesign, but I've never learnt about flash, well guess what my site is? Yup FLASH! How I managed to get it up and running in the first place, only heaven knows. I had been dreading performing long overdue updates for the simple reason that it would require me to edit .swf files that I am clueless about. See but here is where my stubborn nature is a good thing. I was not about to be defeated, and after challenging myself, it was time to woman up! Huh, 5 hours later, I was close to tears, but more from the possibility of having to admit defeat. I was close to having my geek status revoked, I felt the pressure of my quadcore mothership computer and her blue neon lights that I swear was blinking binary abuse. She had suddenly become too much machine for me to handle I was fast descending into abysmal realm of computer illiterates.... Noooooooooooo!!! Whoa, I was having a flashback, my bad. Back to the point. So I finally carried my ass to bed and even denied myself watching an episode of One Piece (anime series) for good measure. I deserved to be flogged with a cat 5 cable, I was thoroughly gutted and sulked till I fell asleep.
But never fear, there was a twist to this sad story! A true geek dreams such equations, and this is exactly what I did (in between dreams of paying for that fricking parking ticket) and by the morning I felt a renewed sense of hope. A short time after I sat back in front of the 22inch screen of The Mothership, I began to see it. Suddenly what seemed damn near impossible only a few hours before became as clear as day. I even surprised myself with all I managed to achieve. I keep going back to the site and smiling. Yup I can finally stop sending peeps to everywhere but my site: N9NEFORMATION.COM!! Wooohhhh!!!!
As for the video:
I've designed my media kit, now I just gotta fill it and attach a downloadable link on my site (cuz now I know how to do that see). I did go for the walk, and damn near felt like I was fit to collapse. I guess I'm not strong enough to exert myself just yet. Baby steps - literally.
The only thing I didn't do was the 3 chapters. If not for how many hours I spent on the site I'm sure I could have completed that also, but I care not, I'm extremely overjoyed for all I did manage to complete. How could I feel bad when I exceeded my own expectations. The reality is, my site/myspace profile had been bugging me for a few months now. If anything they were my top priority as this is the first impression that peeps looking me up will receive. The 3 chapters were more of a bonus. Not bad for 48 hours eh?
But never fear, there was a twist to this sad story! A true geek dreams such equations, and this is exactly what I did (in between dreams of paying for that fricking parking ticket) and by the morning I felt a renewed sense of hope. A short time after I sat back in front of the 22inch screen of The Mothership, I began to see it. Suddenly what seemed damn near impossible only a few hours before became as clear as day. I even surprised myself with all I managed to achieve. I keep going back to the site and smiling. Yup I can finally stop sending peeps to everywhere but my site: N9NEFORMATION.COM!! Wooohhhh!!!!
As for the video:
I've designed my media kit, now I just gotta fill it and attach a downloadable link on my site (cuz now I know how to do that see). I did go for the walk, and damn near felt like I was fit to collapse. I guess I'm not strong enough to exert myself just yet. Baby steps - literally.
The only thing I didn't do was the 3 chapters. If not for how many hours I spent on the site I'm sure I could have completed that also, but I care not, I'm extremely overjoyed for all I did manage to complete. How could I feel bad when I exceeded my own expectations. The reality is, my site/myspace profile had been bugging me for a few months now. If anything they were my top priority as this is the first impression that peeps looking me up will receive. The 3 chapters were more of a bonus. Not bad for 48 hours eh?
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