Moving slower....

So one recommendation (from my trainer) is to just move slower. When I feel myself getting antsy and stressed and YELLY, to just start moving slower and take deep breaths. Seriously, I should know this stuff.

So, by 7:30 this morning I was already getting frustrated and cranky and so I s l o w e d waaaaay down. It worked! I immediately started to destress, and my orbital frontal lobe kicked in again and I was able to think a little more clearly.

What am i doing with a week off from school, you may ask? Well, I spent some time puttering in the garden (the weeds are CRAZY this year. We turned over a lot of soil last year when we created the perennial beds and this caused all the dormant weed seeds to germinate. GAH). Why can't we just call them wildflowers and be done with it?

I've worked a little at cleaning off my desk in preparation for the next semester, because once that gets going, all bets are off. My ethics class appears to have about 200 pages of reading per week. So before all that gets started, I was hoping to read some vegan cookbooks, because so far on that we've been winging it. And it's been sad. I've been eating a lot of hummus. And lentils. I'm so bloated and farty that I actually caused a disturbance at the video store the other night. You know, i never drove anyone out of the new releases section when I was enjoying veal cutlets.

But now I have to go get ready so I can go to my trainer (i hadn't worked out at all for the last three weeks of school so she's beating me to a pulp every day this week), and then off to work. I see my first client today! He's all mine to mess up in every way possible. Hurray!