You guys! I woke up so excited this morning. I’m ready to work out, but we’re having “winter fun day” tomorrow on our land, and there’s probably 18" of remaining snow with an expected high of 59° tomorrow. How many layers of ice/frozen slush are we going to be breaking through as we move around? NO ONE KNOWS. I’m going to hold off on the workout because I know I’ll be dealing with serious DOMS afterward and don’t want the day to be overly grueling, as people are traveling in for Big Fun. But I’m ready to start back.
I just finished getting my Square reader all set to take money and am far enough along with the office to take pics for my website and Psychology Today profiles. I love it there so much! I’m bringing a book today so I can just hang out after I finish the tasks on my list. Maybe I’ll even bring my computer and do some more insurance credentialing. I prioritized my current patients’ insurers, so now I’ll fill in gaps, maybe. One of the big remaining groups is Cigna, which pays the least. I’m ambivalent about them. (I know that’s important information to share in my training log.)
You really have a flair for the Cozy. Thats like, really nice. I like how you broke it into sitting space and working space. As silly as it may sound, especially with my rough exterior, I need a huggy throw pillow until I become comfortable talking . So the cozy & comfy helps me open up.
Im starting to clear up. Was just achy all over and sooo tired.
I hope you all have a great weekend and lots of fun!
Aw, thanks! Not to sound immodest (but here I go), I said the same thing to husband this morning when I was looking at the pic again to post it. “I think I’m really good at this.” I’ve been mourning the first private practice office because it was so awesome, but I think this one does just as well, if not better.
It just feels really good there, despite the newer furniture being made pretty much of cardboard. The big red chair in back is where I did most of my graduate school work - in the living room with the kids scattered around, watching TV or whatever. I’ll do my paperwork there now. It’s pretty frayed - I have a glue gun in my bag for today to fix it - but mad comfy. I suspect I’ll nap there on occasion.
Thinking about it…and I’m asking the general group because you’re mostly men and meatheads, and those of you who are female are not girly-girls…it’s not too feminine?
Like, would that be something I want to work on? My caseload currently is 25% male, but it can go as high as 40% at times. Of the current 10, one is a college professor and one an ex-con, couple each of engineers and trades guys, and then the not-established yet.
Its like businesses comfortable instead of casual. Not a flop house, not the Oval Office. A good ballance of professional snd comfortable. I’d be fine there.
And give yourself some grace right now, you’ve got a lot going on. Regular workouts will be a thing again - but right now, it’s okay to just focus on getting ‘settled’ into your new normal.
No workout today - it’s my first day of work - but today is the day that BY GOD I will stabilize myself and my life and resume good habits.
My stepson has lung cancer (non-smoker) (well, weed), the details of which are a little hazy to me, as I don’t speak to him on the phone and when he was here last was still doing diagnostic stuff. Husband doesn’t probe. I saw his sister for winter fun day on Saturday, but didn’t think to ask about staging (she probes). ANYWAY, husband will be gone a bit this week and then for a more extended bit next week, when his son is discharged from the hospital. This is all sad and worrying, but that’s not a conversation for this site or thread. What is a conversation for this thread is that I’ll have some time to myself to devote to a restart of my T-ransformation challenge.
Speaking of my stepdaughter, she and our granddaughter gave us this on Saturday and I love it so so much. It may be my favorite thing ever:
Excellent! It was just a brief disruption of your otherwise pleasant and stable structure.
I’m fully back on my regular schedule too. Minus that and a few other things (no work through winter) my whole string of regular occurrences got thrown asunder too.
Yes! Thank you! That’s such a reassuring way of putting it, because of course I’ve gone completely into the mental weeds, where I don’t know how to do any of it anymore and don’t have the will or discipline and suck, basically. Friday I’ll start my program, because that puts me in my preferred schedule.
I’ve been saving up a bunch of those reassurances that you’ve given me over the years for just such an occasion.
Ah yes, the big patch of u.sucatthis.crapparonii , northeastern variant if I’m not mistaken. Blooms in the dark, often in the doldrums. Very powerful. Do not sit or roll in!
Of course it did. . You have a way of finding your way out of the weeds like no other.
. You have a way of finding your way out of the weeds like no other.