I can be a funny character!
Sometimes I just sit back and laugh at myself!
Periodically, I begin to feel stagnant, like I'm not doing enough with my spare time. Like I should be doing much more. I always feel so accomplished while I'm in school, sooooo, I've been thinking about going back to get my doctoral degree. For what? Who knows, perhaps so that everyone can call me "Dr.mimi"? So I can feel like I'm accomplishing something, but then, I graduate, and I feel content, for a while, then uh oh..here comes mr. stagnation knocking at my door.... can I just go to school forever?
A few years back, when I was doing some life assessing, I had the epiphany that one of my life long goals will be to acquire as much knowledge as possible. I know, I know,I don't have to go to school to do that. But it is something about that formal education that I just crave. Maybe because my sunnie t. and daddie enrolled me in kindergarten at the age of 4 (love them for it too)! anyhoo, just wanted to put that school notion out there...
Now, back to this stagnation stuff... lately I've been feeling like I need to incorporate more hobbies into my daily routine. Ok, so, I get up, go to work every morning, go home, then go to the fitness center, and back home it is. I read and write and cook and yap while I'm at home, so it's not like I'm just watching t.v. (which i barely do anymore). I just don't have a "thing"..oh, other than shopping & the movies, but that is reserved for the weekends only.
So, as I get on the internet, searching for a hobby, my first google search is for...guess what?? A class! hahaha..career student! But not another psychology class, a Spanish class, a cooking class, a creative writing class..but a class none the less. which is fine with me, I'm alright with loving to learn.
Learning is a constant. We are learning on a daily basis anyway... right?
So, with all my spare time, surfing the net and searching for meaningful things to occupy my spare time, I discover that I want to learn to ride horses! And after more searching and listening to the radio at work. I learn of this website http://www.soulvegwellness.com/. NOW, I MUST WARN YOU! If you are not ready to hear some shocking news about all the dairy and meat that we choose to consume, DO NOT GO TO THAT WEBSITE!
But I, in all my bravery, went to the website, and I have not felt the same about eating chicken and dairy since. Reading was the same thing that led me to not eating beef and pork... sooo.... I may be well on my way to giving up dairy and chicken. Notice, I didn't say a thing about a turkey, because I ab-so-lut-ley loooove turkey burgers..... I haven't given up chicken and dairy...yet. But I can see that I'm well, sorta, on my way.
I baked some chicken wings for dinner the other night and something came over me as I tore into the flesh of some innocent little chicken. I got grossed out! and I couldn't believe it! I love chicken, I don't normally eat chicken with bones, so maybe that had something to do with it. And as far as dairy goes..I love cheese and milk and sour cream and ice cream. So that may be a challenge for me to give up, but I said the same thing about beef, and it has been approximately5 years since I sank my teeth into some leather!
I did buy some soy milk instead of cow's milk. My daddie said "cow's milk is for baby cow's", a spoken word artist back in about 2001 said; "cow milk will kill your babiiiiieees",others have told me that it causes skin issues. So we'll see.
And then, it was time for me to get my hair relaxed, so another ah ha moment, epiphany or notion came to mind. Go natural! Leave the chemicals alone! Now, I tried that before, but after six months, I got weak and fell back into the perm trap. So we'll just have to see about that one too.
Oh yeah, I even bought some natural toothpaste, it has fluoride in it, but not all of those artificial flavorings, like saccharin and other unnatural stuff. it has some orange and mango extracts.
See! You see why I need a new hobby, I have too much time to read and think. But that isn't bad... is it?
Sometimes I just sit back and laugh at myself!
Periodically, I begin to feel stagnant, like I'm not doing enough with my spare time. Like I should be doing much more. I always feel so accomplished while I'm in school, sooooo, I've been thinking about going back to get my doctoral degree. For what? Who knows, perhaps so that everyone can call me "Dr.mimi"? So I can feel like I'm accomplishing something, but then, I graduate, and I feel content, for a while, then uh oh..here comes mr. stagnation knocking at my door.... can I just go to school forever?
A few years back, when I was doing some life assessing, I had the epiphany that one of my life long goals will be to acquire as much knowledge as possible. I know, I know,I don't have to go to school to do that. But it is something about that formal education that I just crave. Maybe because my sunnie t. and daddie enrolled me in kindergarten at the age of 4 (love them for it too)! anyhoo, just wanted to put that school notion out there...
Now, back to this stagnation stuff... lately I've been feeling like I need to incorporate more hobbies into my daily routine. Ok, so, I get up, go to work every morning, go home, then go to the fitness center, and back home it is. I read and write and cook and yap while I'm at home, so it's not like I'm just watching t.v. (which i barely do anymore). I just don't have a "thing"..oh, other than shopping & the movies, but that is reserved for the weekends only.
So, as I get on the internet, searching for a hobby, my first google search is for...guess what?? A class! hahaha..career student! But not another psychology class, a Spanish class, a cooking class, a creative writing class..but a class none the less. which is fine with me, I'm alright with loving to learn.
Learning is a constant. We are learning on a daily basis anyway... right?
So, with all my spare time, surfing the net and searching for meaningful things to occupy my spare time, I discover that I want to learn to ride horses! And after more searching and listening to the radio at work. I learn of this website http://www.soulvegwellness.com/. NOW, I MUST WARN YOU! If you are not ready to hear some shocking news about all the dairy and meat that we choose to consume, DO NOT GO TO THAT WEBSITE!
But I, in all my bravery, went to the website, and I have not felt the same about eating chicken and dairy since. Reading was the same thing that led me to not eating beef and pork... sooo.... I may be well on my way to giving up dairy and chicken. Notice, I didn't say a thing about a turkey, because I ab-so-lut-ley loooove turkey burgers..... I haven't given up chicken and dairy...yet. But I can see that I'm well, sorta, on my way.
I baked some chicken wings for dinner the other night and something came over me as I tore into the flesh of some innocent little chicken. I got grossed out! and I couldn't believe it! I love chicken, I don't normally eat chicken with bones, so maybe that had something to do with it. And as far as dairy goes..I love cheese and milk and sour cream and ice cream. So that may be a challenge for me to give up, but I said the same thing about beef, and it has been approximately5 years since I sank my teeth into some leather!
I did buy some soy milk instead of cow's milk. My daddie said "cow's milk is for baby cow's", a spoken word artist back in about 2001 said; "cow milk will kill your babiiiiieees",others have told me that it causes skin issues. So we'll see.
And then, it was time for me to get my hair relaxed, so another ah ha moment, epiphany or notion came to mind. Go natural! Leave the chemicals alone! Now, I tried that before, but after six months, I got weak and fell back into the perm trap. So we'll just have to see about that one too.
Oh yeah, I even bought some natural toothpaste, it has fluoride in it, but not all of those artificial flavorings, like saccharin and other unnatural stuff. it has some orange and mango extracts.
See! You see why I need a new hobby, I have too much time to read and think. But that isn't bad... is it?
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just rambling and ranting
full of gratitude
in a peaceful mood
ranting and raving
about the craving
to do right
in GOD's sight
want to eat right
change things
in my life
but not to cause any plight
just to further beautify
the life that i have
so i can fly, soar
and accomplish much more
just rambling and ranting
full of gratitude
in a peaceful mood
ranting and raving
about the craving
to do right
in GOD's sight
want to eat right
change things
in my life
but not to cause any plight
just to further beautify
the life that i have
so i can fly, soar
and accomplish much more
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1 comment:
you know what's so funny, i wish i could be in school forever too (getting paid of course) but just going and learning and learning, it might sound cheesy but i love learning about things i don't know, so google and dictionary.com have become my best friends, anytime i'm in a crowd and someone mentions something i don't know about and hence can't make any valid contributions to the convo, its straight home to google so the next time i can chime in "well, ya know so and so and so".
but i do feel stagnant as well, we're quite similar, here i am with a degree in psychology and i work in finance with numbers and all that crap, can we say boring. i feel like the longer i stay at that job the furtherer i am going from my true passion, sigh, but its truly one of the best working environments i've ever been in, i feel that's why i've stayed for over 2 yrs now, i mean just today we had a party :)
now i haven't decided yet if i 'm gonna read that wellness stuff cause i loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee chicken and milk, hello!!! i don't know if i should go looking for trouble especially if i might end up looking at my chicken differently, i've decided i won't look.
lastly, going natural is great, i went natural when i was 17 and it was a good feeling but i guess since my hair is so thick my word it was soooooooooo hard to even comb sometimes, drove me crazy, ended up getting a perm at 21, but it was nice while it lasted. if you do just be patient, there might be days you're like it's taking to long or whatever, just stick it out, trust me you won't regret it! good luck. me, i'm going for my perm tomorrow, lol
more times......
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