September Recap & October Intentions

September Recap

Do less out of habit. I’ve skipped a bunch of events with the girls and I don’t feel bad about it. 🙂
Go out into nature. I did a couple of memorable hikes and spent a glorious 3 days in Big Sur. Now all my pending plans involve being outdoors.
Read a book. Still working on this. I’m still reading Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine and added Girl Wash Your Face.
Give people space/give myself space. We haven’t had a tiff in awhile and my response was something like this, “I’m sorry I wasn’t there for you. I hope you have a better day,” and having learned from our past, I knew anything I said at that moment would further aggravate the situation. “I’m going to give you space.” A few hours later, we worked it out when we were cooled off and focused (read: not at work).

I’m also giving myself space from people in general, limiting my interactions with larger groups of people.

Eat more food. I’m terrible about eating enough food to support muscle growth and weight loss. It comes from my past eating disorders – in the back of my head, I still count calories.
Sleep more. I stay up late chatting with a special person so I can’t really give that up, but I can take my naps and sleep in on the weekends.
Relieve stress with walks and journaling. I drop this sometimes, especially walks that aren’t hikes. I’ll pick up both because my eye is twitching, giving myself time in the early evenings for walks and journaling before bed.
Protect my spirit, mood, and energy. These quotes sum it all up.

A weekend trip. Big Bear? Maybe a foray out to Colorado? It’s on my mind at least.
Hiking more.
Oktoberfests. I’m interested in some of these drunk games like Hammerschlagen.
Picking off items on my autumn bucket list.