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#DoMagick – Just another Migraine Monday, the hellish remix (Days 24 & 25)

24 April – Gym day was cancelled. The weather is presenting that particular pressure front that stalls, and my migraine intensified to the point where driving was out of the question. It was another early-to-bed night with a focus on breathing through the pain spikes. 25 April – After a poor night’s sleep, I was able to go to work — mainly because I got the schedule wrong and though it was an…

#DoMagick – Just another Migraine Monday (Day23)

After posting the update for Sunday’s work, I had every good intention of doing some cleansing/healing work, coupled with breathing exercises. Monday was, well, excruciatingly exhausting at work, and it caught up with me. A pressure system parked over us in anticipation of today’s rain didn’t help the mix, and I found myself hitting a wall. I don’t often have, “Oh my god! Please shoot me,” days…

#DoMagick – Check-in (Day22)

It was a check-in day for me, and that means some stats. Ten successful workouts have been accomplished. I am feeling better health and energy-wise, and my clothes are fitting much better. Some, happily, will be retired because they are too big. So — measurement day. Date: 31 March, 2018 Height: 6 feet Weight: 286 lbs Arms: 20 in Chest: 46 in Navel 1: 48 in Navel 2: 50 in Hips: 53 in Thighs: 25…

#DoMagick – the familiar unfamiliar (Days 20 & 21)

20 April – Much better day, overall, even though there were some serious rapids to be navigated in the morning at work. One individual is being ugly and nearly drove a co-worker to resign on the spot, and it was a struggle to stay focused enough to respond instead of react. Later that morning when I saw the individual in question, I was glad to be able to state what I needed to say (about being…

#DoMagick – Kicking puppies (Days 16, 17, 18 & 19

This week — this week is evil. It is our state’s mandatory testing time. Asking children with significant intellectual, and/or emotional maturity delays to take these tests is tantamount to torture — or kicking puppies. I am having a rough time of it as a result. I am mentally drained, emotionally drained, and my diet has been blown out of the water from the mental stress of proxying these f*ckin…

#DoMagick – The treadmill of the gods grinds finely (Days 13 , 14, & 15)

April, Friday the 13th (Day 13) – the wider ripples of this day remain to be seen, although I have made it quite clear to the Powers-That-Be that I’m going to be quite vexed if the Orange Cheeto breaks the planet. I’m overly fond of it and many of its inhabitants. In #DoMagick news, it was a gym day. I needed the chance to release a lot of pent up frustration — half days are super hard on…

#DoMagick – I bloated me for science (Days 11 & 12)

Wednesday, 11 April – I did my journalling, 30 minutes at the page, and still felt a general discontent. I felt like I hit a plateau — and we all can admit how grinding it can be to traverse those — and wasn’t quite sure how to remedy the situation. I also didn’t quite know how to shake the feeling that I sould be doing ‘more’ in this challenge, even though I logically know that…

#DoMagick – Sweatin’ with the oldies (Day 10)

A sad (troubling?) observation I made last night at the gym was how old — perhaps time-worn would be more appropriate — people were there plodding along on the dreadmill. People around my age, or not too much older, and they all looked grey and joyless. Their motions were very mechanical; a plodding walk on the machine which reminded me of thoughts a plough horse might have, “One more day, one…

#DoMagick – Breathe in, breathe out (Day 9)protected

Time to get the fire burning back in my belly. First, I bought a yoga class from the Daily Om and will be starting to go at my own pace this Wednesday. It will be a wonderful compliment to the strength training I am doing at the gym. Second, I began to get the energy moving within now that the system has been flushed of toxins and build-up. I sat and did the Cleansing Life Force exercise found in…

#DoMagick – Do you want the truth, or something beautiful (Days 5, 6, 7 & 8)

05 April – It was a inner work day. I sat and did a mindfulness meditation. I haven’t for a small bit, and I just wanted the calm quietness after a day of examining my thought/feeling patterns at work. 06 April – Gym day. And TGIF. It felt good to break some mini-goals after the working week. It was also another day of consciously choosing how to respond to external stimuli and not just shift…

In which Friday practices for the 13th…

Okay, the universe is just playing with me today — and I’m laughing instead of stressing. Gym day today (I just finished my post-workout snack) and the time I was going to type up day 5’s report was spent waiting for the locksmith to get me back into my car. It gets better! I went to do my rounds of errands and realised 1/2 way through that I grabbed the wrong purse and had $1.78 in change and an…

#DoMagick – Like Orpheus with hope entangled (Day 4)

It was a journalling day. I spent 30 minutes sitting with some questions to answer about the state of my life right now as it is. It was a bit like the Whole-10 (where you shade in on a chart your contentment level with life areas on a scale of 1 to 10) butwith an honest assessment of where you are instead of just colouring. Not that there is anything wrong with colouring where you are — it’s a…

#DoMagick – And I ran… (day 3)

It was a gym night, last night. I went. Did 30 minutes on the dreadmill — and broke a 15 minute mile for the first time in a few years, was super excited! — and then 30 minutes of strength training. Nutrition is on track. I’m currently doing the Diet Doctor 2 week low-carb challenge to help jump start the metabolism alongside exercise. I love that they give you a shopping list and recipes for…

#DoMagick – Hiccup

Reports on the weeknights I go to the gym will be posted the following day b/c I go to the gym in the late evening, shower, get child from work, and then go to bed. Actually, reports on the work done on non-gym weekdays might be posted the next day, as well…I don’t want to rush and double post. I can catch up on the weekends.

#DoMagick – Into the mouth of the Great White Shark (day 2)

The trouble with having a Garmin tracker and setting it to auto-goal is that each day your step goal increases. This was not a problem whilst I was frolicking with the lambs over Spring Break, but back in the work-a-day world, this is going to present a problem. There is not a lot of walking built into my day, so I am going to have to take measures to incorporate more into my working day. Of…

#DoMagick – Dream Yourself Awake (day 1)

Inauguration day! Fitting that it is also Easter Sunday – a very traditional day for rebirth into the new.  And, if I am not fully risen into a new, transformed me, I have at least taken my first steps onto that path. Today was a gym day. It is also April Fool’s Day, and the universe is hilarious as today is also -tada!- the first day of my menstrual cycle. Hi-lar-ious. So, I settled for an hour…

We are the dreams of mortal men~

Tomorrow kicks off the next, active portion of a 30 day #DoMagick challenge. This one, as stated previously, is focusing in on self-alchemy. I have finished up my research portion, and am happy with the plan that I will be working with for April. It is a two-fold (pronged?) approach that will focus on both body and spirit. The past challenges have helped me to reclaim the ability to meditate in…