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luckycanuck) wrote2011-12-01 09:49 pm
luckycanuck) wrote2011-12-01 09:49 pm
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Running out of things to complain about.
I'm doing Black Dog Pushups again tomorrow. This time it will be a target of 2,000 in two hours at lunch time in Garema Place, and there should be some pretty good exposure. I rejigged the media release and sent it to local TV, radio, and the Canberra Times, who are sending a journalist and a photographer to cover the story. I've also been hyping BDP on Twitter and today I was retweeted by two rugby league players, an ABC journo, a comedian, a judge on Australia's Next Top Model, and an Olympic swimmer, which means hundreds of thousands of people have been told about my project. After a good retweet, for an hour there was a surge in people following me. At times it was on the cusp of going viral.
I had a session with my psychologist yesterday and it was the first time there was more positive than negative talk. Plenty of talk about BDP. Excepting some frustration with Coffee Snob and work and one of the agencies, it was all good stuff. And to improve things further, while I was in session the frustrating agency rang and set things in motion to resolve my frustration over being knocked back from the DoHA job. Later, Coffee Snob dropped the Spartan Death Race advocacy, so I'm running out of things to complain about.
I was advised to think in terms of "and" rather than "but". Instead of saying, I have x, y, and z but I don't have a real job, I can say I have x, y, and z and I would also like a real job. I've also started thinking that I've been living with the gloom for a long time. Far longer than this year when I really started to notice it. I've long felt aimless and like I don't quite fit. It's only recently that this started to wear enough on me to make things break down. It could be that the gloom has been with me a long time and will remain with me for a long time, and it just needs to be managed. Much like the Asperger's perhaps.
YW: Heavy leg press up to 240kg. I am getting better with squats, but I can get so much more weight with leg presses, so they will remain part of my regime until my form improves. Also, 10 horizontal rows left, 10 pullups, 10 horizontal rows right, 10 pullups - 5 rounds.
It's nice having the house to myself again rather than sharing during the day with GH and company gone. Having a couple in the house really threw off the dynamic. The new arrival will move in soon. No LJ nicknames yet, but I'll have them soon.
Speaking of new arrivals, we have company in the house. Well, in the garage. A possum is living in our garage door. Yes, IN the door. In the top bit of the rollup door, so he gets tumbled around whenever someone opens or closes it. I was a bit concerned that he might be trapped there, but I put some off cuts of pear out and an hour later they were gone, so he can get in and out. I guess he just likes living there. I posted our situation of Facebook and a friend who is very opposed to animal cruelty wanted me to dismantle the door and release the possum, but I don't think said possum is interested in being rescued. Her heart is in the right place.
The market was starting to look good, until today. Overall the market had a cracker of a day, but for me, it was bad. Heaps of my stocks were down on a day with buying sentiment overall, and for no apparent reason. RUL, SSM, VMG, ARX, JRL, PVE, all of them down, and some of them had positive news. I can't explain it. Overreaction? Selling to get money into other stocks? Some kind of voodoo curse? Maybe tomorrow will be better.
I also had my first day of proper fire training. I got to climb on Beauty (the large tanker) and learned all about hoses. Single rolls, double rolls, figure-eighting the hoses to get them back on the truck quicker (I am really good at consistently getting a nice tight figure eight), nozzles, and spraying stuff. Oh yeah!
I had a session with my psychologist yesterday and it was the first time there was more positive than negative talk. Plenty of talk about BDP. Excepting some frustration with Coffee Snob and work and one of the agencies, it was all good stuff. And to improve things further, while I was in session the frustrating agency rang and set things in motion to resolve my frustration over being knocked back from the DoHA job. Later, Coffee Snob dropped the Spartan Death Race advocacy, so I'm running out of things to complain about.
I was advised to think in terms of "and" rather than "but". Instead of saying, I have x, y, and z but I don't have a real job, I can say I have x, y, and z and I would also like a real job. I've also started thinking that I've been living with the gloom for a long time. Far longer than this year when I really started to notice it. I've long felt aimless and like I don't quite fit. It's only recently that this started to wear enough on me to make things break down. It could be that the gloom has been with me a long time and will remain with me for a long time, and it just needs to be managed. Much like the Asperger's perhaps.
YW: Heavy leg press up to 240kg. I am getting better with squats, but I can get so much more weight with leg presses, so they will remain part of my regime until my form improves. Also, 10 horizontal rows left, 10 pullups, 10 horizontal rows right, 10 pullups - 5 rounds.
It's nice having the house to myself again rather than sharing during the day with GH and company gone. Having a couple in the house really threw off the dynamic. The new arrival will move in soon. No LJ nicknames yet, but I'll have them soon.
Speaking of new arrivals, we have company in the house. Well, in the garage. A possum is living in our garage door. Yes, IN the door. In the top bit of the rollup door, so he gets tumbled around whenever someone opens or closes it. I was a bit concerned that he might be trapped there, but I put some off cuts of pear out and an hour later they were gone, so he can get in and out. I guess he just likes living there. I posted our situation of Facebook and a friend who is very opposed to animal cruelty wanted me to dismantle the door and release the possum, but I don't think said possum is interested in being rescued. Her heart is in the right place.
The market was starting to look good, until today. Overall the market had a cracker of a day, but for me, it was bad. Heaps of my stocks were down on a day with buying sentiment overall, and for no apparent reason. RUL, SSM, VMG, ARX, JRL, PVE, all of them down, and some of them had positive news. I can't explain it. Overreaction? Selling to get money into other stocks? Some kind of voodoo curse? Maybe tomorrow will be better.
I also had my first day of proper fire training. I got to climb on Beauty (the large tanker) and learned all about hoses. Single rolls, double rolls, figure-eighting the hoses to get them back on the truck quicker (I am really good at consistently getting a nice tight figure eight), nozzles, and spraying stuff. Oh yeah!