Yoga with Debi, lunch with Jodi, last Creative Process class with Karen, Krista

November 15, 2023:

Well, today it was annoying to write this in the afternoon, for yesterday. I won’t do that again! Today started off by having Mikell cancel my planned photoshoot at Open Door. Apparently, they had a bunch of stuff going on with Give to the Max or something. That was fine though, so I just went to my yoga class in the morning and stayed longer instead of leaving early like I’d planned. It also occurred to me that feeling generally happy, I’m willing to do a lot more approaching people and talking to them in general. Like when I walked into the gym, I told a lady I liked her dark green leggings a lot. The truth is that I’m actually looking to maybe buy some dark green leggings too. I was wearing my neon green ones at the time. Speaking of, when I got to class I talked to Debi a bit about her dark green leggings, and she said she loved that they had pockets. I should ask where she got them. At the beginning of class she asked for announcements and also mentioned that what I had said two weeks ago about “her asking for announcements when she wanted to make an announcement” was true yet again. I’d forgotten to add that interaction last week, and only remembered it when she mentioned it in class.

When she asked the class for announcements, I said it was my second to last one of her classes. She asked me to add why that was, because I think I’d told her the other day. Then I got to announce my new volunteer job with the Minnesota Brain Injury alliance. I even called it a job, even though I also mentioned it’d be technically volunteer. After that, I talked to another office person there who had an office with her name on it, Anna. She said she’d ask Will if he knew who my next trainer would be. I’m kinda curious now if Will is ever gonna get an office with his name on the door. I thought that when I saw Anna’s.

I also wrote a note that in general, I’d recently accepted that work is not the most important thing, even though I’ve always liked it since high school. Then I went and picked up my laundry to bring to Papa’s house. I did my laundry there, and decided to leave it in the dryer til tomorrow. When it was done, I asked about food and Papa asked if I could wait half an hour, then he ordered Chinese food and invited Jodi over too. She was able to come, and the three of us had a nice lunch, even without wontons. We decided that to be happy you don’t have to feel happy every second of the day. I had a really good talk with them and took a pic with them too, but instead I included one in here that just has them, kind of because I’m trying to move away from having all my photos of the day being selfies. The other cool thing with Jodi was I mentioned how my Notes app is crashing when I try to search in it, she she said she doesn’t have that problem, but suggested trying the Pages app if I’m having issues. I downloaded that and I’ll see.

Ok, now let’s get to Creative Process. I was with Madison, Karen and Krista today. It was our last Creative Process! At the end, we usually say what we’re grateful for, and today we talked about the entire class. I also thanked Paige for coming up with the idea for the class in general, and told her how impactful her exercize was that kind of answered my questions about potential new long-term goals for me. That class has really brought me to accepting and believing that a true goal I’m working towards in life should really be related to learning more Spanish and becoming kinda fluent there. It’s wonderful because it’s a goal that can kind of go on forever, and might involve some traveling too!

Grateful: I’m grateful for the existence of Creative Process today. I’m not sure if I’ll take it again next semester, but Paige said she’s teaching it again. It’s funny that one day I’d asked her if she’d ever taken it, and she told me that she literally created the class and decided what we’d do. It’s really has some wonderful impacts for me, defining some goals and being a very open place. I told Paige today that I wasn’t surprised she was a therapist too, since I know I’d said a few weeks ago that the only place I felt like I could really talk honestly was therapy.