My last post was in May, three months ago. This is exactly what I was trying to avoid. My life is a sick cycle: weeks of health and happiness followed by weeks of fatigue and depression. My healthy habits last for a few weeks and then a sickness or even a couple of rough days at work will throw me backwards for awhile. How do we sustain ourselves in times of stress, when we need health more than ever?
These last three months I haven't been posting have not been an entire failure. Here are some of my accomplishments:
1. I've officially paid off 50% of my federal student loans! I'm paying a ridiculous amount of money every month because my interest rate is sky high. If I can keep up my completely non-extravagant lifestyle for another five or six months I can pay them off entirely. Of course, the thought has crossed my mind that if I can keep up the same lifestyle for another five or six years, I can put a lot of money away in savings.
2. My friends and I have made significant leaps with our theatre company. We kick off our first season with a huge celebration on September 4th, and then we have nine months chock full of theatre and activism. This season is revolving around the current issues surrounding immigration and immigrant rights. To prepare, we've been reading all sorts of literature on the topic and scouring the headlines. I feel really confident that we can make some big changes this year. I also feel confident that devoting time and effort to such an important cause is going to make me feel a lot better about myself.
3. C and I opened our first joint account- it's an ING savings account called "The Wedding Fund." Our first deposit was a milk jug full of change that we'd been saving ever since we started dating three years ago. It ended up to be almost $400!
4. After a five day long sinus infection that left me exhausted and pretty depressed, I spent the last two days reorganizing my house from top to bottom. I've got two giant bags of clothes and two small boxes of other random items- records, books, water bottles, etc. to donate this week. Things accumulate in our house very swiftly, and it feels good to do a little purging. Since C and I are on opposite schedules right now, I had to send him an e-mail that detailed the new method of organization for each of our drawers, closets and cabinets so that we could keep our stuff nice and neat. That was probably the craziest thing I've ever done as a significant other.
5. I invested $7 in an Ikea collapsable dish rack. C and I agreed to make an effort to wash our dishes as we use them and then actually dry them and put them away. It'll take a little bit more time, but hopefully it'll be better than our method of letting them pile up in the sink, washing them all and leaving them piled up in the rack to dry...and then neglecting to put them away until we're ready to wash another batch of dishes and we need the drying space.
I'm going to keep working on these resolutions slowly and steadily. I know where I want my life to be eventually, I just have to cut out a little of the anxiety I feel when I wonder how I'm ever possibly going to get there. I hope to update a couple of times a week from now on.
