Learning to write

I'm starting this blog because one of my brothers thinks that I should write. (He thinks I'm funny, sometimes when I'm trying to be. Bless his heart!) Anyway, between his encouragement and being inspired by Pioneer Woman's blog and my niece-in-law's beautiful writing at The Narrative Heiress, I was inspired to at least practice writing using a blog. We'll see where it takes me. Right now, I'm thinking that it will be an interesting way to journal.

So what's happening with me right now? I have been granted disability, so I can stop worrying about having an income stream. What surprised me was that I spent the week after the notification worrying about everything under the sun. On reflection, I think I was in the habit of worrying and was anxious because there was nothing to worry about. I'm starting to get my balance back, and am more relaxed this week.

For Lent I am adding positive habits to my life. Of course I had a list of habits as long as the congressional records, but with the help of a friend, I narrowed the list to the top three activities that I have wanted to add to my life since I was laid-off. So I'm going to daily mass and exercising M-F, and going to two AA meetings a week. I started yesterday, and am really excited about this. It addresses mental, physical, and spiritual health, and I think it's a good spiritual exercise.

When I practiced the pool walking yesterday, something was really giving me stuff to offer up (another good spiritual exercise!). There were some college boys playing water volleyball, and some other boys playing basketball. Because of the way the pool is set up I had walk between the two, and circle the volleyball 'court'. During the 50 minutes I was in the pool, both walking and resting, I was hit 4 times with the volleyball! Boy! was I grumpy by the end of the walk! I didn't think of offering it up at the time, but I had made my morning offering so it was taken care of. Since I was so grumpy about it, it's debatable how much I grew from the experience. Oh, well, baby steps!

I heard birds chirping outside my window this morning! I love spring, and it looks like we're going to have an early one this year! I can hardly wait to hear all the song birds!