Getting up and getting on with it :)

Hey world *waves*

Blogging's on hold a bit over the festive season (both here and on Thoughtful Eclecticism), but I thought I'd jot down a few lines to say what I've been up to ...

I'm feeling like I'm beginning to be properly organised again, which is a nice feeling. Not that I was particularly disorganised, but at times over the past term it's felt like everything was just too much and getting on top of me (like here), and I'm feeling a bit more in control now.

I'm also more able to get up in the mornings. I feel like I've had 6 months of treating myself relatively softly (i.e. not pushing myself too much) since graduating, and now I know what I'm doing (in terms of work / study / church / youth / dance), I can start to gauge where and when to push, and start being a bit more active and a bit less passive. (People who know me will probably think that I haven't been at all passive over the last 6 months ... but it's all relative!). I feel like I'm waking up a bit more and reevaluating what I can really do (and what I should drop) a bit more and things like that ...

At the moment I feel good because:

• I'm making progress on my essay every day
• I'm moving forward with student christian organisingy stuff every day
• I've posted the globes to Jenny (see previous post)
• I've been doing other useful things that needed doing (like laundry)
• I've been in lots of contact with Hazel, in ways that will (hopefully!) help with her work
• I've been spending lots of time with family
• I'm getting up and out of the house in the mornings (almost all of what I need to do needs to happen inside, but getting out to go to the post office or whatever seems to reset my brain to realise that the day has really started and I can be productive now).

It's a nice feeling :) and it's even nicer that I'm starting to take hold of myself again and not take "but I don't feel like it right now ..." as a blanket reason not to do something. 

Spreading love on the internet

I've been making chocolates today, which has left me feeling pretty creatively drained, so I won't be posting much ... but I wanted to pass on some information about my new friend Jenny, whose brand-new blog you can read here: http://mennobytes.blogspot.com/.

She showed up on Momastery to tell us about what she'd been up to, and why.
We jumped in and became part of the story.

The stories we tell ourselves shape our lives profoundly ... this is a concept that I play with again and again, trying to puzzle out how it is true and why it is true and when it is true ... and so now I'm part of a story that involves sending inflatable globes to Afghanistan.

Which is a small part of telling much bigger stories, like telling Jenny's friend D and the kids out there you are not forgotten.