August 17, 2009
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multitasking...
...or mild attention deficit disorder? i'm watching my online lectures but can't sit through it without letting my mind stray. here goes me ramblings:
i don't like
- when people say "what happened was..."
- poor grammar both spoken and written
- customer service people with poor attitude
- low work ethic
- when something disrupts my daily and weekly routine
- forced socialization
- chocolate... though i did have a craving for it last week, strangei enjoy
- talks with people who can relate
- stability, though rarely achieved
- learning new anything and working hard to kick ass at all new learned things
- witty conversation
- keeping busy (probably to avoid focusing on what i'm going to do with my life)
- 12 oz chunky PB & Jamba, light strawberries, sub blueberries, add energy boost... i spend too much monthly at jamba juice
- three or more course meals at my favorite restaurants paired with awesome conversation
- Kincaid's burnt cremes and Ruth's Chris' and Sansei's apple tarts
- vanilla chai tea with a Tbsp of sweetened condensed milk in the mornings---
working with children with autism has caused me to reflect on my life more. one thing i've thought about was the importance routine holds in our lives. established routine is both good and bad - it gives order and structure to our lives and assists with managing anxiety, but sometimes routines can become ritualistic and may get in the way of living a functional life. i could go on and on about this, maybe in another blog.i've thought about some of the rituals and routines that i have. those include:
- daily single serving of high protein cereal with soymilk and a scoop of ground flaxseed (it was a huge upset for me when i had to switch from Special K protein plus to Kashi...
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- cup of chai/black tea with sweetened condensed milk in the a.m.
- almost daily consumption of that jamba meal listed above -- i get upset when they screw up the order and it tastes off
- at least one serving of fresh fruit daily. in Shanghai i was obsessive about apples. lately its been papaya (our tree won't stop producing!), grapes and cherries when on sale.
- eating a garden salad, dry, no olives before working at macgrill
- rolling my car windows 3/4 way down for a few minutes then rolling them up with a crack open when i drive
- working friday and saturday nights and sunday morningsi'm thinking about adding more into my daily/weekly routine, such as step class and going to the gym more. i used to be a fanatic until... hm, i guess until i moved in with the exbf and we stopped going, sad.
anyway, those are some of the things i do that keep me from going batty. i used to get quite upset if some extraneous variable intervened with my routines and rituals, but i've gotten better at handling those situations.
what are some of the routines and rituals you have?
Comments (2)
my morning workday ritual begins with a bowl of yoghurt & granola. recently, i've been refining my homemade granola and relying less and less on store bought. awesome way to start the day!
in regards to something a little more often and nitpicky, i always put on my left shoe before the right one.
i like your fruit routine and will look to adopt that in my own. (trying to be healthier is one of my new year's resolutions)
on an aside, i told a friend to drop by macgrill sometime last week to hear you sing but you weren't working that night apparently? bummer...
aroha!
Hello Ms. Catto,
Your site site photo of "a beautiful world" is nicely ironic. I see that you have a wide variety of interests and observations here!
I like to write articles about Jehovah God on my site to help people to really get to know Him and His plans for us, especially in these troubled times. "Your luck will end! I will see to it that you are slaughtered with swords. You refused to answer when I called out; you paid no attention to my instructions. Instead, you did what I hated, knowing it was wrong." (Isaiah 65:12) (CEV)
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