Observing
Some notes and exercises from counseling session. Disengagement from the present Self as concept, labels Thought fusion Struggle/control of emotions – “clean” emotions Actions Consequences Exercises 1. Separating thoughts from self. Example thought: “I am boring” -> I am thinking I am boring -> I notice I am thinking I am boring -> (funny cartoon […]
Laptop keyboard problem fixed
Since attaching an external USB keyboard my laptop keyboard had been useless – press certain keys and the wrong characters came out. Wasn’t a huge problem until recently when I wanted to take the laptop somewhere without lugging along the external keyboard. We needed to access data from a password protected Sandisk and ended up […]
Mixed messages
It was about five minutes past knock off time and as I was packing up the phone rang. It was our chairman, who had phoned to speak to someone else who’d already left for the day. When I mentioned the late hour he said why are you still there then, and started asking me about […]
Big dust storm
Looked a nice sort of day when I hung out our new guest room sheets. An hour or so later was sitting at my desk updating the dog rescue site and noticed the smell and taste of dust in the air. Looked outside and everywhere is a pale orange smoke – thought fire at first […]
Now that I’m forty
Can’t believe I’m 40, how on earth can that be? just shows how time marches on while your state of mind flitters and dwells at different points. Age is irrelevant, really. Apart from giving your body a shelf-life.
Oops forgot
Went through a whole day yesterday without realising it was my wedding anniversary. H reminded me when I got home in the evening, he’d got us a yummy cake from the Cheesecake Shop to help celebrate.