Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • Today, I have written: 1. I am grateful for the company of my two cats, even though they also drive me crazy!   2. I am grateful for the time and ability to go out last night to see David Blaine’s illusionist show with friends. It was also my first outing with D without her dad (my bf)! 😀 3. I am grateful for the Internet and all that it allows me to…

  • So, motivation is still a challenge. I am forcing myself to stay home and try to get some work done. So far, I’ve done a good job of procrastinating and taking care of ‘other’ things. However, I think, I think I am moving in the right direction…. First, I realized that I need to focus on positives and train my brain to associate working at home with results. I also need to focus…

  • I thought to myself this morning that one of the reasons that I am not so motivated to do the PhD on most days is because I want to live in the future. The future is when the degree is done and I have nothing weighing on my mind – that I should be doing something, but am not. It’s been over five years of me doing this silly thing and so I am…

  • Yesterday I stared on the computer and contemplated the fact that I really do NOT need this PhD. Yes, I am nearly finished and all that, but I was really in a bad mindset. So, I took the day ‘off’. I attempted a bit before I went to meet a friend for lunch and though I had good intentions after lunch, especially after J said I could do it, I decided to say…

  • It has been gnawing at me as to why I am irritated with the people staying with me – or rather the husband. He’s lovely – no doubt. Yet, each time he talks to me I feel annoyance. This morning, it dawned on me or at least became a little bit clearer: *I am not good with meaningless conversation. I do not like to talk about the weather, especially when I live or…

  • It was a nice weekend and I even managed to get a bit of work done – never enough – and relax too! 😀 Now, it’s time to get back to it. Need another chapter out in the next couple of days and have to just settle in to it. Will be heading off to a cafe soon for that! 😉 For the past week I’ve had CSers staying with me. They are…

  • **I am going to try on the weekends to update on my summer travels – until the last chapter is submitted. So, here we go!** The beginning of my summer holidays started with some drama from work as I had to miss the last two official days due to my second-to-last coaching course and then I flew early to meet my mom in the UK for our mother-daughter trip. Normally, this wouldn’t be…

  • Phew, am so glad that today is nearly over. I had a very big day of analyzing and reading, which was very much what I needed to end the week on. So, I am feeling pretty goooood. I came home and did about an hour of exercise – treadmill and weights/stretching. Then, I had breakkie and sorted out my printer woes from yesterday. That made a huge difference in me getting stuff done…

  • Well, today has been a bit of an up and down kind of day. The positives are that I read two chapters of a book, checked out five more books from the library, started to read the chapter to be revised, had a good swim this morning, enjoyed a much-needed massage, and will be going out to dinner. The negative is that I really didn’t make much progress when I desperately needed to.…

  • It’s been a bit slow-going in this next part of my PhD work, but today I submitted a second revised chapter. So, that’s progress. Now I’m at a bit of a conundrum…. Revise Chapter 3: Methods or Chapter 5: Analysis & Discussion and/or focus on Chapter 2: Literature Review….. There’s still so much to do, but it’s coming together…. Anyway, everything is going well in life. I just need to focus a bit…

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