Chinook Posted August 7, 2007 Posted August 7, 2007 I've decided I'm going to be too busy to be worried about the ex-bf and too busy to be getting into anything new with anyone else. Get this for doing stuff!Monday - Start a new Yoga class next week.Tuesday - Joined a new running club tonight and loved it. So one of the club sessions is going to be a Tuesday night.Wednesday - Whilst at running club tonight, one of the coaches was a triathlete (I do triathlon too) and she asked did I want to go to triathlon club so I'll be going there from tomorrow onwards for bike training.Thursday - Same bloke who teaches the Yoga teaches Tai Chi and recommended it for meditation. I fully intend to snap this up. I need a quiet mind.Friday - Running club training session.Saturday - Triathlon Club bike training am and swim training pm.Sunday - Running Club long slow training session for marathon preparation.Plus on the available times that I am not doing stuff, like Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon & evening, I have DVDs to catch up with, car wash to do, house work to catch up with, the house also needs fixing up with a splash of paint and gardening! So what kinds of things are you guys getting busy with...? I'm really proud of myself that I have picked up the courage to do this because I was really down last week and now I have things to do and I'm doing them even though I didn't really want to. What are you proud of yourself for...?
zebrasan Posted August 7, 2007 Posted August 7, 2007 Nothing like lots of excercise to get your head straight. Here's my post break-up schedule Monday: AM swim training, PM weight lifting Tuesday: PM Combined coaching and swimming, followed by beers and BBQ with the swim group Wednesday: AM Weight Lifting, PM Life Drawing guild Thursday: PM swim training, getting my paintings together for my next gallery show Friday: AM Swim Training, PM weight lifting, followed by beers with bros Saturday: AM surfing at Pacifica, PM painting Sunday: AM swim training followed by beers on the beach with friends. My goal was to get "cut" this summer. This schedule worked well for that, not to mention kept my mind of the ex.
Author Chinook Posted August 7, 2007 Author Posted August 7, 2007 Zebrasan, what is a 'life drawing guild', is it a drawing class...?
Slippy72 Posted August 7, 2007 Posted August 7, 2007 Unfortunately most of my friends are friends with my ex so hanging out with them doensn't exactly take my mind off it. I have started sunbathing a lot recently, and just generally getting in shape, feels so much better than just staying in watching TV etc.
zebrasan Posted August 7, 2007 Posted August 7, 2007 A "life Drawing Guild" is just a bunch of my art school chums who get together and hire a model for drawing. We only call it a guild because everyone has to vote in any new members based on their individual talent, essentially no "Walk-Ins". Nothing like drawing naked people to change our head space.
Author Chinook Posted August 7, 2007 Author Posted August 7, 2007 Slippy, I had that problem too. My old running club was where I met my ex (down South) and I joined that one because my best galpal was also a member. But I didn't do weekday club training sessions. So I decided in the end to just can the whole scene. I still speak to a few people but by and large I've discovered that those people who were either my friends and he befriended them or 'our' friends, basically took his side because they're all down south. So fckit, I'll just start out again from scratch. As for you, maybe you should take a picnic blanket and a book and go sunbathe in a park or something. I did that on Sunday and lots of people came by and talked to me and kids kicked their balls around and I ended up playing with them a while, it was nice. Saturday I sat on the banks of one of the local canals under the bridge, reading a book, watching the narrow boats go up and down and every single one of them waved at me.
Slippy72 Posted August 7, 2007 Posted August 7, 2007 Yeah, it's a small area though which means I may bump into her or her friends which could pose a problem. Having said that, I think I'm going to the beach tomorrow a long way from where she lives so that should be nice. I'm at the stage where my ex occupies my thoughts for about an hour a day as opposed to when I was thinking of her all day and I don't feel like sitting around like I used to. So everytime I get down, like you, I do something to take my mind off it, go for a run or something - and it really helps Thanks for the ideas too, I'll keep em' in mind
ruby_gloom Posted August 7, 2007 Posted August 7, 2007 this is my life: monday: work from 8-5. go home. eat. shower. play videogames. go online. watch tv. go to sleep at around 2 am. tuesday: work from 8-5. go home. eat. shower. play videogames. go online. watch tv. go to sleep at around 2 am. wednesday: work from 8-5. go home. eat. shower. watch tv. play videogames. watch tv. go to sleep around 1 am. thursday: work from 8-5. go home. eat. shower. play videogames. go online. play guitar hero until my fingers die. watch tv (novelas). go to sleep around 3 am. friday: work from 8-5. go home. shower. go out to do nothing, eat, drink, laugh, and act dumb. go home. go to sleep around 4 am. saturday: wake up at 9 because my sister is crazy. clean. clean. clean. shower. eat. play videogames. take care of the kid until 8 or 9 pm, while my sister goes out to drink. she comes home. i shower again because kids are dirty. i go out to do nothing, eat, drink, laugh, act dumb, and get totally high. go home. go to sleep around 5 am. sunday: wake up at 9 or so. take care of the kid. feed it, play with it. then i feed and play with myself. shower. play videogames. watch a movie or two. go online. watch tv. go to sleep around 1 am. can't beat that.
Author Chinook Posted August 7, 2007 Author Posted August 7, 2007 then i feed and play with myself. That really made me laugh. Only once a week...? Tsk! Seriously, the whole reason I wanted to start 'doing' more activity based stuff was I was spending way too much time online and being alone. So I wanted to change that.
TerryTeardrop Posted August 7, 2007 Posted August 7, 2007 Chinook your schedule made me tired just reading it! I think I need a lay down!
Author Chinook Posted August 7, 2007 Author Posted August 7, 2007 Nah TerryT don't get too excited. The sessions are only an hour or so at a time. It's mainly just 'interaction' activites for me really
funkybassplayer Posted August 9, 2007 Posted August 9, 2007 I really enjoy chatting and posting on here, but to be honest since my split i have took alot of time out just to think really, and now seeing a kind of life coach, and thats cool. I have booked myself into p/t courses for september, and bought a new sun lounger for chilling in the garden, cos thats what i do best, chill, and think! i have been busy with my music buissness, and also been keeping fit at home, and have lost 1 and a half stone, and toned up, so i guess i have kept busy in mind more than in body. I may take a week in spain late september, not sure yet. It has been a quite summer compared to last year, but one that i have used to find myself again, and its been interesting i think. I have taken a different approch i think in that i have kind of locked myself away to face the fears, so when i come back to face the world again, ill do it with style!!!
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