Ya-fekkin'-hoo'! Finally a new New Year's meme other then the SAME one that has been floating around webs for years! Every year I Google around for a new and different meme but it's always the same one. Actually found this one making the rounds on Facebook:
1. What was the single best thing that happened this past year?
First and foremost, that Dylan's ongoing mystery illness did not turn out to be any kind of auto-immune disease or IBD...or worse. Turned out to be gastritis due to some virus.
First and foremost, that Dylan's ongoing mystery illness did not turn out to be any kind of auto-immune disease or IBD...or worse. Turned out to be gastritis due to some virus.
Also, upward mobility-emotional, economic, physical.
2. What was the single most challenging thing that happened?
Trying to accept the injury my body sustained
(Iliotibial Band Syndrome) from doing too much too soon…and learning to listen
to and respect my body’s need to heal.
Even if that meant not running until spring.
3. What was an unexpected joy this past year?
3. What was an unexpected joy this past year?
Our wild wacky Halloween night in Vancouver!
4. What was an unexpected obstacle?
Yeah…that
would be being plagued with depression and anxiety at the beginning of the
year. Can’t say it came out of nowhere, I’d
been having a bit of anxiety since my dad and uncle died, but the sudden drop
and severity of it was definitely unexpected.
You know things are bad when I actually assent to going on a little
Mother’s Helper. I’m a big proponent of exercise,
good diet, and open communication to stave off depression…but this just bowled
me over. So, thanks Lexapro. Things got better right away.
And then there was the illiotibial injury in
late summer. After the highs of training,
running races all season and a MARATHON, seeing myself become so much stronger
in mind and body, being sidelined-perhaps till spring- was a huge blow.
5. Pick three words to describe 2012.
Challenge(as in “rising to the” )…heartbreak…evolution
6. Pick three words your spouse would use to describe your 2012 (don’t ask them; guess based on how
you think your spouse sees you).
5. Pick three words to describe 2012.
Challenge(as in “rising to the” )…heartbreak…evolution
6. Pick three words your spouse would use to describe your 2012 (don’t ask them; guess based on how
you think your spouse sees you).
I guessed: Challenge…injury…progress
He actually said: Progress…injury…growth
7. Pick three words your spouse would use to describe their 2012 (again, without asking).
I said: Challenge…paradigm shift…progress
7. Pick three words your spouse would use to describe their 2012 (again, without asking).
I said: Challenge…paradigm shift…progress
He actually said: Progress…re-ignite…snowy
8. What were the best books you read this year?
Born to Run (again), The Snow Child, Classified Woman
9. With whom were your most valuable relationships?
8. What were the best books you read this year?
Born to Run (again), The Snow Child, Classified Woman
9. With whom were your most valuable relationships?
Miles, my kids, my bff Mel,
my mom.
10. What was your biggest
personal change from January to December of this past year?
Rising from an amateur runner
to a marathon runner!
11. In what way(s) did you grow emotionally?
Early in the year Lexapro
helped me to get back on track…challenging myself and getting myself moving
took me to new hights emotionally.
12. In what way(s) did you grow spiritually?
12. In what way(s) did you grow spiritually?
I have been terribly LAX in
working on my spiritual self. The
desire/need to do inner work has always come in waves for me…but life changes
or just allowing life to beome too routine has sometimes swayed my practice. But the last couple of years have been
seriously spiritually DRY! And I have
come to the realization that while I’m not an atheist, I really despise any organized religion and
nonsense having to do with our lord and savior sky daddy. Thanks right wing evangelical douch nozzles
and tea bagger freaks! It all seems SO
amazingly Troglodytic to me! In a
nutshell…my beliefs tend to lean toward a blending of a higher creator type,
quantum physics, dimensions and energy. Anyhoo,
about 2 weeks ago I suddenly felt an incredibly strong need to spend some time
going within and getting my energetic shit together. I don’t know why it came on so strong…and all
sorts of subtle messages have been pouring in regarding meditation and energy
work….relevant songs and news reports on the radio, out of the blue book/website
recommendations from random people, finding out that my 2 local go-to energy
workers are no longer available to me-one died and one moved…
So I will be heading into
this new year with the intent to establish a daily meditation /self exploration
routine to help raise my vibration and shit.
13. In what way(s) did you grow physically?
13. In what way(s) did you grow physically?
Running free, running happy,
running strong! I built up some killer
calf and leg muscles, a stronger heart and lungs, and soaring spirit(I know,
that belongs with #12)
14. In what way(s) did you grow in your relationships with others?
14. In what way(s) did you grow in your relationships with others?
My relationship with my
hubby is always stable in it’s evolution.
In not allowing life to get stagnant and too routine, our doors are
always open to new experiences to share with one another. We both truly relish the LIVING of LIFE! I really enjoyed our running evolution with
each other this year.
As for other relationships,
I am thankful for the wonderful friends I have…”growth”, however? I think this year my relationships stayed the
“same”…and, due to my earlier depression and later injury, I feel that I didn’t
make myself very available for growth with friends. My deepest friendships are with folks who are
far away…and that makes me sad and longing for closer and/or newer
relationships where I feel I can truly be myself…feel accepted, supported and
respected for that.
15. What was the most enjoyable part of your work?
Re: Massage Therapy: Knowing I’m really helping the clients I work
with…and having that backed up by stellar feedback!
Re: My art: The pure physical and emotional expression
and release that painting gives me.
16. What was the most challenging part of your work?
Re: Massage Therapy: Working for someone who does not respect
Massage Therapy despite the above! And
the fact that there is no room for more holistic work.
Re: My art:
Loosing my muse for long periods of stagnancy. Feeling like I have to limit myself to a
certain style or genre because that’s what sell, thus losing my muse. See the cycle?? Plus, I hate marketing myself
publically. My shyness gets in the
way. I SHOULD be rising to THAT
challenge…..
17. What was your single biggest time waster in your life this past year?
I admit it. Sitting in front of a screen, whether it’s the TV, my laptop, an iphone, etc. is addicting. My ADD brain goes right into hyper focus and the concept of time disappears. I truly intend to head into the new year with a rigid schedule of when I turn this thing on and turn it OFF.
18. What was the best way you used your time this past year?
17. What was your single biggest time waster in your life this past year?
I admit it. Sitting in front of a screen, whether it’s the TV, my laptop, an iphone, etc. is addicting. My ADD brain goes right into hyper focus and the concept of time disappears. I truly intend to head into the new year with a rigid schedule of when I turn this thing on and turn it OFF.
18. What was the best way you used your time this past year?
Challenging myself, in many aspects of my
life, to keep pushing past my comfort zones a little at a time. This year was lived WELL.
19. What was biggest thing you learned this past year?
19. What was biggest thing you learned this past year?
That I really am capable of
rising to a challenge and achieving a lot.
“2012 came in like Woody
Allen and out like Buddha” ?
or
“The Year of Living on a
upward trend of emotional peace and happiness, running hard, worrying, loving
strong, letting go, waiting and waiting….all the natural process of evolution.”
And a very happy New Years to all!!!!
