Updateyness and Power
Jul. 1st, 2021 07:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nyykiI did it. over 96 ounces yesterday. I haven't taken in that much water in a long time, but with concerted effort I managed to reach the goal. I'm about 2/3 of the way there today, and I'll make it. I'm going to try to keep it up so I can see both what it does to my weight and also what it does to my blood and urine metrics.
Which brings me to my next topic. I listen to a lot of old time radio from the thirties to the fifties, so I learn a lot of details from that time period. And though I don't think much of their health and nutrition practices I found a word I like so much better than dieting, losing weight and its variants, skinnying down or slimming down, and just about everything else I've heard for this practice -- they'd say they were reducing. It sums up the goal without getting into problematic words like lose. Fast forward to 2002-2003, a group of very smart people on The Other Site put together a program that worked extremely well for me. It's self-administrated, oriented to individual goals, and works for folks who are going at a health target from either direction. It's a wellness program, not just a weight one, and it's got an earth centered focus for one component of the program. I want to do it again. For it work I need other willing participants, because there's some accountability elements to it too. (It's sort of Weight Watchers inspired for part of it, so it involves weekly weigh-ins too) If I can find at least 4 people interested I'll figure out how to create a group here and set things up, with the key documents available through a Dropbox link. So send folks who might be interested my way.
I'm trying to decide if I want to include my OSR gaming stuff on this journal or start another one. I've got a lot of stuff to post, and I've got two concerns. First, I don't want to fuzz out the focus so much that this journal covers too many areas of my interests. Second, it's possible that could take the journal over because I've already been the publisher of a first edition AD&D fanzine, so I've got a lot of stuff waiting in the wings. I'll be thinking on this a lot more.
And on to power songs. Last night I was doing some energy and visualization work for a wonderful dear friend who needs it, so I went to YouTube to play my primary power song. ("On The Wheel" by Curve) I managed to find a wonderful album by them, Cuckoo. I'll be buying it the next time I'm on Amazon or my factotum goes there on my behalf. But today one of my FB friends, Denise Keeping, posted this link to another wonderful power song. I'm going to try and post these here from time to time because I want to get back to having more music, both mine and others, in my life. Listen and enjoy, and I hope this one inspires you at least a little bit. Because I believe every single person on my friends list here is magic, each one of you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm6FBpTnxFM
Nyyki (she/her/hers/Miss)
P.S. I'm adding the title to my pronouns list because there are options, and I think it's good to let someone know what I prefer. Why Miss? Because i want it crystal clear that I'm flying solo and proud of the fact. And if I post anything involving my degree I'll add my soup after my name too. SCA stuff will get my registered name and chosen title. Just so everything's clear.
Which brings me to my next topic. I listen to a lot of old time radio from the thirties to the fifties, so I learn a lot of details from that time period. And though I don't think much of their health and nutrition practices I found a word I like so much better than dieting, losing weight and its variants, skinnying down or slimming down, and just about everything else I've heard for this practice -- they'd say they were reducing. It sums up the goal without getting into problematic words like lose. Fast forward to 2002-2003, a group of very smart people on The Other Site put together a program that worked extremely well for me. It's self-administrated, oriented to individual goals, and works for folks who are going at a health target from either direction. It's a wellness program, not just a weight one, and it's got an earth centered focus for one component of the program. I want to do it again. For it work I need other willing participants, because there's some accountability elements to it too. (It's sort of Weight Watchers inspired for part of it, so it involves weekly weigh-ins too) If I can find at least 4 people interested I'll figure out how to create a group here and set things up, with the key documents available through a Dropbox link. So send folks who might be interested my way.
I'm trying to decide if I want to include my OSR gaming stuff on this journal or start another one. I've got a lot of stuff to post, and I've got two concerns. First, I don't want to fuzz out the focus so much that this journal covers too many areas of my interests. Second, it's possible that could take the journal over because I've already been the publisher of a first edition AD&D fanzine, so I've got a lot of stuff waiting in the wings. I'll be thinking on this a lot more.
And on to power songs. Last night I was doing some energy and visualization work for a wonderful dear friend who needs it, so I went to YouTube to play my primary power song. ("On The Wheel" by Curve) I managed to find a wonderful album by them, Cuckoo. I'll be buying it the next time I'm on Amazon or my factotum goes there on my behalf. But today one of my FB friends, Denise Keeping, posted this link to another wonderful power song. I'm going to try and post these here from time to time because I want to get back to having more music, both mine and others, in my life. Listen and enjoy, and I hope this one inspires you at least a little bit. Because I believe every single person on my friends list here is magic, each one of you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm6FBpTnxFM
Nyyki (she/her/hers/Miss)
P.S. I'm adding the title to my pronouns list because there are options, and I think it's good to let someone know what I prefer. Why Miss? Because i want it crystal clear that I'm flying solo and proud of the fact. And if I post anything involving my degree I'll add my soup after my name too. SCA stuff will get my registered name and chosen title. Just so everything's clear.
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Date: 2021-07-02 04:42 pm (UTC)I do know that I need to up my water and protein intake - I'm doing better, but still have a bit to get back to goal. And I have gentle exercise I need to start doing daily to help with a bunch of health things. I could set just those moderate goals for myself and not focus on my weight at all. I know from experience that if I do the things I know move my body toward better health, my weight tends to settle back where it needs to be.
As for splitting up your journal, I would say don't bother... most of us are able to scroll past content that doesn't interest us. If your tech allows you to happy tags, it's helpful for people who really really don't want to see certain content, but honestly I'd put the onus on the reader. You have enough to contend with, unless splitting it up benefits you somehow. And some of us may find that content we didn't think we cared about catches our interest.
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Date: 2021-07-02 06:40 pm (UTC)(I adore being able to just respond to an email and post it as a reply. Go DW) You know the system -- you're the primary driver behind it, and you're spot on that you set the goals and it's up to you to decide what you want to focus on. And BTW, I'm up about 4.4 lbs. today after taking in that much water two days in a row, and I'm already more than a third of the way there today. So I have an idea what it'll do to body weight. My big reason for possibly going with another journal for the gaming stuff is so I don't cross the streams in terms of readers. Having something focused on the OSR gaming makes it a lot easier to advertise it in gaming circles. I'll either go with another DW account or look into other blog sites Semagic can talk to.
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Date: 2021-07-02 06:59 pm (UTC)I hadn't thought about it in terms of managing readers, but it would make it easier to manage visibility. I would imagine this journal you have locked down to your circle only, where your gaming or music stuff you might want to make public or semi-public.
Semagic will post to Wordpress and Blogger, and most of the elljay clones like deadjay.
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Date: 2021-07-02 07:43 pm (UTC)Well... I'd like to get more folks here dealing with trans stuff, fangirling or fanboying about B5 and Sense 8 and other such fun stuff, and some music stuff too. (I'm going to repost the guitar pictures for those who missed them on FB) There's a way to do tags on Semagic, but I haven't dug into that yet. Dead J -- forgot about that one. Wordpress might be a more accessible venue. Could I set that up to have a selection of graphics that work as banners instead of pics to one side? I also so totally miss my LJ layout for my friends list, but I suspect you don't remember what you did for that and the file is probably long gone because most people don't keep files like forever as I do.
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