Adi's Life

This year I have started to take better care of my health. I've always been fairly healthy but I do tend to eat alot of fast food and skip out on the gym frequently. I decided it was time to treat myself better. I've been cooking healthier and eating out way, way less....this is also good on the wallet too. I've also been consistently going to the gym. Three days a week. Even on days like today when I didn't really feel like it, I just made myself go.

I've always found I have a hard time with making good dinners. By the time I get home I'm already hungry so I make something quick and easy. So now I'm trying making things in quantities that I can freeze. Last week I made a delicious stew and put a few helpings in the freezer. Then yesterday I had the day off so I made a big lunch so I could take the rest for lunch today. This morning I pulled a container of stew out of the freezer and heated it up after the gym for dinner, then the rest I can take for lunch tomorrow. So far this seems to be working. Although I still have a weekness for chips, but I'm just eating smaller quantities when I am really wanting them and have found a couple healthy but good snack alternatives.

For a while now I been thinking about doing some volunteer work. After adopting a family Christmas and seeing how good it felt I decided helping out should be something I should do more often.

Last week I contacted a woman at a nursing home and set up an appointment for today. So I went and met her this morning and filled out a form and she gave me a tour of the facility. I'm going to start out this month one morning a week helping with activities they have in the mornings. Then next month I will do that as well as individual visits with residents.

I'm really looking forward to helping people out and doing some good.

Wow, I can't believe it has been a month already. A month without dad. The month has gone by in a blink of an eye. It has been a hard month and has yet to begin to get any easier. I'm thankful for the support of family and friends. We made it through the holidays, though they were pretty quiet. Not a day goes by without thinking about dad, or talking about him in some way. There are the funny stories and the sad moments. Each moment is hard in its own way. I know that we will get by in the end but it is going to be a long hard road to get to a peaceful place.

Last time I checked I lived on the wet coast not the white coast. We have had so much snow leading up to the holidays, through the holidays and this week. I couldn't even tell you the last time I saw the grass. Last night it was snowing like crazy again and we still have snowfall warnings. I'm done with. It looked pretty and was nice to have a white Christmas. But normally we get rain, lots of rain and if it snows usually the next day it rains and washes it all away. We haven't got that yet. I'm tired of driving it in, trying to walk through parking lots that are sheets of ice. Even though I don't like the rain, I'd happily take a day or two of it to get rid of all this white stuff.