Step Away From the Cake

I was going to write about my financial situation when I realized that I had been doing that somewhere else. So I deleted it. Then  I thought I'd write about my workouts, but there have been none. Then I thought I could write about all the exciting stuff I've been doing. Nada.....So what to say. I feel like writing, maybe I'll just do a little stream of consciousness. Overall, things are good with me. I am meditating and I cannot believe the difference that simple act is making in my life. I don't get angry, I'm happy more than not, it's crazy. I love the feeling of calmness that I seem to carry all the time now and I love that things don't throw me. Just had a pretty big upset with the finances and I didn't get crazy. I didn't come up with any wild plans to fix it. I just realized what the problems where and how I have to deal with it. Easy, simple, no stress. So that is great. Haven't been working out though I want to. No real reason exc

I love to play games. Especially simulation games on the computer. I was a huge Farmville fan back in the day. Then I primarily stuck to card games and mahjong and things like that. Well, a couple of months (weeks???) ago, I discovered a game called Klondike. It is super fun. You have to clear your land and build things. Raise animals and crops. Explore other lands and perform tasks. I really, really like it. But I have a tendency to get sucked into it to the exclusion of all other things. It happened yesterday. Every week they release a new 'expedition' or adventure that you have to complete in a limited amount of time. Sometimes the open up a temporary land and you have to complete certain things in a time frame. The temporary lands are usually impossible for me. I'm not at a very high level yet and so things take me lots of time and I don't have a lot of energy. The tasks on these temporary islands usually require lots and lots of energy. It's easy to ignore thos