It’s been a whirlwind of a day already.

We got up this morning, started laundry, shredded papers, and cleaned a bit (though not enough).

We went to meet one of the lay leaders of the local Unitarian-Universalist church down the road for a bit. I still haven’t made up my mind officially, but we might start heading over there on Sundays starting next week. I have enough going on this week and I’m not really interested in the “political” topic they have planned for tomorrow. Don’t really want to start out on that particular foot. It would seem they have a small but growing “pagan” (or “Earth-Centered Spirituality”) group there. Apparently it is more social oriented than “ritual practice” oriented, but that’s fine by me. If I wanted to get naked and howl at the moon, I would find me a sex/wine/women cult and go there. (Wait. I just resigned from the Order. My bad.) So we’ll see. The kid’s materials are looking good already and generic enough to not stick in my throat. Just really basic values and ethics (virtues) that could be seen as general humanity toward others. I’m okay with that. He needs more of that around him anyway.

We stopped and had lunch at Souper Salad and then came home to a bit of conflict that we resolved with a tenuous truce and some “go to our own corner” type therapy for an hour or so. Like many things, a bit of quiet solves many things and a quiet, invisible voice from around the corner in the hall just asked me a bit ago if he could help me sort through the boxes I am going to work on this evening and get the stuff moved around. I did, of course, accept such a generous offer from such a polite young man. I, in turn, offered to make Ramon Noodles for dinner since I know that some nights that’s just his favorite thing in the world next to ice cream. All things all better now.

In other news, the doctor and I agreed to up his dosage on his medication a bit to see if that would help. The school and I agree that this year is a bit rough. However, I think we were all willing to suggest that the previous situation with his mother and me was at least mostly responsible. I’m not so sure now and think maybe we allowed that situation to overshadow a bubbling issue with him growing up, getting bigger, and the medication just not being enough. We’ll see though. We just started the new dosage today, so it’s going to take a week or so to see if there’s any results.

Otherwise, he’s fit as a fiddle and I’m only 2 pounds away from my first weight loss milestone. In less than two months, I’ve lost over 20 pounds by nothing more than changing my eating habits and walking the dog (and mind-crushing, soul-warping emotional trauma, but who’s being picky about the details!?). Starting mid-November (*crossing fingers here for determination and dedication*) I will be hitting a regular routine to drop the last 25-30 pounds in body fat and/or pumping up the muscle replacement. But I don’t have a new goal set quite yet. One step at a time, one goal at a time, with no expectations of success or failure, just keep pressing on for better physical health, better looks (for my vanity sake), better emotional/mental health, and better outlook on life. It’s coming together nicely already into a total package of which I can be proud to share with someone who can appreciate it in return someday.

But, now I need to go jump some hoops in my office and get things torn apart so that I can trash some things and put other things up while I still have light. I forgot to buy light bulbs the other day and my office lamp seems to like eating them (sometimes literally as the glass on my floor last night showed). So it’s daylight work or hunt and peck at night. And the nights should be reserved for other things with other people and I’d like to get in the habit of reserving that time. Maybe someday I’ll have someone to share that time with that isn’t interested in Pokemon and Ben 10. Until then—WooHoo!—let’s sort some books!

bishop out!