Continuing to write

I will go back to blogging more and have set up a blogging app to use now.

Another week of work ahead of me.

I am working this week as usual in my office job.

Another week of work ahead.

I am getting ready to shave for the day and brush my teeth. I won't shower.

Focusing on self care and recovery this weekend.

I am needing to take a break from work which I did taking some time off last week. I also took time off my volunteer job this weekend. I do emotional support volunteering on call and responding to police and other emergencies as a volunteer supporter of victims. This weekend I won't do that as I need a break to do recovery studies and enjoy the sunny weather.

We had a brief vacation in the country.

I walked 10 KM on back country gravel roads as the sun went down. I also moved firewood around a wood shed. I have more vacation time but have not used it yet.

Playing a cell phone GPS game in the park.

I spent some time sitting in a sunny park with my back to a tree, reading work documents and playing a cell phone game.

Recovery work for me is a lot of reading.

Besides self help meetings which I attend, reading books is a main source of recovery for me.

Writing about work online

Work especially full time work occupies a lot of my thinking. Also I work with legally confidential material. Also, if I start writing publicly like on this blog about coworkers or bosses I would be inviting trouble. So the dilemma, in that, I want to write this blog about my recovery, but a large part of writing is thinking and a large part of my thinking these days is about work.

I managed to shave again today.

I have trouble with personal grooming and good self care.

Cleaning on Sunday

I learned that everything in one's house needs a place to belong. Otherwise it will get left out and be a mess. I am stacking books into alike subject piles, so the books can be returned to the subject shelves they came from in my home office.

Sleepless nights.

My largest problem has been getting to sleep every night. Instead I stay up long hours and sleep long hours.

Working daily

Luckily I finished university eventually and got a job in my field. One sentence I just wrote that actually took years of struggle. I work every weekday at an office job.

1 year old blog and daily blogging.

This blog is 1 year old now. I used to keep a daily blog from 2003 to 2008 with a major mental health web site. I really enjoyed daily blogging. I think near the end of that blog I was exposing perhaps too much personal details about my workplace. My workplace and having a job matters a great deal to my story of recovery but not the details of my work. I could have a different job with a similar recovery journey. I hope to blog more now daily again.