Free Your Cells

When I talk about wasting a lot of time playing solitaire, it's only half the story. Really, it's my own form of meditation. I map out my days. I think about things that are bothering me. I plan my world. I try different approaches for solving the same problem (the game objective). 

What I learned from Solitaire ... PAY ATTENTION to the DIRECTIONS. 

If you don't have a clear plan, you just start flinging cards about in different directions, and you waste copious amounts of time. (Life imitating art?) If you had looked ahead, first, you'd know where you're headed and move those cards in different ways that get you to the finish line much, much quicker. 

Another more hidden revelation - I don't just play solitaire for solitaire's sake. The Microsoft version has these daily "events," where you go head-to-head with other anonymous beans to see who gets the "event" done the quickest. If there's no challenge, I really don't want to do it. If there's not a competition, or a score to beat, or points to earn, then it bores me. 

Kind of like life, if there's nothing to work towards, what's the point? 

I mostly play the slow game when it comes to my actual life, but I have several different goals I'm working at. I don't talk about them a lot, but they're there. 

It's been a busy week, and an equally busy day today, so I'm getting a late finish to this post. 

Nothing much exciting going on. I did purchase some window decals to help prevent bird + window meetups. Today, another one crashed into the window behind my desk. I am assuming it flew away because I immediately went out on the deck and saw nothing, but still, others probably haven't been so lucky. A poor lil Junco crashed and burned into the snow in the front yard, probably by similar fate - meeting up with our picture window in the living room. I hope it was quick. Poor lil thing was head down in the snow, the rest of it sticking straight up. :/ 

Oh, yeah ... 

Results from the blood panel taken Monday: 

Cholesterol: High. All kinds. 

Vitamin D: Severely deficient. Quelle surprise - I work at home and get very little natural vitamin D, and don't take supplementation. Until today. I'm pretty sure he said to take 5,000 IUs, but I'm starting out with 1,000. Which, in turn, may help the cholesterol get back under control WITHOUT the statins, which would affect the absorption of the vitamin D. See? It's just a vicious cycle of fuck yous ... Back and forth, up and down - bullshit. 

Not sure why, but I don't think they tested anything else. I guess I'll have to be a bit more loud when I ask them to do so next time? Or maybe these tests are just coming in sporadically. Who knows? 

Regardless, no other issues detected at the current time. We'll see if more results arrive next week. 

For now, getting more fiber, and maybe incorporating more vegetation, and taking the vitamin D, and maybe the magnesium, if I remember to do so. 

It's all good. 

Off I go to get back to work. It's a bit insane. 

Happy Weekending!