Not only did I manage to wake up after three 9-minute snoozes ONLY (usually I end up snoozing for an hour or more), do some yoga AND meditate for 20 minutes, but I'm also going to a meditation class today, and I just signed up for a six-week Tai Chi and Qi-Gong course! I'm looking into belly dancing classes as well, and might take up a pole dancing class with a uni friend.
I've just become such a hermit lately... And my life has stagnated, so I just need to force myself out to do things, especially things that aren't alcohol-related. I partly feel like ending my hermitry (is that a word?), but I know meeting up with most of my friends will involve going out and drinking. Which takes up so much money and time, and doesn't improve my moods much. After not drinking for one week when I was on Holiday in Sweden, I realised how much more stable I feel without alcohol. Not saying I'm giving it up for good, I just want to reduce the number of situations in which I drink.
And as for being a hermit, well, I still feel like being alone most of the time, but lately I've started feeling somewhat guilty about that, or suspecting that it's becoming an unhealthy habit, hence taking up new hobbies that will force me to *gulp* socialise with strangers.
So that's basically what's happening in my life. As for my love life, I'm giving that a rest too. I've professed my love for being single for the past half year, but I recently realised that I haven't been SINGLE single for that whole period of time. Even though I've remained unattached, there's always been some handsome monsieur to occupy my thoughts. From my animal Swedish ex, to the 37 year old separated-but-still-living-with-wife-and-kids South African, to the Iranian Swede that I fell hard and intensely for (first kiss at a bluelight meetup, spent the rest of the week together, flew to Gothenburg to visit him a couple of weeks later, realised that our personalities were quite incompatible) to L, the cute customer who had been asking me out for ages, which I finally agreed to, and ended up exploring watersports fetishes with on the first date(!). I'm still sort of seeing L, but I suspect his interest for me has dwindled, strangely enough, since he seemed so keen. The only reason I can think of is that I told him that under no circumstances do I want to get serious with anyone, while he did want to get serious with me... That, and that the inklings he got about my sexual past intimidated him a little bit. He's a really nice guy, but I think I'm ready to be just SINGLE single for now. Almost celibate, even.
Although I do intend to take things further with the hottie that I got a new year's kiss from. So that kind of contradicts what I just said. Hm. But that technically doesn't count because it's "unfinished business". I can't leave things half done now can I?
I've just become such a hermit lately... And my life has stagnated, so I just need to force myself out to do things, especially things that aren't alcohol-related. I partly feel like ending my hermitry (is that a word?), but I know meeting up with most of my friends will involve going out and drinking. Which takes up so much money and time, and doesn't improve my moods much. After not drinking for one week when I was on Holiday in Sweden, I realised how much more stable I feel without alcohol. Not saying I'm giving it up for good, I just want to reduce the number of situations in which I drink.
And as for being a hermit, well, I still feel like being alone most of the time, but lately I've started feeling somewhat guilty about that, or suspecting that it's becoming an unhealthy habit, hence taking up new hobbies that will force me to *gulp* socialise with strangers.
So that's basically what's happening in my life. As for my love life, I'm giving that a rest too. I've professed my love for being single for the past half year, but I recently realised that I haven't been SINGLE single for that whole period of time. Even though I've remained unattached, there's always been some handsome monsieur to occupy my thoughts. From my animal Swedish ex, to the 37 year old separated-but-still-living-with-wife-and-kids South African, to the Iranian Swede that I fell hard and intensely for (first kiss at a bluelight meetup, spent the rest of the week together, flew to Gothenburg to visit him a couple of weeks later, realised that our personalities were quite incompatible) to L, the cute customer who had been asking me out for ages, which I finally agreed to, and ended up exploring watersports fetishes with on the first date(!). I'm still sort of seeing L, but I suspect his interest for me has dwindled, strangely enough, since he seemed so keen. The only reason I can think of is that I told him that under no circumstances do I want to get serious with anyone, while he did want to get serious with me... That, and that the inklings he got about my sexual past intimidated him a little bit. He's a really nice guy, but I think I'm ready to be just SINGLE single for now. Almost celibate, even.
Although I do intend to take things further with the hottie that I got a new year's kiss from. So that kind of contradicts what I just said. Hm. But that technically doesn't count because it's "unfinished business". I can't leave things half done now can I?