Daily Log - New Blog

Good morning Everyone!

I mentioned yesterday that last week was hard–it was. Not the
hardest I’ve endured or anything like that but several things came
together because of it. One in particular was a comment I read on Suzanne McMinn’s blog(I was back reading)– “What would you do with your life if you were writing yourself as a character in one of your books?”

Oh man… this hit me hard. I mean I used to live life like that. I
have lost several dear people in my life and realized the importance of
living in the here and now… of taking chances and going for it. But
somehow… I don’t know, that turned into a USED TO concept. So what
would I do if I was writing me? Um, get in shape, take care of myself,
have a garden again, take pictures again, cook the way I like, take
time to knit…. the list went on. I do not under any circumstances want
you all to think I have a bad life - its great. But is it being lived
the way I want it? The answer came loud and clear. And I decided it was
time for some changes. Some will be subtle, some are bigger. Like the
cooking… that will NOT be subtle if you ask my family. I love to cook.
Well used to. My family is extremely picky and over time my desire to
cook for them dwindled my love for cooking to the point I hated it.
Resented it and gave up. Frozen food, canned food, whatever… not
homemade yummy food in any case. But you know what? I miss it. I know
that at one point in my life when I was much younger and very
impressionable, I’d been criticized for my answer of ‘Why do you
cook?’—I responded, ‘Because I like to’. That was the wrong answer to
that person. I was basically told that was a selfish way to look at
things and that I should be cooking for others.

Okay I did that for years and could not make everyone happy. There is a basic flaw with this theory of ‘Do things for others to make them happy‘.
I’m not saying its not a good concept and that it doesn’t apply to many
things. I think it does and should be considered by more people
worldwide–wars might not be so prevalent. But there is a fine line
between it being a gift of giving to someone, to being a one way ticket
to resentful martardom. Without realizing it I have been heading down
that very path.

So yes, I will cook the boring ten times over processed hotdog for
the family but for me, I’m cooking something nutricious and full of
unique flavors. And I’m turning a deaf ear to the, “Eeeeewwwww, your
not really going to eat that are you?” Oh yeah I am. And I’m going to
love every minute of it.

On other things like the pictures, I used to want to be a
photographer, took the classes at college and made prints the old
fashion way… I still do in the back recesses of my mind but I love
writing a bit more I’d say. I stopped taking pictures here over time
because I was the one responsible for tagging all the thousands of
photos, organizing them, placing them in photo albums… that no one EVER
looked at. That got old and finally I just said as I did with the
baking, not doing it. You want a photo, you take it, you date it, you
organize it. Which of course didn’t happen. And the truth is, I miss
taking the photos, of seeing them ect… Last week it occurred to me
while wasting time to get in another docter appointment for my youngest
at Target, that I could take pictures again. I could store them on
those itty bitty disks, slip them in a photo frame and never have to
touch a print to date again. Except of course the ones I wanted to for
specific reasons! It was a cool revelation to me. And excited me. My
hubby isn’t too excited but then he’s not a gadget geek like me.
Figure he’ll like it once we get one and its running. He might change
his mind then. In any case, I reminded him he was free to print as many
out that he wanted, but he was responsible for dating them and organizing them and so forth. Like that is ever going to happen. LOL.

Well, I’m not going to list all the things I’m altering, big or
small, I just wanted to give you some examples. Some you will notice
throughout time, others only if you know me well. One of the things I did was join the South Beach diet officially. I won’t go into all the reasons for choosing this one right now(the post has gotten long enough)
but I created a journal to go with it. The South Beach diet site has a
journal but you can’t interact with other members. You can’t comment
ect… And I had other things I wanted to keep track of as well, thus my NEW BLOG called Daily Log.
I’m going to keep a link for this site on my sidebar for those who are
interested–you are all invited to stop on by and say hello. Just to let
you know an extra you’ll find over there — I am posting recipes that I
like over there and they are archived in an easy to access page.

As for this blog, I love to write, I’m going to still post Monday
through Friday and yak about anything that occurs to me. I might add a
few things, like patterns I like, or daily photos, or well, you get the
idea. You’ll just have to wait and see.

Well, here’s to living life as you’d write it!

Cole

Nicole Reising
www.nicolereising.com
www.nicolereising.com/blog

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