In the heat of the holiday, I didn't bother to count how many chocolate candies I ate while passing out candy to the Trick or Treaters, but I can safely say it was less than I have fingers. And it was after I had a healthy dinner of burger and fries! Oh goodness, don't they say that candy on Halloween has no calories? Tomorrow will be a better day as I am sending all the leftover candy with my husband to his work. On Monday. Will power will have to get me through the next two days.
I also didn't make it back onto the treadmill but I did get dressed and downstairs into the kitchen. I made enough trips to the front door to equal a ten minute trip on the treadmill so I don't feel like I let myself down today. All in all, I think the day went rather well!
Tomorrow I have to go to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo to a Docent meeting and then do my shift in watching an orangutan, Hadiah, and her new baby. We are watching her and taking notes to make sure she is being a good mom and bonding well with her child. Keepers don't know if it is a girl or a boy yet but hopefully soon! Now CMZoo is the United States only mountain zoo, #5 rated in the United States and #13 in the World! I am proud to be a Docent there. There is a lot of walking up hills there to get to both places I have to be, so tomorrow I won't need the treadmill but maybe I will feel up to walking for extra exercise!
Creatively I got my morning pages done and did a little light reading of The Artist's way. I have written down my "blurts", messages of negative reinforcement that pop into my head whenever I try to do something creative. I wrote out some positive reinforcement ten times. "I, Trouble OHara, and a brilliant and prolific multi-media artist." Now they want us to go back in time looking for clues about where my negative blurts come from so I can understand and work to get rid of them. I also did a contract with myself saying that I know this is going to be a 12 week course and I will dedicate an hour a day to the process. And I know it will be a grueling emotional process but I am determined to stick it out.
Today was a good day. Tomorrow will be even better!
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