Make Your Own Luck - March 2025 W.I.S.H. Thread

[Summer2018]

The week really got away from me. I was able to read your posts but I was too busy or tired to post myself.

There was a lot of staffing drama. My para has terrible attendance...can't seem to put in a full week of work, and lately has been very up and down with her moods. She was out on Thursday, and the sub that came in for her was basically a ray of sunshine. Without even realizing it, I started interviewing her for my para's position (definitely not in my job description lol). By the afternoon, my colleague who shares my para with me and I had a meeting with the principal to see what we could do. She would like to reassign or totally get rid of our para, but they work for a temp agency and it's a whole thing. Friday, the one I want came in thinking she was supposed to cover my para and my para came in too. So that was crazy trying to keep them away from each other. It's still not resolved, so who knows what will happen on Monday...

I lost another pound totaling 8 pounds since Valentine's Day! I've increased my steps and have definitely been eating healthier.

 

[PollyannaMom]

Happy Saturday!!! Heading to the SPCA so I have our 4 legged friends on the brain . Here’s a fun quiz about animals!!!

https://www.buzzfeed.com/lady_emerald/guess-favorite-animal-quiz

No shock to anyone, I got

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I also got dog, but I'm actually a cat person. (A couple of the questions were toss-ups for me, though - too many choices )

 

[Summer2018]

100% accurate

 

[Summer2018]

Yesterday we started our Resistance Garden. We planted lettuce, spinach, and carrot seeds. We will buy tomato plants later on. We also started Zinnias and Dahlias.

That time we were outside was fun, but my nose started running and last night was like having a bad cold. I didn’t realize that allergy season started this early when everything is still brown. I was wrong. I will have to start masking outside and keeping my classroom windows closed.

 

[Summer2018]

New England boiled dinner in honor of St. Patrick’s Day. DH is the only one who has the cabbage.

 

[PAsFab5]

Happy Sunday!!! I am so sorry I am late on this we had a birthday lunch for our oldest son after church and our family just left!!!

I hope everyone got in some self care today!! I will be doing some treadmill walking to get my steps in as my self care!

 

[Summer2018]

MOTIVATION MONDAY
I love the title of this thread: Make your own luck.
What does that mean to you?

 

[Summer2018]

 

[Oneanne]

I changed up my plans for the weekend… yesterday I went antiquing in Poulsbo which is now only 20 minutes away not an hour plus. Which is great because this morning I went back to get a mirror I saw, which is perfect above the fireplace. I told myself I would get the buffet out of the box this weekend and am happy to say I did that and put it together up until putting the doors on. I did a bunch of other little decor settling in things and am feeling pretty proud of myself. Sometimes getting stuff done can be the best self care.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I love the title of this thread: Make your own luck.
What does that mean to you?

For me, I think one way is anticipating what I might need and putting that in place when I have the time and energy, so I'm "lucky" it's there when things are more stressful or busy.

Another way is setting up my environment to work with the things I want to accomplish, not against them, so I'm not always draining willpower.

 

[Oneanne]

What does Luck mean to me... a form of blessing, a gift? I know there's the popular saying that we make our own luck and I do believe that is true, but I also believe in magic and that sometimes the Universe says " here, I created this sweet sparkly thing just for you".

I needed to get cat food, so made a trip to Safeway this morning before it became a feline crisis (I have plenty of the kind they don't like but didn't feel like going thru that struggle), and getting out of the house and seeing the town wake up gives a difference vibe to entering the day. Sunrise is now at 7:28am, so I'll start getting out of bed earlier so I can take a quick morning walk.

I made a lot of progress with the apartment over the weekend, and having been in it a couple weeks now it is starting to feel like mine. Now I need to get out and meet some people. I have some knitting I'm working on that I can take to knit night Wednesday, it will feel good to sit and chat with other people.

 

[Summer2018]

For me, making my own luck is being proactive…setting myself up for success. I have done that exact thing for about a month and it’s the first success I’ve had in almost a year. My head is back in the game. I’m no longer heartbroken and depressed so it’s easier for me to take the necessary steps to lose weight and be healthier. When I was in the depths of grief, I honestly didn’t care.

 

[Summer2018]

TOPIC TUESDAY

 

[Oneanne]

A timely topic for me. Looking back, I don't consider myself a fighter or that I've had to fight my way thru life, I'm generally pretty fluid and can adjust easily. and find a different way. But things are shifting at work in ways that I think I am going to have to fight my way thru. It is mostly related to the recent re-org and the way the people around me are dealing with it... someone close is reverting to old ways of working where she can find some comfort. But she doesn't seem to be aware of this choice or the impact it is having on those around her. She also gets hard and can even be mean when she's uncomfortable so getting her to see what is going on is going to be a battle. But I'm trying to be thoughtful and pick my way thru carefully.

 

[Summer2018]

I have always had to fight for everything. Life is so hard. Absolutely nothing has come easy. If something does, I don’t trust it. Remarkably I’m still a cheerful person. I guess that’s just my personality. I tend to crack jokes during the darkest of times.

I always tell my students, “You can do hard things. Don’t give up. Keep fighting.” Right now I’m in the fight for my life. I need to get this weight off once and for all. If not now, when? So, I will follow my own advice.

I will do hard things. I will not give up. I will keep on fighting until I get what I want.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I don't consider myself a fighter or that I've had to fight my way thru life, I'm generally pretty fluid and can adjust easily. and find a different way.

Me neither. I'm more of a "work around the problem" than a "fight my way through the problem" kind of person.

 

[Summer2018]

 

[Oneanne]

Woohoo... had a good conversation with a co-worker yesterday to clear the air and get things back on track.

Woohoo... I finally walked "into town" yesterday: the return trip is moderately uphill the entire way which is going to take a while to get used to, but when I no longer get winded I'll know I've made progress in my conditioning. Bonus woohoo... enroute I discovered a little Bistro with a very interesting menu, driving by it isn't obvious that that spot is a restaurant. And bonus-bonus woohoo... on my walk I picked up a salad at the grocery store for dinner.

Woohoo... I swapped quilts on my bed last night and that + the exercise my legs got + the veggies in my belly = sleeping well last night.

Woohoo... Sunday my Niece, Sister and I are taking the ferry up to Victoria for a quick overnight girls-trip. This has been planned since Christmas, thankfully Canada is still letting Americans in. I'm driving to my Neice's and then we'll drive to the ferry from there. It'll be my first time back in my old town and the new tenant will have just moved into my old house, so probably lots of emotions.

 

[piglet1979]

I have had a very long rough few weeks. I am not sure if I mentioned but I (as well as the doctors) thought I had appendicitis a few weeks ago. Everything came back normal so the only answer they have is it was either a virus or something from the antibiotic I was on and just finished. The pain is finally gone only in time from my DD to get a migraine. It started Sunday night and nothing was helping. We ended up in the ER yesterday and nothing work for it. They transported her to the children's hospital and admitted her. We are still here now. Good news is that all test are normal and it is just a very stubborn migraine. They still can't get it to come down. The are now doing another round of the migraine cocktail. Once they get the migraine to a manageable level we will be able to go home. So fingers crossed that this round will work. I am really trying to be optimistic but it is hard. She was at an 8 on the pain scale yesterday morning and then got down to a 6 and now it is back up to an 8.

In good news I haven't had to miss any work as I have been able to work while sitting in the ER and now in her hospital room. We got lucky (this can be my woohoo for today) and they didn't have any beds on the regular floor so they put us on the oncology floor which has immunocompromised kids. With DD's low antibodies this worked out well. Things are more clean up here, they have super hepa filters, she gets her own room and bathroom and everyone is super nice. She even gets to choose the color of her lights. That is driving me nuts. Thankfully she has kept it with a light purple. So not too bad

 

[Summer2018]

WOO HOO! My new para is working out so well. She is truly a ray of sunshine. It all worked out so serendipitously.

WOO HOO! My principal isn’t retiring until the end of the next school year, so I have one more year with her, thank God.