Lots been happening recently. There’s been a parasitic infection of produce in the region where I live, so we’ve stopped buying salads and greens lately. Also due to wildfire smoke the air quality has been terrible, so unable to run outside which, combined with last weeks heatwave + the initial rest week, means we are now up to 3 weeks without much running.

My weight has been trending upwards again, in part due to these issues and also in part due to it being my birthday this month. As such there’s been several events, and I’ve found it simpler to allow myself to eat more unhealthily.

Additionally, there’s been a lot of change around the fact that I’ve received a job offer! While I’m very excited to be making the leap from Tech Support to System Administrator, I’m also quite nervous about it, plus feeling anxious about leaving the comfort of my current job for a new unknown one. There’s been a lot of snacking and overeating to compensate, I imagine.

All in all, my mood has been very swingy this month. Lots of peaks and valleys, which is interesting departure from typical trends. I identify this as lots of impactful events occurring within a short timespan. I am aware that I take a while to process things, especially change, and so I’m going to allow the feelings to stabilize this month and pick up goals and activities again next month.

I’ve also noticed with the swingy-ness of emotions had emerged an over-reliance on short form content like instagram, and junk media on youtube. I’d like to spend some effort here, today I started the morning abstaining from most online scrolling, and have been spending my day reading. I hope to let this relax the brain and fingers crossed that relaxation may spread to other areas as well.