Busy in a Healthy Way

I have been very busy working on my goal to find my passion. I have created a second blog site called Robot Passion. The first blog for that has been posted. I was elected Secretary of Riverside Robotics Society. As such, I take minutes for the meetings, I am assisting with monitoring the charter that was created by the previous secretary, I have been encouraged to write blog about robots and I still function as a liason whenever needed. I have invited members of several Linkedin groups to read and leave a comment on the blog site. I look forward to reading everyone's comments. If you would like to read it, go to http://robotpassion.blogspot.com/ and do. not forget to comment of the blog site. I accepted a position to teach algebra 2 at a local homeschool tutorial center. I have only one student and this is good because it gives me an opportunity to refresh my own knowledge about the subject. I have not tutored algebra 2 in the past. I am getting into the swing of things. I am utilizing all of the wonderful resources that I can find online. MOOCs are awesome! My son's basketball coach asked me to make cold calls to acquire advertisement in their March Gladness tournament magazine. I really feel like I dropped the ball on that one, because I did not realize that the due date to get orders in was coming up so quickly and I did not get even one call done. During the time I was preoccupied trying to get my son enrolled into junior college, plus he tore a ligament on his left ankle. And because I am still his learning coach, I have to inspire him to bring his GPA from a 3.40 to a 4.00 by the end of sophmore year. I actually have been leaving the house almost everyday to take care of one thing or another, but it is all for healthy reasons. Since taking meat out of my diet and increasing fruits, vegetables, and teas I actually have the energy to get through these busy days without feeling sick or fatigued like I was before. The change in diet has made a big change in my physical stamina and emotional outlook. I am trying to be true to myself by including forms of exercise that I look forward to and not forms of exercise that other people insist that must do. So far, I like walking, but that is about it. I danced one day to for about an hour to heavy metal music. I included a lot of stretching exercises that I have learned over the years, and some aerobic dance moves. That was fun and I lost a lot of weight, but it is really not something that you want to tell people about out loud (ha, ha). For those of you who are laughing at my exploit, try it for yourself. You really end up using a lot of muscles. Ouch! All in all, I have a slightly more optomistic view of life. It is easier to accept somethings that I cannot change, and to get up and do what I must to change things that I feel capable of changing. The change of diet has been instrumental. For a while I forced myself to stick to a oatmeal, fish and vegetable diet. That's it. If it wasn't oatmeal, fish or vegetables, I was not allowed to touch it. Needless to say, while that diet did a lot for me it was short lived. After 2 weeks I had extreme starch and glucose cravings. I lost about 15 pounds in those 2 weeks and was more active than I had been in a really long time. I like the change. The best part is that I think I may have found my passion. I like being a doer. I like getting out in the world (with or without pay) and becoming involved in projects, events, learning and research. I am becoming quite passionate about getting involved and doing.