MUST DO YOGA!

OMG this is good shit. Once things calm down, I intend to ramp up the focus on my yoga practice - it's better than cheese. I've found a new studio that has a great energy - I left after class Monday night feeling lighter than a cloud. The instructor read the following piece at the end of the class I attended on Monday which almost had me in tears....

Anyway

People are often unreasonable,
Illogical, and self-centered:
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind,
People may accuse you of having selfish,
ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful,
You will win some false friends
and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank,
People may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building,
Someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness,
They may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today,
People will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have,
And it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis,
It is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.

Still here....

Thanks all for your concern. I'm sorry that I haven't posted in like forever.... just way too much going on. And while I'm apologizing... this is just going to be a short post on the fly to give you a sense of what's going on with me and where I'm at.... I'm afraid I just don't have the time or the energy for anything else. And last apology... please ignore the grammar or lack thereof....

Anyway... better news first...

1. I FREAKING DID IT! NOVEMBER 7TH MARKED MY ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY SINCE QUITTING SMOKING. This is not only huge, it is some kind of a miracle given everything else that I am trying to cope with (in some cases not all that successfully).

2. To say that I am busy at work would be an understatement. EVERYTHING WAS DUE YESTERDAY. And I am not getting a thing done other than the very next most important thing. The lawyers that I work with are similarly stressed and pressured... all of the deadlines are moving targets.... priorities are constantly shifting. (I must be in a good mood this morning because I want to write really hateful things about the lawyers but I keep erasing it on the notion that they are just human and not evil monsters whose sole purpose in life is to make my life miserable... if only I were that important to them... get a grip Scott).

3. The Convention to elect the new leader of the federal Liberal Party is only three weeks away and the candidate that I am working for, is now recognized as one of the top contenders. VERY EXCITING. I wish I had the time to write more about this but then if I did, I would need to be in the office working on the campaign.... (I trust that the type of people who read my blog are thrilled with the results in the recent mid-terms elections in the U.S. )

Now the not so good news....

I am dancing as fast as I can and in so doing, my inner demons have all escaped and are wreaking havoc all over the place in my life... there isn't enough food to keep me happy at the moment and I can feel myself gaining weight daily (where are my Pringles damnit!) .... I'm still working out... but not enough.... and in the few moments that I do snatch for myself I'm spending money that I don't have gambling... For somebody who considers himself to be an intellectual, I'm quite often not very bright. Making matters worse, I got up my nerve to try dating and the first guy I actually met turned out to be a jerk(another story for another day).

So all in all, this is my life. Some good, some not so good. But I'm still here. I have no idea what the future holds for this blog.

I'll try to post something more coherent sometime soon but I can't promise anything until after the convention at the end of November.

Scott