Part 4 of civilian life: working

I have multiple internships and a job. One of my internships is 40 hours a week the others are up to 35 hours in a given week my job is 4-10 a week and my ministry and the Council has taken up over 200 hours since graduation. I also have done numerous blog posts, exercising, yoga, dance, other various learning things and being with friends. The work has not cramped my style but I thought I would have more time for music, movies, coffee, drinking tea and beer, eating ice cream, traveling a ton and being a light for others while having a ton of free days. I thought wrong. While I have done some things more that I have wanted to do like activism and like trying out most of the coffee shops and listening to some workshops the truth is that I am working real hard to create a valuable life for myself. I am not the same person as I was prior to graduation nor am I the same person I was two years ago while living with a roommate. Being on your own changes things. It makes yourself more self-reliant and more dependent on making yourself the boss of your own schedule and the boss of your own time. The work I have done has all fallen into place and the internships have piled up but I am grateful that I can choose whatever comes first for a job between Special Olympics and Barrier Free Idaho next summer. I continue to surprise myself with my challenging and demanding but doable workload and the self-direction work of hiking and gear making and other learning has been time consuming but rewarding. I feel the best when I work hard and when I have things to do and my love and zest for life and hard work is something that my old man instilled in me as well as my Mom and Stepmom working hard never ceases to exist and I work hard for others to learn how to do so themselves. Like telling my story for those who can't themselves I am a Bottdozer of challenges and imperative deliberation of hope striking down anything that threatens discord in its way. I feel the assumption that I am lazy because I am on Social Security and Special Needs Plan to be ruthlessly demeaning and I continue to use it as fuel to certainly create a better lesson in furthering my hard work and vitriol to make myself learn better, move harder, and become a more seasoned and more enlightened human doing all the while fueling myself to work as hard as I can doing as much as I can. Of all the parts of civilian life this is the one I am most proud of. Hard work has gotten me to the point where I am today and as I continue to work hard and gain appreciation for others my continual impressive streak of learning and being not complacent and willing to get better is my favorite part of this continual spiral of producing hard work and being even more productive in life which is wonderful. Stay tuned for the next three blogs which are the series of top 10s of 2018: top 10 social avenues, top 10 object lessons, and top 10 trips and achievements (5 trips and 5 achievements in 2018)

Part 3 of civilian life: exercising my body and my mouth

There is no shortage of ways that I have exercised in the past year. From frequent hikes year-round from January to now, from rafting, floating, dancing, lots of walking, classes for my not so common core, biking and triking, power workouts, yoga, pilates, Tai Chi fit, and other types of workout classes and types of workouts I have been in tip-top physical shape and have kept my weight around the 210 mark or under all year I also feel so much better having the ability to walk downtown close to where I live as that has helped my anxiety and depression stay in remission most of the year and that has been an incredible feat of tenacity, valor, physical ability, eating relatively well, doing a better job of avoiding gluten and dairy, reading, journaling, and friend time. My exercise routine which includes power workouts and all other kinds of exercise classes and ideas for continuing to work out my body including a couple of intimate partners make this year my healthiest year yet and the essential oils, massage, acupuncture, chiropractor, therapy, manicures, and vitamins are some of the other things for my body that have continued to make this year the healthiest yet. Besides I feel like I am continuing to fill myself with edifying friendships which make me feel like I am doing well socially and that has been an inevitable feeling despite my college ending last year and my art has kept my body well. That is the way of feeling well with my body it is not only about gym time but all other time that has kept me moving and doing well. My mouth is something that I use a lot too. I am opinionated and fully sarcastic and I am someone who is constantly having an idea that needs to be shared. My wisdom is what comes out of it the most unless you are a hipster friend of mine and then you get some kind words and a lot of bullchitting. My mouth is mostly on fire on social media with my Instagram puns, my Facebook silliness and weird comments and my blogging about my life and my overall ideas of what I should say with whatever I need to say. I am someone who doesn't shy from controversy on the council or at work or other areas and am not afraid to talk about my personal life or until this year for a long time lack of it. I am blunt and someone who isn't afraid to say what is on my mind. I even use my mouth for protests regularly and am not afraid to not only say what is on my mind but say it emphatically. I feel like the body is the most zen it has ever been and the most even keel but my mouth is the most controversial it's ever been. When I was a teenager my sister would tell me to watch what I say and I think that I should've taken heed to that. I am someone who while being opinionated and not caring what people think have also used my mouth to chair meetings and be professional, lead policy making sessions and do thing persuasively, continue to advocate and even make news a few times this year, continue to share my story and read in church services and use my mouth to say what I need to say and continue to learn why I do what I need to do and sometimes say kind things to people when they need to hear them and be kind of saccharine and polite to others when they need to have someone take their life to a much kinder, gentler place. I am proud of my mouth being the way that it is and I am genuinely a caring person with a great mind. The evolution of my mouth is at the point where it is serious 35% of the time unless I am with my close friends then it goes down 33%. I feel at peace and at home with people in my life and my mouth is politically charged but knows when to put that part away. In short, my body and my mouth are two of my biggest assets I have and I can't wait to put them in real use next year even more because I feel so much more prepared to make it go exceptionally well for everyone.