New Project.

Even though I haven't posted in almost a month, I've still been busy.  Nothing has been 100% completed but there is much 50%+ completion of various projects as well as a super secret project almost done.  Today I am at home as one of the kids has been sick this week.  My partner worked from home for the last two days but really needed to go in to his office today, so it's my turn.  I'll go to work tomorrow and then I'm on holiday for a week!  I created an incredibly large list of tasks I want/need to get through today.  Currently it is 11am and I've managed one.  I'm good like that.

Seriously, though, looking around my house right now everything is a mess.  I've had little inclination to tidy or clean anything in recent months.  Years of trying and having it go right back to messy have beaten me down it seems - and I have no desire to go back there.  The only reason I'm at all contemplating tidying anything is because we are having a small birthday party/sleepover here tomorrow night.  Yay.  At the same time I am deathly tired of looking at constant mess and clutter, fed up with repeating myself to the appropriate person/people about tidying up this or that mess of their own creating.  They listen to me not and I have really given up and gone to live in my own little bubble in which exists only knitting, tv and internet ***** with the occasional meal cooked and load of washing done.  I feel like crap most of the time and don't like it.  Today I'm having a small glimpse of what putting in some effort to tidy things up might do for that.  My head is keen but my body not so.  All this is my long winded way of introducing  a kind of self-improvement project.  But wait!  There's more...

Last year I discovered a way of eating that impacted greatly on the way I feel physically, mentally and emotionally.  I started out as low carb (eg Atkins), moved on to primal (Mark Sisson) then to more paleo (Robb Wolf) ways of eating.  I'm not going to explain the differences in each one - if anyone is actually reading this, Google can supply all the information if you search under each of the names in brackets.  I have since drifted off track and am going to try and proceed to bore anyone who dares stop by in the next 30 days or so with detailed lists of what I eat and what physical exercise I partake in.  I'm not doing this as a weight loss exercise.  It's purely about me feeling better.  If I feel like it I might even try explaining some of what I've learnt in the last 18 months to get me to where I am today.  Lots of reading and listening to podcasts means information overload in some respects.  And a fair bit of confusion at times.  So, it's back to a Paleo-esque lifestyle for me in an effort to beat the winter blues.....