Done yesterday (20100314 Su)

[mdlbear]

0314 Su
  * up 8->9; W=203.4; drugs, nose, teeth; coffee
  * set clocks forward:  oven, microwave, bathroom, living room, bedroom (both)
  @ Stress Management: Never Get Too Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired, or Scared!
    The Law of Attraction H.A.L.T.S.
  @ Resisting the Time Suck
    haikujaguar: A Short Note About the "Resisting the Time Suck" Article
  # new tag: adventure: changes at work
    Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things!  Make you late for dinner!
  * clutter: almost done with the receipt sorting
  * remind YD to set clocks forward
  * Costco run for folding chairs, etc.
  x take YD to game
  * make dinner
  * to Kaiser for Colleen's drugs
  * 10:30 bath; snuggle
  @ Metaquotes - She calls her craft room her Precious. You just know that 
    nothing good can come of this...
    (from The Wordsmith's Forge - One Stash to Rule Them All)
  * download, unzip the albums from Adam Selzer
  * 11:30ish bed; snuggle; S=6680

Pretty good day, most notable for a flurry of receipt-sorting in the morning, and a Costco run with Colleen in the afternoon. Which ended up costing more than I expected, but that's hardly surprising.

New tag: adventure - for changes at work as $research_project turns into $real_product. Resisting the Time Suck is probably going to become increasingly relevant.

More links, above, on the "HALT" (hungry, angry, lonely, tired) acronym/checklist, in which "scared" is added to make "HALTS". They all say "don't get too...", which doesn't work for me, and probably for most people. By the time I notice that I'm behaving weirdly, if I do, I'm already over that line. The checklist is a good diagnostic tool after that point.

Comments

[phoenixpdx.livejournal.com]

In re: the HALTS thing. I found that collecting the data (i.e, after something went blooey, going back to identify the symptoms and making note of them) made it easier over time to actually (gasp!) identify the pattern BEFORE it happened. Which makes it ever so much easier to intervene next time a little bit sooner.

After something like 15-18 years, I now can identify pretty routinely whether I'm too hungry, too angry, too lonely, too tired or too scared.

Now I'm working on "coming down with something" because that collection of feelings & behaviors is definitely worth catching early. "Crankypants" is a large chunk of identifiable behavior there...

FWIW, YMMV, IANAL, etc etc etc

[mdlbear]

Makes sense. Thanks!