Leuty Parker

Tag: #life

  • Future Directions

    If you’ve been following my blog (or even seen some posts) you might have understood that I HATE being out of work.

    Aside from lack of income, the main issue was lack of direction. Lack of objective. Most mornings, I’d wake, and think “there’s no reason for me to get out of bed”.

    So, both wishing to make others’ who are in my position’s life’s easier (grammar?), along with something to actually do, I started this blog.

    As well, it has clarified where my priorities are. What I find important. What makes me, me.

    The amount of tumult in spells of posting frequently, to nothing for weeks, helped me realise that this is perhaps, more of a recreation activity.

    BUT…..

  • Routine

    I think I need a routine, everyone does, to get a normal life. I’ve layered out my own one. Week-to-week, it may vary, depending on special days (usually in my diary), but here’s just a basic day/week :

    Wake up (usually 8.30) have 5x medicine (don’t know exactly which, but they’re in a blister pack)

    Tidy room; make bed, brush teeth, maybe mop kitchen/ hoover bedroom

    Wait for nurse, check BGL, have insulin, weigh out breakfast (42g bran flakes =30g carbs = 30g carbs) & eat

    Sunday: meal prep; carb counted, what I have left in my kitchen.

    Recreational activity (usually gym, work out plan in other posts)

    Monday, go to supermarket, buying what I need for meal prep designed on Sunday

    Unpack & put away shopping

    Cook & eat lunch

    Uni work

    Dinner

    Recreation (podcasts/audiobooks/blog/calls)

    Shower (maybe)

    Podcasts/audiobooks in bed

    Obviously this is just a basic, it changes with I have things on though…. Still a routine is good for me preparing for normal life. Having it down is like a “written contract”.

  • Selling myself

    Someone said something that really made me feel like a total failure. But, being a similar age to me I, thinking about it made me feel so much better. My observations may inspire you to relate to the positives in your life. They’re there. It does make me sound like I’m seeing myself through, turns out I have a bit of capital though. So, I’ll sell myself to you:

    I’ve done a batcholers , & in the process of a masters

    I’ve lived in 3 countries

    I’ve survived 3 comas

    I’ve declined a proposal

    I’ve traveled all over the world; ones that stick out are Mongolia, Russia, Sri Lanka, Iceland, New York, France the list goes on….

    Obverse been a model

    I’m now at a stage of starting a new life, a new career, a new identity. Do you buy??