How things are at present
Aug. 8th, 2009 09:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fpbThe translation market is deader than I have ever seen it. I hope it is just a seasonal thing and not that recession that everyone keeps insisting is over. However, I have started serious work on rearranging my flat, which now looks more like a building site and less like a battlefield. I am also hoping this will help with the latest slimming drive - which include distant supervision from my doctor - since I really have come to realize that my overweight problem is interfering with my active life, and I cannot afford to just let it take over. [sings} If I were a rich man, yada dida dida dida dida dida dah, all day long I'd biddy biddy bum, if I were a wealthy man... - but I am not, and with the translation market in a coma I have to rely on the dubious kindness of the British state.
You would think that this would be a damn depressing situation to be in, but as a matter of fact I am less depressed than the average. And I think this is entirely to do with the start of serious work on the flat. I have been brooding about changing things around for years, but now that I have started I not only see possibilities everywhere, but the fact itself of having things to do is encouraging rather than otherwise. The work just multiplies; install a shower in my bathtub; place a waterproof curtain there; put up shelves; turn the skeletons of the old bed I am taking apart into frames for new bookcases (I have very luckily found some wood which will fit in the frames just great); move several bookcases and rethink the distribution of books, comics, CDs, tapes and vinyl; wash the carpet; repair the bicycle and turn the wrecks of previous ones into a whole second one - just because; possibly build some sort of shelter to avoid them being rain-damaged again; sort the clothes that no longer fit me and (unless I see some real prospect of slimming) send them to charity. You would think that this would feel overwhelming, but in fact, now that I have started on it instead of just brooding on it on my own, I feel ever so slightly exhilarated.
You would think that this would be a damn depressing situation to be in, but as a matter of fact I am less depressed than the average. And I think this is entirely to do with the start of serious work on the flat. I have been brooding about changing things around for years, but now that I have started I not only see possibilities everywhere, but the fact itself of having things to do is encouraging rather than otherwise. The work just multiplies; install a shower in my bathtub; place a waterproof curtain there; put up shelves; turn the skeletons of the old bed I am taking apart into frames for new bookcases (I have very luckily found some wood which will fit in the frames just great); move several bookcases and rethink the distribution of books, comics, CDs, tapes and vinyl; wash the carpet; repair the bicycle and turn the wrecks of previous ones into a whole second one - just because; possibly build some sort of shelter to avoid them being rain-damaged again; sort the clothes that no longer fit me and (unless I see some real prospect of slimming) send them to charity. You would think that this would feel overwhelming, but in fact, now that I have started on it instead of just brooding on it on my own, I feel ever so slightly exhilarated.
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Date: 2009-08-11 09:17 pm (UTC)Re: getting in shape--a couple of things that really helped me (I've lost about 30 pounds since Christmas) was to stop eating anything deep fried and switch from refined carbs to whole grain. I also cut out everything that has high-fructose corn syrup in it, which means a lot of label reading, but I don't think that's as much of a problem over there as it is here.