Update and Social Media Purge


Hello Readers!

I have taken a brief sojourn from my blog due to busy schedule, time constraints, and limiting my computer time. What’s new? Well, I have for starters wiped out social media from my regular routine and easy access. I had to really get into my core of what I really wanted for myself and wanted out of the sites I chose to use. I no longer possess accounts to Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook. I have chosen to keep LinkedIn for professional resources. I noticed a lot of my time was spent on social media sites, which wound up leaving me drained, stressed, and my eyes burned from excessive screen time. I work 9 hrs a day 7 days a week except, for working Fridays 8 hrs at a computer all day. The last thing my body needs is more time on websites that don’t really serve me or my livelihood very well. I have considered bringing back Instagram for the photo memories, but TBD for now. 

My time spent online to communicate with my significant other is important and Skype is necessary and convenient for us both. Our hopes are to end distance before Feb 2019 at the very latest. I mean man makes a plan, God laughs, so not sure yet, but praying and remaining productive.
Mia and I are doing well and keeping active down here in Southern California. My Foreign Travel trips came to a screeching halt and I realized what I wanted most. Back in February, I forked up a considerable chunk of money for a snowmobile repair/accident as most of you know. My savings emergency fund went way down. My new focus is to replace that fund in the next few yrs and build off of it. I have been placing an amount in savings each paycheck per month and also placing another allotted chunk into 401K every paycheck too (see blog bout budgeting).

I also have brought down my need for constant human connection or pleasing everyone around me. I wanted and still often do, want to be liked and accepted. I have lived alone going on 6 or 7 years, and I have come to realization, don’t need a ton of friends, just a few close ones. I am an open book, which still learning what to self-disclose and what to keep quiet about for my closer friends and family- as in TMI (per Jared’s sermon, see CRB church sermon TMI). I am so excited a lot of the time, interrupt, and quickly explain, before really hearing the person or the situation. The berating of myself internally when I talk too much or something else, is a habit in which  I daily work to practice positive thoughts rather than negative ones-  i.e. less shame of self, more continued self-love.
Last night, I visited some family members, and it was a huge deposit for me because I had missed them so much. It is funny how one quick evening with loved ones, can set you right emotionally and physically. I miss my bible study gals in Norcal, but so glad they were a part of my life at one point in time. My socal bible study group, I hope to see soon as August was a blur ;). Mia and I are thriving and working towards our goals. 

Since I wasn’t traveling, I felt this writing came to a halt and I missed it. I do very much miss my travel, but the monthly excursions up and down California and the west coast have been amazing and refreshing. I love to travel so much. As far as this blog goes, nothing lately to report, maybe fun dishes and how to cook them, or routine things I like and enjoy or a day in the life, we shall see if I do so later on. For now, hope all is well and stay tuned for further entries. 


Xoxo
Moxie

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