Rob #8 - Never Losin' Sight

[Rob1231]

Thanks, gang.

It's true, I haven't communicated as well as I should have - slipped back into some bad old habits there. ATM, I think I need to go with the "no R talks" rule until I have built myself back up and resumed my PMA/GAL a bit more. Stuff on the agenda:

Made an appointment with a career coach for Sunday. This was actually someone that W met through her new best girlfriend, and encouraged me to do. So, good for me, and good for W to see.

Started emailing several friends and acquaintances (from my MBA classes, from music boosters, etc.) about getting together for beers, poker, bike rides, etc. Not too many responses yet, but I'll keep working on this. One of these paid off with tonight's supposed poker game (although I'm still waiting to hear the details of whether this is gonna happen.)

Dove into a hornet's nest of music booster activity with both feet - planning the budget for the next year. You never saw so many people with conflicting opinions on how money should be allocated and spent... Trying hard to take a leadership role here (I am the booster president after all!)

Stepping up my exercise program. Just read a book called "The Art of Aging" which fits in nicely with DBing in some respects - including discussing what you can control as you age, and how to deal with the things you can't. Realized that I need to get into working out with weights - the time when my muscle mass starts evaporating is coming up way too fast! Also getting out for bike rides more regularly.

Preparing to buy myself a new car - that'll be fun!

I need to work harder to plan fun stuff for holidays and weekends - this is one of W's biggest complaints, that I just take what comes rather than having exciting things lined up all the time. In her mind, this equals "Making W Do All The Planning." Partly, the problem is that she has a much higher need for planned out activities than I do - but as we all know, you don't have to feel the same needs as your spouse in order to help meet them.

Finding ways to enjoy my current job and really be productive. I have let my outside life intrude too much into my attitude and behaviors at work over the last year, time to turn that around.

Overall, PMA is doing pretty good today. Thanks for keeping tabs on me - I appreciate every one of you!