A new mindset for Burned. This is thread 7.

[burned]

Thanks joejoe. I figure if my feelings change 5 times a day, maybe hers do too. I just don’t see it, she’s really good at putting up a front. She always was, and I used to be able to see through it.

Vapo, thanks for the ice bucket. I am stubborn, it’s true. That’s an area I should work on. And definitely true that I have a problems with expectations, it’s something my IC has pointed out repeatedly since this craziness began.

I overthink things. Another area of growth. But I’m doing some things that are helpful. Trying to do one GAL activity per week with new people. Rebuilding at work, and already I’m using what I’ve learned about NGS to deal with a particularly annoying colleague. And this morning I decided that when my ankle is healed, I’ll fly west and climb Mt. Hood or something. My sister is a mountain guide out there so she can probably take me up there. I’ll have to learn some technical climbing. I also live a couple miles from the AT so maybe for Thanksgiving (since I won’t be at W’s family’s place, and my parents aren’t from the US so they don’t really care about Thanksgiving), I’ll do a few days of cold weather backpacking. AT is quieter in the cold months.

So I mean, I have things to look forward to. Need to put in a little planning. Actually even the planning can be fun.

“You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.” ---Carl Jung