ULOG: Feeling MEH!

My weekly whats up and feeling a little blah! It's been awhile since I posted a what's up. Some of you may have noticed that I haven't been posting a lot to Steemit lately. For the most part I've taken a small break from social networking. I still post to Twitter daily, and I've been involved in the closed beta of yen.io. Outside of that, I just haven't felt super motivated to write.

I usually don't post on the negative side of things, but since the summer started I've just felt ... well... MEH! There's really no other word describe it. That little three letter word says so much saying so little. It's the perfect description. MEH!

I was pretty excited about the arrival of spring. When it arrived it was cold and rainy for close to the entire spring. For the most part it was like we went from winter directly to summer and skipped spring all together. I was looking forward to doing a little travelling on the motorcycle, but the weather was just miserable.

Weather, IDK, maybe that has something to do with my blah, meh feeling.

The weather finally started to clear a couple weeks before the official start of summer. I took a trip to Pennsylvania on my motorcycle to pick up some fireworks for the fourth of July and by the time I returned home my lower back was killing me. I couldn't even walk right for a couple days. I've had lower back issues since my early 30s but nothing like this. It has put a huge damper on my travel plans for the summer.

Between the strange weather, my back issues, and trading I just feel stuck in a rut. I haven't felt that way in a really, really, long time. This isn't a poor me post, it's just how I feel. Why I haven't been posting as much as I have been. I'm in one of those cloudy fogs of discontent. I might even go so far as to call it a slight depression.

Honestly, The Dood doesn't really do depression. Whenever I feel this way, I always take a long look at my life and the first question I ask myself is, "Does my life suck, and what can I do to change that." In this case, yes friends, life does appear to be sucking! LOL :) At least I can laugh about it and now that I know what the issue is, I can start working on fixing it.

So what sucks and what can I do about it? Can't change the weather. That's something I just have to deal with. I can find some other things to do when the weathers not cooperating though. I like to have music in my life, and started drumming again. Dusted off my bongos and my djembe. Best part is, even though I can't take really long rides on the motorcycle right now I can take some mini trips, strap a drum to the back of the bike and get out in nature and do some drumming and meditation always helps too!

As far as long trips, this has been a big part of my life over the last couple summers. I need to fix this. I've started stretching each night before bed. I also bought a bicycle to get some exercise and take a decent bike ride around the neighborhood each evening after dinner. I lost a lot of weight over winter, and I'm trying to maintain that weight loss over the summer. I'm not sure how to fix this thing with my lower back, but I'm going to be trying several different techniques to get my lower back in order. Posture improvement, stretching, exercise. I'll be giving it a couple more weeks then maybe I'll try a chiropractor and see if they can get me straightened out :) LITERALLY

The Dood's not a religious person by any means. If I had to describe myself spiritually it would be a cross between new age and eclectic pagan. I've always found that whenever my life seems to get in a "rut" spiritual pursuits are worthy endeavors. I've studied tarot on and off for several years now, and have resumed my tarot studies. I've always found the cards helpful both spiritually and psychologically. Along with that, I've been looking into chakra work and trying to realign my chakra energy through meditation, and also sound therapy. The sound therapy is new to me and I'm approaching it with an open mind. I've been wanting to work with my chakras for awhile now, but just haven't had the time. I'm now making the time to do chakra work each night before bed.

So that's pretty much where I'm at right now. Sorry I haven't been super active lately but I just felt I needed a bit of a break from social networking. Sometimes we just need to focus on ourselves for a bit, before we can share with others. I think that's where I'm at right now. Working on a bit of self improvement both spiritually and mentally.

Thanks for reading, I'll keep you all posted. I may even do some posts on drumming and tarot in the future. Would love to hear your thoughts? Would you be interested in posts on tarot reading, spiritual pursuits, and drumming? Till next time! Love and light from The Dood!