My Skin Hack

I have had adult acne for years. It hasn't gone away with menopause, but I can say that it is not as bad as it used to be. Prescription strength Retinol cream was a real life-saver for me.  That might sound dramatic, but it's hard to face the world, when your face is full of pimples. When it was at its worst, a kid asked me if  I had chicken pocks!

New Goals

One of my new goals, is to lose 25 pounds.  Being chained to a desk and stressed out has taken its toll on my health.  We gave ourselves a Sous Vide for Christmas so we could better cook meats and fish, and it's been a great gadget to have around.  The tool allows you to slow cook in a sealed, air-tight bag, with minimal effort.  We use a little bit of oil, but not a lot.  Tonight we made Ahi Tuna steaks. They were finished with a pan sear on the stove.  I baked up cauliflower and potato wedges in our convection oven.  While the picture from my phone doesn't do the plate justice, this was a meal that came in under 600 calories (including wine).

Vacation

I had carried over 68 hours of vacation from last year.  Doesn't that say a lot about how impossible it was to get away from my job?  We had a Caribbean vacation planned all along, so my last working day was a week ahead of my last day of employment.  However, I considered my last day on the job my last day, and was looking forward to jetting off to Jamaica the next morning.  Our original plans were for St. Martin, but the hurricanes in August/September decimated the resort.  As a result, our group was moved to Jamaica.  We just got back last night.  It was an interesting week!

Thank You!

Thank you for all the kind and encouraging comments I got on my last post.  It is wonderful to get such a positive message!  I am looking forward to many small moments of joy as I move on to the next chapter of my life.  Just being able to let go of a lot of the anxiety that I carry around each day will be a big help.  I've spent the last year and a half dealing with extreme pressure and problems and letting that go will free me up to better experience life.

Living the Dream?

I must admit to being a bit of a hypocrite lately.   My absence from blogging has been the result of having too much going on.  In the past few years, I have moved slowly away from my objective of living small, swayed by the comfort of a growing salary and the obsession of amassing as much investment income as possible.  My house has been neglected, my health and my husband's health have suffered, and I've rationalized it all with the thought that "Of course what you do is hard, that's why they pay you so much money."  The other truth is that I've gotten careless with spending that money because I had more of it than I ever had before.  Luckily, I have come to my senses and have been gifted with an opportunity to jump off the corporate merry-go-round, and get back the the place where I had originally planned to be in my mid-fifties.