Chuck Lorre Production #359
Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 8:35PM

“Okay, I’m just gonna say it out loud. There are times when going crazy looks attractive. And I’m not talking about becoming charmingly eccentric. I’ve already got that covered none ways to Sunday. No, I’m talking about purposely emigrating to the land of lunacy. That special psychological zip code where The Ancient Laws of Behave Yourself no longer apply. My “reasoning” is simple. It takes a great deal of effort to sustain a conservative, trustworthy persona. Surrendering that effort would involve, from a Freudian perspective, a conscious dismantling of the super ego-that part of the psyche entrusted with enforcing parental and socially approved actions. And therein lies the allure of going full frontal wack-a-doodle. The constant energy required to pass as normal would suddenly become available for doing and saying whatever pleases me in the moment. Imagine it. The id and libido completely unbound by any and all mortal or cultural restrictions. Hmm… Probably won’t need the shrink anymore… might need a lawyer.”
~ Chuck Lorre

Amazing pinks and purples in the sunset views from our condo last night.

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Have you ever wondered about getting a laser treatment on your face to repair sun damage and get rid of those brown spots?

Well I’ve found out that yes, you can repair sun damage pretty successfully. I’m not talking about the many creams on the market that claim to fade them (or the many brands who got lots of my money because I believed their claims). I’m talking about Fraxel laser treatment.

After years of trying various face-creams, I finally decided to go to a Vancouver dermatologist and ask about getting my facial sun damage repaired. I found Dr. Jason Rivers, who’s a specialist in this kind of thing. I had an initial appointment with him, got all my questions answered, saw some example before and after photos, and booked my treatment.

I’ve documented the treatment and my 6 weeks of healing since then. Below are my before-n-after photos. If you want to read my description of the process and view all my in-progress photos, including bigger versions of these below, click here to read my longer blog post.

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Blossom-petal snow downtown. Fresh real snow on the mountain-backdrop. I don’t go downtown much, but every time I do I’m impressed with what a beautiful city we live in: Vancouver, BC, Canada.

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Nothing to do with that, but today we came across a marching bagpipe band right in the centre of town.

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Leaf-crunching. It’s part of not growing up. (I refuse to grow up.)

I love autumn. I love the colors, the smells, the sounds, all of it. I love the crunching sound when I walk over/on/in fallen and dried autumn leaves. So every year I devote at least one day completely to experiencing autumn with all the senses. Whenever I’ve lived in a home with a yard, I’ve really enjoyed raking leaves. Then un-raking them by jumping and playing in the piles, throwing them about, rolling in them.

But sigh, I live in the concrete jungle now. So I follow a tradition I started 40 years ago — the walk in the woods. It has to be mainly deciduous, of course. Here on the BC coast of Canada, there are a lot of evergreens in the woods, so it takes some research to find the right place. Each year I try to find someplace I’ve never leaf-crunched before.

Yesterday it was Wm. Griffin Park for a lovely walk along Mosquito Creek. It’s right in the city, but you’d never know it. It’s huge enough that you don’t even hear city sounds, just the splash of the fairly big creek that’s currently running quite rapidly down the hillside terrain.

It was a glorious autumn day, sunshine, warm enough for shirtsleeves. The earth smells were especially rich from the recent rainy days. It makes me so happy to be alive!

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I’ve been SIMPLIFYING my life. It’s working out really well. A great retirement-startup project!

Leo Babauta at Zen Habits just published this new book. Thanks, Leo! It’s cool when we find something that exactly addresses our current focus/mindset.

Check out the table of contents, then you’ll know if you want to read it. If you do, it’s in public domain—the author says anybody can save a copy and offer it on their own blog. So here you are: FREE 27-chapter download version (click the image):
The sections I’ve read so far are grrrrrreat (very useful)! The best thing is, his first two sections covering the “how-to” of simplifying one’s digital/computer life, I’ve already been doing for over a year. Nice to have my actions validated and condensed like this into one book and recommended by somebody.

{Just this weekend I did what I figure was the hardest step toward simplifying my online/computer life. I removed all my Facebook contacts except family members. (Still 20 contacts this way, but with WAY fewer updates.) First I told each of my “real” friends I was about to do it, explaining that it wasn’t about them or about anything bad, and most of them replied that they understand completely. We can keep up by email instead.}

I confirm the author’s claim that simplifying is extremely beneficial. After my 15 years of spending 6-8 hours online outside of my regular work hours, I have now discovered there IS life beyond the screen. Amazing!

My new focus: Creative endeavors. Specifically, my arts and crafts (linking to my new show-n-tell gallery, which I gathered there for self-encouragement to get back to doing this stuff.)

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Here’s me taking the day off. Well, me and my cat, and somebody had to snap the pic.

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Here’s me taking the day off. Well, me and my cat, and somebody had to snap the pic.

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I’m a day behind in my 30DLBL assignments because I celebrated the last day of summer yesterday by going sailing instead of sitting at my computer!

 The one question in today’s 30DLBL assignment that hit home is the one I’ll get my Future Self to address. “What are the biggest things your Present Self should do from now on to live your life to the fullest?” First, I’m going to change the “should” to “can”. (I have worked hard on removing the word “should” from my vocabulary.) So, here’s my question for my Future Self:

“What are the biggest things your Present Self can do from now on to live your life to the fullest?”

My Future Self answered the following. My Future Self apparently has a purple-ink pen. Glad to see her color preferences are consistent with mine .

Thanks, Future Self. I think you probably approve of my choice yesterday to get off my butt and go sailing. Why did it take so much coaxing-of-Self to get going and do that? It was great once I got out there! I was glad to get away from the demands and to-do’s that I had been imagining held power over my day. They didn’t really. They just really needed me to give them each some time on the back burner. When I got home, I realized that putting those items on the back burner had actually burned off some of their power over me. (I think those thoughts, too, came from my wiser Future Self.) Good to know!

Your advice, Future Self, rings very true, and is synchronous with my Mission Statement:

To live in the now and to do everything that my Future Self will wish she’d done.
To live so that I have no regrets. 

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When I signed up for the 30DLBL project (30 Days to Living Your Best Life), I created two affirmations. They are my theme for the month. They’re my go-to thoughts as I work on each of the assignments. Here’s my computer desktop image I created for the month….. one of my flower photos plus my two affirmations. This way I see them and read them often during the day, computer addict that I am.

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