The Pumpkin Patch and why my dead grandpa would be pissed…

I’m finally hitting my stride again! I’m back to writing more. I still feel like I have a lot of creative fires to put out, but I think I will always feel like that. All aspects of life are trending in the right direction.

Before I talk about my trip to the pumpkin patch today I want to touch on my weight loss journey. This past week I got a lot of exercise. I did the pedal machine with my legs for about a half hour almost every night and on the nights I didn’t I did long walks outside. When I weighed in I was only down 1 pound. I’m not discouraged about this. I still lost some weight. Besides I am eating much healthier in fact my body is probably confused as hell right now. I’ve also been exercising. Even if I didn’t lose as much weight as I’d hoped exercising is still good to do.

Bunny

We went to this big pumpkin patch about 24 minutes away. After we went in all I could think about is how confused my late grandpa Wes would be if I told him what we did. When it boils down to it we spent $30 ($15 each) to go to a farm. Every weekend growing up I was out on the family farm. So to me cows, cats, chickens, and all that is not a big deal.

I don’t want to say it’s a scam, but… ok it is a scam. It’s just a farm they let you roam around. They do have a lot of fun stuff for the kids like hay bails, corn maze, etc. For me it just didn’t do much. This was for Hailey though and she had a good time.

Farm cats

So even though we have cats at home we had to pay to go in and spend time with “different cats”. Again my grandpa would be even more confused. I guess I could give him the answer “women” and he would just chalk it up to that.

The great Iowa saying.

I don’t know what else I’m supposed to say about the pumpkin patch… I still have a bunch of pictures to share though… Ok I’ve got an idea.

Special cattle normal found in Asia

I had an appointment with my psychiatrist this week. I told her about how good I’ve been doing since I’ve had the combo of a set work schedule and ADHD meds. I told her I’ve been writing again, reading, watching movies, exercising, and eating better. My new job is super fulfilling. It feels like what I do matters and everyone else on the staff appreciates my presence and what I do.

I told her the only area I feel like I still want to hit is to do something with mental health. I said I didn’t know what I wanted to or could to, but it was important to me to do something. I wanted to make something good out of all the bad I experienced.

She suggested I look into becoming a Peer Support specialist and I started looking into it. It requires a week of in person training and some online after. You have to have some “lived experience “ with mental health. No more classes are happening this year, but I hope to be able to attend one next year. This could be perfect. I want to help people.

When I started having issues my family, friends, and I did the best week could. We had no idea what to do. Now having tried many things I want to be able to help guide people. I am not motivate by money at all. I’m motivated by doing things which are fulfilling to me. Writing, advocating for mental health, those are some much more important to me than money. Of course I want to be able to pay my bills, but past that I just want to be happy. People always act like the goal in life is to make money. My goal is to be happy.