My resolutions aren’t strictly about gardening, but they have a lot to do with my computer and what I do on the web.
Over the fall, I developed a very bad case of repetitive stress injury (RSI) from my computer work. I was (still am) in the process of converting my 200-plus page website to a new look and new template and style sheet, and this involved too much cutting and pasting.
Soon enough, my right hand and wrist was going numb and painful, and my neck and shoulders weren’t spared either. It got so bad that I feared my internet publishing career might even be over.
RSI is an ongoing problem that I’ve had for more than a dozen years, it doesn’t get easier as you move on in life. (Move on in life is the phrase my yoga teacher now uses instead of saying, as we age.)
So my main resolution has to do with the computer: take more breaks, learn the keyboard shortcuts to avoid the mouse. I’ve also had to change many things in my office: my chair, my keyboard, and my mouse. My injuries are getting better, but it’s a slow process, and healing depends on my not slipping back into bad habits.
As far is the garden goes, my resolution is to enjoy it more, and not view it as much through that four-letter word: work. I hope I can do it: live in the garden more, work in the garden less.
Wish me luck on both counts: the computer and the garden.
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I wish you the very best of luck on both counts – I know what you are talking about!!
I like your “New Look” Flower Gardening Made Easy!
“Move on in life” -ha, that sounds almost too pretty.
Lene
Hi Yvonne! You know Lene and I are your biggest fans and are so glad to see you here. Stay well! Love the new garden website look and am studying up on Shade Gardening! You’re the best source I have!! Thanks!
OH it was in the 60′s F today!!!! I’m loving Alabama!!
Hi Eve and Lene: I love you both, my most faithful commenters and best readers, and I appreciate your support more than I can say.
I love that saying, as we move on in life… what a great way to look at things!
Here’s to hoping you heal well and soon, and you have no pain and all gain in the garden this year!
2010 must have been the year for RSI. I converted from paper to electronic medical record and started a garden. The entire year it continued to progress until fall came and I had to cancel a vacation to rest. We eventually realized no one should use a tablet daily, so converted to ergonomic work stations with 22 inch screens in all my exam rooms, trained an assistant to do half of my daily data input if not more, and took alpha lipoic acid supplement and compounded whole thyroid. Seemed these things all contributed to big improvemenets in pain and function. Wishing you the best!
Thanks for your comment. Funny, I ended up on compounded whole thyroid too, and have had big improvements as well. I’m also taking Anatabloc, a new neutraceutical that is apparently anti-inflammatory, and that appears to be helping too.
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