Slightly odd self-care

[jeshyr]

This is my official week of unsubscribing from ALL THE THINGS.

Well, not quite all of them ... but mailing lists, email newsletters, email advertisements, RSS feeds, DW communities, reading list people, etc. Pretty much for each one I'm thinking "will I really miss this if I don't see it?" and unsubscribing unless the answer is that I would hate to be without it.

I've been overloaded with information since I'm sicker than 6 months ago so I can't deal with quite as much, and also it creeps up so easily in this age of information!

So yes, if you notice I've unsubscribed from your Dreamwidth or LiveJournal blog, this is why and please take no offence. You're welcome to keep reading my stuff if you'd like to, I don't lock things so I don't use access lists (LJ: "friends lock") and I'm happy to have people reading anything they enjoy.

What's your oddest-seeming method of self-care??

Hugs,
r

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

I'm doing the same darn thing over in my journal. Your entries are so interesting — and so close to my situation — that I can't unsub them. So there :-)

Self-care is moving clothing that doesn't fit today's body out of easy reach. Minimizes confronting body hatred.

[jeshyr]

Oh wow ... you are so right with the clothing too. I shall add that to my todo list! Thanks for the reminder.

r

[dragonsally]

I know exactly what you mean. In the last few weeks I've changed most of the group settings on Facebook to no email notifications. And in google reader I just mark everything as read, except for about 3 things.

There is a fine line between keeping informed and being overloaded.

[jeshyr]

I did that to all my Facebook groups too but it's sneakily started sending mail for some things anyway ... I need to hunt down why!

I'd rather be uninformed than overloaded, and it's pretty hard to be uninformed anyway - you have to really work at it.

[dragonsally]

Hey - that Facebook thing happened to me yesterday. Very annoying.

[jeshyr]

Turns out there are three different places you need to turn it off ... geez ... didn't anybody sign them up to the "ease of use" seminars??

[dahliablue]

I really need to do this. I'm officially in Overwhelmed Land.

[jeshyr]

I generally only want to be surrounded by information that I actively choose to bring into my life, not random stuff. I don't watch TV news or listen to radio news for example, I'll pull up the newscaster's website and find text if I want to find out about something. It works well for me.

[trinker]

I'm glad you're doing this. I need to think about my self-care routines.

[jeshyr]

It's funny, actually, it didn't occur to me that it was self-care until I was writing the subject line for this but it really truly is isn't it...

[trinker]

Thanks for the seed for a really chewy thought.

[sheramil]

rice cakes with chunky peanut butter.

[jeshyr]

Home-made pizza tonight! I have almost no food left because tomorrow is shopping day, but I *do* have tomatoes and bacon and cheese and flour, thankfully :)

[jeshyr]

PS Hope things are going OK for you! I kep meaning to ring but not knowing when you're working - can you let me know when is OK to call??

[(Anonymous)]

Screening phonecalls

brokendoll - lj

[jeshyr]

Oh, that's a cool one! Good on you :)

[acelightning]

i'm glad i don't post to my journal very often, so you won't be tempted to unsubcribe...

i suck at self-care, as shown by my not seeking medical attention until my cancer had reached Stage 2. (well, and also not being able to afford medical care - insert rant on America's lack of basic health coverage here.) sometimes i seem to need to be "given permission" to eat or sleep, rather than continue doing whatever i was doing that was far more important than such self-indulgent wastes of time :-(

*hugs*

[jeshyr]

Practice improves :)

Be good to yourself, Ricky says!

[acelightning]

well, surgery and radiation made it rather imperative to take more care of myself... but i'm all better now...

[mdlbear]

A couple of years ago I stopped renewing almost all my dead tree subscriptions. Saves money, as well as time. I also threw out all the back issues I'd been saving.

[jeshyr]

I never had the money for those, so I guess that makes me ahead in that area :)

[kitsune]

*sigh* I should probably give serious consideration to doing the same; the browser session I'm procrastinating on re-opening had 348 tabs in it...

It's hard when journalling is my best connection to people spread far across the globe, though. I admire your resolve in following through on the hard decisions.

[jeshyr]

The hardest thing actually has been admitting that ATMac.org is on indefinite hold. I hate that!!! But I just can't face writing stuff for it at the moment, and I don't have the spoons to force myself to do so.

[kitsune]

*nods and hugs* I know the feeling...

[cesy]

I really need to do the same - I can't keep up with my DW subscriptions or my email notifications. :(

[jeshyr]

It's an awful feeling, isn't it? I finally got on top of mine by deleting about 500 emails one very insomniac night when I needed something to do!