28-Day Pit Stop (December)
On the 28th day of each month (in honor of PMS and that whole menstrual cycle thing), we make a Pit-Stop to rally support for each other during a particular moment of PSM.
Submit a comment with your experience. Yours may be just the inspiration or the support or the laugh a PSM sister needs!! (Also, our new "Parlor" is up here. I hope this will be another way we can connect.)
This month's little adventure is entitled "New Things", because it's about to be a new year, and I'd like it better if I thought other PSMers were having hopeful thoughts about that.
One of the things about PSM that's been the most overwhelming for me is that there are more choices. I'm happy for them, but I'm certainly not used to them. More often than not, choices require money and that wasn't in our abundant and disposable supply. We did alright, don't get me wrong, but fun was something to be budgeted. I imagine I'm in good company with most of the single moms out there.
But as I progress through the stages of PSM, I find that I'm more open to choices and to thinking bigger than I've been able to. Every year, I make a list of resolutions and goals. I believe in that process. But as I get better adjusted to this life sans spawn, I want more from my list this year. I want it to include my big toe in the water of a little FUN and maybe a little ADVENTURE. I have no specifics yet, but I'm planting the seed.
This might be a little obscure for us women, but there's a show on NPR called Car Talk that I listen to not because I like anything related to cars, but because the show hosts are a hoot! They were recently interviewed in Yankee Magazine and had this to say about adventure:
"...He told us this whole story about how he drove his old Chevrolet from Minnesota to Alaska. The car had 350,000 miles on it, and he'd made a major repair using a barbeque grill. He wanted to know if he should drive the car home. We told him, "Go for it."
Some of our best calls are from people who are trying to go on some kind of adventure and need encouragement. A lot of people lead predictable lives and don't take any risks. But if you don't, then you won't have any stories to tell your kids. You don't want to do something that's going to end your life, but it's good to do stuff where things can go wrong.
If something happens, and it creates an adventure, you'll remember it forever. I remember one guy who was going to take a trip with his father and brother. They were going to drive some old Dodge Dart or some other old clunker. Doug [Berman, the producer] was in our headphones suggesting that we tell these guys to rent a newer car. I said no. The best thing that can happen is you break down every hundred miles and you get into arguments and everything goes wrong. It'll be the greatest trip you ever took."
So, where are you for 2011? Are you ready for a little adventure or, if not, is there something you've always thought about doing but haven't had the nerve? Is there something you could include in your new year's plan? Just to set the intention?
My hope for PSMers this new year is that we all do one thing out of the ordinary and just for us. Maybe it's something we didn't think we'd ever do. And if you don't tell me about it, well, it's just OVER, that's all there is to it. ;)
Read on for a few suggestions about making New Year's plans and setting and manifesting intentions while we check the lug nuts and put air in your tires for the next 28 days.
December's Pit Stop Suggestions:
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