What do you...?

Anti-anxiety exercise, undertaken not to assuage anxiety but because I'm bored and can't think of anything good to write:

What do you hear?

Tires on the interstate over in the distance, which sound like wind or ocean waves. Clacking of typing on my wireless Microsoft keyboard. A tweeting bird who should be in bed. The fountain in the lake outside. Listening closer, I think the bird might actually be crickets.

What do you taste?

Stouffer's French Bread Pizza, sausage and pepperoni version. I'm supposed to be following the Food Plan that my trainer made for me - lots of protein power and raw lion meat, that kind of thing - but I can't be bothered looking at it or going to the grocery store. Food is not my focus at the moment. I'm after strength and endurance, I told him. The food thing will come.

What do you see?

Lovely Blogger input interface, which always makes me happy. This lovely font they chose for my posts. Behind that, my new wallpaper which is a shot of rain streaking across my windshield last Monday morning when I had to pull over in Mequon, outside of Milwaukee, when trying to drive back home because it was too stormy to continue. And I didn't know it but I was already on the wrong highway. I love the picture - it looks like a regular picture Photoshopped but it's not. So I guess that made the storm and the detour and being 4 hours late to work worth it.

What do you smell?

Nothing. I'm nursing the beginnings of a cold, even stayed in and worked from home today, and I don't think I've breathed through my nose for a week, apart from if someone held something up to me and said, "Here, smell this."

What do you feel?

Oily, from not taking a shower today. Creaky in the neck, shoulders, knees, and of course my dicky fingers on my left hand which I'm going to see my doctor about on Friday. But also a smooth chocolately feeling left over from the shake I had earlier. Sore, tired, but also bored and transitioning to punchy. Which is better than depressed. Or anxious! So maybe this exercise works.