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While I generally claim to be a reasonably intelligent person, one who relies on common sense and logic to help me navigate the tremors of everyday life, I am still amazed that I am amazed by the impact healthy living has on my body and brain.

Rewind one week ago today and I was lamenting and woe-is-meing about my ongoing struggles with anxiety.  This, of course, was after a Thursday, Friday, Saturday of gluttonous drinking and eating that left me shivering and shaking on the chair lift on the following Sunday.  Cue the waking up on Monday, feeling crestfallen about my perceived failures on the slope, my failures on setting an example of adventure to my children and feeling shame about my inability to cope to my wife, a general billowy malaise about my life in general.  I bang out a selection of whiny bon mots here in whinerville and it sits, gathering invisible dust until today.  Minus the brief exercise in mind spilling fiction.

So today, after a weekend of healthy eating (relatively, calm down) and pretty much no drinking and the best day of skiing of my life, I find myself remarkably energized.  Full of pith and vinegar.  Eager to attack the banality of my work day.  Getting solid nights of sleep (a biiiiig factor) and generally feeling pretty confident about a webinar I have to give tomorrow.  My kids are healthy, my wife is happy (right sweets?) and I am looking forward to the remainder of the winter, even desiring a good dumping of snow to make our Sunday ski jaunts fluffy and fun.

So, while they told me there would be no math, I can probably handle this equation.  Too much drinking + eating + lack of sleep = anxious and depressed Jason.  Moderate drinking +solid meals + full night’s slumber = eager and buoyant Jason.  Two words.  Duh uh.

I have shelved the novel for the time being.  It’s a bit sleazy and considering the audience here, it feels like I am censoring myself.  I will stick to the random blogging with the occasional poll, pop fiction, article-style writing to ensure all aspects of writing are being covered.