A friend of mine often notes that exquisite self care isn’t about indulgent behavior. It’s about taking really good care of yourself.

My Methods of Exquisite Self Care

Clearly, a dental check-up isn’t exactly indulgent behavior for most people. But when I feel the least in-control of some aspects of life, I focus on those things that keep me at my best. Keeping up on my physical, mental and emotional well-being also keeps me focused on gratitude for those aspects of my life over which I do have some control.

Dental Check-ups – In addition to making sure my dental health is as good as it can be, I am also more diligent in my daily flossing, brushing, water-picking, etc. I also really like my dentist. He’s helped me keep good oral hygiene as I get older. And for you young’uns, it really does get a lot more difficult as you age.

Physical Upkeep – I am extremely glad that we live in such a great place for biking. I’m also quite glad that Thaddeus and I both enjoy biking so much.

Mental Health – Each day, I play a couple of word games that help me work the gray matter. I also enjoy Sudoko most days.

Emotional Health – My regimens for expanding my emotional health are too personal to discuss on the blog, but I do a lot in this area as well. Even in my mid-sixties, I’m still growing emotionally and will foster that as much as I can.

I can’t always choose the ideal circumstances I’d like to have around me. But for those aspects of my life over which I have some level of control, I plan on exercising that control as much as I can.

Current Knitting

Part of both my mental and emotional health are tied into my knitting. Despite that, I haven’t quite finished the scarf I’m working on.

I finally got it to 5.5″ wide, which is my goal. So I only have a row or two more before the bind-off.

One thing I like a lot of about this version of the horizontally striped garter scarf, is the i-cord edges at each end.

It will look a bit more uniform after blocking it. And it also does a great job of hiding the unused yarn that I carry up the side edge as I change colors.