Tuesday folks! Here comes item #1 on my “ToDo List”: (You can use these symbols: ☐✅).
Soup Diet… Day #004 (5/14–>50%=Win!) (<290 Today? – No)
So I’m going to start this next month with a new format and see how it goes. I’ve been doing primarily lists for the past few years, but I thought I would try something different…
The main goal is to: get back to <290 lbs.
I’m still going to have “ToDo” Lists at heart, but this time I’m going to couch these “ToDo” items in paragraphs to provide a narrative on what needs to be done. In doing so, hopefully I will get myself into the mood of getting things done. The goal is to complete the “ToDo” items in the paragraphs no matter what each day, with a lot of regular “ToDo” items to follow these paragraphs if I happen to feel extra “energetic” and want to get more done. Ready? Here goes…
To start off each day, record my weight as I have been doing so far:
- ✅ #01: 📈 Weigh yourself! (361.9 lbs. – 321.5 lbs. = 40.40 lbs. total weight loss.)
- ✅ #02: 📉 Record Weight Down in Title!
- ✅ #03: 😴 Record any Nighttime Whispers! (The Prize Drawer!)
The main go for the next month or so is to focus more on my health and getting back down to <290.0 lbs., which I did do last August, but have gone up considerably since then. I need to put the benefits of losing weight at the forefront of my mind:
- To simply feel better.
- To be able to walk faster.
- Walking in Philippines.
- Shins.
- Prolong Knees.
To do this I will be going back to the basics, and initially adopting Andrew Taylor’s SpudFit diet, of only potatoes and condiments for the next month. This can/will include both regular and sweet potatoes, almond milk, “sugar” included condiments but “without fat”, tea, coffee, Zevia, 0% alcohol beer, and water.
- ☐✅ #04: 🥔Follow the SpudFit diet plan! <>
- ✅ #05: 💊 Take Vitamins: (12:58 pm!)
- ☐✅ #06: 🥂 Martini Water Ritual! <>
- 🌾 Collagen (2 scoops)
- ☐✅ #07: 💧 Hydration Target Met (≈ 2L) with (Lemon juice: 6 tablespoons, Apple cider vinegar: 2 tablespoons, Himalayan salt: 1/4 teaspoon, Iodized salt: 1/4 teaspoon)! <>
Moving away from the physical, to the mental:
- ☐✅ #08: 🌎Read The World Is Waiting For You by Edwina Findley Dickerson <>
- ☐✅ #09: 👩⚕️Work on my “Nurse Novel“: <>
- ✅ #10: 🌙 Listen to a “Nighttime Subliminal” .mp3 Tape: (Create v20 Neville tape!)
I have a goal of getting the “Barn Suite” in order. Did any of these happen today?
- ☐✅ #11a: 🏚️ Label Filing Cabinet Boxes & Contents: <>
- ☐✅ #11b: 🏚️ Assemble Lamp: <>
- ☐✅ #11c: 🏚️ Oil Cutting Board: <>
- ☐✅ #11d: 🏚️ Purchase Corner Bookcase: <>
- ☐✅ #11e: 🏚️ Assemble Corner Bookcase: <>
And assembling my music studio?
- ☐✅ #12a: 🎹 Fix/Restore external drives: <>
- ☐✅ #12b: 🎹 Download software: <>
- ☐✅ #12c: 🎹 Assemble drum kit: <>
And don’t forget the bookkeeping!
- ☐✅ #13a: 📷 Download OneDrive Data! <>
- ☐✅ #13b: 📷 Photograph “Physical” Journals! <>
And just for fun:
- ☐✅ #14a: 🌙 Read Keith Moon Book: <>
- ☐✅ #14b: ✈️ Flight Simulator (Take off/land Courtenay Airport!): <>
And Now… The “Other” ToDos!
🔝 MUST DO DAILY!
- Sunday, December 28, 2025 = Day #1
- Monday, January 26, 2026 = Day #30
- NO CHANGES TO MUST DO DAILY TIL DAY #31!!!
- ☐✅ #01: 📈 Weigh yourself! (361.9 lbs. – xxx.x lbs. = xx.x lbs. total weight loss.)
- ☐✅ #02: 📉 Record Weight Down in Title!
- ☐✅ #03: 🌀 Eat “The Complete Bowl”! (*** Foods: The Complete Bowl , Daily Results: Log Results )
- ☐✅ #04: 💊 Take Vitamins: <>
- ☐✅ #05: 🥂 Martini Water Ritual! <>
- 🌾 Collagen (2 scoops)
- ☐✅ #06: 💧 Hydration Target Met (≈ 2L) with (Lemon juice: 6 tablespoons, Apple cider vinegar: 2 tablespoons, Himalayan salt: 1/4 teaspoon, Iodized salt: 1/4 teaspoon)! <>
🔝 DAILY “NICE TO DO”!
- ☐✅ #07: 🧴 Body & Face Care (AM/PM): <>
- ☐✅ #08: 🌀 Dry Brushing (5-7 minutes): <>
- ☐✅ #09: 🦵 Knee Routine (2-Minutes In-Bed or Desk Routine): <>
- ☐✅ #10: Record any Nighttime Whispers! <>
- ☐✅ #11:🔮READ The Unified Manifestation System. Improvement? ANY UPGRADE IDEAS?: <>
- ☐✅ #12: 🌙 Listen to a “Nighttime Subliminal” .mp3 Tape: <>
🔝 WEEKLY “NICE TO DO”!
| Day | Focus Area |
|---|---|
| Monday | ☐✅ 👕 Laundry Day: <> |
| Tuesday | ☐✅ 🚿 Shampoo + Conditioner Routine — Aussie Miracle Moist Shampoo for 30–60 seconds, rinse, then apply Being BIG HAIR Volumizing Conditioner to mid-lengths and ends for 2–3 minutes before rinsing cool: <> |
| Wednesday | ☐✅ 🥗 Record “Weight Loss” Video: <> ☐✅ 📹 YouTube SHORTS VIDEO Creation: <> |
| Thursday | ☐✅ 📹 YouTube Video Upload @ 5:45 PM: <> |
| Friday | ☐✅ 📡 Social Media Posting/Updates: <> |
| Saturday | ☐✅ 📹 YouTube LONG Video Creation: <> |
| Sunday | ☐✅ 📹 YouTube Video Upload @ 5:45 PM: <> |
🔝 FUN, FUN, FUN!
| Day | Focus Area |
|---|---|
| Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday | ☐✅ 🎸 Music Studio Setup: <> ☐✅ ✈️ Flight Simulator: <> ☐✅ 🎶 Learn Sultans of Swing: <> ☐✅ 🗣️ Learn Tagalog! <> ☐✅🌙 Read Keith Moon Book: <> ☐✅🧠 Read Dr. James Doty Book: <> ☐✅ 📕 Read “Little Red Book”: <> ☐✅ 🎧 Listen “Maggie Murphy (Notes)! <> ☐✅ 🎧 Listen Dr. K videos! <> ☐✅ 📷 Photograph Journals! <> ☐✅ 💻 Recover Hard Drive Data! <> ☐✅ 💻 Manus Software! <> ☐✅ 🌿 Etc.?: <> |
📋Additional Daily Notes
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 started strangely — not with action, but with a dream. I woke up in that half-lit morning state where you can feel the edge of the subconscious still clinging to you, and I realized something immediately: I’d been listening to that subliminal tape again. The one that says you should drift off to sleep holding one clear thought, because that thought becomes the seed the universe answers.
So in the dream I asked myself, what’s my thought? And the thought I chose was simple and deeply personal. My hometown. A donut. Driving around the old roads like I used to, back in those years when my mother died, when life was raw, strange, and intensely real. And in the dream, that’s where I was. Not necessarily in a documentary sense, but in a felt sense. That part of Canada. That emotional weather. That sense of being in motion again.
Then it shifted. There was a moment where I was standing in the road with others, thinking there was nothing wrong with it, and then a traffic cop appeared as if to stop us. The dream even borrowed a real face from my waking mind — a Black reporter from WRAL-TV — and for whatever reason it felt connected to Makaya Thurmond, who I’ve been thinking about these last couple of days. Like most dreams, it didn’t need to be logical; it just needed to be symbolic.
The symbol that stayed with me most came next. The dream moved into a theater, a kind of “game show” energy. People were told to pick candy or treats from a drawer, and each selection seemed to correspond to a prize. When my turn came, I chose something I haven’t thought about in decades: those flat, sweet little childhood cookies with sultana raisins that we used to get in stores back then (see photo to the right). And then the dream did something that felt like a prophecy. Someone before me got a prize. I congratulated them. But then the announcer looked at me and said essentially: yes, but you wait. The biggest prize is saved for last. People started congratulating me as if something huge was coming for me, courtesy of the universe itself. And then I woke up.
It felt like an answer. Not necessarily a literal promise, but an inner reassurance: things are moving even if I can’t see them yet. I can feel how much I want some kind of breakthrough — and how easy it is to get discouraged when time moves slowly and the body hurts and life feels boxed in. That dream didn’t fix anything, but it left a strange aftertaste of inevitability. Like something good is being prepared.
And then later today, after a nap, I had another short dream — one of those compressed little symbolic clips. In it, Elon Musk was being interviewed by Oprah. Somehow his eyesight was failing, like he was testing a drug and couldn’t see, and then the dream jumped forward to him out in the desert in a Jeep, speeding around with his hat off and long hair flowing in the wind, telling Oprah that his eyesight was perfect again. No after effects. He could see clearly. And I woke up thinking: that’s the message. Not just about eyes, but about vision. The idea that there can be a temporary blur… and then clarity returns.
After sleeping in today, I still had real-world responsibilities waiting. My wife, my son and I met our new family doctor. My daughter is going later, but today the three of us did the first meeting. Nothing dramatic happened, but it mattered. He gave an overview of how he treats patients, asked about our health, and started that relationship. Having a family doctor again feels like getting stability back. A point of contact. A pathway. Especially with the knee.
After that appointment, I went to the brace place that the physiotherapist recommended. I honestly thought I’d walk in and buy some fancy brace and walk out supported. Instead I discovered you need an appointment. They’re extremely busy. The person there couldn’t see me until late February, but another specialist who comes to that office mid-February could see me sooner — so I booked it. The brace itself is apparently expensive, over $1,000, but it sounds like the real deal: proper measurements, the exact best brace, mailed away and returned. The part that hit me emotionally was the delay. It sounds like it might not even arrive until March.
And then there was that double timeline, the kind of thing that can take the wind right out of a person. One person says four to six weeks in a brace. Another says eleven months to fully heal an MCL. I’m not sure what to make of that. I can feel the part of me that wants fast healing and fast freedom. I can also feel the part of me that’s staring down at my life and thinking: I don’t want to be stuck like this.
I was going to go to Benino’s afterward. That familiar pull toward comfort and distraction was right there, but I decided not to. I went home. Still, I did one small thing on the way that matters to me. I put a couple business cards on the outdoor tables. Just quietly. Two little seeds. And that matters because the website isn’t imaginary anymore. It’s real. It’s live. And it’s slowly becoming part of the local world. I don’t need fireworks for it to be working. I just need consistency and time.
And in the evening, I made rolls.
That was the moment where the day turned warm. The rolls came out golden and real, the kind of home-baked thing that seems to restore a person’s nervous system. It reminded me that even in a season where healing takes time and life feels uncertain, I can still create something good. I can still build. I can still take care of myself. The kitchen becomes a kind of sanctuary. Proof that I’m not powerless.
So that was today. A day of dreams and appointments and long timelines. A day that contained discouragement, but also contained movement. A day that reminded me the universe may be answering in symbols before it answers in facts. A day that reminded me that the newsletter website is alive, that my future isn’t cancelled, and that clarity returns.
If the dream message was “you wait,” and the second dream message was “no after effects,” then the real waking message of today might be this: keep going. Keep building. Keep placing seeds where people can find them. Keep healing. Keep moving. Even slowly.
