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weekend updatery
Feb. 7th, 2021 02:45 pmAnother relaxing weekend of not doing too much other than our daily walk around the neighborhood. We've been averaging about 1.5 - 2 miles most days if we're just doing up Lake Street and back, and maybe more like 3 or 4 if our plans are to walk in the botanical garden in GGP (the camelias and cherry blossoms are out!) or doing some errands down the other end of Clement.
Speaking of exercise, I'm trying to do them twice a day here in Spare Oom, once midmorning and once midafternoon. Nothing too high-intensity as my joints aren't up for that right now...it's mainly been a lot of the stretching exercises I still remember doing from my days at Yankee Candle plus a few I've grabbed from the internets. The problem with these is not the occasional pain, but the occasional forgetting to do it!!
Which brings me to my next thing: as an experiment, I've given myself a semi-rigid daily schedule that I'm going to try to maintain as closely as I can, starting tomorrow. I built it up around the loose schedule I already have (midmorning journaling, exercise, lunch, writing sessions, etc), this just gives it more stability and less chance for distraction. And yes, I did factor in points in the day for leisure time -- checking emails and social media, working on something fun, and so on. I'm not looking for rigidity, I'm just looking for structure here, because I think I need more of that.
[On a side note, I once tried to do this during my college years as a way to ensure that I'm actually doing homework, studying and not goofing around with whatever instead. Unfortunately this died a horrible and embarrassing death when a few "friends" saw it and mercilessly made fun of me for it. Sadly I gave up on it and never tried it again. Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't given into mortification and lack of self-esteem and followed through, but well...what's past is past, I have no peanut gallery to shoot me down this time.]
Not much else to report! Hope everyone has a wonderful week!
Speaking of exercise, I'm trying to do them twice a day here in Spare Oom, once midmorning and once midafternoon. Nothing too high-intensity as my joints aren't up for that right now...it's mainly been a lot of the stretching exercises I still remember doing from my days at Yankee Candle plus a few I've grabbed from the internets. The problem with these is not the occasional pain, but the occasional forgetting to do it!!
Which brings me to my next thing: as an experiment, I've given myself a semi-rigid daily schedule that I'm going to try to maintain as closely as I can, starting tomorrow. I built it up around the loose schedule I already have (midmorning journaling, exercise, lunch, writing sessions, etc), this just gives it more stability and less chance for distraction. And yes, I did factor in points in the day for leisure time -- checking emails and social media, working on something fun, and so on. I'm not looking for rigidity, I'm just looking for structure here, because I think I need more of that.
[On a side note, I once tried to do this during my college years as a way to ensure that I'm actually doing homework, studying and not goofing around with whatever instead. Unfortunately this died a horrible and embarrassing death when a few "friends" saw it and mercilessly made fun of me for it. Sadly I gave up on it and never tried it again. Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't given into mortification and lack of self-esteem and followed through, but well...what's past is past, I have no peanut gallery to shoot me down this time.]
Not much else to report! Hope everyone has a wonderful week!
