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Dec. 10th, 2023 02:04 pmBoy this is a day we're having. I have a friend who's having some serious and imminent troubles within her family, and the husband tried to do a load of laundry and the washing machine had a sudden unexpected power failure in the middle of the first load. We got it working again but I think the search for a new washing machine is back on, so that's something to deal with. On top of getting a new car (which I have since discovered my husband has done the research and getting a loan for a new car is actually better terms than getting one for a used car, unless you're looking for a beater) and getting the heating fixed. Absolutely none of this pleases me.
There are things that please me. We still have power, we do not appear to be about to lose power, which means we can get somewhat around some things. We have groceries and can cook. I'm about to start a huge batch of cottage pie with ground turkey and another big pot of chicken soup. I've managed to do some form of exercise eight out of ten days so far in December, so I am slowly working on that. The first week or so was making sure to get regular treadmilling in, and now I'm folding in dance exercises. Next step, which was supposed to be this step but the heat conked out and threw everyone for several loops, is to make it a regularly scheduled thing, i.e. all but the treadmill exercises happen at X time in the day. Not sure what time of day that should be, but eh.
(To be honest I'm a little torn about how rigid a schedule to maintain, given that my job, theoretically the biggest part of my day, doesn't exist on a schedule. Should I try to set up a rigid-ish exercise schedule or should I just try to make a specific amount of time, say half an hour, and say "I'm going to do dance exercises for half an hour" and then fit it into my day whenever.)
I've gotten some other things done and I can't remember what they are anymore. I've also been keeping greater track of things in my bullet journal, remembering to enter in the times I do my skin care or my languages or so on. Oh, spice shopping and getting more bananas for the cats and filling my pill container and getting my root canal scheduled. So my bullet journal tells me, I've gotten those things done. Today I think the goal is to get a bunch of cooking and baking done and then get some cleaning done so if the part comes on Monday and the heating guys can come on Tuesday the place doesn't look like a shithole. Yes, for some reason it matters. Also cleaning makes me feel better about all the other crap in the world being out of my control.
I will say, it's a lot easier to manage to get things done or progressing now that my thyroid is seemingly properly medicated. It was extremely overactive, and now it's underactive, so we're testing again in seven weeks now (need to mark that on my calendar too) and we're experimenting with alternating dosages and days to see if that gets me within a normal range, but for the moment I'm not having obstructive thyroid symptoms. I'm sleeping fine, I'm not overheating, I'm not overtired. It's a small blessing.
There are things that please me. We still have power, we do not appear to be about to lose power, which means we can get somewhat around some things. We have groceries and can cook. I'm about to start a huge batch of cottage pie with ground turkey and another big pot of chicken soup. I've managed to do some form of exercise eight out of ten days so far in December, so I am slowly working on that. The first week or so was making sure to get regular treadmilling in, and now I'm folding in dance exercises. Next step, which was supposed to be this step but the heat conked out and threw everyone for several loops, is to make it a regularly scheduled thing, i.e. all but the treadmill exercises happen at X time in the day. Not sure what time of day that should be, but eh.
(To be honest I'm a little torn about how rigid a schedule to maintain, given that my job, theoretically the biggest part of my day, doesn't exist on a schedule. Should I try to set up a rigid-ish exercise schedule or should I just try to make a specific amount of time, say half an hour, and say "I'm going to do dance exercises for half an hour" and then fit it into my day whenever.)
I've gotten some other things done and I can't remember what they are anymore. I've also been keeping greater track of things in my bullet journal, remembering to enter in the times I do my skin care or my languages or so on. Oh, spice shopping and getting more bananas for the cats and filling my pill container and getting my root canal scheduled. So my bullet journal tells me, I've gotten those things done. Today I think the goal is to get a bunch of cooking and baking done and then get some cleaning done so if the part comes on Monday and the heating guys can come on Tuesday the place doesn't look like a shithole. Yes, for some reason it matters. Also cleaning makes me feel better about all the other crap in the world being out of my control.
I will say, it's a lot easier to manage to get things done or progressing now that my thyroid is seemingly properly medicated. It was extremely overactive, and now it's underactive, so we're testing again in seven weeks now (need to mark that on my calendar too) and we're experimenting with alternating dosages and days to see if that gets me within a normal range, but for the moment I'm not having obstructive thyroid symptoms. I'm sleeping fine, I'm not overheating, I'm not overtired. It's a small blessing.