Dec 13 to Dec 19

 

This just keep plugging along. I'm just getting to the parts where I can go through a day without having to wake in pain or in some sort of weary poor sleep deprived nothingness. My hips are starting to not hurt for no reason and my sleep mis much improved over August.

My foot is also recovered nicely as well. Nagging things are pleasantly absent today anyway. I did spend a part of today working on things at work and things in my house as well. Nice to be functional and able to work and have fun.

Of course I've had to start to book myself in to the pool at my club, thanks to rising numbers with this never ending pandemic. I booked myself in at a time wherein I'm thinking I'm going to be the only person in the place, aside from staff. One can only hope.

Mobility sessions with some fitness as well. My Apple Watch 2 does not like walking in the pool and is off and on with both the distance and the heart rate. I'm not sure of other options at this time, but at least I can get some idea of what is going on. I do like my consistency and so does the Fitness app. 

I do take the opportunity to listen to my readings while I walk. I'm finding it about an hour each session in listening time and since I listen to the books sped up, I'm getting almost a book a week done. I'm actually kinda happy about that. I am also getting news from the rugby club that I find personally disappointing, but I don't air laundry on this blog. I did meet up with a follower of this blog and we got to chat for a bit at the side of the pool one evening. That was pretty cool. 

I'd like to think that this next few months are my chance to get rugby ready in so many ways, but whether rugby will be running at all this summer is still a very good question. I may be in lockdown next month, but who knows.

Nov 30 to Dec 12

 

Lots of later night workouts these days - it is the only time I can give myself the time and energy to get it done. The world isn't working well these days. Nothing is smooth and the counts of Covid are going back up. 

Put your pointy finger and thumb near each other for me ... I'm that far away from a two week holiday and then a short time away from finishing this semester's work. It is a short step, a short time standing on my head to use that old metaphor ... and then we are on a break. And then the world shifts one more degree towards being normal again.

A threat of an unpaid time off will keep me at home and just exhaustion will keep me resting after this week. I'll see the beach, the forrest but not much else. 

The walks for mobility continue and some clarity regarding what should and might come next is coming with the time spent going back and forth in a pool. The side hustle will also continue and will be directed towards debt reduction in the new year. 

In these twelve or so days I hit ten days of them. My hips and knees are liking it. My ears, not so much. At least I'm keeping myself away from making things worse. My diet isn't seeing the improvements yet, but at least the activity level is on the rise. 

Next steps are being planned and the Break is going to give me the time to make them happen, too.