Just Working

 Feel pretty isolated and working a lot.  60 hours a week mandatory seems not so bad considering I work telecommute, but it really is turning out to be a lot.  At least on my breaks, I can fix something healthy to eat or put a load of laundry in the machine.  But, I am hanging in there.  Just have production goals and have no time to blog.  

I am hoping I can blog more after things calm down and I get more used to this schedule.  I have lots of news about my family, etc.  We have a cousin who is 81 and fighting for his life, got covid.  Was otherwise healthy, was put on a ventilator yesterday, we are very worried.

We got about 6 inches of snow Sunday and it has been so cold here it has stayed on the ground, which is pretty unusual for this part of the south.  

I hope you are staying healthy and warm out there. 

Blogging Reflection

Aka navel gazing for me.

Not sure why I am not blogging much.  But I am sure that DH and I are continuing to feel adjustment to our new life.  So we are either busy working on projects or we are completely lazy.   Maybe we need to fine tune and find happy medium.

I am finding myself not feeling peaceful which makes me overspend and overeat.  Plus I find myself easy to find fault with DH behaviors so I dont have to address mine.

So I have decided that I just need to focus on me and make a few minor tweaks and then maybe I can affect bigger concentric rings of home, career, money, weight.

I went to a good yoga class yesterday in which we were reminded of the importance of meditation.  The practice of yoga is to be in our bodies, not just up in our heads.  To accept what really is and soften and be ok with it,  rather than constantly swim upstream.   The cornerstone of contentment is gratitude.   Yoga leads to unintentionally tuning in, living in the moment and being grateful.

The goal is to become more aware for period of time each day longer than we are actively moving.  The instructor said even 5, 20, 25 min a day will lead to big change.

So I am starting with 15 min each morning before I mindlessly turn on the TV or jump online.

Birthday Weekend!

I wonder if now that I am not a captive audience at a computer for 8 to 10 hours a day, if I will just eventually ease off blogging.  But I still have stuff to say and I really want to blog for a year while retired, to see my evWeolution.

I think I just need to set a certain time a day to blog and stick to it.  I have not been terribly busy, but I have been up to the city with my husband and my sister.  We went back to where DH and I moved from, for my DGM 100 birthday!  She had a nice birthday.  We did a card shower for her, she cannot see and cannot hear, so being around many people is stressful for her.  So, we just did the card shower, we shared with people closed to us and family for her and so far she had gotten 75 be the time we left her on her birthday to come home.

The home where she lives is independent living.  She comes downstairs for her meals.  Her daughter and my cousin, my DGM, my sister, DH and I.  we shared lunch with her.  They sang HBD to her and brought her the annual banana split (evidently this is preferred for elderly over cake).  I can understand that.  I prefer pie over cake, cake can be so very dry and blah.  But my sister did bring her some yummy cupcakes from a place I recommended.

When the recreation therapist and the guy in charge came over to say hello, he had a microphone and asked if DGM wanted to say anything about how she made it so long.  Well my Granny gets that microphone and says..."Well if you don't want to live to 100 you better start drinking and smoking...I never did that".  It was pretty funny.

DH and I playing golf today.  It is gray and spotty rain, but should not amount to much.  Tomorrow is my birthday and I am doing yoga and then I think I am either going to steak place or to the casino for dinner.  I might even play $40 worth of slots.  You know, live dangerously.