Month: October 2019

I feel like I need to write something today. My diet has been nonexistent. My workouts sporadic, my stretching more so, tai-chi nonexistent, yoga nonexistent, meditation nonexistent. I feel like I’m just existing, not really living. I think I need a reset, a vacation. My weekend was a whirlwind with 2 benefit dinners, taking my father-in-law to dialysis, Saturday, I put away all the patio/outdoor stuff in the shed and garage – busy, busy. Hell, I haven’t even gave my friends daughter her shower gift for the baby, by the time i get around to that, the baby will be graduating high school. Crap, this is even supposed to be a short week, but I still have watercolor class, Costco shopping, going to my daughters house to get a pallet and drop off a birthday card, a doctors appointment, still get in some workouts, maybe a bike ride, a work from home day, then off to Brown County.

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Ugh, Costco is going to be the death of me… by sugar, fat, and carbs. I have to get rid of my sweet tooth. Along with Costco, It’s killing me slowly. It’s helping to erode my already minimal will power or lack there of. Of course, I could try talking or psych myself up on the way or when I get there.

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Ugh, I am human. I am having issues with getting started working out again. I was kicking ass for 3 weeks, skidded to a halt, and am trying to get back on the wagon. One of the major stumbling blocks is sleep. If I don’t get enough of sleep, I can’t get going in the morning – actually, it just takes me way longer to get going. I end up wasting too much time, and lose my workout window. I have all these grandiose plans and end up sabotaging them with lack of sleep.

So this morning, I got going an hour after I wanted to get started. I farted around with my painting correcting some things, lifted a little bit, stretched for a bit, and called it a day. A far cry from where I wanted to be. My eyes were very tired when i got up at 4:50am. This going to bed by 10:00pm is killing me, sad to say.

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I will admit, I’m kind of bummed. I downloaded and sort of committed to a website tool called “Elementor” that not only allows you to build pages, construct websites, and manipulate WordPress, it looks flat out killer. I felt that i could finally retire “Muse” from Adobe. I installed Elementor as a plug-in for WordPress. When i activated it, it crapped all over the admin site for WordPress and killed the page. I’m working with Elementor Technical Support. Nothing is ever easy, nothing ever works like I think its supposed to.

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