Bracing for a people-y week ahead!

 

When the calendar gets busy, I do need to pace myself.  As a retired person and an introvert, and it being Winter, I try to keep my appointments down to one a day.  To a degree this is self-indulgent, but one could also consider it self-preservation!

Taking it easy over the weekend leading into such a week is a pattern I've found most successful.

Monday the HVAC folks will show up to change my furnace filter.  Now this is kind of excessive, in that I can easily do this myself.  But it's part of the subscription service that also saves me from emergency call-out charges, so I do take advantage.

Tuesday and Thursday are my trainer workout days, which is every week.  Wednesday and Friday are medicalizing ones:  fasting blood work on Wednesday, and a regular dental cleaning plus x-rays on Friday.  I will be curious to see the results of that blood work, given I've been following that intermittent fasting since Halloween.  And I need to get my "don't miss this when you go to Boston" list together for my dentist for Friday!

Meantime, I watched moonrise out the front of the house, then sunrise off the back side.  These two photos were taken within minutes of one another:

Great ball of fire!

   Sunday was supposed to be a "down" day but it turned into a bit of a flurry of cleaning / organizing.  

   I cleared off what used to be the "phone" shelf (before I went mobile only).  I q-tip cleaned the burner controls on the stove.  I sorted the loose change jar into rolls of coins.  And I shredded papers that weren't needed to be saved, and filed some others.  I cleaned the Keurig machine.  I even squirted and wiped down the sliding glass door, more a lick and a promise than a proper cleaning, but it's easier to see out now!

   I was done with all that by 2 p.m.  At that point, I decided enough!

Pale mistress,
on the way to setting.

I rewarded myself with a walk outside in the sunshine.  They have started laying in the concrete base for the creek crossing, down the block.  Lots of others out walking themselves and their doggos, as this is likely to be the nicest day that most folks have off work.

I was pleased to received a new "toy" that I was tempted into ordering.  I probably don't "need" this, but I bought a chest lamp that clips into my Noxgear light vest.  I'm thinking this will work better for me than the head-lamp, for pre-sunrise or post-sunset walking.  Carl and I will match, and I'll be able to find his poo after dark, when I'm boarding him while his "paw-rents" go on their honeymoon!

Hope you all had a fine Sunday, too.

Life is good.  Spark on!