A friend came over yesterday afternoon and taught me a work-out routine. I am a tad sore today but not bad. It was easier than I expected it to be. I will do the routine three times a week. Once I get it down my trainer will come back and make sure I am doing it correctly and teach me some different ones to do.
I have never been able to stick to an exercise plan. I realized I need to treat it like I do flour and sugar. For today, I choose not to eat food that contains flour or sugar. Maybe tomorrow I will choose to eat it. So for today, I choose to work-out. Tomorrow I may choose not to. Thinking about working out the rest of my life is too overwhelming and depressing. One day at a time!
I watched the full moon rise. It came up before the sun set so wasn’t a great moon rise. As the sky got darker the moon got brighter and more beautiful. Unfortunately clouds rolled in during the eclipse so I didn’t get to see the blood-red moon. When I got up during the night the living room was very bright as the full moon light was reflecting off the snow on the ground. My Match guy went out and watched the eclipse and called me and gave me a minute by minute description of what he could see.
This morning I went into Emporia and picked up a few groceries. I didn’t do any other errands while I was in town. I need to go to the bank but they were closed today. I have my laundry done and am starting on doing some housework. With all the mud outside my house has gotten tracked up and dirty. I still need to get the two guest beds put back together. I seem to be moving slowly these days.
The snow is gradually melting off the prairie today. It is only 35 but there is a brisk wind. I’m glad I need to carry a bucket of feed down with me when I go to the chicken coop so I don’t blow over.
I had to change a light bulb in the living room last night. I have trouble with the extension pole. It twists to keep it extended. The top part of it came undone and was stuck to the light bulb in the ceiling. Luckily it had a long string on it so the suction cup would let loose. I couldn’t get it back into the bottom of the extension pole. I got a suitcase to put on top of my short step-ladder and that was enough height that I could use just the top part of the extension pole and reach the light bulb. I was able to successfully change the light bulb. I am always ridiculously proud of myself when I figure something like that out and it works.
My Match guy sends me a letter everyday and I always send him one. For some reason the letter I got from him this morning triggered something in me. I can’t quite put my finger on what it was and why I got triggered. I have finally learned when someone says something that triggers me it is a clue to myself to look within and find the range that has a tension point in it and expand the range. I’ll have to sit with this one a bit more to discover what that range is. I love learning new things about myself.
Still in my peaceful valley today although I feel like I am at the edge of it and occasionally step out of the peace. So far I have been able to tip myself back into it. I didn’t have a big reaction to the full moon this month which is a bit unusual for me. I did have a crying jag last Thursday so maybe that released the emotion I had been holding and had little to come up during the full moon period.
Grateful my first day of exercise is done and it was easy, grateful I was abl to change a light bulb, and grateful for an opportunity to learn yet another range I need to bust open within.