I skipped the morning walk again. Just not feeling well. I gave myself an extra twenty minutes in bed, and then still didn’t want to get up and face the day. I listened to the loving kindness meditation for the first time in a while. It was good to listen to it again, but I still didn’t want to get up and face the day. I wished so much that I could call in sick, but I didn’t feel that I could. I wasn’t so sick that I couldn’t work, just sick enough that I really didn’t want to.
Before work, I decided to order some flowers to send my colleague whose dad just passed away. I hope they are brought some comfort by that. I remember feeling comforted when I got flowers after my mom died. I wish I’d gotten some after Ambrose died, but I understand why I wouldn’t have. There aren’t any nearby florists.
When my mom died, it was during Covid, and the flowers helped remind me that it was real. She was really gone, and it wasn’t just a dream.
It feels like the cold was more in my head this morning, but has since settled down into my guts. I’ve been extremely gassy, with periods of diarrhea. I’ve been drinking a lot of fluids, including hot tea to try and keep things moving. Maybe I’ll feel better enough tomorrow to get some snowshoeing done in the yard.
It snowed 6 inches today, but then some of it melted away. I cleared the snow off of my shed during lunch. It was already melting and wet, hard to move. I got sweaty clearing it, though I didn’t get sweaty on the walk to the mailbox.
After work, I did a half mile walk. I set some goals in the MapMyRun app, and that will help me reach my weekly goals, which I set low enough to reach even on weeks like this when I’m not able to push as hard as I’d prefer. Last week, I beat every goal by a good amount; this week, I’m going to just make it.
Then I got to work on the next set of exercises for Head and Neck level 2. I could kind of feel my sinuses draining in some of the positions I put my head in. Felt good. Maybe that’s why I’m feeling better this evening.
I think I’ll take a bath before bed. I didn’t shower this morning because I was paranoid after the shower just ran out of water yesterday. That was so weird. Water’s been flowing, even hot water, which I used to wash my face this morning. But I don’t want to be in the middle of a shower and just lose the water.
