More interesting adventure dreams last night. I like my dreams. I hope I can learn to bring more lucidity into them. So I can have even cooler adventures. But not all the time. It’s nice to just go along for the ride.
I woke up just before the alarm, and I did the week 3 day 4 Shoulders & Arms level 2 exercises. It was nice to get that done early. I think I’ll do some informal movements from week 3 tomorrow, and then do the final day of week 3 on Saturday. On Sunday, I’ll look at week 4 and decide if I want to move on or keep strengthening at week 3. My scap pushups have definitely improved, but there may be more work to be done before I move on.
More meetings at work. Productive ones. And I had a chance to start developing something new, which is fun. Creating new processes and documenting existing ones is work fun for me. Not as fun as hiking new trails, but better than some things at work.
As planned, I mowed during my exercise release/lunch time. I set an alarm to go off at 12:20 so I’d have time to rinse off and eat lunch. But it was so cool and windy outside that I didn’t work up much of a sweat, so I decided to skip the shower. I finally finished my first round of mowing around the house. Including the time I spent trimming, and all the time mowing, it took me just under 19 hours to complete. Last year, when Ambrose estimated how long it took us to mow the “yard”, his estimate was 10 hours. Yeah. I don’t know if I actually took longer because of my issues with strings falling out or if he just vastly underestimated. Maybe he was able to move the mower more quickly than I can. He was bigger and stronger. That mower is tough for me to handle and maneuver.
I was eager to finish that first round of mowing today because I had planned to be on the road tomorrow after work, but that trip has been postponed. Unfortunately, my friend up in Moscow has gotten injured and won’t be able to have guests this weekend. I hope he feels better soon; he’s got a trip planned for the next week and it would suck to miss that. So now I have a kind of free Friday night, since I think it is a bit too early to start round 2 of mowing. I might spend some time trying to flatten some of the divots and pick some of the rocks out to make the next round easier. I’ll need to get a tool of some sort… And I want to get a trowel to help me weed my lilac plant’s little area. It might be time to visit the lumber store in town.
I’ll be hiking on Saturday morning since I’ll be in town. Then a visit to the transfer station to drop off my trash. Probably some grocery shopping, though not a big trip since I haven’t used up what I bought last week. I do need bread, though.
After work, I slapped on some sunscreen and a sports bra and did my two mile run for the week. Tomorrow, either morning or evening, I have a one mile run to do. That one is laps, so it should be fairly easy. Easier than today’s. I thought that I was doing a slower pace than last week, but it turned out that I was faster than last week in both my mile out and my mile back. I made the back mile in under 14 minutes! That one has so many hills, so I’m stoked to get under 14.
Then it was time for family zoom. I had dinner while talking with my parents and brother. Rather than more Friday spaghetti, I chose a protein drink tonight. My digestion has been feeling off kilter, so I went with a liquid dinner for a change of pace. I didn’t shower between the run and the zoom, so I’m still in my running clothes and I can feel the sweat crystals on my skin. I’m planning to do a rinse off and then take a bath before bed. I like reading in the bath.
The next step of the May Move U Mini-Challenge was to eat a specific number of servings of colorful fruits and veggies per day. That’s where I drop off. I’ll keep up with the other things, but I’m not up to a challenge about my diet right now. Getting myself fed is hard enough without trying to add in additional things. And trying to figure out if I have a full serving or not in, say, the very veggie Friday spaghetti would be too difficult at this time. It has been nice to turn off the TV earlier and have quiet time before bed. I might continue that, though I’ll probably give myself a little more screen time. Cut it off half an hour before get ready for bed time instead of a full hour.
I had a vision of what I might do when I get rid of part of my deck. Putting down pavers over some no-grow sheets, with an umbrella stand locked in place under them. The umbrella, for shade, would have to have a case to be put in when not in use, because I think my winds would destroy it even if I left it furled up in place. I could have a little table and some chairs and just a nice little place to hang out. Then slowly renew the remaining deck. Maybe with new materials, maybe just a fresh coat of paint and replacing boards that need replacing. I want to redo the pavers to the front door, try to make it so that there’s no growth coming up between them. Projects to work on… I should probably do some house cleaning, but the outdoor projects call me louder.
I started watching Survivor season 47 this morning. I wanted to get it started so I wouldn’t avoid it. Watching Survivor is something I do that makes me feel connected to Ambrose. Even if it’s seasons he never got to see. When I got lost in my head back in August, a lot of the dream stories I had involved Survivor. I’m going to try to write some of them up as stories. One of them involved my mom, and virtual reality, and her ability to outlast us all at being absolutely still, which was for some reason required for the VR. The show was really “Survive Her” which made sense to my brain at the time. I had so many fascinating dreams when I was unaware of the world.