Sunday Funday

 There was another torrential storm on Friday.  No damage here, but it sure did bring a cool front, for which we are very grateful.

Yesterday, it was only 90 degrees.  In Mid-August!! Today's predicted high is 88!!

This morning, we got up and went out for our sunrise walk at a park up north of town.  It was 72 degrees.  Humid, but so refreshing.  The water was like glass, it was so pretty in the hazy sunrise.

Got home by 8, cooked a somewhat labor-intensive breakfast, ate, and everything was all done by 8:45am.

I LOVE days like this....because now the whole day is stretched out in front of us, and we can take our time about anything else that we want to do.

Dave still has all of his chores to do, because he has trouble motivating himself to just get them done.  He will do them today, though, and he can take his breaks to sit and stare at his computer, and still have time to do it all.

I did mine Friday night and yesterday morning, for the most part.  I like that feeling of accomplishment, AND of not having it hanging over my weekend!

This whole past week, we got up at dawn and went for a walk before coffee, breakfast, and showers.  Then, on my 9:30 morning break time, we went walking again.  

(The only day we skipped was Monday, because that's the day I have to go to the office, and it's really hot there by 9:30 because it's all concrete and buildings.  I did go out for a few minutes and walked around the block, but when I am not home, Dave tends to not move from his seat all day.)

Then, because it was so hot in the afternoons, we did indoor workouts.  

Well, I did... Dave got up and lifted his little dumb-bells for about 2 minutes (which is something, and something is better than nothing), while I did two sets with my hand weights, using different muscle groups, two sets of squats (unweighted, then weighted), two sets of posterior leg lifts, two sets of crunches, all twelve reps each, and then some exercise bands, yoga and stretching.  

It takes all of my 15 minute break, if I go fast, and let it get my heart rate up!

My left hip and hamstring are my newest pain (it's scaring me a little, and reminding me of last December), and it's really bad in the morning, and after sitting at my desk....but it seems to resolve after I get up and move around.  Getting up and moving around, though, it intense.

The shoulder is doing better now, thankfully...but that's how this works.  The pain travels, and the intensity of it waxes and wanes.  

It's so weird, and I am so sick of it, after years, but oh well.

In other news, the Delta variant of COVID is burning it's way through Oklahoma.  

The numbers just keep going up and up, and the stupid governor refuses to do anything about it.  He doesn't think it's worthy of a declaration of emergency.  If he would just DO THAT, the over-run hospitals would be able to get assistance....but he doesn't see a problem!

School started this past week, and OMG, the uproar about masks is mind boggling.  Children are DYING... and parents who don't believe this is real are beating up school personnel over mask orders in school districts.

What has become of this world??

Anyway, I can't do anything about that, so instead, I try to focus my energy on my own inner peace, and on trying to spread healing energy however I can.

It's kind of what I've always done anyway.

So, we are on household lock down, for the most part.  We never stopped wearing masks when going out to do errands, so nothing has changed for us, other than we are not going out and doing errands unless we absolutely have to, like last year.  

We had gone out to eat a couple of times since spring, but always masked, and sat outside whenever we could.  We met with friends a couple of times, but have stopped doing that, too.

I had my last pre scheduled massage yesterday, because I really needed it for this pain I am having, but we both wore KN95 masks during the appointment (I took mine off when I was face down, though, because I literally could not breathe).

I also had my yoga therapy appointment, and, again, we both wore KN95 masks, and mostly stayed distanced.  It's terribly uncomfortable, but we need to protect each other.

My sister got the last of the jaw wiring stuff taken out of her mouth on Friday.  

They unwired her about 2 weeks ago, I think, but they left the brackets in, just in case they had to close her up again.

Thankfully, that didn't happen, so the brackets came out Friday.  That took 14 novocaine shots and sedation... sounds like it was terrible....but not nearly as bad as when they put everything in while she was awake!!!

We are all SO HAPPY that this ordeal is OVER for her, but her sense of relief must be exponential.

My brother has to have another surgery to release an impinged nerve in his RIGHT arm this time, and his back surgeon wants to re-evaluate him, since he's having issues again, and his back first surgery was less than a year ago.

He did lose his kitty cat about three weeks ago, too.  She finally passed after 11 weeks of decline, during which he cared for her vigilantly. 

Our Frank is still acting weird, but not AS weird, so we have not called the vet again.  

Dave is going to see his psychiatrist soon, and we are hoping that a new medication, or a dosage change, will help him to overcome his gradual increase of depression, which is probably responsible for his ever increasing lack of motivation to do ANYTHING at all, and his pervasive negative attitude.

That's about it from Dragons' Roost.  Wishing you a healthy, easy week!