Tuesday -- diving into the Holiday Season
This is a weird work week with Veterans Day a federal holiday on a Thursday. Then my sister arrives on Friday afternoon.
Monday was a return to full days with T at the house -- but with routines a little off because he'd been sick so I was still imposing some masking and distancing between us. So far I'm fine, but I didn't always catch his colds in the past. Overall he seems to get more colds than I do, perhaps his immunity to past colds wanes faster than mine, or he's more gregarious and is exposed to more germs, or he doesn't wash his hands as often, who knows. On the other hand, when I do catch a cold I tend to have more disruptive symptoms than he does, because of my asthma.
If we'd thought he had COVID, I would've grabbed my stuff and headed back to the condo for a week or so. For me the main dividing line is fever -- an imperfect dividing line, but if he'd had a fever I wouldn't have stuck around on Sunday.
On Monday I walked 3.8 miles, split into morning and evening. I caught up on chores -- T had made a mess of the place over the weekend of being sick. I got a bit of work stuff off my plate, but am feeling very much behind, this month will be a busy one, especially the three weeks after this one. I cooked a great dinner. Then early to bed, and now early to rise.
I'll go running this morning and then I'll try to focus intently on work stuff. I meditated once yesterday, but didn't write a poem, so now I'm behind one meditation session and one poem. Or I could wave a wand and say I only have to do six of each per week instead of one per day, heh. My latest Book of the Moon is way behind, I "should" have read more while T was away. Instead I watched TV. I really got into For All Mankind. The second season feels more like a soap opera in space so far, but the first season took a while to build its tension also. I think I felt less "alone" watching TV as compared to reading a book. Hopefull I'll adjust over time and won't have this alone feeling while T's away.
With my sister coming, and a "date" on Thursday morning, and T's new job not starting until next month, my next dose of Time to Self won't be until the weekend before Turkey Day. T and I will have Turkey Dinner with my local brother's family. And the Bug Family Christmas has been set for December 18. Boosted Bug will probably attend even though not all the family has been vaccinated. I doubt T and I will have a large Christmas Eve party, but maybe we'll try to invite a few vaccinated friends this time -- last year he was sick and I'd hurt my back so we did NOTHING for Christmas.
Then MAL in January -- will I want to be around such huge crowds at all? And finally, somewhere in this time frame, planning my own first trip somewhere, probably to Portland but maybe I'll meet K in some other city so we both get a break from our regular lives. Though K surprised me by saying his Portland family wants to hang out with me when I visit. But he also said the dead of winter isn't the best time to visit Portland. I will finally plan a trip somewhere!
Monday was a return to full days with T at the house -- but with routines a little off because he'd been sick so I was still imposing some masking and distancing between us. So far I'm fine, but I didn't always catch his colds in the past. Overall he seems to get more colds than I do, perhaps his immunity to past colds wanes faster than mine, or he's more gregarious and is exposed to more germs, or he doesn't wash his hands as often, who knows. On the other hand, when I do catch a cold I tend to have more disruptive symptoms than he does, because of my asthma.
If we'd thought he had COVID, I would've grabbed my stuff and headed back to the condo for a week or so. For me the main dividing line is fever -- an imperfect dividing line, but if he'd had a fever I wouldn't have stuck around on Sunday.
On Monday I walked 3.8 miles, split into morning and evening. I caught up on chores -- T had made a mess of the place over the weekend of being sick. I got a bit of work stuff off my plate, but am feeling very much behind, this month will be a busy one, especially the three weeks after this one. I cooked a great dinner. Then early to bed, and now early to rise.
I'll go running this morning and then I'll try to focus intently on work stuff. I meditated once yesterday, but didn't write a poem, so now I'm behind one meditation session and one poem. Or I could wave a wand and say I only have to do six of each per week instead of one per day, heh. My latest Book of the Moon is way behind, I "should" have read more while T was away. Instead I watched TV. I really got into For All Mankind. The second season feels more like a soap opera in space so far, but the first season took a while to build its tension also. I think I felt less "alone" watching TV as compared to reading a book. Hopefull I'll adjust over time and won't have this alone feeling while T's away.
With my sister coming, and a "date" on Thursday morning, and T's new job not starting until next month, my next dose of Time to Self won't be until the weekend before Turkey Day. T and I will have Turkey Dinner with my local brother's family. And the Bug Family Christmas has been set for December 18. Boosted Bug will probably attend even though not all the family has been vaccinated. I doubt T and I will have a large Christmas Eve party, but maybe we'll try to invite a few vaccinated friends this time -- last year he was sick and I'd hurt my back so we did NOTHING for Christmas.
Then MAL in January -- will I want to be around such huge crowds at all? And finally, somewhere in this time frame, planning my own first trip somewhere, probably to Portland but maybe I'll meet K in some other city so we both get a break from our regular lives. Though K surprised me by saying his Portland family wants to hang out with me when I visit. But he also said the dead of winter isn't the best time to visit Portland. I will finally plan a trip somewhere!