Tuesday evening
I was not able to quit work early, too much going on! So worked a full shift until 6pm, and started watching soccer and playing with toys at 6:30pm. So it's a popup toy night, should have wrapped up any toy time or hot tub time by midnight so I can function normally tomorrow. (Right now it is raining, so no tub until maybe later.)
Felt good to run this morning and to have a plan for more exercise and ramping it back up toward a 10K. I seem to interpret the same data about my body image differently depending on whether I'm feeling on track with a plan, or off the track. Definitely a psychological component of needing to feel that I'm exercising "enough" according to some arbitrary standard. And not eating "too much" according to some arbitrary standard. Meanwhile, if you like a relatively-fit ginger bear in his 50s, I'm that every day, from the point of view of other people.
T is caught back up with the bills, and this is a three-paycheck month (because I'm paid biweekly -- 26 checks per year), and I've postponed paying off my car loan early, so I've got plenty of financial cushion if there's a lapse in paychecks next month. I've also been steadily switching my cash cushion into CDs and savings accounts that pay higher interest rates (over 5%), so I'm "part of the problem" with banks having troubles right now. No more free cash balances from me!
I was a bit grumpy about work earlier but I did a good job of brushing it off.
I think my journaling brain is suddenly empty now LOL. No, I'll keep writing ;-) I told K I've been working on a massive project about poverty that I'll eventually write in here about, but I'm not sure when I'll reach closure on it. For now I've started reading somebody else's book about modern poverty in the US and I might end up just adopting his position instead of working out my own, we'll see. But I did feel today like I have the luxury of contemplating a position on poverty rather than living in poverty. Am I willing to give up my own life of privilege? Only slowly.
Meanwhile, I can't believe how quickly summer is approaching this year, time going by. I really don't want summer, but sadly it is part of life in the DC area. But four years and four months left here? Closing in on 60 & retirement, steadily, y'all.
I still might pile my retirement funds out of federal debt between now and the X Date (for the debt ceiling) ... I just need time to think through my X Date trading strategy ... like the Capitol Hill "negotiators" I still have a couple weeks to make my trades.
Felt good to run this morning and to have a plan for more exercise and ramping it back up toward a 10K. I seem to interpret the same data about my body image differently depending on whether I'm feeling on track with a plan, or off the track. Definitely a psychological component of needing to feel that I'm exercising "enough" according to some arbitrary standard. And not eating "too much" according to some arbitrary standard. Meanwhile, if you like a relatively-fit ginger bear in his 50s, I'm that every day, from the point of view of other people.
T is caught back up with the bills, and this is a three-paycheck month (because I'm paid biweekly -- 26 checks per year), and I've postponed paying off my car loan early, so I've got plenty of financial cushion if there's a lapse in paychecks next month. I've also been steadily switching my cash cushion into CDs and savings accounts that pay higher interest rates (over 5%), so I'm "part of the problem" with banks having troubles right now. No more free cash balances from me!
I was a bit grumpy about work earlier but I did a good job of brushing it off.
I think my journaling brain is suddenly empty now LOL. No, I'll keep writing ;-) I told K I've been working on a massive project about poverty that I'll eventually write in here about, but I'm not sure when I'll reach closure on it. For now I've started reading somebody else's book about modern poverty in the US and I might end up just adopting his position instead of working out my own, we'll see. But I did feel today like I have the luxury of contemplating a position on poverty rather than living in poverty. Am I willing to give up my own life of privilege? Only slowly.
Meanwhile, I can't believe how quickly summer is approaching this year, time going by. I really don't want summer, but sadly it is part of life in the DC area. But four years and four months left here? Closing in on 60 & retirement, steadily, y'all.
I still might pile my retirement funds out of federal debt between now and the X Date (for the debt ceiling) ... I just need time to think through my X Date trading strategy ... like the Capitol Hill "negotiators" I still have a couple weeks to make my trades.