TiogaGirl

Whew! It was a busy day but pretty productive. Got the editorial stuff done for journal B (although not half an hour later, MORE STUFF rolled in for journal A!) got PhD defence questions mostly compiled (will give it another hour or so tomorrow morning), had a quick pass over MSc proposal, fixed up some lab safety stuff, went to seminar, came home and had a quick decompress before heading back out to rehearsal. Back for the night now 😅 Food tracked for 4 days in a row now, and within goals for 2 days in a row! Thanks for the cheering section, much needed!

Hey hey! The bad: it’s Monday of a week with tons of reading and work to do 😭 editorial stuff, reading over a PhD dissertation and a MSc proposal the good: bright blue sky and sunshine, I slept like an absolute rock and woke up all pink cheeked and refreshed, my muscles are just the right level of sore after lifting both days this weekend (don’t worry, my coach has me on an appropriate split schedule, not working the same ones two days in a row!), Carolina wrens just belting it out, and kid 2 is home for the summer! Assuming I make it through this week I have a sorely needed hair appointment Friday, hot yoga booked for Saturday AND Sunday, and a massage booked for next week. 🤞

All right! List time 🤩 Feed the beasts dogwalk youngest two dogwalk senior guy Clean up back yard farmer’s market breakfast & track shower, brush teeth lunch & track lifting - pretty sure i have enough plates that i can do it at home today!! Whee! review music (pomodoro) paper (pomodoro) dissertation notes (pomodoro) message friend about free yoga next week! And sign up myself prep soup prep cornbread (optional) bake cake!! Bath??

Well, it’s Saturday morning and my pets are all fed / medicated and I’m chilling with a latte and the Carolina wren who shares the property with us is singing his little lungs out. Not bad! I hope all your neighbouring birds are singing too. Yesterday went from heavy rain in the morning to suddenly clear and fluffy white clouds in a bright blue sky in the afternoon. I took it as a sign and put the paper away & went for a little walk (which turned into a longer walk as i got messaged from our neighbourhood buy nothing group that i could pick up a shiatsu massager, but it was on the very far side of our neighbourhood!) Food was pretty good yesterday, for the first time in a long time tracked everything and did some cooking. A little progress integrating the new stats into the paper but not quite submittable yet. On the inflow side of work, got TWO new editorial assignments, bleh. As planned, i didn’t do anything to address them yesterday, but they’ll be there waiting on Monday for sure along with all the other stuff. So yesterday’s list was just focused on a few things, and the to-do list was very terse and all broad strokes - I kind of liked the focusy part (most days my energy is drawn to a million different trivial tasks) but not the broad strokes aspect of the list… I like identifying and knocking off all the baby steps much better! The more you know… today’s list is not yet finalized, but will include some Grease review, the usual dogwalks, a walk to the farmer’s market ISO rhubarb, maybe another walk with youngest dog to her favourite play park if we get back in time, some lifting (as yet unknown whether I’ll ride bike to campus or if i can macgyver something here using the weights i have at home), one pomodoro of paper revision just to keep things greased and groovy, one pomodoro of dissertation review for an exam coming up early next week, and fixing dinner for me and kid 1. Maybe a bath too if I get all that other stuff done! Hubs comes home today, bringing kid 2 home from university for the summer!! Happy dance!!!

Update: Pets all alive and happy food prep: yes, turkey meatballs, Greek veggies, protein chia pudding paper finalization: done some laundry: not yet! activity: very low!! Going to walk to the little library to drop off books then grocery store to pick up some yogurt.

Hmm, my lists are long, but i fear that is a combination of my deluded optimism and breaking things down to the tiniest of steps so’s I can cross off more items and get that sweet dopamine hit 😂 but I picked up the listing habit from YOU sal so i fully support you getting back to list mode! This week - lifting has been good, general activity has been great (walking, biking, dancing, water running), work productivity has been meh (largely treading water just keeping up with meetings etc while other stuff piles up ominously), and tracking food has fully fallen by the wayside. I think I’ll focus on a smaller amount of things today, just (1) food prep so i have some high protein lunches and snacks around, (2) get as far as i can today finalizing and submitting a paper, (3) put away my laundry!! There are some other tasks too, like keep the pets alive and entertained, brush my teeth, fix dinner for me and kid 1, but I got those.

so, today: walk younger dogs walk the old boy breakfast shower, get cute walk to campus research seminar lunch professional society email mailout read over materials for afternoon meeting power walk if I can squeeze it in! afternoon meeting afternoon social thing with job candidate walk home rehearsal!! oil cleanse, hydrate early bed, or at least as early as possible

Thanks! Mixed bag, but good overall! I love love love the music, and the cast were good. The sound quality was very rough (most cast were miked and the mic’s unpredictably hissed and gave feedback or cut out entirely) so that took us out of the moment a fair bit! Oh, community theatre. My friend was great, and we ran into several other people from my choir at the same performance so that’s fun! Friday was a crazy windy night. We didn’t lose power but many in our city and ‘hood did. 😬 oh, fancy dress ball on Saturday! It was really fun - used my anti aging mask to prep 😂 then got into my gown that hasn’t seen any action since I bought it just before the pandemic. And my favourite fluevog boots, obvs. Pre-partied at a castmate’s house, then down to the event itself which was super fun. I danced til my feet were sore, shed the boots and danced in stocking feet for a few more songs til they were sore too, then boogied over to the karaoke setup and channeled my inner Dolly Parton, my inner John Travolta, my inner Chiffons… Finally made it home before turning into a pumpkin, very smug from such a good time. Sunday was a very full rehearsal, so i was happy not to be hungover (although my feet were still pretty sore and my knees were feeling all the dancing from the night before plus Saturday’s leg day at the gym 😭) also took baby dog to her best dog park in the morning, and video called kid 2. And sat in the sun a little big (GORGEOUS sunny day and over 20C!) No work got done, and i didn’t make it to the gym. Well, I’ll go after arm day today. Today … I’m gonna need a list, if not a full on training montage.

Awww, thanks girl! I wish the sun was still out too 😭 it’s been rainy and blustery for a couple days. But had a great birthday anyway! our book club finished North Woods (highly recommend) and we are now on to “I am Not Sydney Poitier” - haven’t started it yet but it sounds promising! Tonight, going to see Rent (a friend is in the ensemble!) and tomorrow, going with my cast mates to a fancy-dress ball! As luck would have it, I have a fancy dress that has never been worn (bought in early 2020 for a show but then Covid happened) so… I guess this will be its big outing!

😍 😍 😍 Great birthday, especially considering it was a workday! Excellent seminar, work friend took me to lunch, went to the gym, then social hour with visiting speaker. Then walked home with hubs, got into dry clothes (raining hard), and drove downtown to my best taco place for tacos and margaritas with kid 1. Video chatted with my mom, then with kid 2, opened some gifts, and good vibey texts rolling in from friends all the while. I like it 😊

😍 It’s been a solid productive week so far! Man was I wiped out when I got home Monday night though. Just crashed onto the couch and chilled with youngest dog for about half an hour before I could drag my carcass into the shower 😂 Today’s my birthday!! I had tried to avoid scheduling any work meetings, but some cropped up anyway, so I’m heading in to campus.

Solid plan! Good luck with it!

IT IS SO SUNNY AND WARM!!! All I can do to keep myself in my office today, but boy is there a lot that needs doing. dogwalk walk to campus walk across campus to hubs' building, field inventory walk to gym, leg day (deadlifts & squats) walk to neighbouring campus, get lunch walk to office organize grad student summer salaries send field safety plan to grad students review PhD thesis, submit recommendation on defensability editorial work pomodoro (skim paper, think about reviewers) repeat editorial pomodoro as necessary get home (maybe bus if legs too tired!) shower review songs and dances act 1

Eclipse day!! 🤩 Just going to campus to meet my new student (freshly arrived from overseas), then home to work from here and hopefully check out the solar festivities this afternoon. The weather is threatening clouds but I remain optimistic. I will have a ton of reading to do too, but gotta take a break for totality. the weekend went by so fast, I need another one! Sunday was kid 2’s birthday, and they endearingly mostly just wanted to hang out doing family stuff. So dogwalk with me and the two youngest dogs, extra dogwalk to the seminary with Pep, all our NYT games, lots of time in the sunshine. I had rehearsal all afternoon and boy was it tough to force myself to go inside when it was sunny and bright-blue-sky and WARM out there! But rehearsal was super productive, got all the costuming stuff okayed and got to show off my crazy 50s/rockabilly outfits.😂 Came home, played outdoors with the weighted hula hoop (see above re giving zero foxes), baked a pretty awesome birthday cake, all good stuff. Have gotten off track on tracking food, need to fix that up! I could barely squeeze into my tight-waist skirt for costume try-one! 😬

Saturday afternoon, drinking tea, chillin’ with hubby and kid 2 and the dogs (kid 1 out with gf). Things are all right! Some kind of level up happened yesterday as regards giving fewer phoques… got to the gym, realized I had forgotten my workout top, didn’t have time to run back to the office and get it, so I just worked out in my sports bra (well, and shorts). The world didn’t end, and lots of the students were wearing tops teenier than mine. There was a time when I would have just bailed on lifting, but not yesterday! Today, took the day off gym and compensated with extra time outside (it is really nice and sunny) - took baby dog to her favourite park, strolled round the ‘hood with kid 2, even dug out my bike from the garage and pumped up the tires! Book club tonight, so likely have a glass of wine and some tasty snacks. Sign me up!