Well, my back is once more a bit unhappy with me. I suspect I was a bit too excited about feeling good on Saturday and overdid it. I didn't do too much in the morning, had class, read for a while, stayed in my pj bottoms until lunch (yay for zoom classes). Had a phonecall with a classmate helping him figure out the online stuff. Also called my uncle, so Sending points. But then went out in the afternoon and cut my stair stringer, which involved lots of hunching over, then hefted it into place to check the length (nailed it!). Still felt pretty good after that, went up to the house and baked cookies with my sister, then started working on a jigsaw puzzle, which is when my back really got unhappy.    Sunday, my turn to be chalice-bearer at church, I was feeling a bit meh (think I might be fighting off a bug in addition to the back nonsense) but reading the forums and the sermon triggered some thoughts, so I had a good journalling session later. Mostly just lounged the rest of the day, lots of reading, some Critical Role, also got a decent chunk of housecleaning done.   Week 3 Goals Review: Didn't make a whole lot of progress here this week, but treading water and feeling like I can gain ground this coming week.   Didn't happen because of my back.    I cut one stair stringer, called the electric company and my uncle. Not bad for how I felt most of the week.   So all in all, not great, but could be worse. Feel like it was a conscious decision to pause my goals this week and still managed to accrue 167 points. Not much damage to the Vampirate, though I just realized that at level 5 I should have been doing 2d6 damage for Word of Radiance. Ah well, so it goes.   This week's goals: Ordination: Need to reach out and follow up on my psych eval. Also need to seriously buckle down and do some class work. Strength: Not sure what I'm going to do here, have a chiro appointment on Wednesday, so hopefully my back will be up for lifting in the second half of the week. Barndominium: Really want to cut my second stringer and get both of them installed, but again this largely depends on how my back feels.   The plan: Monday - rainy day, not going to do much, maybe some more cleaning tonight and some class work Tuesday - class work at lunch, dinner with my sister Wednesday - chiro appointment, probably going to my neighbor's Thursday - maybe gym if the chiro is a miracle worker, either class work or barn work in the evenings Friday - basically a carbon copy of Thursday, was originally going to be a half day to use up comp time, but I forgot my cat needs a booster shot, so need to call the vet and double check what day that is, will probably use my comp time then Saturday - no plans, if it's nice hopefully lots of barn work, maybe some fence work Sunday - church, then we'll see. I kind of like taking this as a full rest day but if it's a really nice day, I probably won't be able to resist doing a bit of barn work.

Dropped off - again!!! This time I messed up my sleep and have been feeling pretty bad and my body’s been hurting. Still not feeling it, but tomorrow I’m going back to the gym and hopefully I can get back on track.   The last time I went something funny happened. I was doing my wall exercises and some young gymnast dude walks in and started casually stretching. I’m busy so I ignore him, but take a peek when resting between sets, as one does. Then he randomly got up, did a single set of handstand pushups and left. I’m still so confused. Was that meant to be a weird flex? Good for him I guess. 😄

Thinking about it, typically you wouldn’t notice any symptoms. Most of the symptoms are very vague like confusion or impaired judgement. During my training I got mildly hypoxic once in a pool session and I only knew because my spotter told me my lips were blueish. I felt 100% fine.   It’s like I’m bored and attentive at the same time.   Don’t worry you’re by far the only one!

Mount Pilatus, Luzern  

Beautiful destruction.   How’s everything now?

Excellent.   Exciting battle ahead!

Big hugs!

Thanks TG!!!!!!   Roxy is at work today but got a lovely wake up of kisses   Gig tickets x 3 Books Popcorn   Other pressies later apparently!   Bronze is out with her friends, it is POURING down. She will prob need a bath when home. I will then have a bath too haha   Going to friends later on for pizza.    Also, been and got three pieces of MDF board so i can do some painting. xx

Better late than never 😄