Tuesday evening I got home and chilled before the board meeting. I might remind myself that time to sit still is a thing.   The meeting got done early. Bonus of doing a zoom meeting - I was able to take notes on the computer at the same time and did not have to write them up afterwards. They are not as cohesive as usual, but I doubt anyone was reading them for literary quality. I got quite a few things taken care of afterwards. That included getting out some fun roving to spin sometime soon.   On the Bodies are Weird topic: I could not fall asleep even though there was no caffeine in  my system and I took 6mg of melatonin at 8:30pm. Dumbledore did come home with groceries at 10:30 at night and make noise in the kitchen. That just gave me something to pay attention to while not falling asleep. My hip suddenly got better. I sat zen for 30 minutes at lunchtime with no twinges. At least not from the hip. Other muscles got tight towards the end. WTF? I still have no idea what I did to piss it off. Not so weird - I got my covid and flu shots today and am tired. I am going to go home and take it easy.

Thank you 😚

Pfft how lazy. 

You too!! 😊 

So I've heard good things about this game and especially how it approaches/portrays mental health issues, given that the main character suffers from psychosis. Been on my wishlist for a while, then I got it and it just moved to my backlog. Apparently a sequel was released this spring, so now both of them are on Game Pass, which deffy has on her Xbox. Decided to give it a go.   Wow.   I'm not the type to enjoy games heavy on the walking, puzzle and cinematic stuff (you'd love this btw @TimovieMan) and nor am I much into the overplayed viking theme, but this drew me in. There's excellent pacing between those aspects and combat, which is mechanically simple enough, but at the same time challenging enough and beautifully choreographed. Same with the puzzles, they're just challenging and infrequent enough. If you don't just run around trying to finish the game but sometimes just walk to give your mind and heart some space to process things, it's quite the experience. I've completed it and already downloaded the sequel.   If you can't already tell, I'm having a great time. As for the other life stuff, I'll just send you over Def's thread to avoid repeating

*happy fanfare* I locked in, buckled down, and got the paper revision sent off to co-authors!!! Then jumped on my bike and rode home. Have a couple hours to chill and eat some dinner before I have to be at show choir.   Had a good visit with friend, too, haven’t had a chance to catch up with her in a LONG time! We used to work out together at the campus gym, but she wisely jumped ship to another privately owned gym that’s apparently way less crowded. I should consider it (well, not the same gym, but one closer to my place).  

I do not keep up with movies so hadn't heard of this, but the picture is beautiful, and your description makes me want to see it. 

It's how my parents always handled money. It's how I've always handled it too. But I'm at a point in my life where I don't need to live paycheck to paycheck. Things aren't so tight, but money is still leaking through my fingers, and far too often with nothing to show for it. So, lets gamify part of my spending and see how it goes!    

Meeting was cancelled, so I rested, because last night was a very bad sleep night. Made some miso soup to warm up and hydrate.     This is an excellent cool weather miso soup. The recipe has mushrooms and spinach and milk and melting cheese, like mozzarella. I had my miso premixed with seaweed and grated carrot and sesame seeds and garlic, and I had no spinach, so I added mushrooms and a couple of slices of my harvested ginger, and a little of the leftover corn. Just enough for color, especially since mine focuses on the water for hydration.   It's still basically a broth with decorative bits, but they're very cozy decorative bits. This recipe is autumn-approved. (With spinach, I guess it's cold early spring approved.)   Now that I'm refueled, I shall have to go think about mentally difficult work and strength training, which has been a bit of a physical trial lately.

Morning   Well, husband left for work at 2am and won't be back till tomorrow 😭   So I got the kiddos up, fed and off to school. Took Bear out for a nice walk, had Brekky, did chores, errands then paced when I got home. No workout today, I'm still feeling a little under the weather and my stomach hurts. So I leisurely walked 20k steps then sat down to enjoy my girly drama shows, I'm watching "the real housewives of Beverly Hills" and "vanderpump rules".    I was so tired after watching tv I took a 30 min nap. And I felt much better after! Here I thought I needed a long nap to feel OK, but nope, a short nap works too.