Feeling Lazy today

Without golf Sunday I now no longer have to wake up early on Sundays and head out for a tee time. Which is not a good thing. Used to be I would allow Saturdays to be those do-nothing days where I can almost meditate all day long. Today I woke up still with that odd muscle ache in my legs. I would like to think it is just some detoxing my body is doing after something has clicked with regards to cleaning and clearing up some old pain. I would NOT like to think it is some bug or coronavirus or anything like that as this definitely means my thought are once again not in the right place. At least I did manage to get a tiny win first thing in the morning. After lollygagging so much it was almost 9 AM by the time I ventured out to get some breakfast, I wanted to get a Starbucks double smoked bacon and egg sandwich like I had gotten on many a Sunday morning before heading out to the golf courses. Only there was this HUGE long line of at least 10 cars in front of me. I waited for 2 minutes before I pulled myself out of the line. And thought to myself... I could go walk up to another Starbucks. And remembered one at Ralphs right across the street. And that is where I got my breakfast with no waiting whatsoever. That and the picture of the nice violet flowers lining the street on my drive back home was the play-of-the-day. I wish I could say I was energized for the rest of the day but in fact the opposite became true. With my legs and now my back feeling achy I was perfectly okay to just sit on the couch and veg today. For lunch I was happy to eat leftovers. I had plenty anyway. And fortunately I did to stages of 1000 steps doing a version of powerwalking which got me my cardio minutes and active minutes before I even got to 5000 steps today. Those I was determined to keep up, although I'm also thinking my stepped up cardio activity might also be wearing on my legs some too. After all, it was that run on Friday that precipitated all this soreness.

Still, I veged through the afternoon until I decided I would clean the bathroom.  At least THAT would give me some feeling of accomplishment for the day. Sad when you have to clean your bathroom and your toilet so you can feel good about yourself but that's all I got today. By the end of the afternoon I was still feeling sluggish but I at least DID clean my toilet and my bathroom and by 4:30 PM I got a call from Lisa. I didn't expect to hear from her today and didn't expect to see Johnnie. That's because I thought her dad was coming over as was Joah. And so I was happy to leave today as her family day and looked forward to seeing Johnnie tomorrow. But I also know that half the time she calls to invite me over, it is actually JOHNNIE who is goading her to get me to eat with them. Especially when she doesn't have food ready.  As I was talking to her in the background I hear Johnnie asking for chicken strips from Carl's Jr. Why am I not surprised. And so it was that I find myself stopping to get gas, then getting chicken strips for Johnnie, and then making a stop at El Pollo Loco to get chicken for Lisa and I. I threw in churros too for dessert since I'm here now anyway. And had dinner with Johnnie and mom. She had been making tabbouleh for the last hour and it was too liquidy even for her. But I thought it was fine. There was no rice and I actually was expecting some. But I think this is more so to get me to watch Johnnie while Lisa played piano. I was happy to let her do that. And I did get to spend at least a good hour playing with Johnnie although I'll be honest that for 20 minutes I snuck in some Tumble Leaf that he watched. What would Lisa care anyway? She got at least an hour-and-a-half of piano time in. She herself mentioned afterwards that her hands were about to fall off. it was almost 8:30 when I went home and I had barely enough energy to finish steps tonight. I couldn't even make it to 10,000.  I needed 9700 to get to the target 77700 which would mean I still averaged 11,100 steps per day. And once I got there I just stopped and tanked it. My legs were even more sore today. It is starting to really bug me.