Friday Before the Long Weekend

The Friday before the long weekend is always countdown day. As in I would not have been focused on work at all had I been in the office. But even so working from home, I only had one thing between today and the 3-day weekend and that would be the Huddle at 3 PM. And I was sure that was going to be a quick one. In the meantime I did manage to focus on work this morning because I left myself a lot of work to focus on. I had to do administrative work approving invoices. Lots and lots of invoices. I didn't really do a good job of getting to them in the past couple of weeks and now I have to get to them or they will be paid late. And so it was that I spent the entire morning WORKING! Shocking I know. I'm shocked too. I keep telling people I work harder and work more now that I'm working from home. Still at least I'm not in work clothes, I didn't have to drive anywhere and for the 2nd day in a row, I never even made it to the shower. I hate that I don't do that! I promised myself that would be the one thing i would do daily. And I'm not so sure this was because of all the soreness and aches and pains in my legs either. As far as that goes, I did manage some decent sleep last night and for the first time in a week, my resting heart rate ticked downwards. By a mere point mind you but considering it had doing a fast upward climb in just a few days, it's at least an indication that I am starting to "normalize". As grungy as I looked and felt I forced myself to go outside and enjoy the warmness of the sun and smell the aroma of summer. THAT was the play-of-the-day. Those white flowers that could be found everywhere. It's all around Lisa's perimeter of course and it's all around the barbecue area too. And maybe I reminded myself it's not so important to get to as many steps today. After all, I already did 10,000 steps in back to back days. It was the push-push-push attitude I am working on. And today I was trying to just let things be. Whatever came up, I would just allow to come up. And by mid-day I even found myself closing my eyes for a bit and catching a 10-minute rest. No small feat this week as I had tried it at least twice during those days I didn't sleep well at all. And my firbit couldn't register any sleep cycles. No push-push-push on that either. I was trying to give myself my own advice that I was trying to give to Lisa when she fell ill. Just chill. It's ok to simply DO NOTHING. Your body will tell you what it needs. Mine was testing my own anxiety response. And I did not do so well this week. Not at all.

As expected the last meeting of the day... the late afternoon huddle lasted all of 30 minutes and that's after I felt like Barbara was actually stretching it some. And when it was done I almost let out an "Zippy-dee-doo-dah!!!"  After all, we just concluded that long stretch between the last 3-day weekend in February... to this one. Of course it was hard to notice simply because of all the stay-at-home from March on but still. A timemarker is a timemarker. I didn' roll out immediately to Trader Joe's like I had been doing most Friday afternoons. The earlier I got out, the less of a crowd I would face to get in. This afternoon I just went to Ralphs and loaded up. I bought almost $100 worth of groceries. I had not done that since the first experiences of panic buying in late March when we were running out of stuff. Why $100? Because I would buy stuff I didn't usually buy. Like Lavash wrap. And babaganoush. I figured I'd re-create Lisa's turkey wrap special. It's fast and it's pretty damn good. That Lavash wrap was the find-of-the-day simply  because I doubt they carry it all the time. You would usually get it just at Armenian or Persian markets. And when would you find me inside those? LOL LOL. I reminded myself I still had quite a bit of food in the fridge after all, but hey it is the 3-day weekend coming up isn't it By the time I rolled out of Ralphs, I didn't feel like heading over to Trader Joe's anymore. Maybe I'll do that over the weekend. After all, I'm sure to be buying stuff for Lisa. If anything that Frech brioche bread is already needing to be replenished I'm sure. But really I didn't want to think about anything tonight. That was the point isn't it? I was only all too happy spending my Friday night drowned in Netflix binge-watching. If these were normal times I'd find my way out to a movie theater I'm sure. Since it's NOT normal times, I checked my fitBit, found that i somehow already made it to 5,000 steps and found no need to go further than that. Not only that I also got an email from my apartment regarding my lease renewal. For the next year the lease is... the same as it is now! Another "Zippy-dee-doo-dah!!!"   Of course I'm going to re-up. And so that's one less thing to think about. And now at least I know that the steps baseline is about 5000 at the minimum. That I could get to half the 11,000 goal pretty much just being out and about doing what I normally do already. So what did I do tonight? Watch old Game of Thrones clips actually. It's been a year since it ended and quite some time since I spent time with Jon Snow and Daenarys et al.  Maybe this fed my seemingly insatiable need to watch some period piece from Medieval times. I wonder what I was during thosse medieval times? A butterfly perhaps? LOL. I did watch the latest episode of Snowpiercer which is the next sci-fi thriller I had interest in. And so with that went a very quiet Friday night to bring on the long 3-day weekend.