Breaking A Very Long Streak
As bad a sleep as I had the night before, I think I even got worse sleep last night. Although I felt less sore, it was a case of me feeling so much better that I actually couldn't sleep! And so I tried to quiet my mind by burying it on whatever I could find to read on the web, including a few dozen pages of Melody Fletcher's Deliberate Receiving. And also some Brad Yates EFT tapping on Pain. I know this pain in my legs is something I need to pay attention to. And it feels like there is something I am holding to that I don't have to anymore. And I tried to clear it tonight. The one thing that came up during tapping was that I don't have to sympathize with someone else's pain. Could it be that I am feeling all this simply because I am projecting someone else's pain to myself? And if everyone is whatever I push out then it's like me writing a scene with me feeling pain and THEN directing it to myself to boot. When I put it that way it seems like a pointless software program. But for some reason this one that is running right now has dominated my awareness. THAT is what I must investigate. The WHY of all that. In the meantime I did manage to sleep until almost 8 AM... as did Johnnie and so we got to have another late start today. He didn't care. In the meantime, the leg soreness wasn't there this morning and so I felt like maybe I'm back to normal? Except that now I'm feeling chills. No fever, but chills. Maybe there is some bug trying to do a probe on my immune system. Something I told Lisa that she was experiencing when she was down for more than a week. Great. Johnnie got sick too for a day. Is it my turn now? Actually I didn't really even care so much simply because I had a lot to do today. I had enough on my plate to manage Johnnie doing a double-day lesson plan because Lisa simply couldn't get to it yesterday and then I had to work on my presentation for the Technology Council Meeting tomorrow at the same time. And I did not feel like staying up all night to do that one. Heck I stayed up all night last night already. I posted pics of Johnnie doing his thing during the day. At least he was a good sport about doing double lessons today not that he even knew. When he got done with today's lesson I just continued it with yesterdays. And we STILL managed to get everything done before lunchtime. Which is all the more perplexing to me. Hey, at least this way Johnnie did not have time to get any video breaks in the morning. And then in the afternoon, I had him do TWO PE classes and another half hour of "extra credit" math on Freckle. All the while as I was organizing my presentation. I still didn't feel right and never did all day long. It's as if I was fighting some bug. Chills at times. Then muscle aches. But no fever. A hot flash or two was all I got. By the end of the day I managed to get mostly done with my presentation and so I still did the Tuesday ritual of the Italian sausage barbecuing. And I got Johnnie out there to kick soccer balls too. I had it in the back of my mind that I'm going to have to start giving him drills soon, if only because I saw a video of Jessie's son Enzo doing cones and he was a full 2 years younger than Johnnie. No competitiveness there in me is there? Even while out there I was still feeling chills and I did not have the energy that I would normally to kick the ball around with Johnnie. Heck by then I only had 2600 steps and for once I felt no urgency to go much further than that. In fact, in the back of my mind I was also thinking that perhaps this might be a good time to give my legs a rest. If I didn't feel 100% did I really need to keep my 11,000 steps streak going? Wouldn't it be ok to rest my legs for just one day? And so it was that I gave Johnnie his usual Tuesday dinner. But I didn't have any more energy to make myself more food either. In fact, I wasn't really hungry... a sure sign that I was not 100%. Instead, after dinner I let Johnnie finally watch some Cat-In-the-Hat videos. And I continued to work on my presentation until it was done. And by the time 8:30PM rolled around and it was nearly time to start Johnnie's bedtime routine, I realized that I was going to break the steps streak today. That's because I was barely at 3600 steps. For the longest time I thought the lowest I had reached was 5800 steps. Upon review, it would turn out that the last time I didn't make 70,000 steps in a week was January 2018 when I had the fever from the flu or something. Oh well. at least I managed to do an average of 10,000 steps a day for a year after that time. And then I ramped that up to an average of 11,000 steps a day for more than a year after that. The 3900 steps was the lowest I had done in all that time. But I still had a chance to keep the 70,000 steps this week alive. Or is it really worth it? We'll see how I feel the rest of the week...
As bad a sleep as I had the night before, I think I even got worse sleep last night. Although I felt less sore, it was a case of me feeling so much better that I actually couldn't sleep! And so I tried to quiet my mind by burying it on whatever I could find to read on the web, including a few dozen pages of Melody Fletcher's Deliberate Receiving. And also some Brad Yates EFT tapping on Pain. I know this pain in my legs is something I need to pay attention to. And it feels like there is something I am holding to that I don't have to anymore. And I tried to clear it tonight. The one thing that came up during tapping was that I don't have to sympathize with someone else's pain. Could it be that I am feeling all this simply because I am projecting someone else's pain to myself? And if everyone is whatever I push out then it's like me writing a scene with me feeling pain and THEN directing it to myself to boot. When I put it that way it seems like a pointless software program. But for some reason this one that is running right now has dominated my awareness. THAT is what I must investigate. The WHY of all that. In the meantime I did manage to sleep until almost 8 AM... as did Johnnie and so we got to have another late start today. He didn't care. In the meantime, the leg soreness wasn't there this morning and so I felt like maybe I'm back to normal? Except that now I'm feeling chills. No fever, but chills. Maybe there is some bug trying to do a probe on my immune system. Something I told Lisa that she was experiencing when she was down for more than a week. Great. Johnnie got sick too for a day. Is it my turn now? Actually I didn't really even care so much simply because I had a lot to do today. I had enough on my plate to manage Johnnie doing a double-day lesson plan because Lisa simply couldn't get to it yesterday and then I had to work on my presentation for the Technology Council Meeting tomorrow at the same time. And I did not feel like staying up all night to do that one. Heck I stayed up all night last night already. I posted pics of Johnnie doing his thing during the day. At least he was a good sport about doing double lessons today not that he even knew. When he got done with today's lesson I just continued it with yesterdays. And we STILL managed to get everything done before lunchtime. Which is all the more perplexing to me. Hey, at least this way Johnnie did not have time to get any video breaks in the morning. And then in the afternoon, I had him do TWO PE classes and another half hour of "extra credit" math on Freckle. All the while as I was organizing my presentation. I still didn't feel right and never did all day long. It's as if I was fighting some bug. Chills at times. Then muscle aches. But no fever. A hot flash or two was all I got. By the end of the day I managed to get mostly done with my presentation and so I still did the Tuesday ritual of the Italian sausage barbecuing. And I got Johnnie out there to kick soccer balls too. I had it in the back of my mind that I'm going to have to start giving him drills soon, if only because I saw a video of Jessie's son Enzo doing cones and he was a full 2 years younger than Johnnie. No competitiveness there in me is there? Even while out there I was still feeling chills and I did not have the energy that I would normally to kick the ball around with Johnnie. Heck by then I only had 2600 steps and for once I felt no urgency to go much further than that. In fact, in the back of my mind I was also thinking that perhaps this might be a good time to give my legs a rest. If I didn't feel 100% did I really need to keep my 11,000 steps streak going? Wouldn't it be ok to rest my legs for just one day? And so it was that I gave Johnnie his usual Tuesday dinner. But I didn't have any more energy to make myself more food either. In fact, I wasn't really hungry... a sure sign that I was not 100%. Instead, after dinner I let Johnnie finally watch some Cat-In-the-Hat videos. And I continued to work on my presentation until it was done. And by the time 8:30PM rolled around and it was nearly time to start Johnnie's bedtime routine, I realized that I was going to break the steps streak today. That's because I was barely at 3600 steps. For the longest time I thought the lowest I had reached was 5800 steps. Upon review, it would turn out that the last time I didn't make 70,000 steps in a week was January 2018 when I had the fever from the flu or something. Oh well. at least I managed to do an average of 10,000 steps a day for a year after that time. And then I ramped that up to an average of 11,000 steps a day for more than a year after that. The 3900 steps was the lowest I had done in all that time. But I still had a chance to keep the 70,000 steps this week alive. Or is it really worth it? We'll see how I feel the rest of the week...
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