Ali in OR
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I know that I can do hard things. I've done hard things. Lots of them. So I'm not as flustered as my younger peers when we have to do hard things.
I go home after work to a peaceful setting (after I feed the dog and cat). My coworker has young children and has no space to think at home.
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Just lots of rain here. The watch weather showed a snowflake for the weekend for awhile but that's gone now--not going to get as cold as they thought. So just rain.
21 min fitbymik cardio followed by one of her 5 min cool down videos.
eta: I lied--the snowflake is back for Saturday. We shall see.
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1 minute ago, SKL said:
Do you think it applies to technology / internet freedom also?
Not to me. I'm thinking body movement, course of your actions, still doing physical stuff. Tech is so passive to me, and even if you think you're controlling what you're doing, you don't realize how much control is being exerted on you by others who determine what you see and where you go (thinking of my dd following TikTok, Be Real, etc and students hooked on particular games).
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Day 2 of Adriene's 30 Days of Yoga today. I think lots of rain today, but if not I'll take dd on a quick walk. We can handle light misty stuff but we've been having some good downpours.
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My brain is linking this to the article from the American Pediatrics a couple weeks ago about the rise in anxiety linked to this decrease in autonomy, so perhaps the real benefit isn't the cardio workout but the mental health of roaming free without parental/adult oversight all the time.
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21 min on the treadmill this morning. I do get plenty of steps to close the exercise ring just moving around school. And eating pretty healthy today--now let's see if I can just stop eating for the day!
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To be sure, I have many memories of us watching t.v. after school until dinner. But I was also pretty active:
-Walked to and from school, probably a little over a mile each way.
-Ice skating was my sport. I know I practiced 4 hours at a time (3:00-7:00), but I can't remember how many days a week. I'm guessing 3, maybe 4. But not in summer--too hot to pay the bills to keep ice.
-We belonged to a racquet club. I would bike there (1-2 miles) and then we would play racquet ball or tennis.My sister is only a year younger than me so we did a lot of this together.
-My ice skating friend lived near the racquet club--I would bike to her house too.
-This was about the age my sister and I were allowed to bike by ourselves downtown and go "shopping." We liked the candy store with jelly bellies.
-We had a major week-long backpacking trip in the Sierras every summer. Some days would be 10 miles of hiking.
-And we would just play outside a lot--built forts, climbed trees, played touch football with our brothers, climbed up onto the roof, jumped off, went swimming, biked around the neighborhood, etc.
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Age 11 in the later 70's in 6th grade. My mom had 4 kids in 5 years, and we were kind of on our own for breakfast and lunch--Mom slept in. I remember making my lunch at a pretty early age--my first grade teacher commented on my lunch of 1 slice of American cheese (which I folded into quarters) on 4 saltine crackers as "diet food". Anyway, I would say my bag lunches I made myself were typically a bologna sandwich or other lunch meat or a PBJ. I don't remember sides, I don't remember a drink--I think we just used the water fountain at school (no one had water bottles in those days).
Breakfast was always cold cereal, typically corn flakes, cheerios, or rice krispies. When I was really young I remember that milk was delivered to our house and whoever was up first would go to the door and bring in the 4 half-gallon cartons. And we 4 kids just poured our own cereal and put way too much sugar on it.
After school snack for me was often toast. Or cereal again. We loved cereal.
My mom could cook pretty well. Dad was into organic gardening and we had a huge garden. We had salad with dinner every night and it was a kid's job to make it. Typically iceberg lettuce, tomato, cucumber, and Italian dressing (Good Season which we made in the cruet). Favorite dinners were ground beef tacos with home-fried shells or Mom's spaghetti with meat sauce (or similar pasta and meat sauce casserole). Other dinners were something like pork chops or lamb chops, rice-a-roni, and a vegetable which Mom probably cooked fine, I just hated all veggies other than corn and salad.
Sometimes we had ice cream for dessert. There was a McDonalds in town and once in awhile if Mom and Dad were going out we got that. But usually if they were going out it was "Kraft dinner" which was Kraft macaroni and cheese and hot dogs (another favorite). Birthday kid always got to pick the restaurant (so that's 4 times a year) plus we also ate out when returning from a week-long backpacking trip. Best tasting food of our lives after a week of freeze-dried meals! We occasionally went to a favorite local pizza place, but always dine-in--pizza wasn't a take-out thing.
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For taking readings, also feet flat on floor, back supported, and it's possible to take it wrong with the cuff on the wrong arm. My NP was showing me how the cables should be on the front/inside of my arm, not on the "far" side.
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My watch is showing snowflakes next weekend for us with highs of 34, 36 and lows of 21. That will shut things down here for sure if it truly comes to pass. Lots of rain between now and then.
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Friday was 20 min on the treadmill. I need dh to wake up a little earlier so I can get on the treadmill a little earlier and get the full 30 min. This has been a hard week for everyone sleepwise--family, students, fellow teachers. We're still messed up from break.
Started Adriene's 30 Days of Yoga this morning with Day 1 which was good. In past years I've put pressure on myself to finish the 30 days by the end of February (I certainly can't get yoga in every day for 30 days, but even that goal was yoga about half of the days in a week). I'm not putting that extra stress on myself this year, so if I can get 2 done per week, awesome, but if it's just Saturday mornings that's awesome too. Then I have enough yoga to last well into the year without searching for a session I want to do.
Eating is still not back to what it should be. We still have low-iron college kid home, so dinners are including more meat than dh and I usually eat. And I can't do veggies with this kid (on the side, sure, but not as the center of a meal). This week we still had holiday food around, but the birthday cake is now gone and I took leftover Christmas candy to my students. I tried to get my calorie intake back to normal without using My Fitness Pal during the week (which takes time to fill out), but my weight is still up 2 pounds (and some days went higher). I think I eat well until I get home from school, and then I mentally think I have a lot of calories left in my day since I didn't eat snacks at school and I way over-do end of day eating. MFP helps my brain know that I don't have a huge number of calories left to consume. So today is entered into MFP and as dd goes back to school tomorrow I am going to try to have a better week of eating this coming week.
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As I was reading your post I was wondering if you had had Covid and then you answered that. I had my first ever high bp reading when I was at the doctor for something else about 3 weeks after I had Covid. It was high enough that he told me to come back in 3 weeks and re-measure. High again, but that was also an extremely stressful seizure day with my dd. They suggested I buy a bp monitor and I kept track for a couple of months and after the first few days, my numbers were consistently ok (not as low as they once were, but in the range of normal). My own hypothesis is that Covid raised my bp for a few months. And incidentally, they were worried if the first number was in the 130's. I'm thinking your 120/90 is fine.
Dh had some high readings and has brought them back to normal by dropping 10-15 pounds and eating a lot more plants. He's had to track sodium before for inner ear issues, so we already kind of do that and know that the biggest difference is not eating out.
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23 min fitbymik dumbbell workout.
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21 min fitbymik cardio. Yeah, I know I'm supposed to be aiming for 30 min but all her cardios are about 20 min.
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Bodyweight circuit and yoga for shoulders and neck this morning. Weight is up 2 from holiday weight gain (better than the up 3 on Friday). The usual January goals--get eating back on track using My Fitness Pal as necessary, drop the holiday pounds (and if another 1 or 2 jumped off that would be fine), exercise 6 days a week and aim for 30 min, not 15-20! I'll start up with 30 days of yoga but may only get 2 per week done.
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I did 30 min on the treadmill this morning. Tomorrow I have to set the alarm for a lot earlier than I've been getting up. After 17 days off, we're back at it. I'm all prepped and ready to go. Tuesday exercise should be bodyweight circuit and some yoga. I might check out Adriene's new 30 days of yoga, but I don't plan to keep up with it daily.
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Thinking of you and wishing we had a hugs or care emoji. I'll just copy Harriet: (((Dawn)))
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25 min yoga this morning. My weight is up 3 lbs in 2 weeks--time to get eating back to normal. I may use My Fitness Pal for a few days to remember what normal is. I got some black beans soaking last night--will make black bean soup in the crockpot today. And it's time to start cleaning up Christmas. I think the tree itself will wait until Monday--I like to take ornaments off while watching bowl games. But I'll slowly get other decorations down today and tomorrow. Outdoor lights will stay up a couple more weeks--it's just kind of cheery during these deepest darkest days to have the outdoor lights up (and ours aren't excessive--two trees and a reindeer.)
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And one more idea--my dd with a bday close to Christmas always got one gift on her half birthday, because especially at younger ages like your kids, sometimes there is a need for something at a different time of year, or there's a new interest.
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And we're back from our appointment for dd--the appointment I made over the phone 24 hours ago. It took all of 8 minutes from when we walked in to when we walked out, and that included them taking the picture again because they thought the one dh took may have had too dark a background. A very nice experience (apart from the $175).
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We have our college kid home on break and her last passport that was issued when she was under 16 expired a few months ago. We thought we should get that renewed while she's home. Since I was in the post office the other day and saw all their signage (appointment necessary, 10:00-3:00, etc), I checked their website to make an appointment and they had nothing this week--looks like they had some again next week but I'm back at school and couldn't make the 10:00-3:00 window to pay the fee for dd. The courthouse doesn't let you schedule an appointment online, so I called yesterday and was able to schedule an appointment for today. We'll see how that goes this afternoon, but in general this seems to be easier and more helpful than the post office.
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30 min on the treadmill.
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Yep. We have a pie in the freezer from dh's company--all employees given a pie from a local pie place. And we just don't need it, the kids aren't into pie, we have to have cake for a birthday this week, we'll be trying to drop the holiday pounds in January, and we need the freezer space much more than we need the pie. I'm thinking of offering it up on the buy nothing FB page, but then I would still need to deliver it. Also have hazlenuts, jam, candy that I will give to students at school, etc. Christmas is a season of excess and it gets hard to deal with, even if the intentions are all good.
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My mom did her own dollhouse just for her during the time she had two young daughters. We took an interest in it, but it was very much hers with furniture she put together from kits, wall paper, tile floors. She repainted it to match her new house when she moved (I was in college) and my brother added some electric light capabilities.
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More Covid Anecdata - recent boosters
in The Chat Board
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I teach in a public high school. There is a good amount of winter illness right now, but it doesn't feel drastically different than a pre-Covid year. Some of it is certainly Covid--some people will still test for that. Some of it is definitely other respiratory stuff, maybe flu, maybe something else (because they get tested for Covid and flu and it's not that). I do not want to get sick as a a week or more of a sub would make my teaching life very difficult. I got flu vax in October, Covid vax when available in November, and I keep the windows in my classroom cracked open a couple of inches even though outdoor temps are in the 40's. I'm convinced the fresh air helps and so far I haven't caught any of my students' illnesses. No one really masks except maybe someone returning from illness. I find it difficult to teach in an N95--hard to get enough air, harder to be heard etc, so I don't mask anymore but would for a few days if I return after Covid or have non-Covid illness (test negative but feeling like I have a cold).
We all made it through Christmas with no illness--young adult kids traveling home on airplanes, all of us going out to eat twice and to the movie theater once. College kid had a post-Thanksgiving illness with recurring fever being the worrisome symptom that sent her to urgent care--not Covid, not flu (was tested), just some other virus. Coworker's family had something sounding like that over Christmas, but never tested so I wouldn't be surprised if it was Covid. One brother had Covid in November, otherwise no Covid in my extended west coast family.