That sounds good for dinner the margaritas
Sometimes things just work out differently than you planned. At least they are vaccinated! I still have a couple of weeks before my 2nd shot.
Just curious to know how long it takes to get to 10,000 steps. I never counted steps before, and don't really want to buy one of those watches that does it electronically. (Are your steps done over the course of an entire day, or do you sometimes do 10,000 for an exercise session?)
If I'm working, I generally get more than 10,000 steps in a 4 hour shift, if I'm walking orders. 10,000 steps is approximately 5 miles. If I don't have to work, I try to get those steps in with my daily activities and exercise session. I will just go out and walk to the town center where the shopping district is. It's about a mile and a half from my house. Then I'll walk home via a longer more scenic route and look at pretty houses or gardens. Or if I have nothing I need in the town center, I'll walk the other direction and walk through a nature park and look at the surrounding houses that tend to be nicer neighborhoods with nicer homes. I have gotten pretty good at estimating where I should be at so many miles, and I will walk until I'm close to 5 miles, because then I know I'll be able to get to 10,000 by getting groceries, cooking, doing laundry, etc. As long as I'm above 8,500 steps, I can make it up. It takes me a couple of hours, but a lot of that depends on what I'm doing. I generally do 1 mile in about 20 minutes, but if I need to get new socks for A, or a birthday present for my niece, or whatever, and I'm going in and out of stores, it takes me longer because I'm not really speed walking. If I'm walking through the nature park, I generally bring my camera and practice taking pictures, so I'm stopping to take pictures of a pretty flower or an interesting tree, or the light between the trees, etc. If I'm doing a LS walking thing at home, I have to do more like 6 or 7 miles to get to 10,000 steps, because she also does arm movements in those, so it doesn't count all my steps. But it does go faster that way, unless I'm not doing anything but walking to exercise. If I'm walking outside, just walking to walk, then it takes me a little under 2 hours, but I prefer to be DOING something....not just walking to walk.
That's a good explanation of the 10,000 steps -- especially, in terms of mileage. That makes it easier for me to understand.
I think that's a mom thing, the light sleeping. I'm the same way. E is usually pretty quiet, though sometimes I'll hear her laughing at something one of her friends sent on whatsapp. A has problems regulating his volume in the first place. Thank you, autism! He is good about modifying it if you let him know he's speaking really loudly, but if he's playing a game, he'll just yell at the computer. I'll be sleeping and hear "HACKS! HACKS! HACKS!" It's usually early in the morning though, not at night. They still have more than a month of school left, so bedtime is still 9 on school nights. On weekends, we don't really enforce that, but he's still usually in bed by around 11. But he wakes up pretty early, and sometimes he's quiet and sometimes he forgets to be. What we did with A when he was loud was we told him he was allowed to watch videos or play games if he could be quiet, but if he couldn't, he wouldn't be allowed to do whatever activity was causing the noise. So if he burst out laughing at a video he was watching, video got turned off. If he was shouting at the computer because of a game, he wasn't allowed to play that game. That was good motivation to keep it quiet because he didn't want to lose the privilege. Maybe you could just set some boundaries....they are allowed to be up IF they can keep it quiet. Or make a list of quiet activities....listening to music with headphones, reading a book, etc. Or is there a place they can go in the house where it won't be as loud? Like if they want to chat with friends, it needs to be in another room far from yours? I feel your pain...I need my sleep or I can't function, and A's room is right next to ours, and there's not much sound reduction through the walls. I can hear my neighbors a lot. But maybe you could do something that doesn't require enforcing a bedtime as long as they respect that others are trying to sleep.Hope everyone had a nice weekend. I managed to get in workouts Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Nothing out of the ordinary, but there was a decent amount of gym time each day with cardio, strength and core work. I was hoping we'd get around to testing out the rooftop cargo box, since that was sure to be another workout, but we just never had time for it, although...I did get it out of the box on Friday and wrestle with it for about 30 minutes which worked up a sweat. I just wish I was getting more sleep. I'm a light sleeper and with the kids being older, we're not forcing bedtimes on them over the summer. That being said, they're not supposed to be up all night and not supposed to be loud. The older one has been FaceTiming with one of her BFFs until all hours and the younger one likes to play games with her friends until the middle of the night. So, last night I was hearing one sobbing about the good times and the bad while the other was yelling at games. I'd sleep with my travel earbuds if I wasn't so paranoid of me not hearing a real middle of the night emergency...just like I don't use crackling fire sounds on my soothing noises app, for fear that the sound of fire will put me into a deeper sleep. Last week was week 1 of 10 and close to four of the weeks are travel, so hopefully I'll survive. At least the girls did well with their second dose. Just some sore arms and the older one felt a bit run down the next day.
I find it really amusing that you managed to play a round of checkers with no memory of it.
I apparently told my husband I was going to sing him a cowboy song once when I was asleep. He said I sat up in bed, he asked if I was ok, I said I was going to sing him a song. He says "You're going to sing me a song?" and I said "A cowboy song." and then he sat there and waited and I did nothing. He says "Aren't you going to sing me a song?" and I said "Well, not NOW!" and I laid back down and slept on. He was laughing at me the next morning. Are you sure you were awake?
Henlo-
I am still here. I just got caught up with life. I have been continuing my workouts and walks. I have been fully vax'd and after the second one, I just fell into this funk (OMG, the second dose SUCKED). I don't know why it made my depression flare up, if it did. I am usually not depressed this time of year, but I guess it could be just random and not tied to the vaccine. I don't see the mechanism that would have caused it, so maybe it is just a random funk?
My husband interviewed and got the job in Manhattan. He is taking a relo package and will be staying in Manhattan 2 nights/week, which is way better than just coming home at the weekends. I figure if I ever get lonely, I can get on a train or coach and stay in his apartment. Also, if I ever get a flight attendant job, it gives me another option of a FA base and I don't have to worry about sleeping in a mixed sex room with 3-4 bunk beds (AKA crash pads).
I canceled my cruise and booked a week at the Dolphin for the 1st week of Sept. My husband had to change his vacation for his job.
I have been using an app called "Tone It Up" for my workouts. I like them so far, once you get past the whole wine mom vibe. They are short and don't cause me to be ravenously hungry. They have some workouts on their "Tone It Up" YouTube channel.
I've been reading "Carrying the Fire" by Michael Collins. I bought it after he passed. It's taking me forever, because there are no diagrams and I have been googling photos to find out what these modules, rockets, etc looked like. I'm really only familiar with the space shuttle configuration, not so much with all the components involved in the Apollo missions.
I have also been making homemade limoncello, but I had to stop because my husband was drinking it all.
Good to hear from you, but sorry that you've had some unexpected situations arise. Hoping everything will be o.k. in due course. I think that for many people, the last year was tough on various levels, and now people are trying to get back to some sort of normal. I think it may take a while for life to settle down again. Hang in there and best wishes.Henlo-
I am still here. I just got caught up with life. I have been continuing my workouts and walks. I have been fully vax'd and after the second one, I just fell into this funk (OMG, the second dose SUCKED). I don't know why it made my depression flare up, if it did. I am usually not depressed this time of year, but I guess it could be just random and not tied to the vaccine. I don't see the mechanism that would have caused it, so maybe it is just a random funk?
My husband interviewed and got the job in Manhattan. He is taking a relo package and will be staying in Manhattan 2 nights/week, which is way better than just coming home at the weekends. I figure if I ever get lonely, I can get on a train or coach and stay in his apartment. Also, if I ever get a flight attendant job, it gives me another option of a FA base and I don't have to worry about sleeping in a mixed sex room with 3-4 bunk beds (AKA crash pads).
I canceled my cruise and booked a week at the Dolphin for the 1st week of Sept. My husband had to change his vacation for his job.
I have been using an app called "Tone It Up" for my workouts. I like them so far, once you get past the whole wine mom vibe. They are short and don't cause me to be ravenously hungry. They have some workouts on their "Tone It Up" YouTube channel.
I've been reading "Carrying the Fire" by Michael Collins. I bought it after he passed. It's taking me forever, because there are no diagrams and I have been googling photos to find out what these modules, rockets, etc looked like. I'm really only familiar with the space shuttle configuration, not so much with all the components involved in the Apollo missions.
I have also been making homemade limoncello, but I had to stop because my husband was drinking it all.
Well I'm 50% on the first part. Drink more water than anything else Nowaday (and not all of it filtered through coffee grounds).
Henlo-
I am still here. I just got caught up with life. I have been continuing my workouts and walks. I have been fully vax'd and after the second one, I just fell into this funk (OMG, the second dose SUCKED). I don't know why it made my depression flare up, if it did. I am usually not depressed this time of year, but I guess it could be just random and not tied to the vaccine. I don't see the mechanism that would have caused it, so maybe it is just a random funk?
My husband interviewed and got the job in Manhattan. He is taking a relo package and will be staying in Manhattan 2 nights/week, which is way better than just coming home at the weekends. I figure if I ever get lonely, I can get on a train or coach and stay in his apartment. Also, if I ever get a flight attendant job, it gives me another option of a FA base and I don't have to worry about sleeping in a mixed sex room with 3-4 bunk beds (AKA crash pads).
I canceled my cruise and booked a week at the Dolphin for the 1st week of Sept. My husband had to change his vacation for his job.
I have been using an app called "Tone It Up" for my workouts. I like them so far, once you get past the whole wine mom vibe. They are short and don't cause me to be ravenously hungry. They have some workouts on their "Tone It Up" YouTube channel.
I've been reading "Carrying the Fire" by Michael Collins. I bought it after he passed. It's taking me forever, because there are no diagrams and I have been googling photos to find out what these modules, rockets, etc looked like. I'm really only familiar with the space shuttle configuration, not so much with all the components involved in the Apollo missions.
I have also been making homemade limoncello, but I had to stop because my husband was drinking it all.
I find it really amusing that you managed to play a round of checkers with no memory of it.
I worry more about the texting, because I have to wonder what I might agree to in my sleep. 
It does make me wonder if my recent exhaustion is tied to me doing things in my sleep and being unaware of any of it. I could put one of our security cameras in the bedroom to get a better picture of what's going on, but I think it might add to the sleep insomnia anxiety I've been experiencing. What's funny is that the kid with whom I was texting and playing checkers used to sleep walk when she was younger. It stopped after we moved and before she turned 9, but she used to come downstairs or into a room with us and have the most bizarre conversations. Nothing alarming in content, just really silly stuff. Every now and then, while traveling, she'll talk to us in her sleep too. Now, I don't think any of us have ever offered a cowboy song while we were sleeping! 
E has been watching a tik tokker who sleepwalks and does silly stuff in her sleep. It's amusing. I'll have to see what the name is.I played pretty well too!
