Day 4

Today I am not off to the best start. I had some work due this morning that I didn’t finish yesterday, so my plan was to get up early and get it all submitted before 8am. Then about 4am I woke up with drainage and a tension/sinus headache. I went out to my daybed, popped some ibuprofen, put the heating pad on my neck/back of head, and eventually managed to sleep another couple hours.

When I woke up, I jumped right into getting the work done, with some timeout to feed the pets and make my husband his coffee. I got a bit distracted with some things going on at our community in Belize, which happens WAY too often. I finally ate breakfast at 10am and that was a success – eating a real and healthy breakfast is one thing I want to focus on, too. I didn’t work while eating, either.

Now it’s 11am and I need to still complete a bit of that work, and I keep getting distracted by student emails, etc. (and apparently, by this journal!) So writing it here – I am going to get back to work for a 1 hour work window, then take a pause for meditation and lunch. I may even try to get my 20 minute yoga done, which didn’t happen yesterday. And I want to check in with my small group and see if they’d like to get together on Zoom this week. Off I go!


So I got a healthy lunch, and I got the work done (mostly) and a short nap, but allergies are still kicking me and here it is almost 8:30 and no check in or meditation. <sigh> All I can do is keep pointing myself back at the target. Off to do a meditation before dinner.

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