[AE.Personal] A reminder from my body.
Today I have been reminded that regardless of what I do to improve my sleep routine, my work routine, or my other daily and nightly routines, the body I live in is still disabled and that sometimes all of the effort I put into getting more things done in a day means I'm overdrawing on accounts that are slow to refill.
In other words: I went to bed tired last night and I woke up tired today.
It's frustrating when I have otherwise been having a pretty good time of things, in terms of getting through the tasks I set for myself and being able to actually do the things I want and need to do, but fighting it would take energy I don't have and time I could spend resting.
So I'm looking at and rethinking my plans for today, and sending this short and sweet newsletter out to fulfill my goal of updating it weekdaily this week.
Things are okay-ish here for the moment in Maryland. Next week we're having some major plumbing done that's going to tear up our whole front yard but will hopefully fix our basement flooding and a few other issues for good.
We're going to put Bluetooth trackers (Tile brand) on our cats' collars this weekend because the last time we had contractors working in our unfinished basement, one of our cats -- Tommy, specifically -- managed to sneak down and get herself stuck in a niche in the dirt walls of the old root cellar and we couldn't find her for a couple of hours.
The weather has been rainy off and on since just before Ida, and while the temperatures are still summer-y the cloud cover is keeping the house from heating up too much. I suspect the air pressure changes are affecting my pain and energy levels, though.
That's what's going on in my corner of the world.
And now, I rest.