It's Wednesday

November 11, 2026

I went walking this morning. Just a little under two miles as I'm trying to get my feet back accustomed to doing longer distances in my barefoot shoes. I'm also trying to ease back into it, since I have a tendency of overdoing things and injuring myself. I am giving myself hard limits right now.

It was nice to see the squirrels, robins, and my raptor friends out amongst the Pines and Oaks. The first two were extremely busy gathering food. I was pleasantly surprised that I did not cough a single time while I was outside walking. Of course, five minutes after I get back inside I can't stop coughing. I am really over the coughing at this point. A month straight of constant coughing does not feel good.

I'm wanting to get the nerve up to walk with my walking sticks for the full body workout that it would be. I haven't quite worked up the nerve yet, because I will be extraordinarily self-conscious while doing it. I just have to remind myself that it is exercise and there is no reason to be embarrassed for looking like a fool using walking sticks where they are not needed. No reason at all. It's probably a good thing I didn't bring them today, because all of the coughing has my shoulders, neck, upper back, and triceps in agony.

I can't remember if I did my weekly update or not, but I have hit a new goal on my weight. So I am very pleased with that. I am also really pleased that my whole eating schedule and items is going to work pretty good, I think. It will take a little bit of adjustment, but I'm quite happy once I finish my meal, and the prep is easy peasy. In fact, as long as I cook up whatever meat I plan on eating during the week over the weekend, I can get away without cooking practically because I can do everything in the microwave. If I want to be extraordinarily lazy, which I don't for environmental reasons, I can use paper plates. Yes. I have figured out how to cook eggs on a paper plate in the microwave and thenm still taste wonderful and not have strange texture issues. Laugh. That is fine. When my back goes out as it often does, that will be the difference between me eating crap and me eating something good for my body and mind.

I get mocked quite a bit because I say that what you eat matters both physically and mentally. But it really does. I notice a drastic difference in my mind depending upon what I am eating. My focus, my memory, my emotions, my ability to stay in control of my anxiety all are affected by what I eat whether I like it or not.

I've been making very small micro-adjustments to my routine for the last few months. I do one thing and I make sure that it becomes a habit. Then I switch to a new thing. I am slowly getting things back to where I once had them before I came back online with social media and everything. I have to say, even though I miss certain aspects of social media. And I miss putting videos up, etc. I am much happier off of it. And now that I've canceled my YouTube premium, there is no way that I will doom scroll because I cannot stand advertisements. I refuse to pay to remove them from subscriptions, and I will stop watching a movie if it means I have to watch an advertisement half the time. I just find them extremely annoying. Plus the advertisements that they put up make my brain want to ooze out of my ears.

I wrote chapter one of the new novel yesterday. I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out, I think. I still need to do the preface, but I think I'm going to wait and do the preface when I do the epilogue. I still have some research to do, because there are certain aspects of the research that will be really important, but so far I'm comfortable with it.

I saw my neighbors as I was walking out my door this morning. They commented on only seeing me on their camera usually. I'm not going to think about that since I know how I usually open the door to get packages. I told them I wasn't sure if I should apologize or congratulate them. They laughed. Being able to have a poke at ourself is important. I'm either going to start wearing more clothes or just embrace it. Ugggh! I've got to learn to embrace it. I hate doorbell cameras.

That's a good start to the day. Now if only I can quit coughing. Time to go make my breakfast. For whoever it is that reads this, have an incredible day.