Thursday Blursday. in These Foolish Things

Do you realize that we are already deep into SEPTEMBER?! While this may not have been a year full of excitement from a journaling perspective, I’m just so proud of what I’ve been able to accomplish from a wellness point of view.

I’ve incorporated the habits from the 75 Hard program that I started on January 1 into my daily morning routine. I’ve gotten to my goal weight and now working on building strength and lean muscle as well as balance and mobility so that I will be able to move around beautifully in my older years.

I’ve decided that I’m going to live a good, good, long life for the rest of my days!

But not only that, I’ve added another challenge to the mix: the 75 Hard Style Challenge! I wrote about this a while back and I thought that I would use TikTok to record my daily wardrobe selections, but I just couldn’t get it started. So I’m keeping with the Instagram posts. It’s so much easier than trying to edit video and such. It’s working for me so far. Today is Day 4. Here’s what this challenge entails, in case you’re wondering.

Work is weird, and I’m hanging with it for now, so spoiled with this remote work job situation but all is not perfect. I do think that the work-from-anywhere thing is going to work to my advantage right now.

Dad finally got the dates worked out for his 5-day infusion series for his myasthenia gravis. I will stay with him and drive him to the infusion center and stay with him while he gets his meds (and work) and drive him back and feed him and make sure he’s taken care of. It’s going to be in mid-October and he and I will stay in an Airbnb, leaving mom at home with the rest of the fam and her new at-home support team.

I just got off the phone with him and mom. They are doing as well as they can. Dad told me that his doc told him that he’s a bit of a drama queen, and I’m not 100% sure what was meant by that, but I think he’s worrying about so much right now and it hurts my heart a little. He told me that he’s happy and content, but that sometimes he looks around and thinks about how he never thought life would be like it is.

Isn’t it funny? NONE of us thinks that life is the way we thought it would be, ya know?

So the thing is, we have to take what’s going on now and make it the best whatever-it-is we have on our plates and are going through and just strive to make things 1% better each day. Because the story never ends exactly the way we think it’s going to, so we might as well push it in the direction of something we think is beautiful.

At least we’ll be looking at something divine.

xo,
GS