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Monday Musings 10.14.24

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We took a day trip to Mystic, CT on Saturday. After some aquarium fun (I love the penguins), we wandered around Olde Mystik Village for some shopping and snacks and ended up in an artisan honey tasting room (words I’ve never put together before, haha!). Lil Momma had a whole moment when trying some of the “hotter” ones and I was able to find a few to buy and try out at home: lemon honey, ginger honey, and salted caramel honey. We are trying the ginger tonight as part of a stir fry! My arch/ankle saga has gotten a bit worse, sigh. The PT is definitely helping “raise” my fallen arches, but has also identified that I stand on the outer edges of my feet (no wonder balance is hard for me) so we are doing lots of work on that, too. The new challenge, though, is that I seem to have torn/strained my right peroneal tendon and have a ton of swelling in that ankle, which is also stiff any creaky. I’m off to an orthopedist who specializes in feet in a week or so, so hopefully I can get back to wal...

on september and sleep

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Instead of deep diving how I cried at my yearly physical only for the doctor to tell me I’m not sleeping enough ever since the double hit of Lil Momma’s scared freak outs and getting up earlier for middle school (sigh), I’ll just note that I’m focusing on sleep hygiene and personal routines / rhythms in October and recap last month. This mummy Hello Kitty is my stand in, haha! As for my September 16 … I’m super proud of myself! It was a hard and exhausting month but I was able to take some great steps to taking care of myself (and my to-do lists): 6 habits  Wk1 ✔️; Wk2 ✅; Wk3☑️; Wk4 🏁 Shower every morning  ✔️✔️✔️_✔️_ ✔️✔️ ✅✅✅✅_✅✅ _☑️☑️_ _ ☑️☑️ _ 🏁🏁_🏁🏁_ Drink water every morning  ✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️ ✅✅✅✅✅✅✅ ☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️ 🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁 Have a vegetable every day _ ✔️_✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️ _✅_✅✅_✅ ☑️☑️_☑️☑️☑️☑️ 🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁 Take a walk every day  ✔️✔️✔️_ _ ✔️✔️✔️ ✅✅✅_ _✅✅ _☑️☑️_ _ ☑️☑️ _ 🏁🏁_🏁🏁🏁 Read a book every day ✔️✔️✔️✔️_ ✔️✔️✔️ _✅✅✅✅✅✅ ☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️ 🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁...