I promised myself I’d start writing again today.  I don’t really have a topic, but here goes.  Apparently, I accidentally bought five digital books yesterday.  I know I was looking at them, trying to determine the next one in a series I’ve been reading.  The link I followed led to Amazon.  I checked out each one and decided which one I needed to get from the library next.  I don’t think I actually told it to purchase any of them, but this morning I had a notification that I had bought them all.  I went online and tried to cancel them all.  I’m not sure if it worked.  The money is still showing as pending in my bank account.  Hopefully, it will disappear in a day or two.  Amazon usually processes returns pretty quickly.

In other things, the kids were mostly all in a play at church yesterday.  They all did great, including the ones without a special part. Afterwards there was an all church barbecue.  A great time was had by everyone.  That’s the end of the children’s choir until next fall.  Our Logos program is only when school is in session.  They are glad to be free, but they will also be glad when it starts back in the fall.  

School lets out this Wednesday.  Starting Thursday my days will be formless.  I will have no real schedule until school starts back in the fall.  I’m not sure how that will look since the older boys will all be at middle school and the younger kids will still be at their elementary schools.  Since they seem to let out at different times, I should be able to do both.  We’ll see.

In the meantime, I’ll need to find a way to keep myself active.  For the past three summers, I’ve just vegetated, what with Covid restrictions and just general malaise.  This year, I am determined to correct that.  I don’t want to drive into town everyday, but I need to be active every day.  I’m contemplating Yoga and Dance therapy.  I have videos, some of which I paid for and never really used.  This summer I will go back and try to work thru them.

At the moment, I’m thinking two days walking in town and, at least, three days of Yoga or some other type of workout at home.  We meet friends for lunch on Tuesdays, that’ll be one in town day.  The other one may vary depending on outside factors, like shopping.  Probably Thursday or Friday.

Tentatively:  Monday – Yoga, Tuesday – walk, Wednesday – Dance therapy, Thursday – walk or Yoga, Friday  – Pilates or walk, Saturday – Pain free workout.

We’ll see if I can make it stick or need to adjust it somewhat.

Obviously, I’m not following the old schedule since today is Thursday, not Monday.  I don’t know why I can’t seem to get myself to follow up on my intentions.  I want to get organized.  I recognize the need to get organized.  So, why can’t I get organized?

I find myself thinking I may have late onset ADHD.  I seem to be demonstrating many  of the symptoms:  absent-mindedness, difficulty focusing, forgetfulness, problem paying attention, or short attention span….I wonder if I’ve passed it along to my children and grandchildren.  

There are ways of overcoming it though. Recommendations include: let off steam by exercising regularly, find ways to help you relax, such as listening to music or learning breathing exercises for stress. As an attempt to get there, I find I’m already doing some of it.  I try to exercise, just not regularly.  I relax by listening to music and reading.  I understand breathing exercises, I guess I just need to do them more often.  I guess Yoga is an exercise method along with meditation.  

I’ve also found an over the counter medication that may be promising although it’s rather expensive.  We’ll see how that goes.  

In the meantime.  I’m exercising more regularly and adding other methods of doing it.  With the weather improving, I’ll walk more regularly, I’m working out at home, and I plan to start doing Yoga more.  I have several Yoga videos and I’ll start doing them every other day and see how it goes.  All that will also help get me into better shape for our upcoming roadtrip. 

I’m scheduling my writing.  One blog per day on an every other day basis.  This one for progress reports.  The second one for writing on specific subjects or fiction.  The third one with roadtrip planning updates.  Starting next Monday.

I’m scheduling housework.  I just haven’t worked out the schedule yet.  That’s a task for this weekend.  I’ll take all the encouraging thoughts and prayers available.

I feel very little inspiration for writing these days, but I still feel like I should.  I haven’t posted anywhere but Facebook since November.  This is my attempt to get back into it. 

I’ve been doing a lot of reading.  A little on my phone app for Kindle, listening to audio books when I drive, actual paper books for devotional time, and at bedtime to wind down for sleep. The book I’m reading on the Kindle app has been stagnant for weeks.  I just can’t seem to get into it anymore, although that used to be my favorite way to read.  I go through an audio book in, at most, a couple of weeks because it’s my go to now instead of music in the car.  It takes a while for me to get through a devotional book or the ones I read at bedtime because I only do a few pages at a time.  Still, it all adds up.  I am rereading the Outlander series at night and I’ve just started a new book for my devotional time, Discovering Fire by Robert  Wolsey of Kissing Fish fame. My current author for audio books is Karen Slaughter.

I’ve gone back to playing online games.  I play online solitaire or Mahjong while I listen to my audio books in line to pick up Damion and Elaina from school.  I let myself get sucked back in Farmville.  I used to play it on Facebook years ago and stopped when it got boring.  The new version is more challenging, but it’s becoming frustrating because they continually try to force you into spending money in order to advance.  I did that for a couple of months, but I’ve stopped spending and my progress is stagnating.  I have a feeling I’ll drop it soon.

I was cooking more.  I searched online for recipes and, for a while, it was a real challenge.  I’ve gotten burned out on that as well and, this week, I’ve reverted back to cooking about 3 or 4 days a week and eating leftovers the other days.  I’m also finding myself preparing the old faithful menus.

We are planning an extended trip in June.  It will be our first long journey since before Covid.  We did go to South Dakota to visit Brad and his family for a week last year.  But it was limited.  This trip will take us all the way across the country and it’s not to visit anyone, but just to explore someplace we haven’t been before.  I am looking forward to the experience.  I’m just worried a bit about my physical strength to make it.  I can barely walk a half mile without resting so there won’t be our usual extended hikes.  I’ve laid out the route, it will be a two week excursion (eight days driving and a week exploring Washington State), Jim is preparing to make hotel reservations and I’m researching locations.

I plan to add writing back into my daily routine.  We’ll see how that goes.