Mon 28 Sept

For me, I feel as though today is the first day of my retirement. Last week was a scheduled vacation, and weekends I would have been home anyway, but today I would have returned to the work routine and I don't have to! I do have to go get a crown finished at 9:00 am and then I will scoot across the street to Adventure 212 to get re-established. I have my gym bag packed and will do my morning workout there. Michael needs help applying for his Affordable Care insurance, so we will do that online this afternoon. Nice to have a to-do list for the day. Whatever time is left over, I really want to attack the things brought home from work and vacation that still fill the dining room table and then the kitchen counters. Making a sausage and bean stew in the crockpot for dinner during the Packer game tonight. Sounds yummy. Will likely make some fresh applesauce to go with it. Got my tuning device for my guitar/dulcimer today. Tried it on the guitar and sat out on my Adirondack chair playing some tunes for a bit this morning. Nice. Made some small dent on putting things away from the table. Only made it through 20 min on the elliptical at the gym this morning, but followed up with a small session on strength training machines for biceps, triceps, shoulders, and chest. Will try to last longer next time. Didn't want to push too hard after such a long absence at that particular form of exercise. Food: 7:35 am Gibassier pastry, 1/4 med cantaloupe, 103 g blackberries, coffee 1215 pm 1 c Shreddies, 1/2 c light original soy milk, 101 g raspberries, 3 triple-dipped malted milk balls 2:20 pm 1/3 chocolate peanut butter bar from Fayze's Exercise: 10:00-10:20 am Elliptical 10:20-10:35 am Strength training machines 3:40-4:10 pm Jessica Smith Power Walk YouTube 4:25-4:45 pm Jessica Smith Power Mile YouTube