My mornings begin a lot later than they used to begin when I first retired 5 years ago... I had worked for 45 years and was up typically at 5:00 am with coffee and writing until I needed to get ready for work around 7:00 am or so... nowadays, I wake up sometime between 8:30 am and 9:00 am and I am not sure if it is due to my increased age or my on-going cancer treatments or my new thyroid condition... once up, I make a cup of decaf coffee with 1-2 teaspoons of Sugar Free Cappuccino Mix and get my thyroid pill that I decided to take at 9:00 am +/-... I drink decaf coffee laced with Sugar Free Cappuccino Mix for a couple of hours until I have a bowel movement and to keep my mind pre-occupied, I write comments that I post on my 3 blogs...This is my routine unless I have a doctor's appointment or a cancer treatment and if one of those happens, it typically takes place as early as possible in the morning so I will not have any trouble finding a parking place close to the office so I don't have to walk as far. Walking is a problem not because I am lazy or because of the weather but because walking long distances is a problem for me because I am easily tired and out of breath if I walk for 5 minutes... this condition pisses me off because I have always been active all of my life and because I walk a mile on the treadmill at a speed of 3.0 (which is a 20 minute mile) to build up my endurance. It is my heart that causes this to happen and I have a handicapped license plate because of it...
For the rest of the day, I work outside off and on in spurts of about 30-60 minutes before needing to take a rest break. Right now, I am replacing deck boards on the deck and fixing seats and ramps in our outside, fenced-in cat area. When not working outside or inside on something, I am researching and writing articles for my blogs.
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