i am just a dreamer wearing sensible shoes

I got my steps in all week this week. The house is clean. My food is prepped and cooked.

Home gym clean, prepped, and ready. Wwork out clothing set out ready to go.

Justin is going to give me a get up text. I have felt better this past week than I have in I can remember. It doesn't matter that it's time for my period, that's just being a woman.

I can do this. Day one. I'm staring you in the eye [again] and this time I'm winning.

It's a new year, I want to stand up and shout it's going to be DIFFERENT this time. THIS is the YEAR I'm going to DO IT ALL and all that nonsense but I'm not gonna. Except I kind of am.

The Shady Nook project aka The Embiggening, A Project with Limited Funds (thank you memaw) is coming along. Most of the back deck had to be demo'd due to rot. The new back deck is twice as large as the old one (the old one was postage stamp sized I've got a full envelop now), it will have a roof over half of it, the stairs will have a landing instead of a straight fall to the concrete below. The French door back there needs some work. Some rot in the wood, hopefully that can be replaced instead of a whole new door.

The front deck is getting an 8x8 roof, a new storm door, and a doorbell. The upstairs bath received an exhaust fan.

Actual Shady Nook gets a beam to reinforce its roof.

I plan to "finish" the upstairs bath. This means a new vanity, paint, light fixture, blinds, and shelving in the nook behind the shower. I want to tile all the bath floors and the laundry floor but that will have to wait a while. The Embiggening and the Upstairs bath are the major house projects this year. I'm getting a gas log estimate next week, but an estimate is just that. If it's affordable it goes on this year's list, if it needs saving for it goes on next year's list.

As for ME personally:
I exercised yesterday, a full body strength work out. Then I "went" to my online class. I want to do this everyday. Go home, pick up the house if it needs it, do my work out, "go" to class.

Surely, that's not reaching too far? Surely, with a goal as modest as go to class everyday and move a little every day is something I won't fail at. Surely. As for the exercise plan itself. Last year I bought a home TRX system and promptly put in a drawer and didn't use it. Currently, I'm not fit enough to use the TRX SO I am doing the TRX workout with light weights until I am strong enough to use the system. I'm following the program as it's written. If I manage to maintain a month of daily work, I should be able to use the actual TRX by month two.

Pre-new year, I had implemented a routine at home to make sure I'm doing small chores as needed instead of waiting until the end of the week and cleaning for 12 hours straight. It's a much better way to live. I used to be like this without effort, but that was before depression, thyroid, and the reckoning where-in nearly everyone I know and loved died in an 18 month span. I'm on week three of not being a slob so I'm making progress in at least one avenue of life. YAY!