Thursday, I wake up feeling groggy, its the usual these days, just the result of the new antiandrogen. I’ve a meeting at 9 o’clock so its a quick coffee and drugs adn then I am in front of the laptop talking business. A couple of colleagues are unable to make it today so it is mostly focused on my new service that I met with yesterday. So the meeting is useful adn we end on time releasing me to head for the gym.
The gym is almost empty, just some familiar faces, fanatics and older people like me staying alive. Its back to the cross trainer today and its a grind, my body really does not want to do this but its medicine and Rocket needs support. I do the hour burning 709 calories and going 7.79 kilometres. I make myself do some weights work on the machines. A swift shower and then into the lounge for more coffee and an egg and bacon bun. I take my time and let myself recover as I check messages and e-mails before driving home. I do however spend a few minutes before leaving to order soem anti Putin merchandise, which I will share on the blog as soon as it arrives.
As I drive home a friend calls adn we chat about how her recover from long COVID is going. It is of course slow as the real world continue to make its every day demands of work and family life. We talk about how the war in Ukraine is affecting us. That combination of anger and desperation is an uncomfortable feeling. Once home I unpack my kit and set off to the village shop. I need the steps and a paper. The reality is I get my walk but additional chocolate biscuits, chocolate and grapes. I retreat to the Shed to read the paper and do the cross words while I nibble my way through a mystery bag of Maltesers.
Early evening and my partner and I eat tuna pasta before I go off to collect my eldest daughter from her circus class. It will be an evening of football and early sleep, I’m not fit for anything else and my body is already protesting the exertions of the day. I think my intentions to rebalance my activities is timely. Today is world book day, I should at least make the effort to take a book to bed tonight.
