Just for Today.... ONE DAY AT A TIME... Daily commitment for 2025

Saturday I walked for the 29th time in the 49th Bellin Run 10K. Perfect weather: temp mid-50s at start & cloudy until I reached mile 5. I'm slowing down more (extra weight does not help) and finished in 1:45:25, with a pretty even split time. I placed 2990 overall out of 3271 in the 10K (there were 2373 that turned off to complete the 5K course). In my age division (65-69) I placed 45 out of 56, with an average pace of 16:58. While I may not be as speedy as I used to be, I am proud that I started, finished and was not last. While I cooled down in the park, I watched some of the last finishers of the 10K. A truly elderly man was nearing the finish. Later I looked up the race results by age group and learned that the oldest male was the only person in the 85 and over group. Wow! Four females were in the 80-84 group and two of them beat me by 5 and 7 minutes. Goals. I plan to walk for my 30th time in next year's 50th event.

Sunday was church, travel (3 hours total in car) with hubby and visiting Dad & Mom for Father's Day. Also there were sister & her hubby, eldest brother (bachelor) and youngest brother & his wife. Nice day spent visiting mostly outside. Love my family time.

JFT 6/16 M ~ Temps are starting to heat up, and so are rain & thunderstorm chances, all week apparently.

• Cheerios with blueberries for breakfast / late lunch of BLTs (hubby loves his bacon duty) / light supper / limit snacks & sweets / 80 oz. water / log all food / net calories zero
• Walked dog 3.65 mi to beat heat but a bit humid already 😁 happy dog & happy me / OT exercises
• Wash dishes / prep envelope to mail tomorrow / register for Packers 5K / read / digital declutter / other?
• MCM 8:00

WOTY 2025:  Judicious ~ I just like the way the word sounds, and the meaning is right for me: having or showing reason and good judgement in making decisions. I can apply this word in so many ways!

Hour commitments - I won't eat again until tomorrow.

JFT, Monday

• Up by 5am ✔️
• Devotions/Quiet Time in God's Word at home ✔️
• Breakfast at home ✔️
• Bus by 7:10am ✔️
• Stay calm/stress free at work ✔️
• Hyrdrate!!!!!!! ❌ I need to work on this.
• Log all food
• Try to stay within 50 calories of goal ❌ I was over by 1000 calories, I need to curb my eating (says the one going on vacation in 2 days!!!)
• Exchange wrong sized gift on the way home ❌ They didn't have a larger size
• RUN WHEN I GET HOME!!!!! ❌
• Voice and piano practice ✔️
• Plan places to eat on vacation ✔️
• Get out suitcase to let it air out ✔️
• Watch Lesson 20 of Quieting the Noisy Soul ❌ I decided not to this week with going on vacation starting Thursday
• In bed by 10:30pm ❌ It was closer to 11pm

I started by "packing" the essentials

JFT, Thursday

• Up by 5am ❌ Go to bed late, you get up late…………
• Devotions/Quiet Time in God's Word at home ✔️
• Breakfast at home ❌ I wasn't ready on time to eat at home
• Bus by 7:10am ✔️
• Stay calm/stress free at work
• Hydrate!!!!!!!
• Log all food
• Try to stay within 50 calories of goal
• RUN WHEN I GET HOME!!!!!
• Voice lesson
• Piano practice
• Write out list of what to pack
• Work on wedding gift
• In bed by 11pm

Hi JFTers! Had 3 pages to read to catch up.

Good to see you, @TerriRichardson112 ! I've been thinking about you!

@HappyDonkey75 Congrats on both doing well at the horseshow and having fun! Sorry you're not feeling well though. Hopefully it is a 24-hour bug.

@cschmitz110515 I'm sorry about the loss of your SIL. It's never easy, even when we know it's coming, but at least your husband got to say everything he wanted to say. That helps some. Congratulations on the Bellin Run! That's awesome! I think your time was great…my time would probably be 45 minutes / mile. LOL

@angf0679 Nice piano! Enjoy it! Your kitty is beautiful!

@pridesabtch I'm so sorry you have so much on your plate right now, none of which is easy. HUGS to you, friend.

JFT Monday

• Up by 5:45 ✔️
• Take meds ✔️
• Work by 6:30 ✔️
• Meetings ✔️
• Lunch with VP's ✔️
• Pick up meds for Cora at Vet ❌
• Pick up meds for mom at Pharmacy ❌
• Go to mom's ❌
• Home and work on painting dog house for VBS ❌
• Dinner ✔️
• Bed ✔️

Hour commitment - I won't eat again until tomorrow.

Hour commitment - I won't eat again until after 5 pm. None of the same foods at dinner as at lunch. Can still have my dose of metamusal.

"Other things fell in my basket when getting some candy for the office" 😂😂 second post of yours that made me laugh. This reminds me of what we say to each other in my family. "I ate the vicious chocolate bar in your glove box before it attacked you.

"Quieting the Noisy Soul" - I read The Alchemist recently, and I've been reminding myself throughout the day, "OK but I'm in the present." LOL it's so helpful. When I'm out walking along the beach, I'm not revisiting old unpleasant memories and having an internal argument 😂

Hour commitment - After my cocoa, I won't eat again until after 5 pm. None of the same foods at dinner as at lunch. Can still have my dose of metamusal.

Hour commitment - I won't eat again until tomorrow.

Recap 6/19 R ~ Warm temps but chance of isolated thunderstorm. Which we already had this afternoon, so hoping none this evening. Doggo so tired from our walk and all her backyard "supervising" that she slept (mostly) through the thunder!

• Cheerios with blueberries for breakfast / usual lunch / buy supper? ~ learned I must preorder if I want my favored vendor; alternative was small turkey sub & bag of chips / 1 adult beverage ~ 1 beer / limit snacks & sweets ~ no snacks, had trifle in evening / 80 oz. water ~ 64 / log all food / net calories zero 😐️ -90 with guesstimates
• Walked dog 3.7 mi to beat heat but humidity was a *kitten* 😁 happy dog & happy me / OT exercises 😀 4x
• Organized pots on patio, now that I had time to assess looks & sun / filled 2 gallon jugs from rain barrels / cleaned whirlybirds (so many!) off patio / pulled weeds north end of berm (neighbor's weeds starting to encroach) / check secure message from NP ~ need to order bs test / make red white & blue trifle / call Mom out of time in call window between Brewers game & leaving for concert / read / digital declutter / other? 😁 ta-da!
• GBBG concert 6:00 ~ weather was fine when we arrived, but as music started, hubby and I watched very dark clouds to north approach slowly… we were going to wait it out, but as intermission neared, we saw jagged lightning across the sky more than once & when sprinkles started, we called it & packed chairs & went to car… glad we did, bc within 30 min. the sky opened up and poured rain & wind / hubby supper? deli salad / buy my supper from vendor at garden ~ remember to preorder in future

JFT 6/20 F ~ Cloudy & very humid. Planned rest day. Keeping planned tasks light as well (unless I feel ambitious LOL).

• Usual breakfast & lunch / leftovers for supper / limit snacks & sweets / 80 oz. water / log all food / net calories zero
• Min. 5000 steps / OT exercises / maybe short walk with dog & hubby
• 9:00 funeral luncheon set-up 😀 / enough volunteers so I didn't need to stay & help in kitchen or serve 🙂
• Call Mom / wash dishes / read / digital declutter / other?

WOTY 2025:  Judicious ~ I just like the way the word sounds, and the meaning is right for me: having or showing reason and good judgement in making decisions. I can apply this word in so many ways!

ya'll its been a week . I got no workouts in this week, Still sick(mostly just congested at this point) and was unable to get much rest as I had a ton of things going on at work. With one person out , and it approaching Q3 , a ton of work came in that apparently the other girl in my dept can't seem to figure out .. so your truly got stuck doing the brunt of the work..No one holds this girl accountable and I am so tired of it. I can't count on her to do anything. Whatever she does actually do , it's usually wrong or incomplete .. I have vocalized my concerns to management and yet , nothing changes. very frustrating. It just feels like no one is managing anything.

We still have company.. This is the last weekend.. looking forward to having my house back and not dealing with the added work of dishes, meal planning and laundry. Not to mention a picky teenager who is gluten free but hates everything that doesn't come out of a frozen meal. If I see her pushing her food around her plate and picking at it one more time I might lose my SH!^ ..

Supposed to be rainy all weekend so our plans with the company to visit GNP is going to be tough. They are expecting a foot of snow at the higher elevations. We might go anyways if they don't shut the road down. We will have to see..

Sorry for the rant.. I am just over it this week.

JFT

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