11 April 2024
I managed to complete the fourth of my morning walk routines (4 different walks) today by walking 1.8 miles on Riverland Road. Usually, I have to cut these four routines short due to lack of stamina but I’ve now gotten back to my old walking routines. Today’s routine is the longest and was the most satisfying.
Next up was yoga. It takes a while to jog the memory but I did manage to remember the positions I get into, the sequence I get into them and complete them. Even better, my balance is better today. I also remembered to log it into my Apple Watch.
I then hit the pool. It’s this that made my day. I completed my normal set of exercises for the first time in quite a while. I do four sets of 50 American crawl strokes, one set of 100 American crawl, one set of 100 breast stroke, two sets of 50 side stroke (50 each side), one set of 100 backstroke and one last set of 100 American crawl. That’s about 20 minutes in the pool.
I’ve lately gotten stuck doing only 50 strokes of the breast stroke and I know it’s the hardest to do. I felt if I could get past that, I could complete my sequence. Prior to all my medical issues, I had worked up to 40 minutes in the pool and that is still my goal, but one successful day at a time!
After my first outdoor shower in quite a while, I hopped in the Jeep (Geez! I have a vehicle I can use!) and headed to Smith’s Picture Framing to pick up 5 pieces I had framed. They do a wonderful job with their framing. It’s expensive but the quality you get is worth it. They’ve been in business since 1954 and there’s a reason for that. They had me down for only making a 50% downpayment but I had paid in full. Thankfully, I had their receipt in my wallet.
From Smith’s, it was a short drive to Walgreens to pick up 3 prescriptions and some toothpaste. How I ran out of toothpaste is beyond me. Normally, when I get close to using up a tube, I get another. Apparently, I’m getting a little ditzy. I even took the Jeep fob with me on my morning walk. I kept hearing this strange beeping sound and couldn’t locate it and later realized when I got home that it was the fob telling me I was too far away from the Jeep.
Lunch was at Mini Pita Mediterranean Restaurant at the State Road 84 shopping center. I’ve eaten here before and it’s great. They can’t seem to decide if they are a restaurant or a cafe but either way, they serve excellent food. I ordered Koshari, the national dish of Egypt. It was delicious. When they brought it out, I thought there’s no way I could eat all this. Wrong. I did the vegetarian version and the version served at Mini Pita did not include pasta (which, to me, doesn’t sound very Egyptian).
I then drove to the Riverland Plaza near my house to package and send two of the framed pieces only to discover the shipping place has permanently closed. Too late, I realized I could have done it at the Mini Pita shopping center where they have a UPS package store but I didn’t want to do it there because they usually have long lines, only one person working, and the shopping center is undergoing a complete renovation and it’s a mess. As Scarlet said, “Tomorrow is another day.”
Stay tuned!