Goals, Sort Of

Acckk. Today I got my December heat and electric bill and it was MUCH more than Novembers, so again we adjust the budget. I'm honestly not liable to change my behavior much, there are only three cold months (really two) in Dallas and I need to keep the pain at bay. And I'm a minimal air conditioner user at most, so it will all more than average out in the end.  

Drive through vaccine. I never stopped and I never got out of my car. The nice man in the yellow vest is sending the cars to where they sit for 15 to 30 minutes depending on allergy history to ensure lack of reactions.

Lately I've been wondering if I needed or should consider (God help me) an actual retirement schedule.  Now, even typing those words make me cringe, let me tell you. Me, of the laid back, do nothing (or not very much) lifestyle-having a schedule. Honestly,  I have tried in the past and things were not successful in this area. I have nothing but full admiration for the list makers and planners but I have learned that and goal setting in general are not for me.

Except.

Cabin fever entered my world. In small amounts only, and not all the time. I still happily spend hours just piddling and puttering. I continue to embrace the absence of multi tasking in the extreme. When I read I read, when I watch TV I watch TV, when I sew I sew, and if I sit on the patio being one with the universe I do that. I do nothing as well or better than doing something.

But lately there have been too many days when breakfast, lunch and dinner have been in front of the ole tube, when I have barely gotten dressed, when I have looked outside at five and said "Whoops, no walking today". And I have not resorted to cereal or popcorn both because I like to eat and because I have already cooked food in my freezer. Not depression, and not laziness as such. Just a teeny bit more energy-less than I would like to be. 

So a schedule?  I don't think so. A goals list? I don't that's it either. Instead I have a short list of things I am going to get done each day. A very short list, mind you, and taking a leaf from a couple fellow bloggers on the sidebar I have written it on a sheet and put it on the dining table. We'll see how it goes.

For now said list entails the following:

• Meditate and Pray
• Get dressed (at some point, I am not promising when)
• Eat at least one meal at the table
• Spend a half an hour on the house, separate from the daily quick pickup and throw my comforter across the bed (believe you me when I am comfy having people in the apartment I will happily throw this one back to someone else once (or maybe twice) a month.
• Get my five fruits and veggies and water intake
• Go outside (which maybe the same as exercising below or may not)
• Exercise
• Added later: I probably should combine exercise with outside time, and add get up and move every hour and a half.

And that's the list. There is no study, there is no learn a new thing, there is no which exercise I will do. And there is no project. I have an ongoing list in my bullet journal of things like "sew the quilt panels together" or "work on the recipe book" or "knit the back of the sweater".  I am always motivated to do the fun things so when I'm ready I just look at said list and decide what I am going to do today, and I also read and watch TV during the day not just in the evening.

In theory I should probably have a weekly list as well, but the only that I can see on that is menu planning.

I have a small list of things I need to do. Double check my appointment, call my old dermatologist from when I lived here before and get back on her schedule, register my car. That somehow manage to get done, usually after breakfast and after my meditation when I am sitting in the rocker looking out through the patio window at people walking dogs, mowing lawns and such.

Life is an experiment and everything on the list is, in theory, negotiable except for one. Who knows, after a week or so I may decide the list is overkill and go back to things as they were.

Which is really more like me.  Meanwhile, what will be, will be. Picture of one of the meals I'm ordering from the new place, because, well...........food. I may not be able to make it but I can eat it, take pictures of it and in this case, grab a yummy screen shot.