World of mine Wednesday’s Ws

Note: today is Guy Fawkes Day which is celebrated in England with bonfires while in The Time of Legends The Board of Directors Here at Spo-reflections celebrate by blowing public buildings up. I’ve gone along with them albeit a little more willingly than usual. I will make comments to the comments later today provided they haven’t thrown me onto the pyre with the potatoes. Spo.

What’s top of my mind: Getting the tarot readings delivered. They were easy to read and record, now I have to connect the photos in my phone with the emails in the laptop and get them out to the right recipient. Not to be worrying! This should be out by weekend.

Where I’ve been: The ultra-sound place. To appease the nephrologist (all docs is quacks) I got the ultrasound of the kidneys accomplished. The place looked to do mostly mammograms as the majority of the patients in the waiting room were female and the place was bedecked with pink breast cancer awareness signs. I am curious if the ultrasound was successful as last time my kidneys hid behind a wall of intra-abdominal adipose tissue.

Where I’m going: A 10K walk. Sunday is the annual 10K race/walk that Someone and I train for starting in August. I am pleased as Punch I have improved: I have a quicker pace and I feel less tired doing it. Mind! I am still in the back but not as ‘back’ as before. It is slow progress but progress nevertheless.

What I’m watching: My protein intake. I recently reviewed a lecture with recommendations for longevity/health. Diet is the least specific element as it varies from person to person. There is a general consensus thems over sixty should get 1.5g per kg of total weight of protein daily. The Personal Trainer points out if one is trying to gain muscle not just maintain it, one should consume more like 1.8kg per kg of body weight of protein. My math says this is about 144g of protein per day. I started weighing things and looking at labels. Indeed, left to my usual diet, I am not getting near this amount.

What I’m reading: Updates on endometriosis. What a messy and upsetting diagnosis is this one. Happily women and doctors are becoming more aware of the condition and are doing more about it other than dismiss symptoms or attribute to heartburn or hysteria whatever.

What I’m listening to: Spotify random tunes. The DJ on the app must be a little muddled what to play as in my playlist are my tunes (mostly from the 60s and 70s) and the tunes donated by my 16yo niece. What a couple! One moment it’s The Monkees and then it’s The Arctic Monkeys.

What I’m eating: More salads. The Most Austere Diet requires less carbs and more vegetables. Among the greasy spoons and fast food joints at the nearby mall in MESA lurks a ‘Salad-to-go’ place that serves only salads no entrees. The decor is quite spartan consisting of hard wooden benches and everything else is stainless steel. It’s not at all a comfortable place to sit and the salads are not cheap. However, that’s what’s needed for lunch these days.

Who needs a good slap: Thems who started decorating for Christmas already. Cheap Christmas trash shows up in the stores earlier with each passing year. I went to Uncle Albertsons on 1 November and the store was bedecked with Christmas candy where the Halloween sweets were two days ago. Mercifully they haven’t started playing ho ho ho tunes – yet. For once I am glad the HOA is there with its policy of no XMAS decorations until the day after Thanksgiving. At La Casa de Spo, we traditionally don’t put up the tree and things until 15 December, Someone’s birthday. We used to think that was a tad early to haul out the holly ho ho ho.

Are there Christmas things up yet in your neck of the woods?

Who gets a fist-bump: The new counselor at work. Finally! The Overlords hired a male therapist, something we haven’t had in ages. It’s not good to having only female counselors. I was keen to meet the man who arrived on Monday. He is well over four feet and he sounds experienced and qualified. There are some added bonuses that he is has some training in Jungian psychology and he drinks tea! Excellent! His schedule and mine overlap on Wednesdays. I hope he stays and does the place good. Perhaps if I make quality tea (no rubbish) on Wednesdays this will help him stay.

What I’m planning: My insurance coverage for 2026. This is always a pain in the drain to do. First issue is signing in. I recall last year The Overlords wouldn’t let me do this at home using a device that wasn’t theirs. This made us have to search on the computers at work, which are being difficult anyway. It will be a miracle if I get in smoothly. Figuring out where to go, which name/password/device to use drives Someone to distraction and by the time we figure that out we are tired and cross and not yet begun to figure out the insurance options. Oh the pain.

What’s making me smile: A quiet month. The Halloween decorations are down and the house looks less cluttered. I know of no plans or events for the month. It should be a relatively quiet time. Lovely.

What does your month look like?