Going to do the October wrap up a day early since tomorrow is Halloween and if I sit down to write I cannot imagine I will want to write anything other than fiction.
So how did it go?
Fast. Like I knew it would. And with my schedules and routines all blown to bits it's been hard to get a grip on what day it even is. I just know it's going by in a blur.
Reading, I'm back on track. A book a week to make that goal and that's easy enough. Read those graphic novels and a few shorter pieces this month so that padded me out for a bit. Also read on the flights and that finished off a lot of things. Trying right now to finish a political book I'm reading. I want to get it done before Tuesday because I don't want to THINK about politics after that. I mean, that's not realistic, but at least it's a goal.
Writing, I'm on track to hit my when I finally set a goal goal numbers within the next two weeks. Now, of course, when I set those numbers I looked at what I actually wrote last year and lined that out as well and I'm on track to hit that number as well. So I should have two pretty beefy blog years in the books. Who knows what that will bring in 2025. (which, of course I've already started to think about 2025)
Workouts, I'm pleased to say I did work out quite a few times this month. Between travel and getting a little sick last week it's been a light month, but still kept going into the garage and working out. It would be really easy to not do that while Brent is on sabbatical. Just take it as a break, but that would be a terrible idea for my fitness levels. So I will keep working on being consistent in working out in November. Even with the travel and Thanksgiving in there.
Thyroid stuff. So last I talked about it I was unhappy with the fact that I had been taking the medication consistently and all that had happened was the weight loss slowed. I got my blood restested and I actually got thrown into hyperthyroidism. So you're telling me that I can "have" hyperthyroidism and STILL gain weight? I am a goddamn medical miracle...
I did end up losing about a pound right before we left for Hawaii. Then while we were in Hawaii my doctor got my blood test results and was like STOP taking that dose and switch to this lower dose. So I went for about 5 days with no meds, then started the lower dose when we got back. We will see how it goes. The symptoms I did notice from the hyper vs. the hypo were it kicked my insomnia back into high gear and added the night sweats back from when they went away with the estrogen. I've been sleeping a little better lately so I'm hopeful that my levels are, well, leveling out. I have to wait another 6 weeks or so before I can retest and see where we go from there.
We didn't end up going back to Michigan so the travel was only the trip to Hawaii. November we are going to Disneyland and December up to Leavenworth so it actually worked out with a trip a month so that's kind of nice.
So November, the trip, as I mentioned. I only wrote 16 times last November so the trip shouldn't throw my numbers off too much. My reading will actually get a boost from the travel since it's a few hours on a plane with nothing else to do. Granted, not as long as the flight to Hawaii and back so it won't be a four book trip, but two is probably in the cards.
Normally in November I do a Thirty Days of Thanks post. I did it in 2016 and managed but man...if that...former president is elected again I'm not sure I could. Which means I need to do it, right? As a sign I believe Harris will win if nothing else. And oh my gosh I hope she wins.
Picture of the Day for October was weird, I did them out of order (it was supposed to be a sort of scavenger hunt) and though that was kind of nice on days that I knew there would be a good prompt (the ocean for body of water) it was also kind of odd in my head to not do them in order. I've followed the day prompts for so long that it felt wrong not to. The November prompts haven't yet grabbed me so we will see what happens on the first.
Like I mentioned before, I'll keep working at working out. Making sure that I am at least doing it a few times a week if not more. I need to make sure that it's still more of habit than not by the time December is over.
But November is basically a hold my breath and cross my fingers for the first week and then we will see what happens.
Plus Disney.
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