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Friday morning fatigue
Jan. 12th, 2024 09:17 amIt's so cool how my ring knows when I'm sick better than I do. Really glad I listened to that sore throat yesterday. My temp is elevated, not quite two degrees, but enough that my ring asked if I'm feeling okay and suggested I take it easy. It's really, really nice to have this outside force keeping me from pushing myself too hard when I'm fighting something off.
My throat still feels a little funny, but I think with some careful gentleness to my body today my innate immune system can keep doing its work to fight off whatever this is and I can get back to health.
And if I'm sick while we're snowed in from a storm that's not the end of the world.
I would like to ski around though, if we do actually get ten inches of snow tonight. I just don't see that happening. the sky doesn't smell like snow at all right now. Although it is very cold.
I'm also enjoying my attempt to establish a habit of Huberman's morning sunshine protocol. the kitten wakes me up at 7, I feed her, brew my coffee, play with her while the coffee brews, and then go for a walk. (I used to do the dishes while coffee brewed, so I will have to move all the dish-washing to the evening - this would be a nice habit to get into anyway, to just wake up to a totally clean kitchen.) The idea is to get outside within 30-60 minutes of waking and since it's perpetually cloudy here, spend half an hour outside (in a sunny environment ten minutes would be sufficient exposure to reap the supposed physiological benefits of this). So I just do six loops around the courtyard and that about does it. It's interesting that in a world I've always seen as perpetually overcast in the winter, there are changes in the clouds that can be seen if one really looks over the course of half an hour in the morning. I saw several little hidden patches of blue, and other variations in the clouds, that from an inattentive perspective just look uniformly grey. I think the exercise of lifting my eyes to the sky probably has as much of an effect on my mood as any supposed chemical benefit from circadian receptors in my eyes.
So much work to do at home today but I can do it. I need to walk to the bank and restock on quarters as well, at some point, there is laundry to be done and not enough quarters to do it with. But first, inventory and boxing up orders.
My throat still feels a little funny, but I think with some careful gentleness to my body today my innate immune system can keep doing its work to fight off whatever this is and I can get back to health.
And if I'm sick while we're snowed in from a storm that's not the end of the world.
I would like to ski around though, if we do actually get ten inches of snow tonight. I just don't see that happening. the sky doesn't smell like snow at all right now. Although it is very cold.
I'm also enjoying my attempt to establish a habit of Huberman's morning sunshine protocol. the kitten wakes me up at 7, I feed her, brew my coffee, play with her while the coffee brews, and then go for a walk. (I used to do the dishes while coffee brewed, so I will have to move all the dish-washing to the evening - this would be a nice habit to get into anyway, to just wake up to a totally clean kitchen.) The idea is to get outside within 30-60 minutes of waking and since it's perpetually cloudy here, spend half an hour outside (in a sunny environment ten minutes would be sufficient exposure to reap the supposed physiological benefits of this). So I just do six loops around the courtyard and that about does it. It's interesting that in a world I've always seen as perpetually overcast in the winter, there are changes in the clouds that can be seen if one really looks over the course of half an hour in the morning. I saw several little hidden patches of blue, and other variations in the clouds, that from an inattentive perspective just look uniformly grey. I think the exercise of lifting my eyes to the sky probably has as much of an effect on my mood as any supposed chemical benefit from circadian receptors in my eyes.
So much work to do at home today but I can do it. I need to walk to the bank and restock on quarters as well, at some point, there is laundry to be done and not enough quarters to do it with. But first, inventory and boxing up orders.
