Weekly Healthy Living Check-In November 22nd, 2025

🍁 This past week was pretty well... The weather here has been really beautiful, warm & mild here the past week. So last weekend each day started off with some Zumba of course.. On Saturday we went to a wonderful outdoor Holiday event that I really enjoyed.... And also got in a little Pre-Christmas shopping. I was able to buy some things for Gift Donations for our Local Animal Shelter!.. It was something that really made me feel good & brought me joy all week just thinking about it... I only wish I could be there to see & watch the animals receive them!.... On Sunday after my Zumba class I was able to get up & done the rest of my Holiday decorating!~

🌾 As the week started off, I got back on track with my typical schedule of (work, workouts, appointments, meal-planning/tracking, & lots of great outdoor time with the Pup)~... Sleep goals still need work. But Hydration was good & on point with the warmer weather we had!... On Monday evening we decided to finish up with decorating & put up our Christmas Tree.~  I love having all of that done & out of the way & completed "Before" Thanksgiving arrives. That way I can come home from dinner with my family & simply relax, & enjoy my lights. While taking in the Christmas season ahead~ 

🍂 This weekend ahead, No Saturday Zumba for me.. But intentions are to get in a Home-workout to start the day.  Then head to a Holiday event in the early afternoon. On Sunday, early Zumba to start the day.... Then afterwards finish preparing for the Thanksgiving Holiday & get all the preparations & shopping completed. We are also anticipating enjoying a local Christmas Lights Show & Display here at our local Lake!~... Next week I will adjust my schedule & personal goals accordingly throughout the week since classes are minimal, & take some time for extra rest & self care as we head into the Holiday week, as well finish off November~ 

HAPPY WEEKEND~ 

@PoliteOcean

My week wasn't bad, relaxing. Caught up with myself! I'm usually doing a million things all at once so the quieter pace was appreciated. I don't have Thanksgiving here but if I were invited to a meal, Irish stew is the go to dish 🥰

I’m thankful I am alive.

I am thankful for my breath.

I am thankful for my health.

I am thankful for my family and friends.

Been doing 75 HARD. I’ve just started week 8 and today is day 51. I’m tracking from the start date, but I haven’t performed the 5 tasks to perfection every single day. And in the past 2 weeks it’s become more difficult since beginning and accelerated class. Also with holidays there’s more social pressure. Catching up with visiting family. Deciding what I can and cannot eat. Friends visiting or local friends feeling more lonely. An upcoming certification exam in less than 4 weeks. There’s more pressure building to do other things. And I already was struggling to stay on task. I was getting good results but the past 2 weeks I’ve mostly been going through the motions as well as making more compromises and modifying even though I don’t quite need to modify (at least not at this moment). Feeling a bit of guilt because I’ve got some needy people in my life. I care about them but they seem to want more attention than I have energy to give. I’m mostly trying to focus on fitness and getting this job certification by December 19th. My class is 9am-4pm weekdays. Including tons of readings and assignments. I want better fitness results but it’s hard with the upcoming holiday pressure spreading me even more thin.

@PoliteOcean I likely wont be able to answer all the questions due to not being able to remember them all but this week it was ok til Thursday. My daughters christmas present from last year had broke and for months she was waiting for me to repair it as I had promised. I finally got things in action on Wednesday and put the chain in to be repaired. It was to take 2 weeks for repair but was ready in less than 24 hours. Now she is fully aware that for years I have had issues with hearing and audiologists have said my heaing in time would worsen to where I would lose all hearing. Well for past 6-9 years it has been getting worse. My granddaughter had originally found a remedy where she would come up really close to my ear for me to catch certain words as I can hear part of whats said but certain words I just cant pick up and lately even her remedy is starting not to work. Well Thursday upon learning chain was ready to be picked up I asked my daughter if she was picking up my granddaughter from school and then drive me to the repair shop I can absolutely swear I heard her say yes. Her roommate came in and asked if she was picking up my granddaughter again I swear I heard yes. Eventually when I saw she wasnt moving I went and asked the roomate to drive me. I figured if my daughter wouldnt take me I would just surprise her. upon picking it up and back in the roommates car my daughter called the roomate who had my daughter on speaker. I got a bit annoyed with her not taking me and said it to my daughter. AT that point she went off on me. I got to ose to give it to her and was just told she no longer wants the chain and to leave her the ____ alone which has now led me to decide not to Chat to her ‘cause I told her even if she is my daughter I refuse for her to think she can treat me any way she feels like and having paid a lot for the chain I see it as being disrespectful and hurtful-she knows I dont have mone like that to put out and it took everything out of me to buy that chain and pendant for her ‘cause she means so much to me. She has come to me several times chattin’ bout other stuff and only once asked About the chain and I just havent had desire to communicate with her ‘cause of the hurt she caused me. So thanksgiving wise I have decided not to be part of the festivities. However for years I have always heard About being grateful specifically during holiday time which I dont agree with. Why? I tend to feel why is it important for holidays to be grateful why not be grateful every day so years ago I developed what I call the everyday be grateful day. At first it started where everynight once my children and I had gotten in bed each of us had to say 3 things we were grateful for then it started where every day somethin’ had to be done to express love to one another. One day it would be a gift another day I love you day another day just ‘cause day which was doing somethin’ special with each other etc. Some things got repeated but the goal would be to have somethin’ different planned every day.So despite things being as they are in the here and now. Being grateful is somethin’ I take with me every single day. Despite having more bad in my life God has blessed me in so many ways that those blessings outweigh all the years of pain and misery. I am in full gratitude of both the good and the bad.. If the bad didnt happen I might not of learned how to do things differently in a positive way. I am grateful for my children, for life, for God, for the growth I have made. Theres just so much to be grateful for and I can not allow a bad situation to make me forget all the good I have had in my life.

@PoliteOcean I'm thankful for my family and my health🥰

@PoliteOcean