Working On A Quirky Graph

Logically I am aware that it is winter. Defined as “the coldest season of the year, in the northern hemisphere from December to February and in the southern hemisphere from June to August,” it has been better in current years, unfortunately due to global warming. “It’s official: 2020 ranks as the second-hottest year on record for the planet, knocking 2019 down to third hottest, according to an analysis by NOAA scientists,” according to NOAA. These are bad things. We are not leaving a planet that will be habitable for future generations, and that is on all of us. I am just as guilty of pollution as I stare at my empty Amazon boxes I have yet to break down and bring to the recycle dumpster. It’s a process, that I’m slacking on because it is so amazingly cold!

However, just because it is winter, doesn’t mean I’m down with waking up this morning to negative digits. The one positive thing out of all of that, means that I’m not planning on going outside at any point until it gets above freezing. Which, unfortunately means sometime next week! I suppose we are lucky today as the mass amounts of snow that were supposed to hit the city never materialized. I know there are individuals who are sad, but there is no way I would have welcomed anything like that. I could have huddled in bed this morning and kept that up all day, however I opted to stumble out, grab some coffee and start laundry. While not overly ambitious, it is already more than I did yesterday.

However, just to kick yesterday fully in the pants, I went ahead a did laps in my hallway this morning, combined with squats. I walked quickly, back and forth over and over, confusing my cats because I am tired of waking up sore and honestly laying in bed is not making my back feel better magically. There was a story on some version of social media this morning about a gentleman who has lost 800 pounds. He has a medical condition that essentially never turns off his hunger. He doesn’t register full. He had made it all the way up to 1200 pounds before getting a sleeve, medication and portion control. One of the things he had said was to never give up. That, coupled with an article on Medium about budgeting and getting to a place where the individual was debt free, where they said not to give up, because giving up was the only real failure. All of that lead me to writing my budget down completely, pacing the halls and doing squats as well as dishes. There are still things to do, trying to find a format on this website that doesn’t do my head in, cuddling with cats, and perhaps making a dinner. There is still some arranging to be done in the office, which doesn’t hurt my heart, especially since I haven’t hung my art yet, and I’ve been giving serious thought about moving the desk a smidge to the left. While looking out the window is always entertaining, it would be warmer if I were closer to the wall.

The coffee shop tried to call me in today. However, the way the parking is set up, I actually can’t leave. The alley is fairly icy and if I try to move my car, I will slide straight into my neighbors garage. Not ideal, and not in my budget. So, I’m homebound, which never really makes me sad, but there is no way I’m going to try and leave. I have enough cat food to get me through the next few days, if I can get Ginger to stop being so picky. I’m even warming the pate up in the microwave to try and trick her into eating what I’ve got. She isn’t really buying it, but I will continue to work at it, perhaps even putting some more cheese on top just to get her to eat what I can of the regular food underneath.

It is a tricky prospect, and she sees the vet on Friday, which means that more of this snow will need to have melted, enough, at least for me to not slide out and perhaps park in a different spot. The weather should be in the upper 20s by Friday, fingers crossed, so we will just have to see how that all works out.

Meanwhile, tomorrow is a national holiday and it felt weird for me to ask off, so I will be working. It will give me something to do and I can look for the next national holiday and insure that I ask off for that one. There is extra training going on tomorrow so I’m really excited about that. I want to learn more about the coding so that I can be more helpful, as well as work my way up the ladder. The company needs to continue to fill positions for manager roles and I am more than willing to try and help them. To do that, I’m fairly certain I’m going to need to pick up some Salesforce knowledge, but I believe they offer tutorials and training. That’ll be on my to do list for next week. Today, however, going to be me focusing on household chores, staying warm and perhaps reading a little bit more.

I connected with my friend who also has been my trainer today. I was doing all that walking and then the squats and thought she should know I was thinking about her. Even she will be all curled up at home because it is so stupid cold. She did, however, approve of my walking and the squats and told me to be careful of my knees. It is hell getting old.