Monday, June 23, 2025

Monday Mood: How am I doing?


I am enjoying my gentle daily routine, interesting walks, my time in the pool, and playing in the kitchen four times a week. World events are troubling - give me pause. I am struggling with travel plans for next year, and in light of the Sunday morning news, maybe I should wait for the smoke to clear in Tehran before I commit to anything.  

I have done some cleaning and organizing in my room, bedroom, office, studio all in one nice space.  I consolidated most of the paintings, prints, and frames into one location from four. Once a year the condo has a paper shredding truck on site, took over a massive pile of files yesterday.  Next year, I can shred the files from settling my father's estate, that will free up some space.  

I am physically feeling well, other than my daily sneezes, the hot humid weather brings lots of irritants. 


12 comments:

  1. I, too, am worried about making travel plans. Glad you’re feeling well despite the sneezes. That annual paper shredding service is a brilliant idea.

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    1. I realized I have a 1.5 file drawers of tax returns, I need to sort out.

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  2. With my hands over my ears, I am not listening to news from my far west, and even further far north east. There are plenty of safe places in the world.

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    1. Welcome back, you should be safe down under.

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  4. I totally agree with you. As these days seem to get harder and harder to take because of the news and he who should not be named, it's good for us to have distractions and our happy places to go. I also agree that travel could be a little dangerous at the moment.

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    1. Any nice distractions this weekend?

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  5. I can take the heat; in California summers often got up to 110 and higher but, and people loathe this, it was a dry heat.
    In Miami and South Carolina, as I'm sure it is in DC, the humidity gets me the worst!

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    1. DC was built in a swamp, it is almost always humid here.

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  6. I just took a bunch of shredding to the shredder about a month ago.

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  7. You keep busy enough and it sounds like you are really enjoying retirement. I feel lazy some days but I tell myself I deserve the down time after all the years of work! ;)

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