Living life – Page 7 – Physician In Numbers

Giving Thanks In 2023

If you follow this blog at all, you will have noticed that I haven’t been posting much beyond my Fitness Logs. I’ve been having a tough few weeks, in the setting of a not-so-easy year.

If you were to ask me how things are going, I’m much more likely to tell you about my latest challenges, than to say Great! and really mean it.

As this is Thanksgiving week in the USA, I think this might be a good time to practice flexing my thankfulness muscles. It’s good for me to count my blessings.

I hope you will not take this as boastfulness, but more as an opportunity to count your own blessings, whatever they might be.

Fitness Log #261 And Friday Firsts

I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 5 years, and plan to continue doing so.

Fitness Log #260 And Friday Firsts

I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 5 years, and plan to continue doing so.

Fitness Log #259 And Friday Firsts and Fabulousness

I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 5 years, and plan to continue doing so.

Fitness Log #258, Friday Firsts, and Monthly Goals

I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 5 years, and plan to continue doing so.

Future Me, October 2023

Not long after the start of this blog, I cut my hours very slightly, and wanted to make sure I didn’t waste the extra time I was paying dearly for.

I had started reading about preparing for retirement in non-financial ways, and I realized that it was time to start (re-) building a life that didn’t revolve solely around medicine.

I started this series of posts at the end of October 2018 with lots of big goals, but even at the beginning, I knew that I couldn’t follow all those dreams all at once. Every few months, I try to look at what I have accomplished, and see if I need to adjust course: increasing fitness, building (or maintaining) connections with friends, family and community, engaging with the arts, and, lately, keeping up with financial tasks.

My last update was at the end of July. I’m trying to be a little more regular in my updates.

How did I do over the past 3 months?

Fitness Log #257

I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 5 years, and plan to continue doing so.

Since the pandemic started, I have been keeping track of “firsts,” and more lately, I have been trying to note good things (“fabulousness”). It’s a good way to pay attention and not let life slide by. However, this week was busy (and not always awesome), so I did not note much in either category.

Running Away From Home

Mr. PiN and I live in a lovely house, in a lovely neighborhood. However, we have realized for a while that it is not a house to grow old in: too many stairs, a tiny bathroom that would never accommodate a walker or wheelchair, etc.

And so, I periodically peruse the real estate listings for a condominium for our old age.

Fitness Log #256 And Friday Fabulousness

I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 5 years, and plan to continue doing so.

Fitness Log #255 And Friday Firsts

I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 4 years, and plan to continue doing so.

I started the Friday Firsts sections as a way of keeping track of some of my “firsts” as I dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic. Things seem to be settling down, but I will keep it for now–more as a way to be aware and thankful of what is happening in my life.