A female primary care physician opines on money, travel, fitness, and other topics to be determined
Thoughts on things mostly unrelated to work or money
I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 6 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.
Continue reading “Fitness Log #344, Friday Firsts And Fabulousness”I was introduced to Wednesday W’s via Burning Desire for Fire, as a way to give short updates–in her case, in early retirement.
In my case, I am not retiring (yet), but I will be taking an extra day off each week, giving me a 3-day weekend. I am curious about what I will do with that extra day, and think blogging about it might prompt me to make sure I take advantage of it.
I haven’t yet officially started my standing Mondays-off schedule, but did not have clinic scheduled this past Monday. I thought I would give the Wednesday W’s a try.
Continue reading “Wednesday W’s”I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 6 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.
Continue reading “Fitness Log #343, Friday Firsts, Fabulousness, And Monthly Goals”I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 6 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.
Continue reading “Fitness Log #342, Friday Firsts And Fabulousness”I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 6 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.
Continue reading “Fitness Log #341, Friday Firsts And Fabulousness”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, 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 can adjust course to focus my free time in the directions I wish I would go: 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 in January 2025. I had hoped to write an update a little sooner, but travel got in the way. (An excuse that made me happy to skip blogging.)
This is a good time to review how well I have been pursuing those goals, as it I will soon have significantly more time out of the office to work on them.
Continue reading “Future Me, May 2025”I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 6 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.
Continue reading “Fitness Log #340, And Friday Fabulousness”It’s a beautiful spring Sunday, my first day off in several weeks, and I can’t quite say that I am excited to wake up early to go into the office tomorrow morning.
However, this will be one of my last early Monday mornings. I have 5 more until I will no longer have Monday morning clinic. Ever, if things work out well.
I’m realizing that I probably need to make some tentative plans for how I will use my extra time out of the office.
Continue reading “5 More Mondays”I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 6 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.
Continue reading “Fitness Log #339, Friday Fabulousness, Firsts, And Monthly Goals”I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 6 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.
Continue reading “Fitness Log #338, Friday Firsts And Fabulousness”