Days
Today I woke up. I wished happy birthday to my puppy. I started coffee brewing. Showered. Chopped veggies for the week. Cooked beautiful, delicious egg white omelets for myself and my 'work at home these days' husband. I did chores. Pet Thor the Mighty Barn Cat. The wind was cold and the sun was bright. But, most importantly... Today, I gave myself permission to stop pressuring myself about, well, EVERYTHING. Yesterday was awful. Horrid. Gray and gloomy and downcast. The weather was bad, too. Yesterday, I fretted about the noticeable downtrend of my strength, lack of motivation to workout, inability to sit and finish writing F*CK It, I'm 50 , increase in bouts of crying and sadness and missing my son and brother. Today, I woke up and decided enough was enough. No more worrying about NOT and CAN'T. Less feeling badly about things that are different. So many things are different now. So many things we cannot do, places we cannot go, and people we cannot se