User blog:Taldin/Off-Routine

(Workout Wednesday.  What do you do when your normal routine gets tossed out the window?)

Over the weekend, my housemate wound up with severe dizziness issues. She couldn't walk a straight line, much less stay upright without feeling extreme vertigo. I got her to the emergency room, and spent most of the weekend sitting by her bedside.

Since they couldn't run tests right away, and her condition wasn't life-threatening, they discharged her, so I've been home with her all week. It's meant missing my exercise class, and a lot of not going anywhere in case she needs anything.

Simple thought for the day - 'what do you do to exercise when you can't find normalacy to actually do work, much less exercise?'

We are creatures of habit, as Habitica proves. It seems so simple to say, 'just make a daily' -- but dailies are just advisories, and emergencies trump everything.

I need to exercise more, and once a week is not enough. And yet I find myself not actually making the time to go do it, lately, doubly so now.

I'd like to think it's just the emergency hurry-up-and-wait-for-phone-calls crisis headspace wrecking things, but there were ample opportunities before that.

On the other hand - I'm actually getting a little better at the Take This! challenge -- getting to bed at a regular hour is a part of it.

I can get there, somehow, I just don't know where to start. It's funny, how far away normal seems when emergencies don't go away...

Taldin (talk) 23:12, September 14, 2016 (UTC)