Today my exercise came mainly from shopping. After I attended a money-raising event for a relative soon to undergo a bone marrow transplant for treatment of leukemia, I drove to our local Walmart. I purposely parked at the end of the lot furthest from the section of the store where I would be doing most of my shopping and entered at that furthest location. Thus, I had to walk the full length of the superstore to do my shopping. Also, due to the variety of items on my list, I was in several departments. So I did do a good share of walking during that 45 minute period.
As I write this, I'm looking back to almost 10 years ago when I first moved back to this part of the country and I recall how I could not walk that store very easily without excessive shortness of breath and extreme fatigue. Now that I have a pacemaker / defibrillater and aalso heart medication adjustments I can see a major difference. And I woud also like to think that my habit of walking about the neighborhood over the past year or so has also helped. Whatever, I feel blessed by the improvement!
BTW, while at Walmart, I celebrated my 501 days of non-smoking with the purchase of two sweaters, a cute hooded jaket anad some warm winter gloves.
@Giulia Congrats on getting your kitchen mopped! I did the same this week and even that small event made the place seem a bit cleaner!
@YoungAtHeart - "Closing the house up for winter" is exactly how it feels to me once I lock all the windows. I like fresh air and fighting off cold drafts by battening down the hatches feels like a cruel "sentence" to me.
@indingrl - Trust that you and the hubby enjoyed curl up on the couch anad watch movies day ata home ❤️
@Maki - Like you, I will be "church shopping" soon-- am feeling the need to become connected with a community of faith.
P.S. One of the things I really like about renting this apartment is that someone else is responsible for all the outside work (like raking leaves) PLUS when something goes wrong-- like the roof this summer for example-- I am not responsible to fix it. If/ when I move to Tennessee near my middle son, I will also purposefully be downsizing which will also mean less square footage to keep clean which, at this stage of the game, seems like a great idea. (Think I'm throwing in the towel, lol.)
Time to start getting ready for bed~
Hello and goodnight to all you fellow movers I have not directly addressed ❤️
