Tuesday Kind Of Day in a Tuesday Kind of Week

     With working late last night, 1st Monday of the month evening call, I intend to log off by 5:00 tonight. In efforts this year to create more boundaries between my home and the work day, I started last week to make a decisive end of day time, log off, and shut the lap top. I was in a habit of keeping it open, not fulling logging out until  those that start later in the day were ending-just in case. If there was anything urgent, I certainly can be reached by call or text, but by not logging off, I was letting work creep into my evenings in my home. I'm a bit off with what  week is my flex week-I think it is this Friday, but it has been so long since I took a true flex day.

     But with DD2 home just until the weekend, I'll either take the flex day Friday, at least in part, or a 1/2 a vacation day. We won't necessarily do anything exciting, but I can help her get packed, find any lingering laundry, and just hang out. Regardless, I need to grocery shop for some of her favorites for the week, and for her to take back. I made curry yesterday, and not with a jarred sauce, since I had the ingredients. I stopped on my way hone from my walk on Sunday to at least restock a few fresh food necessities. A portion is frozen and she will likely have some for lunch today. 

Just because he's so darn cute.

     I only left the house yesterday to give pup a walk. His fur is already getting sort of fluffy and soft again. If his ears were different, he'd almost look like a yellow lab puppy, instead of the cranky almost 10 year old he is. He's going to be confused again when college girl goes back and he'll just have me again all day long. I'm going to try and do a yoga or strength video on days I can fit in a true lunch break, but also get him outside during the day as well at least on the days it is not bitter cold. We had a perfect winter weekend, sunny and mid to high 20's, but those will be few and far between in January and February. I'm not sure what I did though, but lt night I had a flare up of my knee to the point the pain was so bad, I had tars. I used a lot of icy hot, took my arthritis meds, and then kept an ice pack on it to sooth the throbbing. It seems back to  normally slight pain I always have, but not toe curling pain. 

     I have 2/3rd of the book, The Vanishing Half  to finish before Friday's Book Club, so a good reason to keep the screen time off, though I will technically have a screen as I have the E-book version. I'm starting to put things in my calendar, even if they end up being a no-go, but feel like I need to take back any control I can. I started doing this last night after my Web-Ex meeting last night. On the calendar I'll add meals we've had and in efforts to do better with self care, will put things like "manicure" or color hair. First though, I need to get through a jam packed scheduled day at work. I'll leave you with a few winter walk photos. It sure feels like a Tuesday in a Tuesday kind of week. 

A few walkers have started to trample
 down the path by the pond.

Pup, with his  fur growing back, is loving his  walks.
I gave up trying to get booties and sweater on him. 

Lots of critter tracks across the frozen and snowy pond.