Spouse will be going back to work after the 4 day weekend and the TV won't be on blaring political commercials, bad news about the financial institutions and tidbits I don't care to know about the presidential campaign. I prefer to get my news on the radio in the morning. Mostly I have it on to keep me company because I manage to tune it out when I read during breakfast or get on the computer.
I have to start getting up at 7am. I ate my breakfast smoothie right before going to the noon water aerobics class and it didn't sit well. I almost felt earlier like I was going to get the usual bowel obstruction but fortunately, I escaped that fate.
Going to cook acorn squash tomorrow morning. That will warm up the house and I'll get to feast on the toasted squash seeds!
Need to mail return back to Gaiam and buy stamps. I kept the foot pain dvd but am returning the strong bones and spinal alignment one. I should have only bought the foot pain one to begin with. The others are well produced and have nice props for the exercises but I'm more likely to use weights for strong bones than the rubber tubing props. The spinal alignment one seemed too subtle for me to want to do it on a regular basis. The foot pain one has a strap for stretching my foot (and hip and hamstrings) and a foam dome for stretching my calf.
Also, need to stop by Los Alamos Medical Center's Radiology Department to pick up digital copy of my right foot MRI and then go to Medical Associates to sign a release that they can fax to Dr. Miller's office to request the doctor's report. He never sent it to Dr. Church. I finally figured out this morning, after a flurry of phone calls, how the system works at UNM for getting the medical records and x-rays. It's more complicated than just requesting them from Dr. Miller's office once he has sent them to medical records and the film library.
After the water aerobics class, I water walked 10 laps (back AND forth) on the pool's short end. That took 40 minutes and is a little over a quarter mile. I'm going to try to do that at least 3 days a week so I can get some quality exercise. I was using various strokes learned in the class - sitting froggie forward and back, standing side stroke, flutter kick, cross country ski and water jogging. Mary, a women in the class, was also there doing some strength work and stretching. I suspect that we are two of a kind in that we both try hard to maintain our bodies.