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I’m down to four more stories to write before giving myself a little break.

I will do a meditation session in my cool office while my cats sleep at my feet.

They are actually relaxed cats plus spend most of their waking hours trying to find a place to sleep. We have a nice flat here plus it kind of feels like a buddhist monastery with the calmness that pervades the entire living space. I have a fantastic meditation section plus a fantastic yoga place for us, along with a lot of candles plus incense. The heating unit my pal and I use in the winter time keeps us hot while my pal and I do our yoga plus when the temps get actually hot my pal and I have a mini split air conditioner system unit in the bedroom where my pal and I practice the yoga routines. Today is a hot one plus I am going to relax in the flat for a while until it cools down a bit. I don’t have the heating plus A/C system running in the day yet because the temps aren’t high enough to warrant the use of it just yet, plus my little fans are doing a fantastic task of keeping me cool while I do my work online. I guess in a month or so it is going to be too hot for the fans plus I will have to bite the bullet plus run some cool air through the flat. The ductwork is definitely getting cleaned next week by this heating plus A/C worker plus my pal and I should be all set for the hot weather pretty soon.

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It seems like an endless mountain I am climbing today with all of the work I have to do.

The best way for me to get through days like this is to not think or judge any of the work and just mindlessly do it without thinking about it.

So that is what I am doing and I will let the work get done on its own with me just watching the words appear on the screen. I will invite my friend over for dinner later this week and we will play with the cats while watching the fireplace crackle away. I need to avoid the beach this week so that my body has time to recover from all of the activity. I am also training a local contractor in yoga today at 4pm and that should help me too, as my lower back has been in pain. I’m going to put some of that pain gel on it and wrap it with a neoprene wrap to keep it warm so it can heal. I also will turn on the space heater in my office so that my body heats up and then I will start cooling it down again with some ice and repeat the process till the back feels better. I think that in three days or so my back will be good again and I can get back to playing ball and drums in my band. We got our business cards for the band and will start handing them out to local businesses so we can play in air conditioned comfort this summer.

 

 

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Is it possible to have too much fun? My body is telling me yes it is.

I have to rest because I’ve done way too much the past few days with the long weekend we just had.

Friday was music day and we played music till late at night, and then Saturday and Sunday were both long volleyball days. And when Monday came, which was a holiday, my body was so sore and tired all I could do was sit in a chair all day on the beach and watch the other people play ball. Today I’ve been cooling down my back with cold gel and then heating it up again with a hot water bottle. I am really wiped out, more than most of my younger friends, as I have put a lot of miles on my 56 year old body. From skydiving to lifting heavy heating units, my back has taken a lot of abuse, along with my joints from 31 years of beach volleyball. I used to be a long distance cyclist too and then I was a barefoot skier, both of which did a number on my knees. I really need to go to the local business today and get some gel for pain so that I can make it through the day in my air conditioned flat without much ado. I just got a text from a friend coming to visit my town and I hope she doesn’t want to go to the beach! It is heating up and the beach is the last place I want to be today haha, boy oh boy.

 

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Happy Tuesday to all.

I am feeling pretty drained from the weekend, almost the opposite of all of my working married friends who are wiped out from the workweeks.

My weekends are more work than my weekdays and I look forward to the weekdays so I can rest from all of the partying on the weekend. I am just tired from playing too much this weekend and today I am going to rest my body and do a bunch of stretching. I have to teach a yoga student at 4pm today and it should help me too. Heating is necessary for hot yoga and we will use the client’s heating system to warm up the yoga room so we can do the session like they do in a normal hot yoga class. I will not be partying or playing any ball for a few days so that I can rest my body and my mind. I’m going to visit the local contractor today to see if they have any cooling gel for all of the pain in my joints, and along with a lot of rest I think I should be good by the time the weekend comes again. Today is going to be a slow day at home and I will stay off the beach all day so that my body can heal. I have some HVAC tech friends who like to play ball every day, but with my lower back pain I need to rest so I can lift heating devices at the cooling corp later next week when I work there.

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Blue skies and green grass make me feel kind of happy after having a long cold and dark winter with mostly hues of gray.

The world is starting to open up and more people are flooding the beaches once again, telling me that summer is on its way and things will be more colorful soon.

I am trying to decide if I want to keep living with my roommate or if I want to try and live on my own. Having a roommate is not good for my dating life because I can’t invite anyone over for dinner and fireplace gazing because I want my flatmate to feel at ease. But living alone has its drawbacks, namely being quite expensive to do on one’s own. I could work more for the heating supplier in town to earn more money so that living alone wouldn’t be so tough on my bank account now that my stocks have taken a nosedive and my backup money is gone. I had such a lousy year the past year with investments and threw away so much money it is almost nauseating to think about. But I will do more HVAC tech work for the cooling corp and just keep on pushing ahead. I just wish I could go back in time a year ago and listen to what my mom said about putting my money in the bank instead of investing it and throwing it away on an HVAC business that kept sinking like the Titanic. I guess life can throw you some tough lessons and you have to learn from them.

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I am pretty wiped out today from a weekend of playing sports on the beach and a bunch of partying with the crazy beach crew

My bandmate deleted like 25 messages last night very late and I am wondering what he wanted to say. There were literally about 25 or more messages that were deleted and I guess I will be hearing from him soon about it. He lives in another city about an hour away now because he and his lady moved into her mom’s house to escape the cold winter as they were living in a tent before that. But now the mom wants them to find their own place and he is a little more stressed than normal. He’s an HVAC specialist and works each day for the local contractor, but he really wants to do music full time. He has a lot of issues with fear and doubt though and it seems to keep him down a lot of the time, which is tough on me too because playing music with a sad musician is not fun. I will see him at the HVAC company this week and we will try to talk out what is bothering him and see if we can come up with a solution. I know last time we played he thought my voice was much louder than his, so I told him that when we play songs I can turn down my volume when he wants to take the lead in singing. I am pretty wiped out today from a weekend of playing sports on the beach and a bunch of partying with the crazy beach crew. Today I will most likely sit in my climate controlled flat and relax.

 

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Well, after a long weekend of music, sports, and partying I must say that I am ready for a break.

Every day here feels the same because people go to the beach every single day, and on weekends and holidays it can almost become mundane.

The week breaks up all of the partying on the beach a bit, but come Friday the whole thing starts over again. Now that we are in the month of may though there are more people hitting the beach each day regardless of weekdays or weekends. My body has had too much fun and cooling down with some ice after the weekend is good for my joint pain. I like to use some of the cold gel cream on my knees and shoulders after I play to help them heal. heating them up afterwards is just as important and sitting by the space heater seems to do the trick very nicely. I am going to work for a little bit today and then take a break and try to get in a little session of meditation before I go back to work and knock out the bulk of it. I may have to run the air conditioning system today because it is half past ten in the morning and already getting hot out. It is nice that we can sit in our homes with cool air and stay comfy on days when it hits 100 F on the thermometer. I am going to go clean the HEPA filter in the main HVAC system now and take a break.
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