Observate, adapt, adjust
After several months being in the new place, I kinda have a routine. It’s not ideal yet, but it works for now, and I need to find a way to make it work even better. So, I’ve been observing my current routine, I’ve been focusing on how things go now, and what I could do to make it better. Or, what I think will be better, as I won’t know till I’ve tried. I want to go back to the schedule that I had in Cuijk, as it seemed to relax me a bit better than my current routine does.
Especially when I wake up way before the alarm is set to go off, and I can’t sleep anymore… I get to the gym too early, it’s still too “crowded” for my linking. The roads are still busier. I get hungry earlier, making it harder to resist snacking during the day. So I needed to write out my current schedule and then see if, and how, I could make adjustments to improve it. I know that this won’t be easy, as somewhere this year, I’ll also need to have surgery, which means that I have at least 6 messed up weeks where I can’t do anything properly at all…
So, I got my routine as it is now written out:
- 22:30 alarm, if I’m not awake already
- 23:00 – 0:30 (depending how good it goes and if I can use the massage chair) gym
- 1:30 – 3:00 SniffiVerse™ walkies with Arwen
- 3:30 – 4:30 riding the hometrainer
- 5:00 – 6:30 eating and relaxing, and sometimes some smaller chores
- 6:30 – 7:00 walkies
- 7:00 – 9:30 chores, relaxing, groceries…
- 9:30 – 10:00 walkies
- 10:00 – 13:00 relaxing, other chores, eating, gaming
- 13:00 – 13:30 getting ready for the bedtime routine (meds, teeth, gym stuff, Arwen stuff)
- 13:30 – 14:30 walkies with the neighbor and her dog
- 14:30 – 22:30 (if I’m so lucky) bed time
So yeah, that has been the routine since the summer time ended and the doggos didn’t want to wait till 14:30 for walkies anymore…
The first thing I want to try is to add an hour. So we’ll walk at the usual time, and then I will do something relaxing for an hour. I’ll beg Arwen to do a wee after that hour, fingers crossed 🤞🏻 that she’ll cooperate. And then I’ll be in bed from 15:30-23:30, to start with. I wanna get back to something like 16-24, to see if that will work better.
But then I’ll need to change the morning routine some, as I’ll have less time to do the things I do now. So maybe I’ll work on the blog after the walkies with the neighbor? 🤔
I have do try it out. I know my bedtime routine was later when I was still in Cuijk. I started later when I had just moved. It changed more since the summertime ended, and Arwen and her friend demanded earlier walkies. But I really hope that I can change things a bit later again. Getting to bed at 14:30 is a bit too early for me, even though I’ve been doing it for a while now.
So, slowly but surely, I changed the times. The neighbor and I still walk our dogs at 13:30 at the moment, though we do wonder if it will change back to the original 14:30 when the summer time kicks in again… But I started with waiting another hour after the walkies with the neighbor. I am always hoping that Arwen will take a wee an hour later, before I head to bed, so that I can get the 8 hours in bed… 😊
As I am writing this, I’ve only just started with the time change. I do feel it’s a little less busy at the gym when I get there an hour later, but I’ve been distracted by chatting with a good friend the first few days, so I just stayed with the cardio bits so I could chat… But I do hope to notice a change, so that I can finally start doing some things in the real strength area again, as I do miss the Smith Machine exercises…
It felt weird, the first few days. I felt like I was “running late”, as apparently, I was very much used to the new time schedule already, even though it always felt “too early” for me. It’s weird how the brain works. One thing feels too early, and then you add an hour, and then it feels like you’re running late… 🤔
But I have to try it out and see how it all goes. I think it does feel better. And maybe I will need to add another half hour or so to it, that I’ll go to bed at 16 and get up at midnight. But first, I’ll see how it goes with the “extra” hour. I do hope that the gym will be quiet enough when I am not too anxious to try the strength area out again. I guess that’s a downside of the gym in a larger town, there may be more folks that want to train during the “quiet hours”.
I’ve been trying the “hour later” routine for a bit now. So far, I’ve been lucky that Arwen did the wees before I wanted to go to bed, so I could have my alarm an hour later as well. I’ve only woken too early a few times, and that was usually around the “old” alarm time.
Getting to the gym a bit later does mean it’s a little less busy. Which is good for me, as that meant that I’ve been able to use the Smith Machine a few times already. And it feels good to be using it again. I get muscle aches, but they are good ones, as I trained the muscles and it’s not “just” silly fibro aches. 😊
(While I write this, I’m dealing with some stressful financial bits that are not under my control, but they do affect me and my energy, motivation, sleep, anxiety, stress… So I hope that things won’t get too bad! But… I can’t control this as it’s all in one of my ex’s hands and well, there is a reason it’s an ex… 😔 So yeah… I hope that I can keep my routine, I hope that I can keep working on my health, I hope that things won’t get too bad and get me in an even bigger mess…. But, I know my ex, and he’s stubborn and not always honest, so I would not be surprised if he would let this situation get messy and he’ll drag me into this financial hell… 😢 So really, fingers and even toes are crossed that I can keep sane with the routine and that things won’t be damned in the end… 🤞🏻).
I guess it is… To be continued… Just hope it will be good news… 🍀
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