it's supposed to take 7 days to form a habit, right? so that means I am halfway to solidifying this routine! I was worried about today since it's the weekend and I tend to give up entirely on the weekend, but I didn't even feel the urge to. got up at the same time (3am, and then 7:30am 🙄) filled in the morning portion of my gratitude journal/planner, and made my tea and breakfast (shocker, cheesy eggs), and went on my walk as usual. it was a little cooler today then it has been all week so I walked a little longer, then I went home and checked my phone for the first time. I'm not super popular so there wasn't much to check lol! after that I put down the phone and grabbed one of the magazines I picked up yesterday, and actually really flipped through, read the articles I was interested in, and even jotted down a recipe in my everything notebook to try later- which i ended up doing later in the day!
we had a lot of out of the house things to do today so not much housework got done besides maintaining everything I'd done during the week. first we had brunch with my sister's dad, which was weird but fine, then we went shopping for salad ingredients, did some thrifting, and hit the mall to use up some bath and body works coupons.
I forgot to bring my camera thrifting unfortunately, but I really like the pieces I found! I'm going to be doing a mega cleanse and revamp of my wardrobe next week ( in theory, it's a chemo week so energy will be in the negatives, but I'll have my sister to help do the physical stuff, I just have to decide to toss, keep, or donate. we shall see) and I'm trying to focus on things that are comfy and fit well with my various medical apparatus, but also fit my style. I really want to steer away from the sweatpants and graphic tee of it all, you know?
I could have called it a night after getting home from the mall, but I really wanted to make this salad for the fish fry we're going to tomorrow, so i threw that together, it was super simple but a ton of chopping lol, and I might have to double the dressing if it's not flavorful enough after sitting and absorbing all night, but I'm really happy with the results! it's just a spring veggie salad, and the dressing is so basic, but it's exactly what I've been craving but incapable of eating thanks to my stoma. avoiding fiber has been killer but we ball regardless!
tomorrow nothing is on the schedule besides the fish fry dinner, so I'm just gonna kind of freeball it and see what happens, depending on how I feel after my morning routine. at the very least I need to reset my chemo bag, and wash my chemo week clothes or I'll just be miserable, more so than usual. in a perfect world I'll also get my laundry done, that way it's all ready to sort through.
right now I'm working my cleaning/driving/cooking playlist, and I still have my brain games to do and either a nice low contrast movie to settle down with, or maybe some Bob's burgers if nothing sounds good. though now that I sit with it, the idea of staying up the length of an entire movie sounds so difficult, so maybe instead I'll just do the Bob's episodes... I've seen that show enough times that I won't feel bad if I turn it off halfway through lol!
today's photos, spring veggie salad and brunch matcha and lemonade!