#oneaday Day 208: Back to Work

I'm back at work today. Boo! The adjustment hasn't been quite as horrendously harsh as I expected it to be, but I do have a bit of a headache and would rather be in bed right now. Patti decided that I should wake up at 5.30am though, so my sleep from that point onwards was rather broken, to say the least; Patti likes to "tap" me in the face, and she knows how to open doors, so I can't just shut her out of the room. (For recent followers, Patti is my cat, not my wife. My wife could sleep through the Apocalypse.)

After my holiday, I'm feeling reasonably inspired in a few regards. Both Andie (my actual wife) and I had been struggling a bit with our slimming efforts prior to going away, but I think a week of being reasonably free and easy with what we want to eat has probably got a lot of the frustration out of our system, hopefully meaning that we'll find it a bit easier to get back "on plan" for the foreseeable future. Of course, we'll almost certainly have gained weight in the meantime, but we're seeing this week's session as a fresh start and a new beginning rather than any sort of "failure".

My time in the pool at Center Parcs also made me feel like I want to do some more swimming generally. Since I prefer to keep my evenings as free as possible to work on MoeGamer, make videos and enjoy some games, my goal is to get up and go swimming before work. There's a pool just around the corner from my house that does early morning sessions from 7.15am, meaning I could swim for 30-45 minutes before work, so I'd like to do that. My big barrier to doing that is the fact that I find it very difficult to get up before I absolutely have to in the morning, regardless of whether or not I'm being harassed by a cat (which I usually am).

As I wrote a long while back, though, this sort of thing is all about establishing good habits. Good habits can be difficult to get going with, but once you establish them, the longer you keep them up the harder they become to break. I just need to make that initial "push" to get going in the first place, then I can very much see myself making (possibly daily) swimming part of my weekday routine.

This is all good intentions rather than actual good things right now, though, so I'll be sure to keep you posted on my progress in an attempt to keep me honest!