Late start again today…Monday, Monday…

Yep. We slept in again today. I didn’t get up until 9:30  after a great night’s sleep. According to my Fitbit, I slept for 8 hours and 21 minutes. I believe working out six days a week has improved the quality and duration of my sleep. I no longer feel that I suffer from insomnia, which plagued me for years.

Last night, we thoroughly enjoyed our dinner of low-carb loaves, as shown in the photo below. I made enough of this recipe to last for three nights, plus one more night’s batch for the freezer. It was delicious. I hadn’t made these for a few years and it was enjoyable to make them again.

This morning, I did my nails, which I do once a week, and just got started on today’s post. Soon, I’ll head to the kitchen to make tonight’s salad and also have a bite to eat. We often only eat one meal a day, but today, I am feeling like I need to eat something.  I won’t eat much since I am conscious of this higher-calorie dinner. Most likely, I’ll make some veggies to hold me over.

While we were still working in our old lives, Mondays weren’t my favorite day of the week. For Tom, he would end up working all days of the week. When we first met, he had Tuesday and Wednesday off. But sometimes, on the weekends, which worked better for me, he’d get done working early, and we’d be able to have fun on a weekend day, together or with friends.

However, he often worked on holidays when they occurred on his working days. There were many holidays he had to work. After a while, I got used to it and worked around it, still celebrating the holidays with our kids and saving him some of the good meals we had to reheat as leftovers.

As the years marched on, with his seniority on the railroad, he was able to have the weekend off, but this was only the last few years. I often worked during the week with weekends off, but we both worked around his schedule. Now that we’ve both been retired for over 11 years, I still get that funny nagging feeling on Sunday night that Monday morning is fast approaching and back to work is on the horizon.

As much as I try to psyche myself that Mondays are like any day of the week when retired, it still stays with me. As a result, when I have undesirable tasks to accomplish, I sometimes put them off until Monday, which ultimately leaves me thinking about Monday coming up.

Since most businesses are closed on weekends, if I have business-related calls to make, I have to wait until Monday anyway, again leaving me with that dreaded feeling of “things to do” that I don’t particularly enjoy. Right now, I am all caught up on to-do tasks, but with tax time coming up before too long, there will be more tasks to accomplish on Monday or other weekdays.

In other words, regardless of our state of retirement, Mondays bring a plethora of responsibilities that even nomads have to face, whether we like it or not. I often think of the phrase, “You can run, but you can’t hide.” So true.

I have to run…the laundry is ready to be hung on the rack. See, even laundry still has the connotation of being a task to complete on a Monday! Ha!

Be well.

Photo from ten years ago today,  January 22, 2014: