How my days go.

Good day  - y'all.

Fish Joke:  This one is in preparation for the upcoming, inevitable, undesired, relentless and yet beautiful winter season.  
Bob is sitting on the ice all day fishing with no luck, not even a nibble. Cold and tired he is about to leave, when a guy walks up cuts a hole in the ice beside him, and starts pulling out fish as fast a he can drop his hook in the water. Bob can’t believe it, he yells over ” whats your secret?” “woogatkakeptewrwm” he answers back. “what did you say?” replies Bob. The man spits a large ball of worms on the ice and says to Bob, ” you have to keep your worms warm”.

I often hear comments or get asked - what do you do all day - you must get bored.  So here is an idea of how my days go.  Now you really have the chance to spend a day with Jay.

530 am the alarm clock will start going off as Teresa has to get ready for work.  This wakes me as well.  So I get up around the same time as Teresa after hitting snooze a half dozen or so times. 
Once up I will make lunch for my wonderful wife then drive her to work. 

Once back home 730 - 8am.  Perfect time for breakfast, go online check out some news, Facebook of course and email.  That will take me to 10am or so. Snack time.
Now depending on the day in my treatment cycle, if the earlier part, this will be where I have my first nap.  If the end part of the cycle I will keep busy in other ways.
- Alittle bit of outside tinkering in the yard or some small wood project.
- A walk around the neighborhood
- Laundry, grocery shopping or other domestic chores (they yucky stuff)
- Take an extended bath, which I have grown to enjoy.  (rubber ducky yer the one, you make bath time so much fun.......)
- wash the car
I am sure you get the point.  There is always something to be done.  As our neighbor Maurice says "man you must sit up at night just thinking of shit to do".  As he often sees me in the backyard plugging away at something.  

Soon noon - 1pm is upon my day.  Time to eat again, as I must have nourishment every 2 -3 hours or look out the beast arrives in full force.   So have something to eat - watch alittle TV.  
- now most days, does not matter the stage of the treatment cycle
Lunch is followed by an afternoon nap.

After my nap, I may continue with whatever I began earlier in the day or start on something new.  Around 3 or so I will also have another Snack. Then it is time to pick Teresa up from work and back home.

Now we will start supper and I chat for a bit, perhaps finish outside projects together.  Have supper, clean up.  Enjoy our favorite past time entertainment.  Yes siree there has got to be a reality TV show of some sort on.  Or a movie we want to watch.  We are cinematic junkies for movies or night time TV.    Then off to bed. 


Seems in the evening I bake alot as well.   Zuccini bread, peanut butter cookies, oatmeal cookies, slow cooker carrot cake (my fav).   Food in general is on my mind alot.  I go to bed thinking about breakfast and wake up thinking about lunch and supper.  Sometimes I think about each meal 2-3 days in advance.  Hmm perhaps that is contributing to my appetite and the 30lbs I have put on.  With the chilly weather coming upon us going to have to break out the WII Fit again.  Back to the indoor activities. 

So in summary - I find stuff to productively occupy my days.  I still have to feel I am accomplishing something.  By "thinking of shit to do" and checking them off the list I satisfy this need.  And every nap is justified as part of the healing process, so even then I am productive. 

Anyways hope that gives you an idea of how I pass my time, keeping busy, yet resting with the focus on getting better. 

Have a great weekend and keep smilin - even when Monday hits. 

Jtee