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Did laundry today. Went to the Laundromat down the street next to the Happy Donuts. HD has free WiFi access. Took my computer to try it out. Could sit in my truck in front of the laundry and access the HD network. Wasn't really comfortable in the truck for writing, but could read email and surf the web. Helped pass the time and beat watching the dryers spin.

In addition to my usual routines, made it to yoga class today. It was a restorative yoga class with a substitute instructor today and next week. Missed the regular instructor (used to her sequencing and patterns), but substitute worked out great. She came at everything from a slightly different perspective. It was refreshing and it turned out to be a really good class. Glad I went.

The class left me energetic and alive-feeling. Tells me that I need to be doing more such things--not just my regular rituals here in the apartment. Also tells me I need to be doing yoga daily, either in class or at home. Not just a few perfunctory poses, but a regular practice--the payoff is obvious when I look at how I felt tonight at the end of the class. Some poses, like feet up the wall, are ones that could be done beneficially everyday.

Have contacted Rebecca and moved things along for her to provide me with a nutritional plan. Will meet with her on Friday to develop a health history. That combined with the survey forms I completed, a food journal, and some blood work will give her everything she needs to develop the plan. Looking forward to hearing from her what I should be eating that will help me enhance my health.

Had dinner at DeeDee's tonight. Can't stay away from that place. The food seems to be really healthy for me.

Will be interesting to see how today's yoga session affects my body/being. I seem to be accumulating a collection of aches/pains that are requiring extra body scan time to remedy. Energetically, I'm feeling pretty good. Today's expedition to do laundry and then turning around and doing yoga seemed to not tire me like it was doing last week. I believe I'm progressing. It's just difficult for me to notice subtle shifts.

I keep imagining myself at a gym working on the equipment, strengthening my muscles and shoulders. Will look into that soon. My days are going to be quickly booked--if it's Wednesday morning, I must be at the gym. There's something that feels right about such a picture. I can do a lot on my own, but there are aspects that are better done in a group or at a facility.

Learning every day! Learning new things and rediscovering some old items. Today was a "good" day--I felt "normal" for much of the day, with occasional winkouts. May there be many more days like today, and even better ones. Yes! Yes! Yes! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!