Our son just joined a gym day before yesterday. He gets up at o-dark-thirty and gets to the gym as it opens. He then runs on the treadmill for 30 minutes, comes back home, showers, and then gets ready to come down to my air bnb to share some breakfast and some plans for the day.
I am going to try going to the gym with him (yes! at o-dark-thirty) after I move into the new condo and get it reasonably settled. I’m going to create a new life for myself outside of the visits to my husband, in the hope that this will be good for all of us in the future.
I want to get healthier. I will TRY to walk for the 30 minutes he runs, or as much as I can manage. I will TRY for every morning, though I may cut it back to every other day, or three times a week.
I’ll plan my new activities around our visits to the nursing home. When we first decided to come to Chiang Mai, Thailand to live in the same building as our son, I thought fondly of several things I would like to do –
- exercise and lose the rest of my lard
- eat healthy low carb food
- start trying to draw
- renew my love for playing a guitar and singing (very quietly! ☺️)
- take conversational Thai lessons (speaking, reading and writing)
- have regular massages/manicures/pedicures
- figure what in the world to do with my hair 😜
- see if I can find a women’s group that creates art
- communicate with a American Ex-Pat group my SIL found for me
- learn to cook using my new cookware (egg cooker, vous vide, air fryer)
- Learn to use Grab (going places and ordering food delivered)
- Getting to know Brian’s adopted family in the building (they have already adopted us as grandparents to their two children. 😁
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