End of December summary

Not much time for it now, but I'm here to say that during the holiday travel to Nashville and in the time leading up to it I did maintain the goal 5 times per week exercise, rested on weekends, and kept to a 95%+ Whole30. I successfully did a long travel spanning two weekends without getting very sick at all! I held to my routines, getting up early for exercise, skipping restaurant meals if I was unsure of the foods, and to bed early with a few exceptions.

In Nashville, I did daily (all 5 days!) elliptical and walking, or running, and always some strength session. It set my momentum for the day, and gave me that private time I needed.

I'm also more in the habit of daily art again, after stopping when Sugar died. 

My time with family was refreshing and reminded me of what's really important. And it's hard seeing the changes that happen there that I miss out on. My parents and my niblings are getting older! 

And LA and I are seriously ready to move from AA, if needed. Looking at STL and Chicago. And kinda on Nashville.

We did visit the dog in Nashville, tentatively named Opry (The Grand Ole Opry, haha) but nothing solid decided yet. I'm still stuck on my Sugar. 

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We spend the New Year's Holiday in Chicago, also a honeymoon of sorts, I'd planned to take the weekend off of running, lifting, anything. There was a lot of sitting in a car unfortunately and the only walk was to a foggy lighthouse on Jan 2nd in Benton Harbor. 

It felt good, and Tuesday morning on the 3rd I was back at the gym. Separate post. 

I'll be back for the Year End post.