A good sleep, hopefully a good day.

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I can't, exactly, remember when I went down.  I was up until after 9:00, well after.  Plus I tossed and turned.  I've been stretching and that just winds things, and maybe wounds things.  But this is my life from now on.  Make it or break it is the method.  I woke right around 18:00, so, if I had to guess, right at about eight hours of sleep.  No alarm.  I don't feel I should push on every area at once.  I will sleep until I wake, and stay awake until I run out of... whatever, then can wind down.  At least I will do that until I am ready to try to bracket that aspect of life too.

Too late to go hiking.  It's growing dark, plus it was cloudy.  I will hike through rain and shine, I do have the gear for that, several times over and various forms, for colder and warmer situations.  The only problem with it being cloudy in the afternoon is that it gets too dark too quickly.  Eventually I probably will find places to do night hikes.  It's cooler.  The thing is that I need to find trails, or places, that allow for a night hike.  Many official trails roll up their invitation at sundown.  Instead of hiking, I am going to clean.  I have cut out my goals for tonight.  The bathroom and the "sewing niche" off the kitchen.  Everything out, reorganize the floor-space, clean, and reassembly of each area is the plan.  I am hoping to do it fast enough to get a nap in later, in hopes of being up long enough into tomorrow to go hiking early.  There is a chance that, if I go hiking early, then sleep, I can keep on my target and, when I wake, hit the "iron" again.  Then more housecleaning.

Tomorrow, aside from the hopes of exercise, I am hoping to strip clean the kitchen, or at least start on it.  It sort of depends on how well I am able to clear and clean the two target areas tonight.  I never really know how long things take.  But that is the plan from this side of the thing.  If I can keep it going, then I will hit the living room after the kitchen.  A nearly complete strip, clean, vacuum, and steam vac of the living room.  Plus another hike.  Every other day, hiking or weight lifting.  Though I might try to do both on Fridays, to get Saturdays off.  Saturdays may become my cooking day.  Cooking a couple of foods for the week.  Bean and ham soup, and maybe grill enough chicken and other meat to get me through.  Oh, and I will begin boiling eggs for easy food and solid protein and fat.  I simply won't be able to keep up on all things at all times, so some sort of plan needs to be in place.

Yeah, I know.  Plans are great until you can't walk, sit up, or think straight.  Then you gotta do what you gotta do.  If I have to take downtime, so be it.  The goal is to get back up when I can.  Hmm... I've been thinking about rafting.  I am going to call that an equivalent to upper body workouts, so I won't expect myself to lift weights when I do that.  A place where I portage a good deal will take care of hiking.  All good.  It is a plan, a good one.  I've got to do it if I plan on doing anything else.  I would like to add pushups and setups, but I am going to wait on those until I can bench my body weight.  A couple dozen of each, first thing in the morning, will eventually just be part of the program.

It's going to hurt.  If past experience is any measure, I will actually gain a lot of weight, at least for the foreseeable future.  My body takes on a lot of muscle, fast, before it ever starts letting go of fat.  For me, even when I could do a serious six month program, I never did see myself to weight loss.  Although, there are some things that will be different this time.  We'll see.  I just don't count on weight loss up front, and not for a long time.  If too, I don't really care about that so long as I am functionally strong and have some more serious stamina.  Those are the key points.  Later.