A Pet-Peeve and a Soapbox

Good morning.  

Things are quickly moving toward "normal" again and I'm a little freaked out.  Not so much about the pandemic, but more about suddenly leaving my routines in the dust.  My aunts are gathering next week for an outdoor flea market and invited me.  I'll go the the market (masked) and all of us vaccinated, but they are going to lunch and a winery too.  

I feel good eating and not drinking.  Lunch and a winery is what I want to avoid.  I haven't figured out how to manage a balance of before/after lifestyles yet.  Monti has a grooming appointment so I think that gets me out of the afternoon stuff (this time).

I'm afraid that when I get a taste of how it was, I'll go straight back there.  It feels super tempting.  I like NOT dieting, NOT yo-yoing, feeling good after I eat.  Eating out doesn't offer those choices -- not when I'm going out with people who aren't interested in a healthy restaurant (ie alternative restaurant).  A restaurant salad is okay, but not great.  Vegan meals at a regular restaurant means pasta.  

And my biggest pet-peeve (even before the pandemic) ... everything you do socially ALWAYS includes going out to eat or stopping for a drink.  Why?  Why can't we just go to a flea market?  Why can't we just go on a hike?  Why can't we just hang out?

Guess this is the point of such a long practice -- putting things in play when the choices are harder is HARD.  I could use life coaching on this.  Time to problem solve and figure this out.

Side note on life coaching ... my former LC who raised her rates almost 3 times what she was charging is having a bit of a crisis herself (per her Instagram).  She's paused most of her coaching -- it worked out that I'm not with her anymore (at the new way, way too high rates).  She's not in a good place to coach the integration post pandemic.

Side note on the pandemic -- not over yet so stay diligent.  My brother isn't careful (he thought he and his family had it last year early on).  He travels to gyms for his job -- no masks, doesn't care.  He and his entire family (including father-in-law) have COVID.  He exposed my cousin and his family (pregnant wife) and my aunt and uncle (vaccinated, but my uncle is a a transplant cancer patient) the day before they all tested positive.  Dumb and dumber.  My cousin had no business having him visit for the day (inside, eating, no masks) and my brother was arrogant thinking it couldn't reach him.  

I understand it's possible to contract COVID with precautions, etc.  But when you blindly don't care about ANY precautions, that's on you.  The adults all qualify for vaccines but they hadn't gotten around to doing it yet.  Two of them were first qualifiers and the rest early qualifiers.  Seriously?!  At least my aunt and uncle are vaccinated.  

That's my soapbox.  A pet-peeve and a soapbox -- falls just short of a rant LOL.

Have a good day and stay well.  Later gators.