Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Cold Showers are Back!

Court observation is going well.  Up early for a full day -- all morning and afternoon.  I have to run home at lunch to let the dogs out again.  Timing of hubby out of town is lousy.  

I started up FULL cold showers this week.  I gave them up last year and just do a final cold rinse at the end of each shower.  Back to all cold and I'll see if that helps with my mood.  I looked at the mood-boosting list I made over the pandemic and this is one of the things that helped.  Can't hurt to give it a go again.  It's the initial blast that's so shocking, otherwise it's not bad.

Seems like everyone is getting home cold plunge tubs.  I wonder if this is something that will stick or we'll look back on the trend and shake our heads.  I know the cold shower helps my mood.  I'd actually like to join the trend, but I have chilblains in my feet.

Maybe the early schedule this week will help my mood too.  I was nicely tired last night and that felt good.  My mornings have been pushing later and later these days and I never feel my best when I sleep in.  My version of late is 6:30, but my natural wake up time is more like 4:30.  If I let myself go back to sleep, I wake up feeling off.  I've been doing that lately because of restless sleep throughout the night.  It's a cycle though -- sleep later, less tired, worse sleep ... so sleep later.  I'm curious how this week will feel.

Short and sweet this morning.  Hope you have a good day.  Later gators.

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