⛈️ Woah! Now it is coming down. We got home just in the nick of time. A meeting canceled, but I prefer to be back home than out on the road in this. Be safe anyone who is out and about.
Now
🥱 8:30am and I am just getting up. I never do that, this late in the morning, until I have just done so. I was tired...still feel that way. A slow Sunday ahead?
😮💨 Feeling tired at the far end of a day moving around Lisbon. But getting things done, enjoying ourselves, and meeting with friends
🥵 very hot today. Peaking at 35C (95F). We are on the search for cooler temperatures.
🧙🏻 A second test of a Drafts action
🧪 Testing a Drafts action.
🇵🇹 Boa tarde Portugal
🤫 Sitting quietly.
Wednesday, September 20, 2023 →
🥱 Up early, did I go to sleep(?), for a jet lag informed breakfast.
Wednesday, September 20, 2023 →
🌧️ It’s pouring in southern England right now. On my way down to Bristol from Heathrow airport.
😰 It is so humid outside right now, that it just saps my energy.
🩻 A hospital goes from a place that I rarely see, to one that becomes quite familiar. A chest X-ray just completed this lunchtime, with a follow up doctor’s visit tomorrow morning. All to see how my healing from pneumonia is progressing.
😮💨 Exhausted but happy after a day hiking through Haleakala crater today.
🤪 I was going to do something, look something up, and now (two minutes later) cannot remember for the life of me what that was??
☔ It’s pouring here in Haiku.
🏝️ I’m starting the journey back to Maui. I’m both wanting to be back home and anxious as to what I am returning to (though very gratefully, my home is safe).
🐳 More whales swimming past Sea Ranch this afternoon. We can see their spouts way out in the ocean.
😶🌫️ Waking up to a foggy and damp morning. Perfect for moving slowly.
🥱 Tired after a day of driving.
🐲 I just paid a visit to The Dragon’s Den, a herbal medicine shop here on Maui. I was looking for a something to help open my lungs as I manage the tail end of pneumonia. I’ve come away with a couple of options, and hoping that I see some results.
☕ I’m drinking my first coffee for around two months. Being unwell just put me off the beverage, and then as I improved my acupuncturist suggested that I stayed away from coffee. This morning I felt as though I wanted to try some again. Right now it is feeling good.
🔌 Power outage - those times when I realize the value and/or importance of that which I take for granted.
☹️ Waking up to the realization that the weekend is over.
😌 It’s Sunday. I need a Sunday.
📝 I'm grateful for journalling.
🥱 Waking from an afternoon nap.
🕳️ I am slowly surfacing, climbing out of the hole. I have not written on my blog for about a month. Much has happened, but I have simply not had the bandwidth to post. I've been unwell since May 20th, but did not get a diagnosis, of pneumonia, until June 7th - traveling saw to that delay. I've lost a lot of weight, and energy is up and down. But although I won't be exerting myself too much anytime soon, pneumonia can have a slow recovery time, I am sensing a slow improvement.
🤧 In Lisbon. My seasonal allergies are playing up. I don’t blame this occurrence on the city, rather they have been with me since last night. The wind is definitely not helping, though.
🥱 I slept late this morning. Very unlike me, I guess that I was tired? Having said that, I have notice that I go to bed later here in Portugal...and so tend to wake up later. However, this morning was particularly late. Not many plans today. A quieter day. Maybe the body knew that?
😶🌫️ It’s a cool, misty morning, with a beautiful freshness in the air. The sort of coolness that only comes during spring and summer, as a precursor to warmer weather later in the day.