It’s going to be a great day! I have no appointments all day, with plenty of interesting things to do. The sky is that dark, bright blue that you only see during a Colorado winter, and while the temperature is in the 20’s, there’s a bright sun, which will warm things up fast. And more importantly, in the land of the Chinook and 50 -80 MPH winds, it’s calm today.

 

Enough of the weather report. The big news is that today is an NAD.

 

“NAD” is a term my brother coined, and it stands for “No Alarm Day.” Now often, on NAD’s, I wake up at my usual time and just can’t bring myself to stay in bed. And that’s fine; I’m up by my choice, not the mechanical monster’s. Other NAD’s I’m so tired I sleep right through them, and don’t enjoy them. Well, I enjoy the extra sleep, but I don’t actually consciously experience it. This morning, however, was an absolutely perfect NAD. I just dozed delightfully, aware of the soft warmness of my bed, the slight cool of the bedroom (We like to keep it quite chilly at night in our house; a bedroom temp of about 60? F is quite normal.), the complete relaxation of my back and legs. I drifted in and out of ridiculous and delicious dreams, like the one in which my cold-hating mother and height-hating father bought season ski passes. I was in the wonderful state of being aware but not quite awake.

 

And then I got up and stood on my scale. If you remember from yesterday, I was quite exhilarated that I’d dropped three pounds. I steeled myself for disappointment, expecting at least one of them to reappear. And it didn’t! Well, the scale wobbled a bit, as if it were considering returning one to me, but it didn’t. So my goal today is to make sure that not-quite-half pound doesn’t consolidate itself and return. Which means a good brisk walk, and continued diligence in the matter of the evening snackage.

 

So what am I going to do with this unstructured day? Believe me, I have a list. Although I’m not going to be cleaning bathrooms and washing floors, I am planning on finishing up the laundry. I’m going to work on marketing materials for Manage Your Muse. (I hate writing marketing stuff!)  I’m going to try and knock out another month or two of Weekly Challengers. (I enjoy writing those; they’ll be my treat once I get some of the marketing out of the way.)  And then I’m going to cook. Although I’d originally planned today to be Indian, I’m switching the menu around. Today’s going to be Swiss, since it takes longer to cook, and I’m hopefully going to be out of the house on Friday.

 

So that’s my plan, and so far, so good. Let’s see where the rest of the day takes me!

 

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