Some progress is better than no progress. What's your milestone?

I made back what I paid for my Senior season’s badge today with my second trip to the city beach!

(I remember this being a thread that Jeruba started and kept going for several iterations.)

I have been working on getting my body and breathing into shape. I wear a Garmin fitness watch every day. (Actually, I am wearing 2 . But, since I don’t want you to think I am crazy, I said “a Garmin Fitness watch”.)
Anyway, I can monitor my slow progress by looking at my VO2Max reading. When I started I was in the Fair range for someone my age. After a lot of running, weights etc, I am now in the Excellent range for my age and Very Good range for someone 17 year younger. I intend to keep working on it until I am Very Good for someone 2 decades younger.

We are in the early stages of planning a trip to Europe with friends.

I took my grandson to the park for the first time a couple of days ago. It was just the two of us. He is just beginning the “terrible twos” but it seemed we got on very well together.

<sigh> I got another box unpacked a couple of days ago. 17 more to go. It’s embarrassing to admit, but I moved here 2½ years ago after a fire in my apt building, and I’m still not unpacked and furniture is still willy nilly. My back gives me so much grief that I can only be upright (standing or moving) for 10–15 mins, depending on how bad it is that day. So yeah, there’s been a lot of days that nothing has been done. I have a Community Support Worker who encourages me and helps when she can, like moving a box to within arm’s reach so I can sit and unpack it. I don’t know what I’m going to do…I’ve had shots, a laminectomy, physical therapy, and am currently in aquatherapy. There’s more shots in a different place that I can try, and a different surgery, but really…what can be done when it’s arthritis? They can’t just cut some of it out because that would destabilize the spine. My doc and I have discussed ablating some nerve endings in the facet joint which could help and could conceivably last a few months, which would be wonderful! We’ll see.

sorry, long answer to a short question!

Aw, @smudges, I am so sorry you are having those back issues! About the boxes? Don’t stress yourself. As we get older, the boxes breed and there are always more. During the pandemic I found a couple of boxes from my Seattle house. I left Seattle in 1994!! <3

@smudges Hugs don’t help but have some anyway.

@canidmajor & @janbb Thank you for your positive thoughts. They don’t help my back but they definitely help how I feel. Wow…1994! That’s like finding a time capsule! ;)

Learned recent new techniques in astroimaging that have markedly improved what I’m able to do. I’d write details but your eyes would glaze over.

I can’t think of one thing! This is part of my problem right now. Not much to look forward to. Not moving forward on things that need to be done. Maybe this Q will give me a push.

@JLeslie Good luck! I hate that feeling of being in stasis. Ugh.

@JLeslie I understand the feeling. It’s been an issue with me for several years. I hope this question does help. One thing I’ve done in the past is ask myself, “Ok, if there were no barriers like money or physical problems, what would I like to do?” The list is usually things that aren’t possible, like riding a bike, but then I begin thinking, “Ok, I can’t do X, but maybe I could do Y, and then maybe I’ll be able to do X eventually”. That’s one of my goals…to ride a bicycle. I think at least one of the things that prevents it is fear.

Maybe you can work out a list of things you want to do, rather than things that _have to be done. Luck to you! p.s. I’m not trying to solve your problem, just saying I understand and saying what helped me.