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the goal today (my goal) was to keep moving.

cancer treatment can leave you feeling all kinds of tired.

one of the main types of tired i feel happens on days when i don't do much.

another of the main types happens on days when i do a lot.

the former feels like a physical weakness, like i don't have much strength.  maybe how you'd feel the day after the stomach flu.

the latter feels like how you'd feel after a hard workout, a big race, or a day of serious manual labor.

as you can imagine, i prefer the latter to the former.  even though it doesn't take a hard workout or a big race or all that much in the way of manual labor to cause it in my case, it's a much more satisfying feeling of tired than the weak-tired feeling.  so i generally try not to succumb to the lure of cozying up on the couch for too long, because it's not going to feel good.

sometimes accompanying my tired is a very low-level, flu-like feeling, if that makes any sense.  imagine that having full-blown influenza is a 10.  crank that same feeling down to about a 3 or a 4 and that's what i'm talking about.  often that feeling is enough to make me want to just sit on the couch and take things easy, but of course, as i explained above, that doesn't help matters.

a long explanation to say that this morning i was feeling that flu feeling and decided to push through it.  so the tops of kitchen cabinets got wiped down, cabinets reorganized, countertops cleaned off.  i did the yoga i was supposed to do today and the yoga i was supposed to do yesterday.  and now, i'm sitting on the couch with that satisfying worn-out muscle feeling, wishing, yes, that it would take more to wear me out (or-- that i could have a down day without all the energy disappearing, or even, that i could find a good balance), but knowing too, that i'm working at a different pace than i would be in some alternate, non-existent, cancerless world.  as long as i'm moving, i'm not dissatisfied with the state of my energy.

and of course, i'm so happy to be with these guys...

little h...

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and we're (un)officially on easter break.  all four of us.  how good is that?!

tell us all about this flower... if you know... like.. indoor.. outdoor... ??

and a happy 40th birthday to my older brother, who was about this age when i first knew him...