With the new lockdown things are going to be interesting. The kids will be attending school from home which is always a lot of fun. The nice thing is that they tend to bother Melanie and not me. I do not talk to them when they enter my office and tell them to leave. Normally they come in and it is not for any real reason. Xavier is pretty good and can manage himself, so that is good. Both kids are excited to be home from school and not attend. After so many years of this I think they have gotten used to doing online school now.
Today I shoveled some snow. It is getting a bit better each day to shovel the snow and it is not as tiring. Soon I think I might start some lighter workouts on the bike and more exercise. I would like to increase my muscle mass while retaining my body fat in the single digits. It should not be too difficult as I am skin and bones right now and all I need to do to drop weight is eat less than 6 times a day, so dieting is fairly easy for me.
This may sound hypocritical, because it is, but one of the lessons learned is you need to take time for yourself. It may not seem like I did that as I worked throughout most of my treatment, but I worked on my own schedule and to help pass the time. I do not think that I could sit at home and do nothing during that whole time. Most of the time I felt fine so it did not make sense to be off of work. When I was tired I would take a nap and I never had any crucial and super important meetings that I had to attend. I read a book a day during this time and worked 6 to 8 hours a day on strategic work and easy to do things. Work was tailored around what I could do and nothing too stressful. I provided some coaching to teams and strategy discussions, but there was no pressure on me to deliver much. My team was the one that dealt with timelines and work along those lines. There was no extra pressure on me. There was extra pressure on my family though to accommodate me. I would take naps in the afternoon and was not capable of making dinner most nights. I do not remember what we did at that time, but we managed to get through it. This week when I was in meetings, Olivier said he was hungry and wanted breakfast. Mel made him breakfast and 20 minutes after eating he remarked that it tasted different. Mel told him that she had made breakfast and he informed her that he liked it better when I made him breakfast. He is becoming a food snob at a very young age. It is a bit amusing.
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