The sameness of summer days...

 I have been struggling a bit lately with the sameness of my life. The daily routine is wrecking my head. I just can't see a way out of it at this time. The summer heat makes it nearly impossible to be outside after 9:00 am. It's too hot to garden, so I water the few plants that require it every morning, pick the ripe tomatoes, feed the birds and if it is bearable I will have my coffee on the deck. Monday through Friday  it's off to work, I have to allow 45 - 50 minutes for the drive due to the unpredictability of traffic. I then sit all day at my desk at the Convention Center doing the same tasks I do week after week. 5 pm rolls around and I drive 40 - 45 minutes back home. It's off to the Gym on Tuesday and Thursday evenings for a 1 hour workout. then back home, shower, make dinner, eat, read then go to bed. Weekends are chores, errands, gym and I usually try to find a movie to watch on Netflix. I try to do some extra cooking for the week, things I can place in the freezer and then just microwave when I get home from the gym. 

I miss going hiking at the State Parks, but it is just too dangerously hot and humid. Heat indexes are well over 100f /38c. I think it will probably be October before I get back on the trails here in Texas. I will be in Colorado before then and I am hoping for cool temps while we are there. I just need to hang in there until then. I'll keep challenging myself at the gym. Saturday was 1200 steps on the stair master and an hour on the treadmill with three series from 3% to 15% inclines. Sunday was 1200 steps again but only 30 minutes on the treadmill with just one series to 15% - but I walked at that level longer than I have been. Today will be a rest day then Tuesday and Thursday are 1 hour workouts. I hope to increase the steps by 25 each time so that by next Sunday I will be at 1300. But I know from this past weekend the struggle to complete 1200 was difficult, so it might be a week that I hold at 1200. 

I guess I should enjoy that life is a bit boring and slow. There were times  in my life I would've killed to have the calmness I now have.