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Interesting in the different publoc health approaches, @Maegaranthelas , I hope you find a way. How is it with the flu ? This year's seems quite nasty!

Friday and Saturday did my 5,000 steps, meditation, personal habit.
So, overall goals achieved for last week!

Sunday did not walk, but did meditation and personal habit.

Saturday, Sunday and today Monday DownDog yoga challenge, standing ABs D19 - 19 - 20 and Daily HIIT D18 - 19 - 20.

Still work to do Sunday, but Saturday I went to a museum with a very nice colleague, we had a great time. While ironing, I treated myself to an episode of the old (1972, yes!) TV show "les rois maudits", the accursed kings. It comes from a serie of books by the same name, and you may have heard of it as the "original Game of Throne". Indeed :tears: Of course, less descriptive sex and no incest, LOL, but murders most foul (including of poor little babies), plots and counterplots, greed, witchcraft, poisons, bloody executions and tortures... As it is an oldie, you gotta watch it as filmed theater, more than a movie, I warn you but it is just a delight. And the actors are absolutly super with a special nod for Jean Piat as Robert d'Artois, a cross between Tyrion (for carousing and sweet-talking), littlefinger (for plotting) - and Hélène Duc as the terribe Mahault, his aunt and nemesis - a cross between cersei and the Queen of thorns.
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289 consecutive days of exercise (D270 on 01/01)
 
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The Flu shot is the same category as the covid booster.
They are provided for free to people who have a condition that's 'on the list,' and everyone else has to contact a different health service and pay.
And they recently restricted which conditions count to get the free shots because... too many people were getting their vaccines?
I don't for the life of me understand how this is considered a bad thing.

I initially asked my GP's assistant to order me a flu shot, I would pay for the vial and the injection appointment out of pocket.
The pharmacy informed her that there weren't any flu shots left. They couldn't get them.
So the assistant put me on the list in case they had more no-shows for their flu-shot than they had anticipated, and I was lucky enough to get one that way.

With all the housing stuff I've been having to deal with, I haven't yet had the energy to try and arrange for a covid booster, as I will have to go to the nearby city,
Which means I will need transport, and my partner would also like a booster but he lives in a different area so he probably can't get one here at the same time -_-

Stop making it so difficult for people to prevent infectious diseases from spreading!
 
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Stop making it so difficult for people to prevent infectious diseases from spreading!
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I'm so sorry they make it so difficult for you to get protected there, @Maegaranthelas . Those certainly do seem like bad public health policies from my perspective.

In Canada we have single-payer universal healthcare. Which does not cover everything. But certainly in Ontario all the standard childhood vaccines are covered, plus annual boosters for influenza and now Covid for everyone. (I'm not positive, but I think people considered vulnerable can still get six-month Covid boosters in Ontario.) For the most part, if it's a disease that you're not likely to encounter unless you travel to a tropical country, you need to pay out of pocket for the vaccine here. (If you can afford to travel, you can afford to pay for your own vaccine!) But stuff that circulates within Canada--or would circulate here if we weren't all so good about getting vaccinated against it--is covered by our public system. It's far, far less expensive to vaccinate everyone than to pay for the hospitalization of all the people who would require hospitalization without vaccines!
 
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"les rois maudits", the accursed kings. It comes from a serie of books by the same name,
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Would the books be enjoyable read out of order? My public library has all seven books in the series in French, but only books 2, 3, and 5 in English translation.

I still miss a lot, trying to read French. But if I could read the same book in English and French simultaneously, that would probably be very helpful!
 
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Laura Rainbow Dragon said:
Would the books be enjoyable read out of order? My public library has all seven books in the series in French, but only books 2, 3, and 5 in English translation.

I still miss a lot, trying to read French. But if I could read the same book in English and French simultaneously, that would probably be very helpful!
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Oh nope, since it is history (most of it real and documented), that would be strange to read out of order... Hope they're just out there being read and you can reserve them in proper order.

ETA - the original French is excellent, Druon was a good writer. For the little history, he co-wrote the "chant des partisans" (partisans's song), a resistance song from WWII which is like our second national anthem.
 
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Yesterday Monday, walked, meditation and daily habit well done.

Today did DownDog yoga challenge, standing ABs D21 and Daily HIIT D21.

290 consecutive days of exercise (D270 on 01/01)

ETA : and today's my "heart-versary", yay! 5 years ago this heart was stopped a few hours for repair, and here I am, exercising every day! Thank those gifted surgeons, the wonderful nursing team, all those who care and prayed for me, and the hive here for you too were part of my encouragement team.
As our Queen Bee says, LONG LIVE THE HIVE!
 
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Hope they're just out there being dead and you can reserve them in proper order.
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The other books aren't in the system in English. Likely they were purchased at one point but then lost/destroyed and the library just didn't replace them. Either that, or some of the volumes were sold in book sales.

I encounter this issue fairly regularly with trying to read public library books in a series. There are often volumes missing. And even when the library has the full series, it's often split up over different branches. (Which is not a problem. I can request that books from any branch be sent to my home branch. It's just odd.)

I might be able to get the other English translations through inter-library loan once that service is back up and running. (According to my library's website it's still suspended Ontario-wide due to our recent postal strike.)

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ETA - the original French is excellent, Druon was a good writer.
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My French skills are definitely not good enough for me to be able to discern this. (A book could be so poorly written as to be nonsensical, and I would just think I didn't understand it due to the Jupiter-sized holes in my vocabulary. :tears:)
 
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Thank you to all - @TopNotch , @FlowersandPetals , @Laura Rainbow Dragon , @aku-chan , @MadamMeow , @Mamatigerj , @Anek , @CODawn and @Fremen , and all those who clicked on my post. Treated myself to some good japanese food yesterday evening, since my parents were not close by to celebrate.

Yesterday Tuesday did my 5,000 steps, meditation, daily habit.

Today did DownDog yoga challenge, Standing Abs D22 and Daily HIIT D22.

291 consecutive days of exercise (D270 on 01/01).
 
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Yesterday walked enough, meditation and daily habit.

This morning did DownDog yoga challenge, Standing Abs D24 and Daily HIIT D24.
Doesn't look very good for the walking today between work and bad weather... sigh. We will try but can't promise.

293 consecutive days of exercise (D270 on 01/01).
 
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wjs said:
At worst, you could do "laps" in your apartment, maybe?
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Small appartment so, sometimes I do high knees (while putting on the news), but my right knee is not too fond of that. But hé, maybe one day I will have a bigger appartment, LOL! Actually, when in the officce, I do lapses along the whole floor maybe 3 or 4 times, which often amuses my coworkers.

So, yesterday Friday did not walk enough, but daily habit and meditation done.

This morning did DownDog yoga challenge, Standing Abs D25 and Daily HIIT D25.

294 consecutive days of exercise (D270 on 01/01).

ETA : not so good emotions yesterday evening. Discussing with mom, I was really feeling her low, so I kind of proded and listened, and had confirmation of something I /knew/ though would not admit to myself, that though dad is reacting well to his treatment, another Christmas with him is probably not in the cards. Still so lucky we had this one, and we made it count.
She also told me that the "crazy" (as in mean and manipulative) uncle I may have already mentioned tried again to pull one on dad. That made me so mad ... I tell you, if he shows up at dad's funeral and starts egging me .... It may turn nasty. And I am not a nasty person, normally. He is the epitome of the toxic person you should keep miles away from you! So; I guess part of my sadness regarding dad went into anger at that uncle. Gah.
 
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Thank you all for the thoughts, prayers and encouragements. I am realizing I've let that uncle live a tad too long rent-free in my head these days, so out it goes, and we'll see when the time will come.

Yesterday Saturday walked, and did daily habit and meditation done.
That makes for a Sunday-to-saturday week 2 (or 3 ?) days of not walking, but rest is fine.

This morning did DownDog yoga challenge, Standing Abs D26 and Daily HIIT D26.

295 consecutive days of exercise (D270 on 01/01). The 300s are coming!
 
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Monday did my 5,000 steps, daily habit, meditation.
Yesterday Tuesday did my 5,000 steps, daily habit, meditation.

Yesterday did DownDog yoga challenge, Standing Abs D28 and Daily HIIT D28.
This morning did DownDog yoga challenge, Standing Abs D29 and Daily HIIT D29.

298 consecutive days of exercise (D270 on 01/01).
 
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Wednesday did my 5,000 steps, daily habit, meditation.
Yesterday Thursday did not walk, but did daily habit and meditation.

Thursday did DownDog yoga challenge, Standing Abs D30 :v: and Daily HIIT D30 :v:.

Today did the final day of DownDog yoga challenge :completed:, and guess what ... at lunchtime, went to the gym (body balance) !

300 consecutive days of exercise (D270 on 01/01). :fireworks:
 
PetiteSheWolf

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Love you all bees, thanks to all of those who congratulated me - too much for me to list, LOL! LONG LIVE THE HIVE! To quote our queen bee,.

Friday went to the gym and Saturday walked my 5,000 steps ; and both days meditation and personal habit done.
So, Sunday to Saturday, makes a pretty good week!

Saturday and today did the Iron Arms challenge D1 and D2, and 30 days of cardio light D1 and D2.

302 consecutive days of exercise (D270 on 01/01).

Yesterday I had to run around a fair deal - but managed to get things done. Today got a few things done at home, and rested, finally. Oooooof.
 
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