Not So Taxing

I meant to post this yesterday, which would traditionally be Tax Day in the USA, the deadline to file our income tax returns.  Except that this year, like last, the IRS extended the deadline, and so did the states.

Otherwise, life continues much the same.  I took a couple days off work, once we got the Very Big Massive Deal signed, and during one received one part of my Pfizer vaccine:

I've read that the Pfizer CEO says that we'll need a booster shot in 6-12 months, and although I hate shots I am OK with it because that sounds like the regular influenza vaccine, with a booster against new strains every year.  With all the variants popping up in the last couple of months, I'm not surprised to hear we'll need the booster.

I took the days off partly as comp time and partly in case I had a reaction, which I didn't.  No side effects to report, other than a very sore arm for several days, and a horrible headache which could be from allergies as much as from the vaccine.  The weather was lovely those days and I went for walks.

In fact:

As you can see, I did a LOT of walking.  An unannounced goal of mine for this year - a mini-resolution, if you will - was to have a week where every day I:

• Walked at least 250 steps in each hour of the 9:00am-6:00pm timeperiod, when my FitBit is set to vibrate if I have not walked enough.
• Walk not only the 10,000 steps per day goal, but enough steps to walk at least 8km (for some reason, this is also a goal widget) daily, which for me is over 12,500 steps.
• Sleep at least 6.5 hours per night.  This is not easy for me even when I am not working on a Very Big Deal requiring 14-22 hour days.
• Walk or do something else, such as my Saturday yoga, to count as exercising for at least a half-hour every day.
• Not shown above: use the new meditation/mindfulness module every day.

Last week was the one where I accomplished these goals.  The exception was the mindfulness; I didn't use it on Saturday, thus only six of seven days (I have it set for three, so it was overachieving anyway) and since I did a yoga class on Saturday which includes meditation, I counted it as good enough.

All those steps on Sunday?  I participated in Foodshare's Virtual 5K Race Against Hunger, and that is the day I did my walking.  Of course I wore food-themed items:

I forgot to wear my race bib, but it didn't matter.  Donations from friends and family exceeded my goal, and together everybody raised plenty of money for the food banks.

April Mini-Resolution mid-month report

I started the DFW Fiber Fest top, and at this point am past the sleeve separation, so it's plain work on the body until the end.  I added the seed stitch borders when I did the separations; the pattern has you do it at the end, but I wanted to be sure I have enough yarn.

The Board posted on social media that this would have been the weekend for DFW Fiber Fest this year and encouraged people to post photos from past years.  Of course my social media feed has been full of class projects, stash enhancement, and yarnbombings from years past, as well as some of the theatre I attended on the non-speaker nights.  Here's looking forward to next year!