Golf Sunday Hot Out There

So yesterday I felt the heat...as in it had gotten much warmer again after several days of cool in the morning, warmer in the afternoon. It is as if summer is reminding us that he/she is not quite done just yet. I was looking at last year's journal and was reminded that a year ago almost to the day was that ill-fated golf game at Hansen Dam in 100 degree weather, a game that really got to all of us physically, especially Scott. This morning we're booked at Altadena Golf Course. Now I know it's going to be a hot one especially in the San Gabriel Valley, but could it be a record breaking one like a year ago? Not likely. And so I made my hot tea, made sure I had some electrolyte water and headed out. Our tee time was at 9:20 but by 9 AM Scott still wasn't there. I had it in my mind that if he doesn't show up, I'm ok to simply turn around and go home, with the heat still on my mind. But Scott did show up, late as he is all the time at the Pasadena courses and we managed to tee off with no one paired with us. And so we could just have a chill morning. WE could obviously talk about the surprising UCLA football win last night. But really I just wanted to hang out and be out and about this morning, heat be damned. And of course I have to micro-analyze my game right? so let's do that. First of all, I had some really REALLY nice shots of the tee, particularly early on. Hole 1 - 5, I had some great shots, including a real long and straight one off the tee on Hole 2 that rivaled distances that Chris would hit. With that said, the same problem reared its ugly head, which is mishits off the fairway. As locked in as my tee shots were that was how I couldn't make any adjustment off the fairway. I tried to tell myself simply to relax and take easy shots, I simply couldn't do it. Which is why I never hit one single par all game long. A bunch of bogeys... but no par. I had a couple of nice putts too but I never had one whole where I could put it all together. And even as we teed off the first hole, I could already feel how hot it was. And hot it was going to be. It was NOT as hot as Hansen Dam last year, but plenty hot enough. So much so that I felt drained and dehydrated afterwards anyway. And so I went straight home and blasted my head with cold water as soon as I did go home. And then planted myself on the couch for the rest of the day... 

Like last year when I came home from that blazing hot day, I was fine just recovering on the couch until the evening. I made myself a pizza for lunch, not even wanting to venture back out in the heat. Hey pizza sauce, boboli, sausage and pepperoni and pineapple? I am in business. And I kept myself hydrated the rest of the afternoon. And I took an hour nap too... that felt really nice. But also made me feel a little lazy. I could have cleaned up the apartment, but I didn't really feel like it. I just watched whatever sports was going on on TV, not even really caring about the outcomes because I felt like last night I got the outcomes that I wanted <Dodgers won, UCLA won> and I did not want to get greedy. I did manage to take a walk outside just to appreciate how nice a day it turned out when it was less hot. Because quite simply, I love love love walking around my neighborhood.  I was fully aware that I had already had a 3-day weekend by now and I still have the day off tomorrow. But I didn't feel like doing anything. I have to remind myself that I am not retired just yet LOL even after I told Lisa yesterday that I am probably a year away from retiring outright if I didn't focus on buying a condo or something. Truth is, I just want to pad out my retirement critical mass just a bit more and see where things are at the end of this month and next. Then I really need to work on logistics and start getting my accounts in order, consolidating them and such and figuring out which to trade from. I also know I need to work on the emotional side of things as I still have a propensity to let scarcity mindset take over a little too much. Even as I see that I already have almost $1 MILLION in liquid assets. And that now the game becomes to avoid taxes and make sure I'm in the proper tax bracket. I remind myself not to look at the past anymore and all the coulda woulda shouldas. What happened the past was the thing that happened and I will simply have to trust the process. Still I pretty much chillaxed the rest of the evening away... Watched a little bit of Walking Dead though candidly I'm kind of getting sick of the Maggie dynamic. I mean I know they're all broken. I started watching Band of Brothers too and only thought more about how people get broken, that time by the atrocities of war. I remind myself of the importance of the Mental Diet and to make sure I am grounded at all times. So that my outcomes support my energy and vibration and that those need to be kept as high as possible at all times. Anyway, Sunday over and a day off coming up tomorrow. Awesome.