{"id":8251,"date":"2023-11-28T00:32:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T00:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=8251"},"modified":"2026-01-16T12:44:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T12:44:57","slug":"the-joy-of-routine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=8251","title":{"rendered":"The Joy of Routine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week was the usual Ho-Hum. I managed 3 consecutive 10kms walks &#8211; Thurs. Fri. &amp; Sat. The weather was sunny and lovely. Some people were wearing just shorts &amp; T-shirts &#8211; c&#8217;mon it never got above 7\u00baC. I don&#8217;t count this as summer. Still I love that there are people, out there who defy the elements &#8211; a little insane maybe, but interesting.<\/p>\n<p>I finished three books this week and started on my last Camino book, Pilgrim by Carolyn Gillespie. What will I do when I run out of them? Maybe I&#8217;ll just have to write one. I have a bit of a head start in that I have written 15 posts on the Camino alone. They are uploaded to my new website &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/caroltomany.com\/\">www.caroltomany.com<\/a>. It is still a work in progress, but I am hoping to have it finalized before I start my walk in April.<\/p>\n<p>My son put away all the summer furniture, so outside, we are bedded down for the Winter. I spent a day adding songs from my favourite CDs to my phone. I listen to music, when I walk. It&#8217;s what drives me forward.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also started labelling whatever I am taking with me to Europe, partly to deter theft and partly to identify what I might have forgotten in one place and have it forwarded to another place. The Camino is kind.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m seriously thinking of signing up again on netflix. Several people have raved about the film version of the book &#8211; All the Light We Cannot See. I think I&#8217;ll read the book first and then see the series. I am such a fundamentalist, (in a practical rather than a religious sense) I do hate it when things are changed.<\/p>\n<p>My Joy for the Joy Jar this week has to be the comfort of the predictable. When I see in the newspapers the chaos of the world around us. I say a little prayer for my sometimes boring routine. There but for fortune go you or I.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy a predictable week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week was the usual Ho-Hum. I managed 3 consecutive 10kms walks &#8211; Thurs. Fri. &amp; Sat. The weather was sunny and lovely. Some people were wearing just shorts &amp; T-shirts &#8211; c&#8217;mon it never got above 7\u00baC. I don&#8217;t count this as summer. Still I love that there are people, out there who defy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joy","category-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12118,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8251\/revisions\/12118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}