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After 12 years of dedicated Fitbit use, I finally gave up my Fitbit, and I don’t miss it. I don’t like the Fitbit integration with the Google industrial complex, and I wanted to return to an analog watch, like the Timex Snoopy watch that my husband bought for me a few weeks ago, just because. As I’ve mentioned before, I love Timex watches, and this one is a return to my Timex roots. Is it silly for a 60-year-old lady to be wearing Snoopy on her wrist? Possibly. Do I care? Absolutely not. 

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Even though I don’t track my step count anymore, I’m pretty sure that I’m maintaining the same daily mileage. After 12 years, I am very familiar with the amount of walking it takes to reach the daily 10,000-step goal, and I continue to walk that much every day, more or less. 

And I’m tracking several other streaks, too. Streaks are rather important to me. I swam for seven straight days, a very short streak ended by a thunderstorm. That’s the thing about a summer swimming streak - even with the best intentions, you’ll lose your streak as soon as it thunders. That’s the rule. 

My maximum Wordle streak was 177, a figure that I’m trying to match and then surpass. I’m at 34 now, so it’s going to be a while. My Connections streak is at 20, but my maximum with that game is only 42, so I could surpass that in a few weeks. Connections is a harder game, though. Winning 43 straight will not be easy. 

Then there’s writing. I write every day, and I mean every day, except when I don’t, because I forgot yesterday. I just completely forgot. I hadn’t kept a day by day count but I had written every day for months. So now I start over. Every new streak begins with the first day, which is today. 

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And that lasted one day. I skipped writing yesterday, quite deliberately, because I had a colonoscopy and didn’t feel up to anything afterward. Thankfully, my results were good; and thankfully, it’s over because holy cow, it was awful - not the procedure itself, which was fine, but the prep, which made me so sick that I still don’t feel like eating, even though today is Friday and my last solid food was on Tuesday. I’ll write all about it later. Fair warning - it’s disgusting and I won’t spare the details. 

I’ll get to that tomorrow. Today begins the new writing streak - yes, me threatening to gross you out with a 0/5 review of ClenPiq as a colonoscopy prep method does so count as writing. I’ll start a new swimming streak this weekend, too, but the weather forecast is not promising, and I’ll be lucky to get three straight days. But my Wordle streak is up to 36 now, and my Connections streak is at 22. I’m unstoppable.