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Good Evening Ladies!
Here I am bringing up the rear at 9pm EST. It has been a long day, but not a bad one. Lazed out this morning then dealt with a situation Jazzs mom had that resulted in her coming to stay for the wkend...
Then jazz & I drove down to my youngest daughter's home 30 minutes away for a hike in the State Park near her home. I was able to walk for 75 consecutive minutes...a NSV for me. I have been doing 40 around our area, but it is very flat here whereas the park was up & down with rougher terrain. A good workout, but then I ate a small piece of cake after dinner...grrrr.
Jeannie, I love reading your posts about your day to day life as well as your life experiences. It makes me hurt to hear stories about the loss of your mom so early, the doll you had as a child, the polio, etc. Half of what you went through would traumatize & immobilize alot of kids, but you have an inner strength that enabled you to not only survive, but succeed in so many areas.
You are quite the role model!
Sounds like alot of traveling plans on the horizon! My daughter went to Thailand this past January & said it was her favorite trip so far, but it was also her first out of the country!
Linda, I envy you your plans to consider different locations for future living arrangements... I am absolutely jealous that you might have multiple homes in such beautiful parts of the country. That would be the ultimate dream for me, but not meant to be...???
Julia, glad you are finding a solution to your dog situation. I am sure that was very unsettling. Hope things work out with that! I enjoy hanging out in my nightclothes... to a point. However, I know from years of allowing myself to indulge I have a tendency to get lazy if I do it too often. I really need to get up,showered, dressed & moving or I will waste the day away. And that reminds me too much of my last 6 months of being huge...where I could barely get off the sofa & went to bed after coming home from work, doing the dinner routine & getting Jazz in order.
I know it's very early on for me, but I hope to never go back to very morbid obesity. It made me so emotionally, mentally & spiritually sick...not to mention the medical problems. I really worked hard last year to change my eating habits, get & keep moving, etc before I even had the surgery!
However, I succumb to sweets a few times a week even if I justify it by thinking I am still staying around my calorie & carb limits. Sometimes I think the gastric bypass instead of the sleeve would have been a better choice so I dumped if I ate sugary stuff. But what is done is done...sorry you had that experience, Jeannie!
Well I need to move...start getting ready for closing down for the night.
Trish, I almost forgot you had posted...hugs...glad you had a decent day. And I don't see yoga in my future so don't feel bad...lol!
Kathy
Julia,
For about six years after my release from the hospital, I had appointments with the hospital's mental folks mostly for intelligence gathering. I was a little different than most because I caught polio when I was barely four, so from four until six I was in the hospital and I was in a room filled with polio kids and I was the baby....to young for the nursery so I was with the kids who were being schooled, so I was schooled too...in a way, I think it probably saved me from the plight of my siblings, who were raised by our mother who was illiterate. By the time I left the hospital, I already could read and write and do math and had learned a great deal about science and literature. I was in an iron lung for the majority of my time there as were the other kids on the ward I was on.
A lot can be said about aspect on life for those who have had so much happening in their lives. My grandmother was a pistol...and she was really devoted to taking care of me. Well, my friend, have a good rest of the day.
Let me know when you are headed to HOuston.
I would love to do a retreat at Mountain View
Have you seen the research on children that were in hospitals during the 50s with those strict rules? There are a couple of high brain growth times that were particularly hard to live through without damage that lasted. I, too, was in the hospital when I was almost two, and my parents were allowed to visit two times a day for an hour or two. They said I was tied to the bed and that it was torture to leave me because of my screams and fear. As with you, I do think that hospitalization shaped my personality in many ways.
I am so sorry that you were bullied as a child...but to tell you the truth, that soft piece inside of you is so precious...and you would not have it without the hard lessons you went through. Not everyone can see that part of you I'm sure. You and I have a number of similar traits, maybe from the childhood pain. We are both mouthy and rebellious, we stand up to bullies, and even though we have every reason to fear and mistrust, we find good people...we also see the truth I think. Of course we have lots of differences too...you are more disciplined than I am for sure.
Your Grandma was a pistol! What a great story!
Julia
Linda,
Having the sensitivity to sweets is the best thing in the world for me because if I didn't have it, I'd already gained back all the weight I lost. I have another quirk from surgery: when I eat too much food, my nose starts running and I sneeze until the food empties out of my pouch. My doctor said that the nerve that controls sneezing and the nerve that controls the full feeling are very closely associated as they go up the spinal cord to the brain and sometimes, with wls, the nerve in the stomach sort of crosses connections and that fullness stimulates the nerve for sneezing...I really should do some research about it but throwing up with sweets and sneezing are like my two holdovers that I am very happy for. I couldn't eat a lot of fried foods either.
I am probably going to head down to Houston soon to visit my brother. Before I leave, I'll holler at you and meet you for coffee. If I can talk him into it, I'm bringing him home with me....that's a fact.
I am going to have to renew my passport soon. I hope they let me keep all the stamped pages from all the countries that I've been too...In July of 2017, I'm going to Thailand and of course, I have to go back to China soon and again before Christmas. I am due back in the Middle East in Feb., but honestly, I am really going to try and get out of the China and Middle East trips...I am just way too mouthy...you know?
Well, girl, have a good rest today. I sure do hope your Hot Spring's condo sells...I love Hot Springs...I am taking my granddaughter and her BFF to the crystal mines and I promised them I'd teach them how to wrap the crystals for necklaces....that will be fun...yeah!!! We need to get a bunch of us gals to meet in Hot Springs and go do the crystal mines and maybe even the diamond field...that would be fun. We could do a little retreat or something.
Julia,
I'm all about the positive...when I get into those negative relationships or start hearing the negative scripts, I find myself eating for no reason whatsoever. I totally agree with the onward and upward...I, for one, am ready for the board to be supportive in a very authentic way. I think if we hear what we want to hear and dismiss what we don't want to hear, we set ourselves up for failure and certainly up for loneliness. I had polio when I was a child and spent a year in the children's hospital. Back in those days, travelling to LR was a monthly thing plus, the hospital only allowed visitors on Sunday, which meant that my mother would have to drive on Sunday morning to visit for a short while and head home. Plus, she really believed I was contagious so my grandmother came to visit me and I went home with her and lived with her until I was about 7. Because I had to wear those awful braces on my legs and use those crutches, I was teased and bullied so much that I would come home with my dress ripped, sometimes bloody knees, and my self esteem just took a beating. When my grandmother finally figured it all out, she rode the bus with me one morning, got off the bus and stood off to the side on the play ground, and when the mean girls started bullying me, she picked a switch off a tree and striped those little girls' legs...when the teacher approached her, she said, well, I done stood there watching and you was too busy talking to the other teacher to worry with my granddaughter, so I figured since I was here watching, I'd do what was natural, discipline those hateful girls....now days, of course, she would have been locked up, but after that day, the girls rarely bullied me and my nanny, on that day, told those girls that life was going to be very lonely for them if they pushed everyone away who was different....to be frank, she was right. The girl who was the meanest of all, continued to be mean all the way through elementary and high school and she fought with her neighbors, her husband's family, her own family, and now, she is all alone. A couple of us gals from school went to visit her not too long ago and she started out being so nice and before long, it was back to being the mean little girl on the playground who *****ed and moaned and groaned and laughed at others....I told everyone I had to go because frankly, I had heard enough about how awful her sisters were and her kids and her grandkids and then she said something about educated fools, which I know was a dig at me, so I said, Paula, you haven't changed a bit....you are the same way you were all the way through school..she thought I was complimenting her but everyone knows it's the fool *****sists growth that loses in the end.....okay, enough of my olden day stories. But, they are the truth.
Rest while you can, you'll be cheering all afternoon. Glad the kids had fun at the day care open house and hope Colleen's job search goes well.
Good morning everyone. I am feeling lazy today. I slept well and felt rested when I got up but now a few hours later I am feeling tired. Wonder if my thyroid numbers are low again. I take medication but last labs were a little low.
Today I need to get my grandson's birthday gift in the mail. I'll be seeing him but after the day. I want him to have the gift on his BD. I also have to get my passport paper work filled out. Unfortunately I don't feel like doing didley squat, as my mom would say.
Jeannie , sorry you got so sick. I wish my system was more sensitive. I can actually eat sweets if they are not really sweet. I can't eat syrup or honey or cake icing ect. but cake without icing or a cookie...no problem. I have more issues with fried stuff. luckily I don't really crave sweets so I can usually control what and how much I eat.
Just got a phone call while I was typing. Looks like I may have sold one of my Hot Springs Village condos. If it actually closes I'll be so happy. I'll just have the one left that is the smaller one that is my favorite. I'll keep it for personal use as I gradually get myself out of Houston. With this sale I will feel more comfortable looking for a place in Wyoming when I visit this summer. Of course a contract and a closing is not the same thing. If everything goes right the buyers want to close on the 23 of May. Yeah!!!
Good Morning Friends,
I am sitting with my feet up in my nightgown with a blanket on me, all snugly. Al is cooking breakfast (scrambled eggs with salsa on the side and a slice of bacon). I have laundry to tackle this morning and a barbecue to attend this afternoon. My car is fixed and my bite is healing well. I'm still in shock over it and I'm getting some things in motion to help to prevent it from happening again. The number one thing would be for me to never get between two angry dogs, but more is needed in the training realm and I've started that and I'm bringing an expert in to help.
I have been working hard to de clutter the house...I'm trying very hard to do it in the least stressful way, slowly and with less negative chatter to myself. There has been enough negative chatter this wee****rtainly don't need to pile more on...my poor brain is tired.
So upward and onward....thank you to those of you *****main...lets support ourselves in the healthiest way that we can.
Happy Saturday!
Julia
