Geminidream’s Posts
Hi! So glad this is Friday and the roofing job is done so back to peace and quiet. I need to make cookies for all the neighbors to thank them for putting up with all of that. Hubs is slightly more peoply than me so the only stress for him was just making sure the job got done right with minimal damage. The crane driver cracked the city's sidewalk then moved a few feet off the sidewalk and into our grass with no support and sunk a giant footprint into the sod. That's going to be an unpleasant job to repair. Today I'm just decompressing from the week and getting things ready for the post-op time next week. Hoping to diy some small frozen gel packs and lay out liquid-y meals (straw friendly) besides protein shakes. The OR nurse suggested only cold liquids for the first few days.
QOTD: Haven't been to any festivals, it wouldn't be fun to go alone and Hubby wouldn't go. Around here there is always a Civil War battle reenactment around Memorial Day...that would be fun. It would also be neat to go to the Highland Games but the Ren Fair hasn't ever interested me. Pretty much everything else is just an eating or drinking promotion and that's no fun now in addition to being just too peoply for me. I do go to the arts/crafts/holiday events but don't think those count as festivals. Very good question!
B: 2 cups coffee with a tablespoon of SF Nutpods creamer in each.
L: not hungry
Snack: a protein/collagen shake around 3 probably
Evening: 2 cups chicken bone broth and 10 shrimp. Maybe some nonfat Greek Yogurt to boost the protein totals.
Hope everyone has a great weekend whether travelling or working at home.
Sending you all kinds of good vibes and praying for your ortho appt to go well today! Love your pictures and the meme. Do you mostly sell locally or do you have a website for the chainmail?
Your mama cat sounds like a little love with a big purrsonality of sweetness. Sending some Power of The Paw your way to find her a good furrever home. How many more internet cat-isms can I work in for mew?
Your idea of rehoming the goats sounds logical considering you can't eradicate the bears where you live. Goats are so sweet and you probably love every single one; it would be awful to face a tragedy with them.
QOTD: After reading everybody's comments on this one it is a big toss-up. From my weight history, clearly I've never met a potato I didn't love. But I think freshly made, slightly lumpy, mashed is my favorite. Perfect comfort food except for the calories.
The roofers started almost an hour early today because of the heat and I think they are being let off early because of it. Hubs and I don't care that it takes longer, we don't want anyone having a heat stroke up there. 101 today.
Pre-op appt today! Going to ask if they can prescribe something very short term to calm me down before surgery. Never been this scared about a procedure. Getting stupid weepy and keep touching my nose to remember how it feels. But strangely not even concerned about my ear getting altered so long as I can still wear glasses. Just shows true vanity! Silly worries. The goal is to breathe normally again and Dr. Sand is one of the top nasal surgeons in our city. You'd think I was having brain surgery or something carrying on like this.
Taking the day off from canning for the appt. Yesterday's marathon of steam-juicing and canning yielded 15 quarts of concentrated, unsweetened plum juice plus 2 extra quarts in the fridge to add to the next work day's yield. The jars look like a row of amethysts, such beautiful color.
B: Protein/collagen shake.
L: Ice water
D: Korean cucumbers in German vinegar. Maybe a protein bar or rtu shake to boost the numbers. Too stressed for big food.
Hi, sorry to hear you are battling those health issues. I only had bad, not severe, reflux before my revision to RNY (I'd had traditional stomach stapling before) and the surgery solved that problem. The only times I've had reflux in the last 19 years has been when I've eaten something too late than went to bed or had some really bad stress. I do remember in support group locally there was another patient (same Dr.) who had RNY to cure her reflux and Barrett's. She only needed to lose a scant bit of weight but really needed the help for her esophagus so she wouldn't end up with cancer there eventually. She did and is still doing great, we only just follow each other on FB now but she looks in the best of health. I hope you'll get more answers from people with firsthand experience.
Keep cool as best you can! We were running the house a/c plus a wall unit in the kitchen while I was steam-juicing and canning all day. Neither of them kept up with the kitchen. Cooler weather will be so lovely and at least here, all the trees and shrubs seem to be saying we'll have an early Autumn. Then comes these 101 degree days. Mother Nature seems to be off her meds this year.
Aw, hugs for you over losing some of your fur babies. Before we were TNR'ing I had no idea they spayed and terminated pregnancies at the same time. It must be so very hard on the vet and techs. Have to admit a guilty pleasure of mine is watching TinyKittensHQ on Youtube, a cat rescue who do amazing work in Langley, B.C. It can help you get your kitten fix when they just aren't affordable in real life.
Sure hope you can get your blood sugar under control, I've seen with family how very hard that can be. Hang in there and keep after that PCO.
QOTD: Thinking at least the next two months my face is going to look pretty swollen and gross. No idea what kind of lifting limits he'll put on me, I just know I don't want to do a single thing to damage the surgery. DD wants to book me for lots of babysitting in advance which would normally be fun and fine but...the thought of getting my face whacked by a toddler or having to lift any of the kids scares me. I've never been this scared before a surgery before. If it were up to me, we'd just see them socially and in my hiding time I'd sew Christmas gifts or make crafty things for presents.
So in the middle of Plumageddon '25 we had the reroofing started today and it was a bazillion degrees inside and out. If we had a walk in cooler that'd be nice to hold the fruit. It would always be fun to know how many pounds we get off that Italian plum tree but it is always a hectic rush to deal with it, haha. And because of it I didn't have much time to eat anything. My breakfast shake finally happened at 2, haha. Lunch was a quarter of a plum by the time I added up some of the slices I tasted. Too busy for dinner but before bed I'll drink a rtu protein shake.
Hope everybody had a great day, see you probably late tomorrow again. Pre-op appt. tomorrow. If they weigh me I don't want to know because I always weigh more later in the day.
Since Dad never got the son I think he wanted I tried to pal around and do some guy stuff with him. That paid off...one of the best toys I ever got was a 1960's hydraulic lift blue and white Tonka pickup dump truck. Still have it (and the stuffed Beagle he gave me) and the hydraulic still works. And yes, I got all the girl appropriate role modelling toys too. Even still have my aqua Suzy Homemaker oven and both my daughter and all the grands have played with it. With MASSIVE supervision, lol. When we moved in the 70's all my girl friends had bedrooms overflowing with stuffed animals.
How is it Friday already? It has been such a busy time around here that I could swear it was just Monday. Your mama buns really did great...that's a lot of babies! Your unicorn story is so sweet, no wonder you still have it today.
QOTD: I always wanted a fancy, articulated soft teddy bear. But being doll crazy that didn't happen. Dad brought home a rock-hard 'plush' brown and white beagle (he said it was named Snoopy but everybody knows Snoopy is black and white, lol) after yearly training school in Dayton. That was my only stuffed animal until someone gave me one of those carnival-prize bears when I was a snotty teenager. Hubby came through though...as newlyweds he gifted me 7 Steiff bears while we lived in Germany.
Food was:
B: a cup of coffee with a treat...a tablespoon of powdered creamer. It tasted like desert.
L: My protein/collagen shake.
Snack: one wedge of Laughing Cow Lite
D:2 cups zucchini and 1 cup mushrooms cooked in 1 cup of no-sodium chicken broth and topped with 1 tablespoon shakey Parm.
Might have 10 shrimp for a late snack.
Have a fun weekend everybody! If you barbecue, enjoy delicious food. It's going to be a preserving weekend, so glad for a wall-unit a/c in the kitchen. The regular a/c can't keep up with that much heat in that room.
Happy Monday! Glad you all had mostly good weekends. It was scorching hot here, it may have turned our apples to applesauce on the tree. Hope it's not too late to get them to the food bank.
Hubs is going camping with our daughter and her fam for 3 days this week. I'm giddy with the possibilities of projects to do, loud music to listen to (Christmas even!), maybe even sleeping in. He'll have a great time and come back with fun stories and hopefully pictures. For me to be able to dirt camp with all the bugs would require round the clock Xanax. (I've only had it once for a procedure but it was a very happy experience, haha)
QOTD: This season- blue but I'm already pulling out my old, smaller plum clothes for Autumn!
NSV: My bat wings are back! Haven't seen them in around 10 years.
B: 2 cups Genmaicha and itbwas not enough caffiene
L: My choc/collagen/espresso protein shake.
S: a deck of cards size piece of Hermiston watermelon.
D: 3 Oz chicken breast, 1 sautéed zucchini.
LS: 1 c ff Greek yogurt w/a sprinkle sf Jello powder.
PS- I forgot to say I was wrong about the plateau...today the scale moved and put me at 40 pounds of regain gone!
Sorry to be here so late, I just lost track of time today. Hope your pain clinic visit was productive! And oh my gosh that dress...LOL!!! You are so talented, those earrings are gorgeous.
QOTD: Home grown zucchini and watermelon from Hermiston, Oregon. I swear before summer is over I'm going to go off my diet just one day and eat nothing bu****ermelon.
B: My big, frosty protein shake lasted me till 3 pm
D: 3 Oz super-minced chicken breast, 2 T G Hughes SF bbq sauce over 1/2 c FF cottage cheese.
Excited to get my eyes checked tomorrow and order new glasses. My vision has gotten much worse this year, it will be great to be able to see clearly again.
Hope you and everybody else had a great day. I canned fig jam for Hubby.
After reading your reply I had to go check our weather and sure enough, over the weekend we'll be close to 100. There goes the water bill again, lol.
Hope you got your lock screen fixed and enjoy the rest of your day and evening.
So sorry about this big life change, that is never easy even if it is the right thing to do. You were very smart to do that type of self care.
Today's productivity is loading the car with more stuff to donate. The house is feeling better with this purging. But I can't let go of my fattest fat clothes, I don't trust this weight loss yet. But I am packing them away in big plastic totes.
QOTD: As a pre-op Klondike's were 'meh'; post-op I tried the sugar free ones...not tasty to me. Now...if we were talking about a fudgesicle that's different. I can manage a skinny one. Maybe I'd hem a pair of pants for one? Or not. lol
Either I'm forming a stricture or my pouch (who will be 20 in December!) is protesting my stress because I can't eat much lately. My frappe-style protein shake is fine, liquids are fine but pretty much everything else must be nearly puree or a slider. Too many bites and I get nauseous. It's fine, I'm not even hungry on Contrave. But, my body is protesting with another plateau. Brat.
B: Genmaicha (brown rice flavored green tea).
L: attempted green beans and well chopped imitation crab with 1 tsp butter and 1 T G. Hughes bbq sauce. Got in about 3 forkfuls.
S: a cup of homemade chicken broth
D: Going to rejig my protein shake to remove the caffeine and add a little coconut oil to help my fats today.
LS: A bottle of Fairlife chocolate protein shake.
And rude people tell us the rny is 'taking the easy way out'. It has been 19 years since I've had restaurant ice cream. Sometimes that's not fun.
My mom grew up in Libby, Montana and she loved a really well-aged sharp cheddar on top of apple pie. Always wondered where that came from. She salted her watermelon too until her Dr. ordered her to cut out salt.
Is your gardening like mine where all the most labor intensive crops all overlap each other ripening at the same time? I need to be picking apples for the food bank (I have way too much sauce and juice canned), the blackcurrants are ripe and the plum tree needs to be juiced and canned. All while the tiny garden pumps put green beans, cherry tomatoes, Korean cucumbers and of course, zucchini! Hahaha
Storms are wonderful, especially if there is thunder and lightening. Yours sounded awesome. Hope your DMV appointment went well (and quickly!).
QOTD: As summer winds down I'm so tired of the dry heat and just over the garden. I'm pretty much only outside in the morning when the dew gives a false impression of a mild day.
Your dinner sounds like it was delicious. It's been a few years since I've made that but it would be a great menu idea, thanks.
After yesterday's fiasco eating I took it easy on the pouch.
B: My frosty chocolate protein shake.
L: a strawberry Outreach skinny popsicle. It was good but not worth the carbs.
D: 1 cup of ff Greek yogurt w/1tsp sugar free jello powder stirred in.
Wardrobe chaos trying to find something for the funeral. My black skirt falls down past my hips. Now I have an alteration job. Tomorrow errands galore and cleaning the car. Meanwhile I have 12 big Korean cucumbers from the garden taunting me. No time to deliver to the food bank, ugh.
Hope you get a restful sleep, see you in the morning.
- PS- well this was a first...Pouchie closed up today. I had that few bites of super chopped cottage cheese chicken salad this afternoon, no bueno and I had to get it out. Luckily a canned protein shake was chilled, that worked fine. The propofol shut it down? That's never happened after a colonoscopy before.
Congratulations on your surgiversary! That was 11 years of hard work you put in so celebrate it and enjoy your good health.
Happy Monday! Glad you got to go picking blueberry picking finally. It is nearly bend-over peach season here in our agri-tourism area (Greenbluff, Wa) and they will be yummy. Worth every carb. Are you planning any great desserts with the blueberries and peaches?
All your meal pics looked so delicious. Really good seafood here isn't actually fresh unless you're a millionaire and can have it flown over from the coast.
QOTD: Well I presume the yacht comes with a staff, that does sound attractive but I have to go with a tow-behind camper. That's the vacations I grew up on and I can visualize going with Hubby where he could fish and I could sit inside with my Singer Featherweight and sew, sew, sew with the fresh air wafting or snug inside during a snowstorm. He's outdoorsy and I'm indoorsy...I can see it working!
Had a colonoscopy again this morning and so ticked that I finally had the chance to get to know my true weight without...you know. But they have their process so streamlined that they only ask what it is and take your word for it! lol Now just to wait for the test results which will most likely be good since the dr. said I could wait for 5 years for the next one. That beats the previous timelines they had me on by a mile.
B: The delicious other half of the GaviLyte prep and some water
L: 5 green beans, tried to eat some healthy chicken salad but only managed about a tablespoon.
D: Maybe a Fairlife shake and some chicken broth that I didn't drink over the weekend. Just not hungry today.
Heat advisory today and tomorrow 97/98. It will be perfect for the funeral Friday-- 80 and a few showers.
Tomorrow will be back to my normal protein shake to start the day. It is so much easier to diet in the summer when I can have that giant frosty shake and fresh veggies from the garden.
Enjoy your day, everybody. I'm going to take a nap!
Couldn't you just hold onto that heat? It is supposed to hit us Monday or Tuesday.
I think 90% of Spokane is Seahawk crazy (and the Zags too of course). Hope you're able to get better coverage of their games.
Keep cool this weekend!
Hope the concert was awesome. Rod Stewart has such an interesting, enjoyable voice. Haven't been to a concert since the Moody Blues back when they were all still alive and before Pitch Correct. It was nice and also sad to hear their aged voices. Time marches on.
Crossing fingers your tooth holds on. Tooth pain is the worst. Hang in there
Whew you had a busy day, hope the weekend is rejuvenating for you. The concert photos are great!
So sorry you're dealing with that heat and pain together. It would be nice if you could use that a/c now. The pendants are gorgeous, you're very skilled! And...you find such funny memes (sorry Veggies).
For a minute there I thought someone was posting pictures from Spokompton, er Spokane. One of the reasons we cut down our stolen redwood was to stop the druggies coming to park by it (they thought they were hiding). After they'd visit their dealer up the hill they'd park by the tree to get high.
First day of the prep diet instructions: pretty much just white food. I am not eating any grains or white starches, this diet is going too well!
B: choc.protein/collagen shake.
L: 1/2 c nf Greek yogurt w/1 T sf peach jam w/the fruit pulled out
D: 2 Oz ch. breast, 1/4 c nf cottage cheese (prolly have half now, half later in the evening.
QOTD: I'm no good at any sports with little balls but at least I can kinda understand baseball. At school I was always on the outfield so I wouldn't tick off the cool kids too much.
Ps...3 month progress shot, forgive the mess. The shirt was skin tight and I couldn't even get those jeans on before.
Hope everybody has a good weekend.
And, go get those blueberries!
