Recent Posts

Well my work email address no longer exists, and my Google docs connected to that account are now just mist in the online world. So very official.

Rainy, cold temperatures in the high 50s. Knowing I can drive to the major airport 20 minutes from my house and fly somewhere warm on a bargain airline anytime I want takes some of the sting away.

The staff meeting was fun. Each department head says a few words about the retiree. It was very sweet. A few tears, some hugs, and then I was on my way.

I was home by 10:15am. I hope I didn't alarm DH by sitting on the family room sofa, eating chips and dip, swilling diet coke, and watching The Jason Show, a local talk show. My son said it was a Victory Meal. :)

I had some time before my appointment, so I went shopping. To further celebrate my retirement I bought 2 nice swimsuits. Most of my suits are $30-40 from JC Pennys. I decided as much as I like to be in the water, I should have some better constructed suits. They were definitely more than $40, but a good investment in my future plans. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

Most of my WLS visit was strategizing what I will do when I inevitably loss my coverage to Wegovy. I'm going to bump up to the highest dose, so I can continue to stretch out the time between doses, and keep stockpiling. She said some of her patients move to metformin as a maintenance medication, but of course it's not as effective as Wegovy and Zepbound. Zepbound is now approved as a treatment for moderate to severe sleep apnea, so if people have that diagnosis, they are going that route.My doctor expects an oral GLp medication to be available in the next year. If people have to pay out of pocket, it should be much cheaper than the injectables, and therefore more affordable. It's a brave new world. Competition amount pharmaceutical companies can only help us.

Going out to dinner this evening, where I will eat some good protein to off set the complete lack of nutrition in my chip/dip splurge.

There are those places that feel like they are knitted into our DNA. I've never been to Finland, (6 of my great grandparents were born there), yet I feel great pride in their accomplishments and concerns about Russian threats. I'm glad you are enjoying your heart's homeland so much.

Same issues with ratatouille in my house - I love it but DH is very unsure.

DS2 toured the cathedral in Cologne on his post HS European vacation too!

Greetings all

Mixed clouds today as I sit here drinking coffee and watching war erupt in the middle east. Jeez I just can't understand why these people can't figure out that war is good for nothing and no one wins ever. It is truly beyond me. Guess I should be grateful I do no live in a war zone ****alifornia....).

So DD its a wrap!! Enjoy your well deserved retirement time. May this weekend be filled with tea drinking and plant shopping. Enjoy.

Peps I looked up the Cologne cathedral. Magnificent! What a thing to behold. Hope the palace is equally great.

Well heck Liz, no fish. Just as well - nothing to clean and cook. Plus more Mexican opportunities.

Gallery duty this afternoon. DH has gone to lunch at the Chinese buffet so he will bring that home. All is good.

We have been watching season 2 of The Recruit. Pretty good. Almost done.

Not much else. I really need to figure out how to get some more veggies in our diet. I like them but DH has reverted to little kid eating. I love rattatouie. He does not.

Time to get moving. Hope to have time at the gallery to do some walking.

Diane S