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200.5 UGH... And I had a pretty low calorie (for me) day. Have to have the long haul mentality right now. I know the drop will come.
BFFs dogs are restless in the early hours. It does not make for great sleep much past 5 am. Luckily, I went to bed early (again for me) around 11, so being awakened from 5 am on wasn't too terribly bad, but I would have appreciated a nice deep sleep until around 7! I'm actually surprised by how restless Lulu is. She used to be such a hard sleeper.
I am hell bent on creating a list of to dos today. I have the road trip to Ohio and my dad's move to plan this week. Best to be hyper organized.
I have yet another full day planned. I am beginning to realize just how much I crammed into a day while I was working. The lack of a full teaching day makes my current schedule pretty doable.
Yay for fencing! You will be able to relax once Justice can safely lounge in the yard.
I still have work dreams 2 years after retiring. They are less frequent but I noticed an uptick after meeting with my work colleague last week! We didn't even talk about work much and she had a totally different job working at home reviewing medical charts!
5' 4" tall, HW: 242, SW:215.4 Weight Loss - pre-op: - 26.6, M1: -15.4, M2: -16, M3: -11.4, M4: -11.2, M5: -12.2, M6: -7.4, M7: -7.8, M8: -2.0 Goal of 130 lbs. reached at 8 months, 2 days post-op!
I still have dreams about being in school once in a while. Last night I dreamt that I had a report due but kept putting off starting it. I finally got the necessary research done and had 2 hours to write it which I was doing in cursive with a red pen. I made myself wake up because I was so stressed! Probably left over from my days of doing assignments last minute LOL.
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
117.4 - down 1.4 after a day when I had the hungry horrors and fed them. Weird!
So my 2 younger children left by late morning yesterday to avoid the Cape bridge traffic (DS was successful at that but DD not so much since he left 2 hours earlier than them). I had forgotten that DSD was coming to stay for part of this week too! She arrived at 5. Luckily the deck had been swabbed and clean sheets etc. were back on the beds.
Today DSD will work here, then we are going to take SIL out for dinner. She isn't eating much but it is meatloaf Monday which usually goes down easily for her and will provide some good leftovers. Right now her biggest problems are her persistent back pain and lack of appetite. They want her to go back on Keytruda which early on worked dramatically in fighting the cancer essentially putting her in remission but with her weight so low all that is scary.
Today the fence construction continues so hopefully we can have a free range Justice in a couple of days. Tomorrow will be an early day for me so I may or may not post beforehand. DSD and I are going on the ferry to Martha's Vineyard for the day to scatter deceased DH's remaining ashes off of a sailboat. Most of his ashes are buried next to our eldest DD, some were scattered in Ireland by DS, and this is where he would want the rest to go.
Have a munificent Monday!
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
A good family day for you! And hoping no one had a backlash from the yucky sushi :(
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
What an emotional family day you had! That can wring you out, though not necessarily in a bad way. I like the sound of DD's BF - sounds like a really good person who cares very much for DD.
The kids were less than thrilled with the loud bar too. It really was for post-college age folks talking loud and drinking with no shirts on the guys and the young girls in their bikini tops. My kids are 34 and 37, so a bit past all that. They liked the place with the band (not too loud) on the patio better.
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
I hope you got a lot of clay worked with minimal discussion about the upcoming storm at the gallery!
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
Hopefully you had a nice slow day since you didn't feel fully rested, then a good sleep last night. Isn't it nice to know that even if not rested one day you can always make it up (no having to drag oneself to work feeling that way)?
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
I am finding I am far less stressed about the approach of August! Though, I admit I am having back to school dreams this week. The latest was not being able to find drawing paper in the correct spot (at my school of 28 years) and things being all mumble jumble, e.g. I'm supposed to be in room 5, but I was in room 7 or 9 and the hallways were lined with storage closets instead of backpack hangers....
I am constantly reminding myself that there is time to get things done. I worked on Blitz and Molly today and started to feel pressure to work on Buster, too. Had to remind myself tomorrow is another day with not too much on the calendar, so I can certainly push Buster's grooming off until tomorrow.
I remind myself, too, that it doesn't matter that "school summer" is almost over. Summer now extends far beyond August 6th, which would be my first "official" day back were I not retired. As a matter of fact, I will be on the road returning from Ohio on August 6!
I will be happy when the school stress dreams let up a bit, though.
123 on the dot today. Seems that weight is my most common!
Good day today. Nice church service this morning, DC came over as usual on their day off, DS2 surprised us with a visit on his way to a friend?s wedding and then DH, DC and I drove the 1.5 hours to visit DS3 in his college town. Saw his new apartment (an improvement over his last two but still a little scary by my standards).
We went out to eat at an Asian place in said college town and proceeded to have the most awful sushi any of us had ever had! Praying we don?t get sick! It was great to be able to see all 3 of my kids on one day. Warms this mama?s heart!
Sorry your restaurant wasn?t all that Liz! The lobster dinner sounded delicious though!
Peps, I remember my body holding on the the weight right before hitting goal! So frustrating!
DD sounds like the visit to your niece?s house was a good time if remembrance for everyone. I?m happy you can continue to be a source of support for your BFF?s son.
Keep up the walking Diane! You do much better than I with consistency! Thank God for eggs and shrimp! Such easy any healthy dinner options!
5' 4" tall, HW: 242, SW:215.4 Weight Loss - pre-op: - 26.6, M1: -15.4, M2: -16, M3: -11.4, M4: -11.2, M5: -12.2, M6: -7.4, M7: -7.8, M8: -2.0 Goal of 130 lbs. reached at 8 months, 2 days post-op!
