Tuesday, May 27, 2025

117.4 - I can't figure out why I am this low. I was so hungry yesterday and had some extra snacks. My meals were the usual.

Yesterday DH worked like crazy weed whacking, mowing, and raking the lawn. It looks great but that's a lot for someone 70 years old and a pacemaker. He doesn't want to hire someone because he likes doing the normal maintenance when he is here but I don't see his kids stepping up. He sent a picture of the knee-high grass to his daughters and told them it was so high he had to weed whack it first. The married daughter replied that she had to do the same in her own yard. What? She is the one with the unemployed husband. Who BTW loves to tell people that he can't sit still for long - and always has to keep moving. Doing what I wonder? Tomorrow DH plans to weed the gardens and spread the mulch which was delivered in April and not spread yet.

While he was working his butt off I unpacked, shopped, and cooked dinner. Dinner was tasty - one of those old WW recipes.

Today is a break day at least. A Justice walk on the beach, then DH is golfing and I am going to my old town to meet SIL for lunch.

When we walked on the beach yesterday we saw the carcass of a huge shark which washed up last week. Thankfully Justice wasn't too interested as it was covered with bugs. I wondered what would happen to it (it is on a public beach), so posed a question on the local FB group asking if anyone knew whether the town is going to remove it. Lots of responses and I learned a lot about what the recommended treatment was (after googling for more info). The bottom line is that it will be left there to serve as food for scavengers and possibly eventually being picked up by the tide. In the midst of the helpful responses were jerks making snide and snarky remarks as if I was supposed to know the answer so I must be an idiot. No wonder kids feel bullied by social media!!! These are supposed adults. Didn't they ever hear that no question is dumb or if you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything? So much for me participating in those forums.

It may reach the low 70's today. I hope so! The sun is quite bright out there. Have a thoughtful Tuesday!

Jerks are so weird. I guess they're miserable, lonely, unloved creatures who are striking back against the universe. Or they're just ******** and sociopaths.

Right now I'm sitting in the waiting room of an orthopedic surgeon to learn more about my crappy knees and what can and should be done about them. They've always been crappy--meniscuses slipped out of joint during my teens, flex of both knees has been only 90 degrees max for decades, arthritis, and all the damage that obesity for decades can contribute. I learned early on how to get along great with them, but at nearly 80 I'd like an actual diagnosis and my likely progression and possible and best options to deal with them going forward--including nothing.

Yesterday was beautiful here. We took a visiting granddaughter and her boyfriend to a long margarita-fueled breakfast and then chilled while watching Formula One races in Monaco.

Today it's cool (60 degrees) and drippy and will be all week. The new painters are working hard to correct our original painters' work, and it's looking great. I predict we'll be able to move our furniture in in a week or two. Woohoo!

Looking forward to hearing more about our new retirees' changing lives and everyone's summer plans and travel.

So glad to hear you're able to get the paint job done the way you want, with the colors you want.

Glad to hear you could get the paint fixed so fast.

Good luck with the knees. I have moderate to severe arthritis in both of mine but am hoping to avoid having to have a replacement. One joint felt like enough. In Florida some doctors are doing things like injecting gel into the knee.

125.9. Deserved uptick! I ate like crap yesterday! I have a category called ?junk? on MyFitnessPlan where I enter non nutritive foods like chocolate, salty snacks, sweets and alcohol. Yesterday 917 of my daily total of 1637 was from that category. Thankfully I?m doing better today! Though there are still some junk entries!

Busy day with errands. Bank, Costco, dry cleaners. Had to get the two older boy?s phone switched over to their own plans which is harder than you might think to accomplish. Spent the morning getting wedding nails off and then putting my own polish back on. My natural nails are actually longer than they have ever been!

Spray tan update. It looked great for the wedding but is wearing off very unevenly and looks horrid right now. I fully admit I am not moisturizing daily per the instructions so it is most likely my fault!

Good to know about the spray tan. The one and only time I did it, it faded nicely. I was on vacation, otherwise my plan was to maintain it with self tanner. I do use self tanner in the summer once I have a base tan to even things out. But putting the self tanner on my winter white legs feels kind of daunting, so I was thinking about a spray tan as a base.

I don't know much about spray tans - maybe if you moisturize like crazy starting now it will even out?

Too late. I looked freckled with spots of spray tan! I'm mostly wearing long pants and shirts so it's okay!

Those neighborhood Facebook groups can be absurd. DH posted to ask if anyone would recommend a local company for countertop replacement. He said people got in a fight about whether such a question should be asked, as one person said haven't you heard of Google and another jumped in saying this is the perfect forum to get this kind of information and then it devolved into unpleasantness. And DH never got any info. Keyboard warriors.

Not having the best impression of the son in law...

I attended 2 different staff meetings today, a department meeting and later a department chair meeting. And let me say I am again overjoyed and delighted to not have to deal with the new initiatives proposed for next year. For the sake of my friends I'd like to know why so very few initiatives actually make things easier instead of harder. Rarer than Haley's Comet. Or if the harder thing must be done, as it sometimes must, why is nothing ever taken away from somewhere else so the impact is at least neutral. And why do I leave work everyday with a headache? I was beginning to be concerned, because its pretty much daily, but having 4 days off in a row, I noticed I did NOT have a headache everyday. Retirement will be the cure.

A light rain today is perfect for my new plants all tucked into the flower beds. When I got home, I stood in the drizzle for a bit, admiring them. 60s again, but maybe closing in on 80 the end of the week.

Retirement shall be the cure for many feelings!

I guess I am not the only one having that kind of experience on social media. I thought the reason for those kind of groups was to share information but apparently not everyone agrees.

Son-in-law can be charming but is incredibly lazy though not in his own mind. Everyone puts up with it because his wife does. I sometimes wonder what their relationship is like when they are alone and she is doing all the work, but they seem happy.