Friday, September 19, 2025

117.2

Quiet day yesterday. I tweaked the furniture and moved the pictures over the couch so they are centered. I only went out to walk Justice and food shop. I bought a rotisserie chicken, pulled all the meat off, and mixed it with a can of Rotel tomatoes and cumin. Great dinner!

Today I have yoga and Justice needs blood work done prior to his annual teeth cleaning next week. Maybe it will be sunny enough to go to the Beach Club or the pool here. Likely I will go to Happy Hour tonight and probably eat 1/2 burger at the club (and save the other half for another meal). I only have 3 more nights before DH arrives to figure food out for.

Speaking of which, other than DH staying with the grandchildren this week, it turns out there is no real reason for him not to be here in Florida with me as he has not felt good about his golf game so doesn't plan to play until he is back here. He was originally only coming for a few days next week, then going back north until 10/7 (I was going north for SIL's birthday from 10/4-10/7). Due to logistics around the birthday party and his not playing golf we may just both fly back 10/2-10/7, so we will be doing the rest of the traveling together.

It has felt very important to celebrate SIL's 75th birthday with her after seeing her so ill this year. I hate to think it but it somewhat reminds me of how critical DS felt it was to have a birthday party for his Dad in his last fall. Somehow we all felt it might be his last.

Time to get in gear for the morning walk. Have a finicky Friday!

121.5. Not sure why I'm going down. Seems like I am eating a lot. I stopped tracking food with the surgery though.

Well, our house options just dropped to 6! One community where we had 3 potential houses was dropped today when we found out the initiation fee for a golf membership was $80,000 and the monthly fees for golf were $986/mo. The HOA fees were about $600 per month and don't even include lawn care! No thank you! Too bad because I did like some of the houses!

We are getting a little nervous that our buyers, buyer is not getting any offers. Each cog in the chain needs to work for this to happen! Our buyer is opening their property up to other offers, so maybe something will pan out there. DH gets so anxious with all the unknowns!

Hello Fresh Turkey and bean chili for dinner tonight! Should be good!

Hope you do get a beach day Liz! I agree, attending SIL's birthday celebration is a must. We just never know when it is our ( or another's) time!

Are you required to have a golf membership in that community? We have a club membership here but it is not required and a fair number of the people who live here do not have one. Most of the golf club memberships around here are pretty similar in price.

Not required to have a membership but it would be nice for DH and some of the other communities we are looking at are far less expensive.

That club probably has other facilities other than just golf - ours does including tennis, pickleball, several restaurants and the beach club (plus runs all those activities we go to like dances, wine dinners, etc).

Greetings all

The day started cloudy but there is full sun now. No blimps. I managed to drag myself to the gym and did my walking. Not fun but I lived. Listened to some music cuts I had not heard before of Aretha songs. After that it was studio time. Things are pretty dull there. I need to figure out some new projects. The new glass studio still sits there....

Glad you centered your pictures Liz. I look at decorating stuff on Facebook and often the art work is not hung correctly. Your home is really a showplace. And yeah do the SIL birthday party.

And wishing you luck Paula on the home front. Somehow stuff will come together. Yikes on the golf club fees. I had no idea. No thanks.

Peps how is Blitz?

CC still missing you.

DH brought home fish and chips from his lunch at a sports bar. He said it actually was a pretty good place to eat. Something we never would have gone to but for his Romeo lunch.

Our team plays tomorrow. This will be a tough one.

Diane S

Fish and chips sounds good! DH and I split a Big Mac and Frys for lunch ( the real one, not the salad version). Pretty good, but won't be needing that again for a while. The idea always seems better than the actual meal!

You continue to impress me with your dedication to the gym. I'm anxious to get back to activity but not until some of this swelling subsides!

LOL - last time I had a Big Mac my digestive system complained for the next day.

I was thinking about your weight dropping. Didn't they remove several pounds of skin? So your starting weight without fluid would be your weight just before surgery minus the skin?

That is true! The skin weight is gone even though I still have some fluid weight! I think I'm probably just using more calories to heal too!

Amazing that there was all that complaining about the glass studio but now they aren't using it.

There is a bar near where my daughter lives that has amazing and inexpensive food. You have to order it at the bar, but then they bring it over to your table. A place I would never have gone to either.