Friday, October 31, 2025 - Happy Halloween!

I hope your party was fun! Can't wait to see pics (I will check on FB now).

121 on the dot this morning!

Had the boobs smashed today and results which were good are already in My Chart! Nice to get the results so quickly!

DSD and SIL arriving today for the weekend! Hopefully they will get all their stuff into a storage unit!

Will go out for pizza tonight. Trying to avoid the Trick or Treaters. DH is a Bah Humbug regarding Halloween. He is slightly better about Christmas. I guess growing up with alcoholic parents put a damper on Holidays and he just doesn?t have warm memories about them!

Twelve more days left in WI! Does it look like someone is moving?

I already replied to this but it disappeared???

Quick medical result! Mine took a while but they had to wait to receive my prior scans from Massachusetts to compare.

I hope you have a good visit with DSD and SIL. They may be feeling a bit sad and seeing your stuff packed up might not help. But once they visit you in Florida they will get over it,

I like the acronym FISH! I bet I would have lots of fish!

Happy Halloween! I decided to NOT go to school today. I have been so enjoying the lack of a candy-holiday food fest in my face, I decided staying home was the prudent thing to do. Plus, the parade at my old school was at 8:30 am and I am barely presentable at that hour anymore! LOL! Besides, including my own elementary school years, I've participated in 39 elementary school Halloween parades. If the truth be known, I'm done! My school career is a finished chapter in the story of the Life of Peps.

Got house work done today and a great workout at the gym. I am proud of my 5 day a week gym routine. I am pushing myself to get back to being able to do 40 pushups in a row. I was able to do 25 in a row on my first set. That's a good start. I probably could have done a few more.

Flu and Covid vaccines on board. Got them yesterday. Boy, oh boy, did my arm hurt!!!! I could not sleep on my left side because it hurt my shoulder so much! Feels much better after vacuuming and working out.

I am amazed at the price of coffee! Tariffs and bad weather are said to be the reason. I'm leaning heavily towards tariffs as the main culprit.

Paula, you have a point about my weight and size. However, I really do WANT to get down to that more ideal weight for me. There are a few reasons. One is pure vanity. I'm still thicker in the middle than I would like to be. The second is that once under 190 my metabolic issues lessen/reverse. My blood sugar levels stay consistently in the 80s to 90s, my BP goes down to about 110/70-120/80 without medication, and my need to be on a statin seems to go bye bye! However, I've been on a statin for so long, I'm not sure it's advisable to stop. (I've read that going off the statin in one's "senior" years invites strokes. Albeit, my dad was in his later 80s when his doc took him off statins, when he went off the statin - BOOM stroke!!!)

It is close to 6 and we have yet had a trick or treater! Booooooo! I'm hoping we have at least a few! We will close up around 7:45 to go visit BFF and his Halloween extravaganza. He goes all out. We'll bring a pizza and have a late dinner.

Hard to believe that tomorrow it will be November! Holy cow! Time seems to fly by in retirement! I'm missing the school markers I am so accustomed to using to mark time elapsed. For years it was reading and writing curriculum and school holidays. Then it was the songs I taught the students. Now I guess it will be annual dog shows...

Still no candy has passed my lips! No promises for later! LOL!

Funny how quickly 8:30 can seem awfully early. I have to go for fasting labs in February and asked for an early time (since I had to fast). But when she said 7 am I blinked and said no way - how about 8:30 (which is also early for me LOL).

I never heard that about statins. Interesting and scary (both DH and I are on them - seems like most everyone is).

Those are all good reasons to get to your goal weight!

Hi everyone, I spent the day at the hospital, and I am worn out, but okay. A lot of palns were proposed, but in retrospect, I don't think much will change. My Mom is most likely going to be discharged Monday. My brother needs to visit our family land up north and do some weatherizing on pipes etc and prepare for deer hunting, so I told him to go ahead tomorrow, and I'll visit again at the hospital. I have plans on Monday, so he will take Mom home from the hospital. I'll write more later, tonight I am completely wiped! I enjoyed reading everyone's posts and hope all have a great weekend!

So you think Mom will get home, then cancel all the assistance? If she tries to do that can you engage the social worker to assist in getting some sort of a mandate that the support continue to be provided? Would that require some sort of guardianship (which would be a lot to take on)?