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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.
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
201.8
I stress ate yesterday. It was after dinner. Wasn't even hungry... gah! Not good. I ended up with "cud", like a damn cow. Boy, do I hate that. It's a post VSG phenomenon. I never had this issue prior to WLS. I had a great deal of remorse... and also had to stay up later than I wanted because lying down was not an option! Needless to say, I was off my feed for the better part of the day.
3 more days! I had gut churns about retirement last night. I can't explain to what I'm reacting, but there is something. I've tried to analyze it, but to no avail. The only thing I can come up with is that this is a helluva transition and I dont' do well even with the smallest transitions! WEIRD!
I decided that I needed to spend some time with my favorite group this week. I emailed the teacher and she gave me permission to come and do music at my regular time tomorrow. So, tomorrow I will end my teaching career with the best group of kids - my K-2 Special Day Class kiddos! They are my hands down favorite group to teach all week. The teacher's email response to my question of "May I come and do one last session..." was fantastic. One word: DUHHHHH!
Off to groom for this weekend's dog shows....
Greetings all
More sun today. Feels good. Started the day with Scrabble. Won one, lost two, but gave the Shark a good contest. Oh well. So it goes. After that I went to the bank and made a quick store stop before heading to the studio. My gallery supply is seriously diminished so I must work work work. Sold almost $1000 this month so I need to make more. Summer sales are always good up there.
Well Liz I had no idea what happens to shark corpse either. We get dead seals and such sometimes. I don't see why people have to get nasty just because someone has a question. Seems like the culture of nasty is winning. And sorry your DH had to do all that lawn stuff. Seems like his kids could help a bit.
Ann I hope you get some knee answers and that joint replacement is not part of it. Seems like knees are the first thing to go (after teeth and hair). We are all excited to hear when you get into your house in full.
DD not surprised your work gave you a daily headache. Soon to be gone. Agreed: management adds tasks but never has any accounting for the extra time. Their calculators only add and never subtract. Business management is the same way. Ditto government.
Hmm CC, Kirby needs a job. Poor guy. How much longer on the cone? Good luck on the porch. Screened porches are the best.
Gallery duty tomorrow. Chicken pot pie tonight.
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Checking in from the doggy looney bin! If I get hit in the back of the knees one more time with a cone, I'm going to let out a primal scream. Kirby is always no more than a foot away from me. Every minute of every waking hour. It's always been like this, but it's so incredibly obvious with this freaking cone. I walk in the kitchen, cone shoved in the back of my knees. I take two steps to the right, cone in the back of my knees. Walk down the hallway, cone. Walk through a door, cone. Head to the bathroom, cone. Cone. Cone. Cone. Gah!!! And he's crying while he's doing it. He feels fine and wants to run everywhere which he can't, it's anxiety. I had to leave the house to regain my cool I'd lost. It was a nice few moments of solitary peace running errands.
I met with a screen guy who said my screened patio can't really be fixed in a way it won't break again. He suggested a retractable screen that comes down from the ceiling. I submitted it to the HOA. Hopefully they approve it.
That's it for me. Take care!
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.
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.
So glad to hear you're able to get the paint job done the way you want, with the colors you want.
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!
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!
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.
ANN 5'5", AGE 74, HW 235.6 (BMI 39.2), SW 216, GW 150, CW 132, BMI 22
POUNDS LOST: Pre-op -20, M1 -10, M2 -11, M3 -10, M4 -10, M5 -7, M6 -5, M7 -6, M8 -4, M9 -4,
NEXT 10 MOS. -12, TOTAL -100 LBS.
