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124.8. I'm eating everything in site. Food noise is horrible. I have eaten theater sized boxes of candy the last 2 days and DH and I are both hitting the ice cream. Funny thing is I have not eaten candy like that for well over a year! Thankfully I still can't overeat in the amount of food I consume in a given setting. I will need to start back on my shot soon. Problem is where to inject? Right now my belly and thighs are so tight that I wouldn't be able to get a fold of skin to use. Perhaps in the love handle area. I never did master injecting in the arm.
Today was busy with virtual house visits. We had two we liked and about 4 we said no to. We will do more virtual visits on Sunday and Monday. This will help us greatly in narrowing down actual visits once we get there!
Glad you and Justice get to return to Florida soon Liz!
DD, I'm so happy you are enjoying your slower paced vacation with DH and that retirement is going so well for you!
CC, we miss you!
Peps is busy with a dog show I think and I bet Diane is walking the treadmill, at the gallery or shopping the hippy dippy deli! We shall see when she checks in!
I am so in love with retirement right now! Rockport MA makes me so happy. Yesterday we went to Gloucester, which is right next door, but a bigger city. There is a hotel with an incredible ocean side patio where we had lunch. $ years ago, we tried to have dinner on this patio for my 60th birthday, but it rained. We had a delightful lunch there yesterday.
The Irish music concert we attended in the evening was gorgeous and moving. Live music feeds my soul. Leaving the theater, I felt so fortunate to have these experiences.
Today we had another slow morning. I woke up at 8am. These slow mornings, I wait for DH to wake up so I can raise the blind, and admire the ocean view from the bed. Today I did the same. Once we got going, we made a simple breakfast, and then went to our all time favirote east coast restaurant, My Place by the Sea. It was A LOT easier to get into in September than during July. It opens at 11:30am, and during the summer, a line starts forming for lunch around 10:45am. Lunch is first come, first serve. For dinner, they don;t take reservations over the phone, you have to show up in person, and they start taking names at noon. During the summer, the reservation request line for dinner starts forming around 11am. Nothing like that was happening today. Further confirming my feeling that September is the best time to travel. Anyhow, we got what we believe is the best table on their deck, and were very happy.
It's warm in the sun today, and coolish in the shade. We are thinking about taking some beach chairs down to the beach and enjoying a bit of sun. There are still some shops we like that we haven't visited yet also.
Unlike Liz, I suspect that some damage weight wise is occurring. DH concedes he needs to diet if he is going to tske off the last 10 pounds he wants to lose, and he is planning on doing that once this trip is completed. I suspect I may have to join him in this quest.
Tomorrow we leave to meet up with our friends in the Finger Lakes region for a couple of days. I will be sad to say goodbye to the coast, but I am looking forward to new experiences and hanging with our friends.
118 - no damage from our trip. I do seem to be fairly self-regulating. So weird but nice.
Today is laundry and packing day, though most of it is done. I will be bringing one checked bag, one carryon for the overhead compartment, and Justice. He counts as my personal item so my book, glasses, phone, etc have to go into his bag. The only things I am worried about not fitting in are shoes, but DH can bring them when he comes on 9/23 if I can't fit them.
I ordered my new iPad to be delivered tomorrow in Florida. I already got a small piece of glass stuck in my finger from the broken screen so realized that I can't keep using it this way. I think it might actually fall out in chunks if I am not careful so I have to use it very gingerly today.
Chilly again this morning, so I am looking forward to the warm mornings after tomorrow. Justice will be thrilled as he has been chasing patches on sunshine a lot lately to keep warm.
Have a fulfilling Friday!
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
Lobsters are generally shipped live, so even if they travel a long way they are still "fresh". Lobster meat is shipped frozen and even here on the east coast it has often been previously frozen.
i think optimal and maximum heart rate for exercising are calculated based on age. I know DH pads attention to his numbers. He is really missing his gym time.
As I mentioned to DD, Justice and I are basically in Florida indefinitely other than 10/4-10/7 when we come home for SIL's birthday, then not again until Christmas when we will come home for about a week.
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
I love beautiful gardens, but I don't like planting them so I live vicariously through others efforts.
Definitely workout weight.
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
Sounds like a lovely relaxing vacation after your busy one!
DH will be down in Florida 9/23-9/27, then back north to finish up his golf season until 10/7. I am going back north from 10/4-10/7 for my SIL's 75th birthday. A little crazy, but I have a ton of things to accomplish in Florida. Appointments almost every day next week!
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
Greetings all
Another overcast one. Spent the morning doing my usual coffee drinking and net surfing. I need information and reading like I need to eat. I do love the aspect of the iPad that allows you to look up some thing you hear about in passing and learn about it. Example: I looked up why there are not lobsters in our area. Actually there are but they are a different species - the spiny lobster - and while they are good to eat they don;t have much meat and no claws. Not worth seeking. So that is that. And one can find lobster on a dinner menu here but super pricy plus you know it traveled a long time.
Did my walking. Overheard a personal trainer telling a client that the heart rate of 130 or greater is the fat burning rate. Another thing to look up on the internet. I don't usually get to that but I am just trying to improve mobility.
Studio time after that. There was a glass person lurking briefly around the new space but not for long.
So Liz are you going to stay put in Fla for a bit? I am sure Justice wants to know.
DD owner operated shops are so fun and a great way to learn local lore. Plus they love visitors like you. Enjoy the rest of the visit.
More gardening Peps. Go for it. I assume bulbs are not going in the dog yard area. Reminds me I would like to plant some blueberry bushes. We used to have some but they kicked the bucket. Anyway enjoy perusing the catalogs for plants and bulbs. Do you have gophers?
Yeah Sept 11. What a day. Our office closed because it was in high rise building. No one did any work anyway. Remember when you could show up at an airport 20 min before a flight and get on? I do but barely.
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I love the idea of working more in your garden. In my world, that always pays happy dividends.
Dear Lord, 205.5 today!!!!!! All I can think of is that I'm sore as heck from my workouts this week and that I'm retaining a lot of fluid to help with muscle repair. My eating has been on track. Oh, well...
It does not seem to me that 9/11 was so long ago. But then again, the late 1980s seem like not too long ago, too! LOL!
Glad everyone seems to be doing well. Am missing CC's check ins. Hope all is well in her world.
At the dog show today. I brought my laptop so I can do some club work, but I'm not feeling very motivated to get it done. Instead I think I will order bulbs to plant since autumn approaches and one of my retirement goals is to work more in the garden.
Thriving Thursday to all!
All that hiking will more than burn off a couple of bites of blueberry pie! Florida bound sounds great! When will DH join you?
CC, where are you? In Arizona or Michigan?
Yesterday we spent some time going through the shops. It's pretty quiet here so we chatted with a lot of the shop keepers (many of them are the owners). We're always curious about what people think about life here. We also spent a lot of time chatting with an artist we have talked to before. So interesting to hear about his artist perspective and what inspires him. He had one painting we really admired. It was $22,000.00. He told us he was photographing it soon and would make some prints. Maybe we could afford one of those. : ) If I spent thwt much on a painting though, I don't know if I would like it that there were prints circulating. Or maybe I would be happy to know others loved it as much as I did.
In a world where I had a different financial life, I would own a summer home here, and a home in the restored downtown of St. Petersburg Florida. Since I don't, I am happy to visit.
Beautiful sunny day today. We'll head out for coffee soon, and now that it's warmer a walk on the beach. Tonight we have tickets to a music concert.
