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Big time sun today! It is calm here even though there are high wind warnings in Eureka. The weatherman keeps saying there will be 5 inches of rain but it keeps getting pushed back. So Humboldt. Nothing is ever on time here.
So I barely slept last night for some unknown reason - maybe because I ate dinner late. Won't make that mistake again. It makes me think I really need to address my eating habits since they have kind of been off the rails. Too many carbs. So this morning my eggs were without an English muffin and it is fine. I realize I can whine and ***** all day long but in the end it is in my best interest to be mindful about what I eat and it won't kill me to defer on a few carbs.
So the plan is to make chili for tonight and I will try to refrain from stuffing crackers in a bowl. We shall see.
Liz hope your snow melts soon. Justice will appreciate it.
Paula the club event sounds fun. Good way to meet neighbors. It can be hard to make friends in a new place so that club sounds idea. And garage guys! Good idea.
Peps love your account on your Dad. You really hit the sweet spot in talking with your dad about what interests him and not arguing. Motorcycles! Fun to look at but only look at.
CC those cookies are works of art!! Great job. It is hard to ice those cut outs. Do you have the fancy icing bag things? I think it is fine to keep trying new hobbies - much of the fun is in learning and mastering. Thinking back about spritz cookies I recall part of the process involves chilling the dough so it has the right texture to be pressed in addition to right amount of flour. No chance of me trying any of that soon though I still want to do the almond slices.
DD my sleeve came first. A year or so after I called my brother and suggested he investigate it and he took it from there. A good thing all around.
Well not much is going to get done today due to poor sleep but there is always laundry and picking up.
Diane S
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122.4. The weight can stop going up at any time now! I have been very snacky lately so I guess the increase is deserved!
Finally made it to water aerobics today. It was fun. They do it to a tape most days but have a person leading it twice a week. They said they brave the cold to 50 degrees. Not sure I am that hardy! DH and I also took a bike ride around the community and checked out the lot that we had chosen to build on. I'm so glad we bought an existing place. Mature landscaping, pool already in place, more distance between houses, mailboxes in front of the house instead of a bank of mailboxes!
Leftovers for dinner. Still deciding if I am going to check out "lanai ladies " tonight. It is essentially happy hour at the Clubhouse. I guess they used to meet at people's houses but maybe it got too big. The "garage guys" still meet in resident garages!
Hope you and Justice are adjusting to the snow and cold Liz! Sounds like a nice warm up is on its way for you! Have fun visiting friends and family.
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!
I so enjoy hearing your stories of your Dad! Makes me miss mine even more! I could have done better in going with his delusions instead of trying to correct him!
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!
The cookies look great! A wonderful new hobby. A retired teacher of one of my boys does this and takes orders for birthdays, weddings, engagements etc! Second career? Lol! Glad your house is shaping up and you can hopefully have a reprieve from house improvements/fixes!
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!
on 12/17/25 12:31 pm
I love how you interact with your dad! Such a simple way to bring him and you both so much joy.
on 12/17/25 11:06 am
I think we have 6 times as many crystal shops here as grocery stores! And 20 times more woo-woo establishments as grocery stores (psychics, aura photos, salt rooms, chakra cleansers, mystics, crystals, reiki, drum circle leaders, etc). While it's very true the Native Americans view Sedona as a sacred, spiritual place, the new agers have absolutely distorted all that for their gain. Someone in the 80s wrote a book to try to drum up tourism and started the nonsense about vortexes here. One of which was "moved" because it was in the middle of the airport runway. If you can move it to have tourists not gather on the runway, is it really a spiritual vortex? And it's just grown from there.
I dislike all the woo-woo ridiculousness. It's one of the most beautiful places in the world so I understand why opportunists would want to make it mean more than that to try make a buck from the tourists who eat up the crystal stuff. But it's a waste of money in my opinion.
wow! Look at you!
BTW, I don't think it's ADHD. I think it's more of a response (possibly somewhat compulsive) to the desire for purpose and achievement. It's a classic "self medication" move. Adopting a new hobby is much healthier than taking to drink or drugs or sex! I see nothing wrong with it when you keep it at a level of affordability and keep your expectations in check. It's no different to me than having the right shoes, clothing and equipment for working out.
202.8 - a much better read on the scale for my psyche!
It is a perfectly gray day here. We have had a bit of rain this morning. There is a soft winter wind moving the branches which looks especially nice on the black walnut which still has yellowing leaves on it. This is a better gray than the weeks of gray Tule fog we've had.
I had a great visit with my dad yesterday. We planned motorcycle shopping for March or April. 
He quite liked my idea that getting a motorcycle in the spring instead of the winter with the rain and cold. I also told him that he should be off his walker before getting his motorcycle. He agreed and indicated that he'll need to up his game on his exercise to accomplish that. He even asked me to look at Consumer Reports to find a highly recommended vehicle. I enjoyed keeping him engaged. I figure that's a good thing. I think because I didn't dismiss his motorcycle idea he was more talkative and went on about all sorts of things I couldn't figure out. At one point I realized he was confusing himself, so I offered to turn the tv on for him. We watched tv while he chatted on about how hard it is to find channels these days and work the tv. Yesterday he believed it was his shortcoming and not the manufacturer's. A rare ownership of his cognitive decline. I made sure to invite him (again) to lunch this weekend and mentioned again he'll be coming to my house for Christmas Eve. He seemed delighted. I love when he is feeling happy.
Great workout yesterday. I'm upping my game a bit by trying a new approach to lifting - increasing the weight while lowering the number of reps and actually reaching "failure". That technique is supposed to build muscle more effectively. We'll see.
Liz, the photo you posted on FB of the Cape Cod house was so wintery and charming! Pretty to look at, but an entirely different thing to be living in it!
CC, is there some type of mystical native lore about Sedona? I saw a former colleague post something on FB about her visit to the mystical and spiritual spots of Sedona. She's one of these people who is all into crystals, etc...
I bought a PowerBall ticket. I couldn't resist! Costs less than a cup of coffee, right? Hey, if I win, I'll pay for us all to get together in Sedona or ?!?!?!?!?!
Fingers crossed for a winning Wednesday!
on 12/17/25 10:19 am
New hobby alert! The plaid is messy, but for my first 8 cookies, I'm pretty proud! Please squint when admiring 
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The family friend and her daughter came by yesterday and staked a claim on 3 lamps, 3 rugs, and a mirror. They don't move in until the end of January, but nice to know I will have more clearing of stuff in a month!
The deck/roofers will finish stucco and the deck part today and paint the new stucco tomorrow and start on replacing the stairs in new Trex. No wonder it was so expensive.
Otherwise, today I frost...
Take care!
116.8 - I seem to always lose a bit on travel days. Not enough time to snack I guess LOL.
Over 6 inches of snow greeted us at the house yesterday afternoon. Very pretty but Justice doesn't like walking in it at all. I hope we can get him out this morning for a bit. We are going to be gone all day doing errands. The snow should be gone by the weekend as it is supposed to gradually warm up to the 50s with rain on Friday.
Not much else to report this morning. We need to get moving soon and take Justice out as we have to drop the rental car off by 11:15, go to lunch in DH's former town, then go to my former town to see SIL. We are going to help her put the Christmas tree up, get my many packages sent there, and take her out to dinner.
Have a wrapping Wednesday!
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
