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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!
Our new water heater is too hot! But, if I set it one notch lower (gas with the red knob) it's not hot enough. Nothing worse than water that is not hot enough for a steamy shower! On the setting we use a kiddo could absolutely burn him/herself.
Not much worse than a lukewarm or even worse cold shower! I always turn mine up too. I like to be red when I get out of the shower!
Have a great party! Don't forget the pictures!
I like the acronym FISH! I bet I would have lots of fish!
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?
Greetings all
Quick check in before all the festivities begin. It is sunny and calm so it should be a good night for kids. Tables are laid and counter things set out. Pick up food at 3. Lots of rearranging of junk - ordinarily a glass jar of dog kibble sits on our counter but I decided it had to go elsewhere as the counter will be our buffet. Don't want people to think they are being offered dog food. Still have to hunt up wine glasses and some extra silverware. I was having a spell of tachycardia this morning but I think it has settled down. Not something I need today. Too much to do. DH has set up the extra table and chairs. Butter is out softening. Trying to think of what else needs to be done.
Lamb chops Liz! My favorite. Lucky you to get them. Party sounds like a hoot. And golf. Fish fish fish!!
DD best of luck with the roof. It will be worth it to get it right even with porta potty presence. I suppose you don't get kids coming around there. Do the merchants do kids stuff? There are a couple of haunted houses here that I would like to see if we were not occupied. Oh well.
Well time to get busy again. Hoping it gets dark fast so no one notices house clutter and dog fur.
Diane S
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A woman who just moved here introduced us to "fish". We have all done it so it gives us something to laugh about when it occurs!
I am sure that is going to end up being an expensive fix, but at least you know it will be done right and your house won't be leaking.
The low temperature that ho****er heaters are set at by default is a pet peeve of mine. I always turn it up. I believe they are set that way to make sure a child won't burn themself. No children in our houses!
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
I booked a hotel room for the 11th. We hired movers to help load the PODs on the 11th and have been putting boxes and items that are light enough for us to handle in the garage for now. Yes, living very lean these last few weeks!
on 10/31/25 7:37 am
Fish, ha! I hadn't heard that one before.
The roof repairs have begun. As they remove the Trex decking to recoat the roof, they found the joists were just nailed right into the stucco with no flashing, causing water intrusion points. So even if the deck portion of this project was not leaking yet, it would at some point. Expensive repair, but it will be redone correctly. They are going to just float the joists over the roof and not attach them to the wall, just to each other, and screw the Trex to the joists. Like a big raft. They haven't begun fixing the leaky stucco ledge yet. A multi-day project.
I've been going through my little piles in pursuit of Operation No Visible Clutter. I have little piles everywhere of things that need a home or I need to look at or save, but never do. If everything had a home, it would be easier to keep clean and tidy. I'm almost through my stack of magazines I haven't read.
I also figured out how to increase the temp on my electric water heater and had a really hot shower for the first time ever here! On a gas water heater, you just turn the red knob on the front. Easy. This one required turning off the power. Unscrewing panels behind other panels, removing insulation and using a screwdriver on a knob. Easy when you know what to do, but not idiot proof like the red knob.
Today I'm having lunch with friends and dropping my car off for a good cleaning on the way. I miss California carwashes so much! Where you drive in and they hand wash the whole thing inside and out in 15 minutes for $25 plus tip. Here it's a $60 plus tip multi-hour affair where you have to leave it and go find something else to do in the meantime. I would do it myself, but getting Kirby fur out of black carpet is best left to their vacuums.
I hope everyone has a good day!
