Saturday Happenings-What's Up?
Trish...Glad you feel better today. Don't overdo too much today you don't want a relapse. Have fun at the Special Olympics!
Annette....TOPS is what I need. There isn't one close enough for me to join. Let us know how it goes.
Vickie....glad you got the printer to work. If it was me I would still be trying to get it figured out. I am really bad at that sort of thing!!
Nan, Nancy and Monica and Morgan....special prayers for you!!
Mag....hope you feel better and your surgery goes on as planned.
Carolyn.....congrats on the scale moving in the right direction today! That is great!
Me, just doing whatever I choose this weekend. It is wonderful. I forgot how my life used to be.
Everyone have a great day!! Praying for many in need.
Love and hugs to all.....connie d
Not much going on here. Typical Saturday morning. Big football Saturday in Louisiana ... LSU vs. Alabama ... No. 1 vs. 2 ... yeah, I'm not into college football but because I have to edit a lot of these things, I'm forced to follow it.
It's sunny and coolish here ... 66 degrees, but beautiful fall day. I slept well ... lots of strange dreams, but that's good. I had a headache when I went to sleep last night, too, but fortunately, it was gone this morning.
Well, I need to get myself in the shower and get some lunch before work today. Have a good one.
Saturday afternoon, and here I sit...the house needs to be vacuumed but since I've been having so much trouble sleeping these last few weeks, I'd finally broken down and taken a sleeping pill last night and now I'm feeling it still..this is ridiculous! I sat outside in the sunshine drinking tea to wake myself a bit but I think I may need to lie down agaon for an hour or so.
Surgery is on Tuesday..I have to be there at 6:30 am...that means to get there in time(an hour's drive) I have to be up at 4 am to shower and dress. I might as well not go to bed at all...that's okay, I'm a NIGHT person anyways.
Derek's ladyfriend, Kathy, has invited us all to have dinner at her parent's place on Sunday...we have only met them once but they are very kind and really good people and very family-oriented. They love Derek so we are included by default...lol. Kathy is a chef and the meal will be lovely but I still feel a bit "shy", can you believe that!? Stranger things have happened!
It seems so strange to be "NOT BUSY". I cannot seem to get focused right now. I have housework to do, food to make and freeze for the guys, research to do, letters to write and all I want to do is sleep. I'm wondering if ignored stress is manifesting itself as sleepiness...a way of coping by refusing to acknowledge it? Maybe another cup of tea...MOM always said a nice cup of tea fixes everything...lol. ah...I miss Mom.
My Mantra is that I do not determine my success by the number hanging in my closet, nor will I let the scale determine that success either. . . It is through trial and error I will continue to grow and succeed. . . Laureen
"Success is a journey, not a destination." Ben Sweetland
It's late and I'm finally sitting on my sofa, throw wrapped around me, as I am now trying to keep my heating system at a temp that I am unfamilar with, 68 (lol), mind you I was an apartment dweller most of my life until I bought my "old drafty" house 8.5 years ago, my first winter, I would come home from work and turn the heat up to 80 (forced air, centrally located register) and I never felt warm, eventually I put in central gas heat and central a/c, but still the temps were high as opposed to some of what my friends would consider normal, between 76 and 78, fast forward to post-WLS surgery, losng my insulation and that first winter of keeping the heat up and in the summer the a/c was kept up as high as I could get away with, then 2 years ago, I had blown in insulation put into the uninsulated walls of my home (homes built in the 50s had no insulation) and things are a bit less drafty and luckily I have roommates that hate the heat and my one roommate is a real green person and suggested that if I could deal with 68/70 degrees in the pre-heating season, then I could learn to deal with it now, so I'm trying to be green (lol), but I might be blue from the cold first. . . but back to the beginning, I had a busy day, starting with the Barix support group, which I can say was truly awesome, the participation, the things we spoke about and shared among ourselves (WLS Support group for those not familiar with the Barix name), after that I had lunch with one of my friends and then to run errands, then to get my nails done, which needed doing very badly and from there ran home to pick up my roommate who does not like driving in the dark, so we could attend an AA meeting and as I said, I am finally sitting on my couch, and I wanted to just say hi, because reading about Nancy, Nan, the struggles you have with your health and the other things that go on in each of our lives made me want to say HI, I care about each of you and whether I've ever had the opportunity of meeting you, or whether I never meet any of you, YOU MATTER and I wish you all that you need to deal with these very real life challenging places many of us find ourselves having to deal with in these our "golden" years.
Peace and Love, Laureen
My Mantra is that I do not determine my success by the number hanging in my closet, nor will I let the scale determine that success either. . . It is through trial and error I will continue to grow and succeed. . . Laureen
"Success is a journey, not a destination." Ben Sweetland
