Friday, August 24, 2018

How beautiful (even the animal on the wall - LOL)!

Weight 166.2. Sigh.

Resetting myself today after a lot of eating the last week. Just finished the treadmill. I've been on a reading kick, which makes me pretty sedentary as I tend to get sucked into books and not move all afternoon. It's a wonder I didn't get a blood clot sooner!

It looks like we're headed into a rainy period for the next week or so with thunderstorms off and on. I love a good rain/thunderstorm and it's been a dry summer.

Other than that, still struggling with blood thinners and female crap. I really need to find a solution to this when I get back to CA so I don't have to be trapped at home several days a month. I understand IUDs can help so I think I'll look into that as well as meeting with a hematologist who may have other ideas. Grrr.

Happy Friday!

A pox on female crap---Be gone!

The last years leading up to menopause really stunk for me too (late 30s/early40s - menopause at 46). I bled like crazy. I once had it go through all my clothes onto the train seat on my way home from work so I had to wipe it up and leave the train with a big red blotch on my skirt (and sit on newspapers in my car). Just lovely. I was SO happy when menopause finally came.

Oh that's horrible! And trapped on a train, ugh. I'd welcome menopause with this! On the thinners, I have to set my alarm for every two hours at night and still have problems because I should be setting it for every hour, but can't bear it. I'm exhausted and feel like I need a good transfusion right about now. There must have been a better design that could have evolved for women...

True confessions:

1) Meditation time isn't going as planned. I still keep trying and did get some in yesterday, but not as planned. I did it at the end of my workout in the gym. I'm not sure that was ideal, but I did it.

2) I feel a bit like a maintenance sugarholic. I can say to myself each night before sleep and during the morning that I will eat healthily today. Yet, when the cookies and the candy show up at school I start in to eat without thinking through the consequences. This is an emotional behavior choice that must also have some biochemical influence. I would love to read more about sugar "addiction", but there is such divergent in this area. Diane O., is there a link you can post to the article you mentioned?

3) planned lunch: 1/4 cup green beans, 1/4 cup rice, 3.3 oz grilled chicken thigh with Sriracha sauce. Ate that and additionally, 10-12 Trader Joe's little thin almond cookies, 1 Snickers mini and 2 Rolos.(edit to add: An additional 370 calories.) Could be worse, sure, but I have to ask myself, WTH is it that so easily derails me?

Gym this afternoon, puppy play, dinner out with Ron and BFF. This weekend - Saturday; grooming one of my co-owned dogs (fits the parameters of my grooming holiday), puppy visitors, on Sunday Puppies will undergo Puppy Aptitude Testing and a retired couple are coming to meet Tank. Hopefully, that will work out. We shall see. Will need to get some weekly shopping done, too. I'm hell bent on getting a few of these extra pounds off of me.

Big shout out to Bonnie Miss150 for having cysts, not tumors! My mom died of pancreatic cancer. As her oncologist said in 1997, "It's not the cancer I recommend standing in line for." I think that pretty much says it all.

Greetings TGIFer's

149 today. Late checking in due to early gallery duty. It actually turned into a reasonably busy day. And I took nearly $1600 to the bank. Makes me nervous to walk around with that much cash. Amazing how rarely anyone pays with a check anymore. Our new POS system worked fine. Another member who came in for the second shift has had trouble with it so we did a little training. It worked fine for me all day. Now I learn that it blew up again. She has a computer phobia and the system knows it.

Lots of people coming in who are trying to escape fires. Good for business but sad for them.

Shel, that goat is creepy. Did it stare at you all night? Why are goats attracted to you? Looks like a great hike.

Diane O, can't wait to hear about your excursions. We will all live vicariously.

A good friend stopped in the studio. She lives 30 miles inland where there is an air quality alert. Nice to visit but I wish she lived nearer. Her husband has some health issues and the smoke is not good for him either.

Bonnie150 do they have to take out the entire pancreas? Maybe just as well but insulin for life is no fun. We all face whatever gets tossed at us I guess. Wishing you the best.

Stephieplum, an incident on campus? Hope its all safe and ok now. You too Peps in your school.

There is a little speeder train here that only runs one day a month. Its tomorrow. So maybe we will go ride it.

It occurs to me that the hardest part of any task is getting started. Note to self. Just start it.

Coffee time is long over. Wine time. Peace. Diane s