Wednesday, March 20, 2019

The sun comes back out today after a rainy day yesterday. SIL arrived and we had a good dinner out. After a rough start (DH wanted to go "home", but didn't know where it was), DH was okay though a zombie yesterday. Today and either tomorrow or Friday are daycare days for him.

We haven't decided what we are doing today, but I did stress that we need a plan so we don't waste our time.

Have a winning Wednesday!

Good morning from Iowa!

Shirl, best wishes for the calving!!!! DianeS, you have just a few days to feel better before I arrive. How is DH? Maybe I'll make the 2 of you chicken soup! (or, more likely, buy some from a crunchy-granola store. I wonder if I need to bring my own bowl....) Liz, enjoy your company! I hope DH is cooperative today.

I ate out twice yesterday and did aok at a Mexican restaurant and BBQ pub.

Today, I'm driving to Iowa City (home of University of IA, my alma mater) where I will stay a couple of nights with old friends. I have eating out plans with multiple people including (drum roll) my BROTHER who is seemingly estranged from the family for about 30 years. It is extremely emotional for my parents (in particular) that he responded to my text at all and especially since it was an extremely long newsy text. Since we know so little about his life, we have been left to our own imaginations of the why's and what's of his self isolation.

My parents never argued in front of the kids and rarely even had a cross word for one another. So it was upsetting to me to hear my mom light into dad about him being the reason dear brother doesn't communicate with them. IMO, she is wrong on that point but really none of us know anything.

Anyway, that particular lunch is tomorrow.

I had more nuts than needed yesterday. I'm blaming emotional undercurrents.

I need to work out sometime. No one else can do that for me....."don't waste time" I am telling myself.

Enjoy the day! Shel

Good morning ! The calving sounds exciting, as long as I don't have to facilitate ! Shirl, so impressed at the rigs you can drive. All school administrators in my district had to have training on driving a school bus in the event of an emergency evacuation if enough real drivers couldn't respond quickly enough. God forbid ever having to back up, and that's without a trailer. Liz, hope the week ends more smoothly. Peps, power your way as you reactivate your plan Diane, banish that cold, and feel better soon ! Shel, sounds like you have a lot of complicated emotional intertwining stuff to navigate. Power to you to!! With my serenity scale off the charts , I have positive energy for all !

It will be no surprise that I am investigating long term rentals down here. I love the west coast, the gulf coast..any coast, but this area is like coming home.

Greetings Fine Friends

No weight again today. Slept late as I am coughing and wheezing. Shel I hope I will be beyond the infectious stage by the time you get here. Don't count on me hiking much. Examining fudge is more my style. I am feeling really old and beat up lately. I am wondering if I have some weird disease like fibromyalgia. Ain't that like an old lady - wondering what ailments I might have. DH is fine and recovered from his surgery so no chicken soup needed. But we can go to the granola-ish store as they have a cafe.

Ocean Diane NC sounds like the place you want to be. You should get a place there if you can. Hope DC is liking it too. Whats not to like?

Shirley hope you get some baby calves soon. What fun. I always wished I had lived on a farm but all my friends that did hated it.

Well, more coffee and then back to bed.

Shel, is my five year old codeine cough syrup too old to use?

Take care. Diane S

No weight for me either.

I feel like a lot of us are in that weird place.

I'm not really sure what I need. That's probably a good starting place. I need something. I need some structure and some goals and I'm not sure I have either right now. Of course knowing that everything will change DRAMATICALLY...AGAIN...in a mere 10 weeks makes it difficult. I have no idea what that life will look like.

Anyone else get antsy with just kind of "satisfaction"? I'm in a pretty gosh-darned good place right now and I want to put that out there first and foremost. But recent life has always had something "to do". Whether that was WLS/weight loss, or law school, or dating, or planning a wedding, or starting career, or having children. All those things will soon be over and I'm just in a position of "what's next?"

Of course just maintaining those things...the weight loss, the career, the husband, the children, etc. is plenty of work. But just like weight loss maintenance, I think it's easy to grow stagnant. It's not as sexy to maintain.

And at the same time, I'm very much not a change person. And so much change has happened in the last year. Between having a baby and DH transitioning jobs, it's been so much harder to keep in touch with old friends. And that makes me sad. Wonder if I'm holding onto the past too hard. But I also know how hard it is to create new friendships...especially with a baby in tow.

So for now I'm going to focus on the "small picture." I'm talking things I can do now to feel good--like specifically with respect to weight, drinking more water, preparing a lovely fruit salad that I WILL actually eat, going to the prenatal yoga class.

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Poop and Fooey- had a nice post and evidently it went into the cosmic cyber garbage heap. Semi-highly entertaining, and supportive- ly quizzical response to above posts. Now, I'm just going to say howdy and stalk off to a dark corner, pout and throw a hissy-fit. Technology-POOOOOO

Yep, technology can be a royal pain when it malfunctions.

Late to the party. Kind of a weird day. My beloved son is giving me fits tonight. He is an excellent employee, but a terrible student. He has 6 weeks until graduation, getting all As and Bs in his major, but barely passing a distribution class that is meaningless to him, but is needed to graduate. Arrgggh. At least he told us about it before it was irredeemable. DH just jumped into the car to drive to his apartment to coach him through finishing a paper that he managed to get an extension on. DS has a adhd inattentive type. Initiating tasks is so hard for him, but once he gets started that's it usually goes okay. Sigh. I will be so happy when he is finally done. What happens after that is his problem, we will have done everything we can to launch him, he'll have to take it from there.

Before the call of confession, DH and I went to see Apollo 11. It's a really cool documentary about the space program. There is no narration, just very expertly edited film that lets the action being shown tell the story. My DH is an airforce brat, and loves anything aeronautical, not a big interest of mine, but I found the film fascinating. They showed the thousands of people who slept on beaches, in parking lots, etc to get a view of the liftoff. I wonder what modern event would capture our collective attention like that? It was such an optimistic moment in a sometimes troubled decade.