4/3/2020, T.G.I.F.

Weight: 134.2
Veggies/Fruits: 7
Macronutrients: Cals - 1,493, Carbs - 173, Fats - 33, Proteins - 98, Fiber - 37
WW Green Points: 43
Fitbit Recorded Sleep: 4'11"
Exercise: 10,285 steps (no yoga, no circuit training)

I'll get us started off this morning ...

Be back in a minute with the rest of my post ....

A.

Weight 124.6, WW Bluepoints 8.

Tickler Post, huh Ann (I jumped in just after your partial one)? LOL

I did sit out in my bathing suit yesterday. My mister will be good on a super hot day but was almost too much water for yesterday. BUT a fan worked great. Ceiling fans are all clean - smoke detector batteries to be done today. Maybe we will take a drive this weekend, then do the regular cleaning next week.

Friends in Clearwater went home to Cape Cod this week. I guess I might feel safer there if we were in Clearwater as well, but our quiet area seems much safer than our town at home right now and the travel adds an element of risk as well.

Have a safe and healthy day!

Weight: 134.2
Veggies/Fruits: 7
Macronutrients: Cals - 1,493, Carbs - 173, Fats - 33, Proteins - 98, Fiber - 37
WW Green Points: 43
Fitbit Recorded Sleep: 4'11"
Exercise: 10,285 steps (no yoga, no circuit training)

Yesterday was a much better day. I had some long, good phone calls with friends who are also alone and sheltered at home.

Yesterday, I learned a new term, "comfort reading." It describes exactly the kind of stories I want to be reading right now--about people with small problems in pretty settings where the plot resolves issues for the heroes and/or heroines and satisfyingly *****slaps their small-town cretinous and villainous neighbors. Specifically, I'm craving books written in the first half of the 20^th century set in British villages and characters who make visits to London just often enough to keep things interesting. I'm currently reading Miss Buncle's Book by D.E. Stevenson, published in 1936 during the Great Depression.

Yesterday my morning meditation was a live, guided one in a Zoom Room setting. I'm enjoying that kind of meditation practice lately. After dinner I tried out a Laughter Yoga session in another Zoom Room led by a work colleague who's really into that. I'd never even heard of that kind of practice before and enjoyed it quite a bit. I also cooked up fresh batch of chili.

This morning I'll do another guided meditation and late this afternoon attend a Zoom Room ****tail Hour with dozens (maybe hundreds?) of old work colleagues from a professional association I still belong to. I'll check in on a couple of friends who are also home alone.

Last night's continuing healing sensations in my head/face/neck kept me from sleeping long enough, so at least one nap is on today's agenda, as is laundry and more cooking/freezing food for next week. But I won't work outside, because it'll rain most of the day.

Oh, one more thing for today--a Canadian blogger I have enjoyed reading for years is hosting a virtual tea party at the beautiful Chateau Laurier Hotel in Ottawa next week, so this morning I'll be dressing up and sending her a photograph of what I'll wear to her tea party. Go ahead and ridicule me. I don't care!

Breathe. Be kind to yourselves and those you love. Eliminate the cretins and villains from your lives.

Love,

Ann

I wonder if this means you will have less long-term numbness than me? I don't remember being uncomfortable at all after the first few days (except when the stitches were removed which was within the first week).

Liz, good question, but I have no idea! But I bet our surgeons would know the answer. :)

The weird thing is that my numbness floats around ... it's less sometimes on one ear than on the other, then it reverses. Likewise with numbness in my throat/neck area, upper cheeks, lower cheeks.

I'm pretty sure my surgeon also did a TON of moving muscles around. I would also doubt that my surgery was identical to yours due to age differences, musculature differences, skeletal differences, etc. I suspect this kind of surgery is as much art as it is science, so "your mileage may vary" would apply greatly in this similar-but-not-equal kind of surgery.

Hi friends, not doing so well this morning. I'm getting hit by waves of the grief we talked about. I can't concentrate, I can't make even a simple decision. We have been barred from our building. They are opening it up for 2 hours today. I really want to go get my desk/office chair. But do I? Just figuring out if my hatch space will fit my chair leaves me confused.

My team teacher and I are going to zoom with all our classes today. Maybe seeing the students and interacting with them live will help set me right again.

On a bright note, I do have clotted cream cooling in the fridge.

DD, I feel your pain!

Waves of grief, powerlessness, frustration, loneliness, fear and other feelz are rolling in like breakers here, too. In between are moments and hours of peace, boredom, fascination, even joy.

I've been in self-imposed quarantine (except for curbside grocery pickup service) for 17 days. Given how long it's taken the virus to show up in our county, I'm guesstimating there's another 8-12 weeks of Act I to go. And during the coming weeks I hope to figure out some version of social isolation that allows me to view actual human bodies and speak to actual human beings without a digital device more than I'm doing now.

Sadly, I have no clotted cream, but I may ask you to teach me how to make it one day soon.

I was right, a zoom classroom meeting helped. Emotions are still boomerranging as you described. Our principal also sent an article that described what we are doing is not online learning, or distance learning, it is emergency remote learning. My curriculum was never supposed to be online. My reading intervention classes are really participation based. It's hard to move them online. So I'm trying to give myself a break.... probably the loss I'm dealing with the most today. I want my job back.

My husband just texted that he saw a news release they are closing all the beaches in Minneapolis for the summer. My daughter texted back, mom just fainted. There maybe one of those pvc above ground pools you can buy at Walmart going up in our backyard in May.

"I want my job back." I bet you do!

And there you have it ... Minnesotans are thinking about mitigation plans for the summer. But my ******g governor hasn't even issued a statewide stay-at-home order for now.

No balls.

Gratefully, all the big Missouri cities and many Missouri towns (including the little town near me) have issued local stay-at-home orders and closed all but essential businesses, although the list of which businesses are "essential" is long and puzzling.

BTW, here's an article with pix of 20 fancy-schmancy above-ground backyard pools. :)

https://nimvo.com/20-luxurious-above-ground-pool-designs/

Aspirational pool decks! I showed my husband the pics and I saw the fear, resignation flicker across his face, omg which one is she going to want me to build. :) But since it's just a temporary one, probably just the blue one wrapped in bamboo. I'd probably take apart plastic leis and glue the flowers to the fencing. Thanks for the light moment.