Sunday, July 5, 2020

Weight 121.6, WW Bluepoints 32. Wine last night...

DSD is in line this morning for Covid testing. Hopefully it will be negative and she can get out of Florida. The other day I bought a couple of dress-up masks. LOL - Who would have thought we would be doing that!

Kayaking with David was fun and we watched the streamed James Taylor concert afterwards. I went to that concert at Fenway Park with DH so a lot of good memories.

Last night I went over to the neighbors for a bit, then there were fireworks on the pond. All around it actually. They looked professional! The neighborhood cop (who wasn't there) had said that they weren't planning on paying attention to them unless there were injuries (though they are illegal in Massachusetts).

Friends are coming later today for Chinese take-out. It almost feels like normal times here... Except no hugs, spacing, and masks when warranted.

Have a safe and healthy day.

It sounded like a war zone here from about 2 pm on. You could hear fireworks explosions all over the county echoing around (The safe and sane ones are legal in a handful of cities, plus people bring the illegal ones up from Mexico). The big question on NextDoor was why waste them by setting them off during the day? Maybe those were all cherry bombs and the like. I really felt for vets with PTSD and animals who are scared by loud noises. Glad it's over.

My hairdresser texted today (I'm supposed to go tomorrow for color) to let me know her 20-something son who is currently living with them was exposed to Covid, has been tested, and to stay away for now until his tests come back. Sigh. Roots again. But I really appreciated her being conscientious about it. It reminded me of what my mom used to say when I started driving and I was rolling my eyes because she was fretting about me: "I'm not worried about your driving, I'm worried about every person driving around you."

Not sure what I'm doing today yet. I still have the camellia to plant, but that's the last thing I have that isn't in the ground.

Good for your hairdresser (even if not your roots)!

Ron was off to an outdoor church service by 9:15 this morning. I'm guessing he will be tired and somewhat cranky later today. I have no idea when he came to bed, but it was well after 2. He doesn't do so well on little sleep the way he once did. I must have been pretty tired from yesterday's activities. I was in bed a good 9 hours and most of those were spent asleep! I did doze in and out from about 6:45 on, but I'll say I was "out" most of the dozing time.

My food behavior and choices were admirable yesterday. i did not piggy it up. I did choose to have a piece of peach pie and two cookies. But other than those two choices, my food day was pretty normal. I am back down to 267.8 this morning. My personal, SMART goal for this week is to choose foods and behaviors that will result in my dropping down into the 266 range. 265-266 would be super, but anywhere in the 266s is just perfect.

We had an absolute kennel here last night. 5 adult Airedales, 4 Airedale puppies ranging in ages from 3-7 months, plus two Brussels Griffons (Toy sized dogs). It was pretty wild, but in a fun way. The puppies occupied themselves and the adults amused themselves by watching the pups until the fireworks around the neighborhood started going off around 8 pm. At that point the 3 older girls disappeared into the house. Keira was a wreck, so I started dosing her with CBD (the kind with THC****il she found her sweet spot. She must have been pretty stoned, but still anxious because she wanted to sleep in the walk in closet. I put her bed in there, left the door open and she slept in there all night long. Cracked me up.

The pups were all fine with the booms and pops. That is until our neighbors across the path and down one house started shooting off the illegal brought up from Mexico mortar shell fireworks. Dinah was outside for one of those booms. Poor thing came running in the house scared to death. I can't say I blame her. I was very proud of her for pulling it together and going outside again not too long after that. Hopefully, tonight will be nothing like last night.

Today is a free day. I think we will tackle getting the bookcase put back together. All that really means is sorting through the boxes of books, discarding what is no longer wanted or relevant, and keeping what is dear. It's simply a matter of making time. Then i need to tackle my office area. After that we have promised to go through all the closets in the house. And, then there is the ever looming GARAGE! Lots to do, but little motivation to get it done.

Happy, happy Sunday everyone.

Good luck with the book project. winnowing books is hard-no-impossible for me to do. I've tried! Gotten out the boxes and after going through all the bookcases and finding a measly 3 or 4 books in the box, well, I just sigh, admit defeat, put the books back, and go out and buy another book case (currently up to 12 now - spread out over 8 rooms and an upstairs landing. I am the keeper of some family volumes dating to the early 1850's. ridiculous, I know. I so admire your ability to unburden yourself!

My mom was a voracious reader. You never saw her anywhere without a book. Their house was overflowing with books. When she passed, we boxed up and gave 20 boxes of books to Salvation Army and after all that all the book cases were still full. Those were just all the overflow piles!

I went to a Kindle many years ago (when they were first available). Thank goodness or I would have bookcases everywhere too. When we moved from our home of 20 years we kept about 1.5 bookcases worth and only added a small number since then. Which is possible because of the Kindle AND the public library.

157.6

Yikes. Some might be natural flux, some might be water retention. But some is probably true.

I have been feeling so good about my lower weight, it could almost be an obsessive problem. Except I never have the willpower to lose the weight I need to lose, much less extra.

We've had a lot of alcohol over the weekend, and food in general. Today is my little sister's 30th birthday so we'll definitely indulge today, but beginning tomorrow I need to watch my steps and my intake more.

But then family comes in Friday for SIL's memorial. So more food and alcohol.

I guess grief is a funny thing and maybe you just have to feel the feels. But I'm overwhelmed with it recently. Everything just feels like death and short life and hardships and bummers. Don't get me wrong, I feel extremely blessed and grateful right now. And hopefully can remember that always. But I've reached exhaustion with death. My grandmother's death alone was hard. Really hard. She really was more like a mother. Maybe I haven't even fully grieved it yet. I've been too preoccupied with babies. What a blessing. And then SIL's passing out of NOWHERE. And now a friend who is in the same boat as so many of Rich's and my friends. I mean the oil and gas industry is really tight knit. But it has been struggling hard for the past 3-4 years. So many people I know are searching for jobs that don't exist. I wonder what pain they are experiencing that we don't know about.

I wish I could not worry about that. I internalize too much.

I decided to watch On Golden Pond. (well fini**** really) If you're already feeling sentimental, it's maybe not the best mood lifter! But so good.

Thirty years. My baby sister. I never really thought that was "old" but it sure does seem like I thought it was older than I feel now. Somebody said, speaking of Carl Reiner, there's no such thing as an adult, only a costume. that seems about right.

Anyway, to bring it back around to food/weight loss.

Tonight's yummy dinner will be (food porn warning!!)

onion and gruyere tart

smoked beef tenderloin

Bordelaise mushrooms

creamy parmesan orzo

garlic roasted broccolini

cake

Set a place for me too please BB - I will be over there in 18 or so hours

That sounds delicious

Oh, you had me at the #1 item- onion and gruyere tart. So good!