Sunday, 7/12/2020

Weight 121.4, WW Bluepoints 27. I seem to be maintaining in mid range for now but need to eat a bit more carefully for the next few days.

DSD arrived around 11 last night after driving 17 hours! Amazing! She has to quarantine for 14 days, but DS is going to as well at least for a few. He got a call from a friend he saw yesterday morning that the friend had been exposed at work to someone with COVID. So DS' friend is going to get tested. Hopefully he will be negative which will release DS from quarantine but geez...

In the meantime, I may go out in the kayak for a bit early today after walking with Justice. This afternoon SIL and I have to drive 1.5 hours to go to a wake for her cousin who died unexpectedly at age 71. She seemed to be in perfect health when we saw her at DH's services (and was as far as all her immediate family members knew). You just never know what the future will hold.

Stay safe, healthy and cool!

Glad your family is safely in the nest. Your son is a good guy for quarantining while he waits for his friend's results. Some people wouldn't. This makes me think again about the return to school. When one student or teacher tests positive for corona virus, who all will have to quarantine? I'm one again glad I'm not administration, this is too much to untangle.

Yesterday we got in a beach visit between rain storms. DH rode his bike, DD and I sat on the beach reading, and also went swimming.

Today is an absolutely gorgeous blue sky, mild humidity jem of a day. It will be high 70s. After the string of 90 degree tropical humidity, it's refreshing. The heat and humidity are pushing back in this week, I also like that.

No plans yet, except to read the Sunday paper.

Yes it is hard to figure out the rules. But it sounds like some managers are not properly following rules that are available. The exposed individual is a chef so called his boss to say he can't come in until he gets negative test results. She is trying to pressure him into working even though it is explicitly not allowed in Massachusetts. I don't work in a restaurant but I could find the rules about screening restaurant employees.

Yes, in some settings the rules are already established and very clear. Boo to that boss! Probably is okay with people coming in with fevers, coughs, etc. One time when my daughter was throwing up she called into her fast food job. They asked her to still come in, she could just run the register, and not touch the food. Umm, still no. It's a wonder we haven't all been sickened by a plague up to this point. In our re imagining of America, appropriate sick time for service workers is another need.

Quick check in before I'm off for yet another 10 hours of driving. Oh well, I volunteered...

Still kind of feeling funky and down after intense nutritionist session of Friday. Yoga also triggered a massive string of body images insecurities. I have been avoiding yoga since Thursday.

I did a very good job of ostriching yesterday and took a nice long nap. Then I got up and trimmed Dinah. She looks very pretty. She will be 8 months old at the end of the month and is now beginning to look like a young lady Airedale. It's a fun age, too - still all wiggles, but trying to be a big girl all at the same time.

Hoping Swann has recovered from his poop issues.

While driving today I will have plenty of time to think about my weight and my inner truths. Not the most joyous thought, but it must be done.

Let's all put another Sunday in the books!

Another scorcher today. I also got on the scale as I was not feeling quite so large this morning. Apparently I'm MUCH larger than I feel. Dammit. I logically know how to reverse this, I've done it a thousand times, but at the same time I feel like I don't know how. It echoes Pep's thoughts on wanting to be thin, but not wanting to do what it takes to achieve it. But in contrast to Peps losing 8 pounds, I've gained 25. It feels horrible to write that. But it's the ugly truth. And does that make me want to have a good eating day? No. It makes me want donuts. I'm not getting donuts, but it's what my head wants.

Then I read this article and felt like nothing we do is helping and schools/teachers are being driven like buffalo toward a cliff: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/12/us/arizona-teachers-coronavir us/index.html

So I'm feeling grumpy today. Heat, weight, covid. Sigh. Hope everyone else is having a non-grumpy Sunday!

You know I do that too - when the scale gives me something I don't want to see, I want to just F it all and eat whatever I feel like. Which I guess is the behavior we are supposed to stop repeating but so difficult!!!

It is one of the biggest mysteries to me why some days I can eat reasonably, and it seems relatively simple until one day when it does not. And when I enter that phase, what once was doable is now completely not doable, is impossible really. If only I could figure this out, what switches off and on in my brain... I wish I had some words of wisdom to share about how to flip the switch... but weight gain or weight loss, you are an awesome person.

DH's covid test results came back and they are negative. Off to visit my parents, in their yard, since we are about as covid free as we can be without all getting tested.

Good Morning All

Start of the working week for me again - boy the weekends go fast !

About to start work, fireplace is going as its cool. I havent popped the puppies outside yet, will wait till its light.

Not a lot on today, just work and hoping to get the roses trimmed back after work - plus our walk. I didnt sleep well last night, my knee woke me with pain a few times.

Liz - glad you DSD got there safely and your hydrangeas are beautiful. GRRR to managers who place expectations onto staff to work while potentially infected - just sheer stupidity IMO!

DD- Love reading about your summer adventures and so glad DH is negative. Enjoy the visit with your parents

Peps - Safe driving :)

Cec - Sending you a big hug. Well done on hopping on the scale - thats super hard

Love to all that follow

Our lockdown continues, our cases are rising daily. 266 yesterday. We havent hit the peak yet. Lots of fines getting handed out to those who are not doing the right thing. $40,000 AUD in fines to a group of young teenagers who drove across the NSW border from Victoria before they closed and got caught attempting to cross into QLD. Watched the news last night and even after fines of over $4000 each, he was proudly telling the reporter that they will wait a while in NSW and try again. I shake my head in disbelief - sometimes you just cant fix stupidty. In better news, the lady who was fined for going to feed and care for her 16 year old horse has had the fine cancelled. As it should be ! It means that next week DH and I should be able to go and check on our cows without penalty. I will ask my BIL to go this week and give them some hay - as I like them checked every week - especially as they are all hopefully pregnant.

Well another cup of tea is calling - love to you all

S