09/01/2020, Tuesday

I've noticed that since the drastic Covid related reduction in being out and active with the general public, putting on make up, doing more than running a brush through my hair, dressing up, wearing real shoes have greatly diminished. DC took a quick video of me interacting with my sister and brother-in-law at a winery Sunday. He was struck by the difference that socializing made in me. I'll post video on TT. Note to self: self care shows in many ways.

DD, you have had so much to process and work through. Your mojo is resting up for big things to come ! You've got this !! Liz, it sounds like your weekend was bittersweet and necessary! Excited for the new chapter !! Peps, I got soo many great ideas from TPT !! Eager to hear the response to Boom cards ! Diane...the headless snake would have given me nightmares for a wee********ep persevering ! You will see the results ! BB, love the FB picture of you and Rich !

Diane, you are our cheerleader!!! I do think self care is important for us to feel good about ourselves even if not going out. It is good to try to always keep it going even when feeling down (though definitely go more low-key when just hanging around).

Weight 122.4. Hanging in within range, but all this eating out is difficult. Tonight I am having lobster with friends, at a cookout tomorrow night, at another cookout on Saturday, then going to Marthas Vineyard for 3 days next week. I REALLY have to watch the eating and drinking or I will be out of range by the end of next week. Strange to say but it will be good at least for my weight to have summer socializing over. Then I need to decide about Florida. I am inclined to go but plan on less socializing though I will feel comfortable with my immediate friends there.

Have a safe and healthy day!

Thanks Diane, your thought that my mojo is still there makes me feel more optimistic.

Off to radiation. Waiting for my superpowers to emerge. Maybe they're not zapping me enough? Or maybe my superpower will be living many decades as a cancer survivor.

More later.

You DEFINITELY have your mojo (and superpower)! I know once you are past the treatment and in the swing of the new teaching environment you will be energized.

Saw this on FB today:

Haha! Snake head! LOVE IT! There is a video floating around Facebook that shows a little Jack Russel come walking out the door of the house to see his much larger pack members (dogs of sporting backgrounds) investigating a snake. The Jack makes a beeline to the snake and kills it within seconds. My guess is Tesla did the exact same thing. Borders are gamey little animals and fearless about such things.

Dogs have a very short digestive tract. They are also far less susceptible to gut diseases and bacterial infection as a result. Samonellosis is very rare in dogs, even though they often carry the bacteria in their guts. That's why dogs are able to eat foul and rotting foods and poop and other gross things like snake and bird heads and feather and slugs and lizards without ill effects. They are beasties designed for adaptive food survival.

Personal food knowledge continues to evolve and expand. I chose not to eat lunch yesterday at the designated school hour because I wasn't hungry. Such a new concept... Seriously, I'm so used to eating on a bell schedule that I'm kind of like one of Pavlov's dogs. Yesterday was an experiment to see if having lunch when I was actually hungry for lunch might influence my afternoon eating. I am happy to say that by waiting to eat until I was hungry for lunch, my afternoon eating was basically non existent.

Tried a different workout on the elliptical yesterday. Though it appeared to be a less intense workout on the surface, and my heart rate did not get as high as on the interval training program, it was indeed a harder workout and burned about 50 more calories in the same amount of time. That works for me!

I start today in the new garage gym my trainer has set up. I am looking forward to seeing what she has created. It's going to be a bit warm, but it's about sweating anyway, right?

Diane C. Thanks for the sage words about BFF. You helped free up my thinking and work towards a positive outcome.

Diane Mc. am going to pop over to the TT page and take a look. I am having to get back into the habit of daily shaving. I got out of it for a good 5 months. Along with shaving, I'm back to using daily moisturizer, too. Funny, how COVID isolation impacted such simple routines. I am craving two self care luxuries: a pedicure and a massage.

Liz, quite the social calendar you keep. So NOT me! I do think it is more of and eastern seaboard thing. My aunt who lived in Greenwich, CT was always lunching here and there, ****tails at the club, etc... She thrived on it.

I see BB on FB and am impressed by how great she looks for having two littles! I was happy to see Lesa posting about the start of her 30th year of teaching. But, I am missing David and Anne and Bonnie150.

Thanks Devon. I'm still here- trying to catch up with- well, everything. My best intentions, strong in the morning, do the big fizzil as the day fritters by. I am, if only in spirit with you all!

The headless snake falling from the sky: seems like something from Greek or Aztec mythology, or perhaps some sort of metaphor for these times. Maybe Covid is going to be defanged?

Peps, I can't tell you how many times I called my Dad to say, Bella ate (insert awful thing), is she going to die? And he reassured me, as you have stated.

My boob is on fire. 7/20 treatments completed.

More great news, I have moved from osteopenia to flat out osteoporosis with a 20% risk of a hip fracture in the next 10 years, with no physical trauma to precipitate it. I immediately drank 2 glasses of Fairlife Milk after reading the note in my electronic chart. That should help, right? Probably cured it right then and there in the kitchen. Sigh. My PCP said I need to set up an appointment to discuss treatment beyond calcium supplements and vitamin D. Sigh. Does anyone in the tribe take medication for bone loss?

My Mom has had both hips replaced, my Dad, one. Like the good Finns they are, children and grandchildren of dairy farmers, we were required to drink copious amounts of milk. My Grandma was famous for serving room temperature glasses of milk, we grandchildren still discuss the trauma inflicted by those huge tumblers of warm milk. Or powdered milk at the cabin. As an adult, I figured it must have tasted better that way to her, since she grew up drinking fresh, unrefrigerated milk.

When my Dad had his hip replaced, I told my brother, " "We're doomed. All that milk drinking, and for what?" I wasn't wrong it seems.

Going to see our "niece's" New apartment and bring her a bottle of prosecco in a few minutes. There's always something a little celebratory about moving to a new place, New beginnings.

I have a friend who was diagnosed with really bad osteoporosis. She took up hiking and has made huge strides in her bone strength. Weight bearing, higher impact exercise and calcium are your friends.

Not sure you want to hear this, but weight bearing exercise is your friend in regards to slowing down osteoporosis. Walking, elliptical trainers, squats, and actual pumping iron are fantastic for increasing bone strength and density.