Sunday, October 11, 2020

Weight 126.8. Yikes! Lots of food and drink yesterday - I blame the carrot cupcakes and the pumpkin whoopie pies. Good thing I am leaving tomorrow. Yikes, again to leaving in one day.

SIL's party was great. Everyone came and had a good time, even her son and his fiancé who is about to deliver anytime now. A friend had made her the coolest framed print of signal flags spelling out her last name and including the flag of her yacht club. We were well under the limit for gatherings and were outside most of the time. Though we weren't very socially distanced, this is a group of people we see in smaller gatherings frequently and are diligent about mask wearing and hand washing so in our currently low-risk county hopefully should have kept us Covid free.

Today I have to put away the deck furniture and cover the screen porch furniture. I have a last tweak needed to my packing, but then I am ready to leave in the morning. I am a little nervous but excited at the same time. I hope Justice does well on these travels. He has never been on an extended car trip though he does like to ride in the car. I just hope he is okay with crate time in a strange room when we go out for meals. I am bringing his favorite stuffed animal.

Have a safe, healthy and social day!

Weight down a bit today, but I'm irritated that I weigh the same as I did on October 1. Lots of little ups and downs in there but the same today. Is that a stall or do I need to lower my calories, I wonder? It seems weird to lose well for weeks and then hit a wall if it's calories. That feels like it would be a more gradual tapering of loss? Maybe I'm overthinking it and it's just something to wait out. I do know my system is not moving very efficiently this week. Maybe that's the problem.

Another bad neck night. I'm ordering a new pillow today. Enough of this.

Liz's comment about her WW leader decluttering when she wanted to lose weight strummed a chord with me. The feeling of taking control of yourself foodwise is very similar to taking control of your environment. They hit the same spot. Yesterday's project was to clean off the stack of book and papers on my nightstand. It's a big nightstand, so half of it was given over to a growing pile of "I need to do something with this" stuff. The funny thing is, if you leave that stuff in one spot long enough you wonder why you ever thought you needed to do something with it in the first place...

Still it won't take up much room at all in the can, so today I'm on a mission to find more stuff.

Today is the last decent temperature day before we head back to near 100 for a week. So a walk is in order. Not only do I dislike September weather in So Cal, October is no prize either!

You are so right! Cleaning and decluttering hits just the right spot. So does eating. Former option way more satisfying, so then why do I default to the Cheetos?

And shopping! We're snakes eating our own tails sometimes!

I was thinking earlier this morning that autumn has finally arrived. Then I read Cecily's post and decided to check weather.com. Like So Cal, we are going right back up into the 90s this upcoming week. Boooooooo! I really enjoyed the past two days of mild weather in the low 70s with crisp, cool mornings and a pleasant breeze.

The oak trees in our backyard went into hyperdrive with acorns this year. Thousands upon thousands of acorns. They have been dropping for several weeks and looking up at the tree there is no let up in the near future. The puppy boy, Blitz, thinks they are tasty, crunchy treats. Too many acorns means diarrhea. Of course, the diarrhea hits in the wee hours and up I get to let him out to do his emergency business.

I had an overnight 3 pound gain yesterday. FREAKED me out. But today I am back to "normal", if I can call it that. How about unsurprising? I am going to attribute the freakish gain to a full body workout on Friday that left me wonderfully tight and mildly sore. Rarely do my quads get sore, but they were yesterday.

Friday's NUT session was a good one. I'm having a lot of eating disorder awareness Ah Ha types of moments, which I suppose is good in the long run. In the short run, they are troublesome and thought provoking and challenging. I am currently working on reprogramming my thinking from "This **** is hard," to "I can do challenging things!"

This is my first unscheduled day in several weeks. It feels nice to just sit and kind of do nothing. I think I shall just let the day unfold and see what it brings.

Wasn't the weather past few days lovely? Sigh.

Regarding acorns... when there are a ton, it's called masting: https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/seeing-a-ton-of-acorn s-on-the-ground-it-must-be-a-mast-year-for-oaks/2019/11/22/2 e47f544-07ee-11ea-818c-fcc65139e8c2_story.html

We are the same thing here, only it's walnuts, and they've literally been raining down onto the deck- 100s daily. Several have plunked poor Swanny.

Poor Swanny!

Fall may be scarce in California, but it is definitely here in the Midwest. We have a short fall break at school next week (a 4 day weekend), and we are returning to Door County (where Paula is visiting this weekend). Temps might not hit 50s. Yikes,we will bring blankets for patio dining.

The wedding was so much fun, but we did a terrible job with Covid protocols. After the ceremony, there was a group photo of all the guests on the steps of the Church. Masks off. It probably took more than 15 minutes to line us all up. DH said he knew then that the rules weren't going to be enforced. We wore our masks whenever possible, but there were people in attendance who we know believe with great fervour, that the virus is a hoax. While we maintained distance from them, we were still in the same room, masks off, having dinner. Some more wine, and we're hugging people and holding babies, and dancing (although again, I put on my mask, and the dj reminded us to wear them, but lots of people didn't... ) but anyhow, we were not model citizens ourselves. And part of me does not care. My husband has worked in a retail setting since this started, I'm back at school, we're both already risking exposure everyday. So we made our choices, this time for love of our nephew, and we'll have to deal with whatever consequences come. One of them is, we are quarantining ourselves from our social bubble with our best friends for 14 days. They both care for elderly parents, so we all agreed it is prudent.

I am so tired, but there is one more family gathering today, so tired or not, off we go.

I have said it before and I think you are feeling it as well that life is too short to miss a lot of important moments.