Saturday December 5, 2020

Another dull day in Covid-land. DD is out of quarantine today and by chance has a Covid test scheduled today for a medical procedure so she will know for sure if she is clear. I am feeling pretty much like normal now and Mike is improving slowly from his chest congestion. We have been taking our temperature and I did get a pulse oximeter and all has been normal.

An interesting connection was made on FB by my brother with an old family friend we grew up with but lost track of a long time ago. His parents and mine were best friends for many years. This guy was 2 years older than me and his sister was 2 years younger. Unfortunately she passed away from cancer 5 years ago but it was kind of cool to reconnect after all these years.

Nothing else of note except that we finished watching the Queen's Gambit and loved it! I think I am going to start binging the Crown today.

Stay safe, healthy and smoke and Covid free!

Weight down a little.

I had a guy out to give me an estimate for some stucco peeling I'm having. He said the bottom 2-3 ft of my walls on 3 sides of my house will need to come off and be redone, kept stressing how much work it is, and kept saying how expensive it was going to be. In my head I'm thinking oh jeez, this is sounding like $20-25k. We get to the end where he's now scared me through the whole estimate and then says it'll be $780. I nearly laughed and said let's do it.

Nothing going on today, maybe a walk.

Enjoy your days!

Well that estimate was an easy one to accept!

Liz, I'm glad you are getting well. You are one of the lucky ones - especially since you technically are "high risk". I hope you enjoy The Crown. We are about halfway through season 4. I'm bummed that season 5 is not set to be released until 2022. Oh, well.... The new cast for Seasons 5 and 6 look to be fun choices.

Autumn/winter weather seems to be setting in a bit, though we are predicted to still stay dry and above average in temperature for the next work week. No rain even predicted until December 18. I do like that for personal, muddy dog prints all over the house reasons, but it's not what is best for our state.

My weight was up this morning. Not sure why.... maybe pizza last night is the culprit. Didn't over eat though.

My work concerning my eating disorder is ramping up. I am naturally having emotions rise up because of the work, too. It is a challenging road. My conversations with the NUT therapist are filled with brutal honesty. The brutal honesty is coming from me (and validated by her), so, not a situation where I am feeling pummeled from the outside. The barrage is coming from within. So much to consider, negotiate and manage that I realize how overwhelming and futile it has been and will be to take the JFDI approach. I told the NUT yesterday that it would be so much easier if I could just buckle down with a JFDI approach and be done with it. However, I know the results won't last for me until I deal with the eating disorder. Damn it!

Feeling lazy today, overall. Took Lucky to a holistic veterinarian this morning. He's now on some detox herbs to help him get over the flea med issue. Overall, the vet said he is in excellent health. Hoping this is the end of the seizures. Fingers crossed.

Covid is so strange on so many levels, symptoms ranging from a disease so mild you don't even know you have it to death. Liz, glad to hear you and yours are recovering.

Cecily, that stucco work sounds like a bargain. I feel like it would be tough to get a wall painted for that. Although I don't really know prices too well, because DH is so DIY. That's good, because it saves a ton of money, and he does a good job, but things also get done so slowly because he works fulltime.

Peps, hearing about your journey encourages me to keep trying. I'm all over the place some days. When I saw my oncologist in September she said I should start exercising and lose some weight to get ready for the next part of my treatment. Oops, January is almost here, and I've done neither. Unless grocery shopping counts as exercise.

We had a nice evening celebrating daughter. Our "niece by choice" who lives alone and works from home, joined us. She and daughter are friends since toddlerhood. We got take out Indian food, and a cake from our favorite bakery.

Today is very chill. I'm thinking about starting the Crown. We're almost done with Mrs. America.

Liz, I find reconnecting with childhood friends really interesting. They know you in a way contemporary friends can't, because they had a front row seat to your childhood. They know your parents, your siblings, your pets, the awesome sledding hill, the neighborhood bully ... Sometimes I've reconnected, and that one meet up was fun, but there's a reason we didn't keep in touch, before social media, when it required more effort. And there have been a few that became part of my life again.