Monday, December 21, 2020

I guess today, the Winter Solstice and the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, is my first official day of winter brea****lebrated by falling asleep in my chair last night, waking up at 2:00 am to get bed ready whi*****luded filling all the water buckets for the dogs. Not my favorite chore at 2:00 am! UGH.... Got up with the dogs at 7:30 and then snuggled back under the covers until it was time to rotate the boys with the girls (Dottie's in season) and then got to doze until after 9:00 am.

Went to work out at 11. It was a brisk workout. Was foggy 39 degrees when I left the house. My workout is in an unheated garage. I can't remember a workout EVER that I have kept my fleece pullover on the entire workout, but I did today! That is really quite something since I run hot!

So an interesting thing is happening. I haven't weighed in only two days. No big deal, right? Mmmm.... actually a kind of big deal, after all. Without the scale to rely upon, I am having to rely on what I eat to gauge my eating. I have really been using the scale to keep my ED in control. As long as I can keep the scale in the right place, my ED is able to orchestrate its fixes. Without the scale I have only my food choices to indicate how I'm doing on the food front. It is certainly a different way to measure my food life. Can't quite decide if it is freeing or just simply so different it feels like a "pink cloud".

Holiday light tour last night was a lot of fun. So glad we went. We skipped the one house that had a line of cars a 1/4 to 1/2 mile long cued up to see it. It's pretty close to here, so we'll figure out another time to see it. Posted a bunch of pics and video on FB.

Pretty much it from here.

Greetings All

Not much new here except a boatload of new covid cases. Its so discouraging when you try to do the right thing.

Yesterday I stopped in the gallery to collect cash as lots comes in at this time of year. On the way there I was walking down the sidewalk. A young man (scruffy looking but not thin) approached me and dropped to his knees in front of me and made some kind of panhandling request which I could not understand. I told him I could not help him and I scurried on. But I was really startled by this and felt guilty and sad. What to do? This guy had a mask but the town square is full of people who don't. The homeless population is increasing and becoming more visible.

There is a Christmas lighting contest in our town and a published map. But lots are on our street.

I made ahi steaks last night. Good and had leftovers today.

Cecily thanks for finding the link to my SIL concert. Sorry your friend is leaving. I have a friend moving to the east coast that I fear I may never see again.

I have done my pathetic christmas shopping which is mainly fancy wine to give out. Most of my friends already have everything.

Cheers. Diane S

Your story reminds me of a weird evening we had. We were in Massachusetts, driving from Salem,(after doing an awesome ghost tour), back to my Aunts house in Ipswhich. Driving on spooky wooded lanes, a bit of fog, a September night. Suddenly someone steps into the road and tries to flag us down. Not a chance we're stopping. We see no car crash, no disturbance of any kind, and there is a gas station up ahead. As we pass him, he drops to his knees behind us and screams with raised up arms, for the love of God, will no one help me!! We pulled over at a cross street so we had a location reference and called 911. It's dicey to call about mental health break downs, things can go so wrong so quickly, but what other options do we have? Anyhow, I still think about it, has the making of a good ghost story. Whoever it was, I hope he got whatever kind of help he needed.