Thursday, January 21, 2021

We have a new president! The sun is shining and it will be warm today! Another day at the beach club. It is like a resort there with the beautiful pool and the beach beyond. At least for now I feel like I am on vacation here.

The vaccine competition continues here in Florida. Appointments in my county are now made through Publix (grocery store/pharmacy). They have a queue to get into an appointment which is an improvement over the county version as it automatically refreshes, but it suffers from a similar situation as other counties in that many people get into the same appointment and only those who can type fastest get it.

So off to the beach club again this afternoon!

Have a safe and healthy day!

Weight 194.6 down 0.8 from yesterday, still up for the week

Cleaning people come today. Let the frantic pick up commence! I might walk while they're here.

Nothing else going on here today. Enjoy your day, everyone.

Liz, that is indeed a grand pool. It certainly looks like a resort to me!

I'm glad that the last year of campaigning and mudslinging and over coverage of politics has ended. I'm sure it will gear up during the first 100 days of Biden's presidency, but I'm sure hoping that we get back to a normal level of political coverage. I think over politicking gets people tense and irritable.

Diamond D, thank you very much for your response to my question yesterday. I thought about what you asked. Here's my honest answer: There are times when I feel like hot sh*t and think I'm pretty studly. ( - yes embarrassing to admit, but false modesty is not going to work for me here.) There are other times I feel pretty down on myself and there are days where how I look doesn't really concern me one way or the other. I think where I am now is more along the thought lines of, "I work really hard on my fitness. I have a pretty high level of strength for my age and I would like to see the full benefits of my work. That includes reducing my body fat percentage so I can see my hard work. I want to see the muscle structure I'm creating." An additional part of that train of thought is this: "I want to feel/believe that I look like someone who works out." This last thought is on me and probably unhealthy, because I do know some people think of me that way. It's a thought process that allows for me to feel secure in my perception of how the outside world sees me. When talking with people I find myself sometimes qualifying my comments on working out with things like, "Yeah, I may be big, but I really do work out.," or "I may not look like it, but I really do work out." I would like to feel that I don't need to qualify a comment on working out. Dealing with Fat Brain here.....

Blitz is on antibiotics for the stick incident. I begged off on the full sedation, clean out and probe of his gums. (Did I mention that Blitz had had a stick jammed up between his left and right molars, stuck across the roof of his mouth long enough to cause an infection and his gums to fester? Well, he did. Never indicated there was a problem. Stoic Airedale.... Breed trait. The only reason I found it was because I couldn't figure out why a puppy would have such gnarly, nasty azz breath and I was going to figure it out! Mind you, he'd had a full physical exam only two days prior.

That's pretty much it from here.

Whew! Today has been something. It's nice to be needed, but I was gone ONE day and came back to all sorts of little fires.

My oncologist appointment was fine, but it lead me down a labyrinth of medical care. I need to start treatment for osteoporosis, anti estrogen meds commonly prescribed can cause bone loss. So I said I can't get into see an endocrinologist without a referral, I alteady tried. (we both agree I need to see a specialist), so she sent something through the chart system to my PCP. I logged in today and discovered my PCP no longer works with my system. They never notified me. So I email the clinic, asking who will order all my tests and make referrals, and they tell me I need to pick a new PCP, and I need to see them in person. So now I have an appointment with someone new the first week of February. At this rate, I'll finally see an endocrinologist in 2022.

In happier news, honoring my pledge to live in the moment and find pleasure in small things, two different types of woodpeckers came to my feeders today, and I did no****ch any news. Some deeply discounted sweaters arrived from Macy's and they all fit, and were as pictured in the ads. A parent sent a Dean a nice email about me and a student thanked me very nicely for helping them.

Love all your happier news! When does that ever happen with online ordering?