Friday January 22, 2021

Where is everyone! Cecily, you are my hero with your weight drop. DD, what a pain with the doctor trail but I'm glad you have positives to focus on. Devon, I think you are very good looking and good catch on Blitz - poor puppy!

We are already on the beach at the "resort" with a high of 77 expected - the ocean is 71 and the pool is 82. One or the other will be entered shortly.

Have a safe and healthy Friday!

Weight down, 193.4

I texted my doctor to see about an iron blood test. Not only have I been losing a good bit of head hair, but yesterday I realized all the hair on my arms is gone. Seems like an extreme body response for a slow, reasonable 5 pounds a month! Admittedly, I do not regularly take iron, but it's in my women's vitamin. Maybe the lost IUD plus eating less dropped my levels?

Today I have therapy and the stucco repair guy is supposedly starting. I've heard it several times without it happening, so I'm not holding my breath.

Remember how taking care of my skin was a birthday goal? I got some vitamin C serum for daytime and retinol for night. I've only used the retinol once a couple of days ago per the instructions, and I can understand why they say to start slowly. My face stings like crazy. Maybe that means it's working. Haha.

A neighbor is doing some sort of pounding/hammering starting very early that has the same rhythm as Ferg when he throws up, so I was up at the crack thinking he was getting sick downstairs. Funny how dog parenting works its way into your sleeping brain.

I got my trial multifocal contacts, so I'm gearing up to put those on and give them a go. My hope is they solve the constant on/off and search for reading glasses.

Anyway, enough rambling. Should go start my day. Hope you all have good days!

I can just imagine your quick arising when thinking that Ferg was getting sick. I was up at 5:50 to enter the online Covid vaccine competition. Publix had 45000 doses. I am exhausted from watching the queue for 2.25 hours and failing (the only available appointments were a 5 hour drive away),

I'm irritated for you!!! Doesn't it make you wonder how all those people managed to snag an appointment? One of my friends announced on FB she got her first shot and 10 people pounced on her asking how she managed it. It's pure luck, I think!

I really think there should be preregistration and prioritization by age/condition. Give me an appointment two months from now so I stop worrying about getting one but vaccinate my 80+ year old friends now.

Exactly. I think that's what we've shifted to somewhat in my county. You register on the app if you're eligible and they will eventually send you an appointment. But I don't think it differentiates who should be further forward in line.

I believe they are doing the same in our county. I put in a request for an appointment for Ron. I am not yet eligible. They have not opened my tier (which is next on the list). Ron wanted to wait for our HMO to start vaccinating his group, but they are behind and only vaccinating essential workers and those over 75. Our county (and all of CA, for that matter) has opened to essential workers and all 65 and over. I want Ron at least to be in the queue.

Well, here it is Friday. I feel like this has been a long week, even though it has been a short school week because of the MLK holiday.

I have made the decision that I am ready to lose some weight. Not sure what the NUT will say, but I'm going to go ahead and start working on weight loss and managing the eating disorder. I believe that I am capable of doing both at this point. I don't feel driven towards last hurrahs or anything like that, which is I think another indicator that I am ready. I still plan on eating a normal diet, which will include sweets - maybe even daily. I am going to go about this in a very different way. I will have to bring the scale out and get a starting weight. Then I plan to weigh weekly. So there you have it!

My BFF is going stir crazy and is spiraling in his vicious cycle of being inactive and bored. It is so hard to get motivated to get out of that funk and he's stuck in the making excuses phase of the cycle. That's hard to watch from the side. You know, I could fix it, IF he'd just listen to me.... LOL! Cracks me up to say this because I so understand where he is, but being mildly codependent (and a teacher, too boot!) I want to jump in and fix! I know all I can do is support....

Liz, seeing you in a bathing suit, you and Mike both so tan, makes me envious of your Florida weather. However, I am soooo not a Floridian! I suppose I could manage the winter, but by April I think the weather sucks! Too damn humid for me. Heck Boston is too humid for me when it's hot in the summer. I just hate humidity. Give me dry, desert heat any day in summer! But today, your Florida is tempting me. It is gray and drizzly here.

I, too, am wondering, "Where is everyone?" Sigh....

You have made such strides and I think it's awesome you feel ready! I'm with you on sweets. I have a SkinnyCow ice cream sandwich every day after lunch. It makes me happy and I look forward to it with that childlike enthusiasm ice cream seems to bring me...

This whole vaccine thing is beyond irritating. My parents have to do the try to grab a spot when thousands of people are doing the same for a hundred spots. My Dad is 83 in March, my mother is 79, missing half a lung and stage III kidney disease. I think they should have more priority than my 65 year old friend who rides her bike 15 miles a day in the summer. I want her to get the vaccine too, and I certainly want it also, but there should be some sort of triage for medically fragile, or immune compromised people of any age. Anyhow, my daughter is going to be the point person to try and register them when the next batch opens.

Peps it sounds like you're in a good place with a much deeper understanding about your relationship with food. You're going to have to try out weight loss at some point. If you do it while working with your person, you'll have some help if it starts to veer into disordered eating.

Cecily, I hear you on racing to the throw up noise. I can spring out of bed instantly when I hear that cat throw up sound, especially if they are sleeping on my bed. How is the house selling going? Such a momentous moment in life. When I was a kid, we were upwardly mobile, and never stayed in the same house longer than 5 years. I on the other hand have lived in the same house, the house we had built when we were getting married for 34 years. I am restless, but I can't wrap my head around all the stuff we'd have to get rid of if we ever move.

The wind turned, and we are having a blast of artic air. I was cozy in my home office, filled with sunshine. I would prefer to teach in person, but I don't mind not having to walk across a windblown parking lot and get in my cold car.

I'm reading the book Rebecca. Somehow, I've never read it, or seen the movie. I'm about a third of the way done. Well written and compelling.

I hope I have a picture of me and my guy sitting in the sun next month. Until then, I live vicariously through Liz.

Check in peoples, we miss you! Thinking of BB and her family right now.