Saturday, July 9, 2022

We are home, having arrived at 3 am. Our flight was delayed in Boston for over 4 hours. JetBlue just provided a credit of $100 per passenger on the flight good for future travel.

I am just exhausted and don't relish the fact that I have to get the kids motivated to move furniture: The old couch has to be taken to the transfer station by noon. Not much else going on except dinner out with my eldest tonight before she heads over to Martha's Vineyard for the week tomorrow. Then BED!

Have a stupendous Saturday!

My full-sized guest room mattress is being picked up today by one of the cleaning people. Glad it will go to someone who needs it rather than the landfill. I bet it's only been slept on 20 times?

And then it's more weeding of stuff. After spending time helping my dear friend yesterday, I can say I am in good shape and do not have a lot of junk I'm hanging onto. I love her, but good lord, she has a lot of crap and frankly garbage and so much of it is going to get moved to her new house which is much smaller. A bit of a lost opportunity for a fresher start.

I started watching The Terminal List on Prime. So far super suspenseful and I don't see that changing! Good stuff.

Food was a little bit better yesterday. That's a direction I need to keep heading.

Take care everyone!

Mattresses are so hard to get rid of regardless of age. If someone will take them and use them it seems so much less wasteful. I think there are some supposed health reasons why mattresses and some upholstered furniture can't be donated but somehow I think there must be some way to disinfect them? Seems weird that we can go to a hotel and sleep on a mattress previously slept on by strangers but not be able to buy a used one.

Hi!

I have been in absentia once again. I'm just a bit taxed caring for 14 puppies and the big dogs. I think I finally have the ****idia outbreak under control. 2 different meds for all the pups and one of the hardest hit girls is on a few days of metronidazol - a fantastically powerful gut antibiotic. I don't use it lightly.

I am a bit like CC's friend..... Unmotivated to properly purge. I really need to do it, but it does take energy - physical and emotional. So, I am planning to do a little bit each day for the next several days and see how far I get.

Weight has been absolutely stable. I have been in a two pound swing now for months. That said, I had a nice chat with the nutritional counselor yesterday. We talked about how weight loss involves hunger and how hunger is not a bad thing. Really interesting to see in myself the ways in which my eating disorder tries to avoid hunger. I must have some deep rooted negative feelings associated with being hungry. Hunger is such a normal part of our being that it is baffling to me that some of us can't tolerate even the slightest bit of hunger.

Anyhow, decided on a few additional nutritional goals for this week. I'm hoping to start making some progress towards weight loss in the next few weeks.

Sorry about the long delay getting home ,Liz. That's always such a pain. Hope moving furniture went okay.

CC, do you have a hard set move date yet? I'm sure you are down to bare bones by this time.

I do!

My lease starts on the 15th (this coming Friday), so I think I will make a fast dash there that day with one carload to get my keys and do the walk through, turn around and come home the next morning. It's a 6.5 hour drive, which is half of what I usually do when I'm driving cross country.

The packers come on the 18th (a week from Monday).

The movers take everything on the 19th. I may make one more visit to my hair gal/good friend on the morning of the 20th and head out to Sedona then rather than driving after a long day Tuesday night. And that gives me 2.5 weeks to find a new hair person and get an appt!

Physical and mental energy is important. I think you need a good reason too. I am absolutely motivated to not pay to store and ship things I don't want to keep. (Cheapness as motivation!)

She's moving to a neighboring city with her friends' and family's help, so is missing that motivation (and home neatness isn't a priority for her).

So maybe find a good reason? Like fitting a car in the garage or reclaiming a room or a closet that is lost to clutter so you can do/put xyz in it. Decluttering without a goal seems to not have an end point in which case I lose interest and motivation.

I'm glad the puppies are recovering. I too need to do some purging but the last time I was in the mood DS blocked my donating of his Dad's stuff which was a lot of it.

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Ha! Just noticed the scale weight---would love to invert the ten and one spot- Just like that...Poof, at goal.

Peps, I have also been hanging around the same spot for a month now. I appreciate the thought of waiting on hunger as the signal to eat. I can't hear hunger calling when I'm too busy listening to the call of self soothing satiation. A reset is order.

Personally, I believe there will, sooner than later be an adjustment in the housing market. I'm hard pressed to understand how a piece of real estate worth 209 thousand in '20 can possibly be worth 645 thousand in '22.

I had a mind to clean windows (there are 33 in this old house), but thank goodness that silly notion passed quickly. I bow in the general direction of all who are currently cleaning, purging, organizing- as well as those spending quality time out and about enjoying vacation time.

Now, where's my book and favorite chair??? Enjoy the day!

My windows could also definitely use a cleaning. It's been a couple of years (maybe more?) since they were done.

Greetings all

Liz don't you just hate the airlines? Not sure I will ever get on another plane again. No need for me to go anywhere as summer here is a delight.

So today I drank a protein shake for breakfast. Fairlife and not too bad. I am not making any promises to myself as then I will surely fail but I am going to try to get in a shakes worth of protein each day in addition to meals. Carbs really are bad for me. Then I went to the studio. by 4 pm I was super hungry to the point of feeling a little shaky. Must remember to take cheese sticks with me.

Studio members are lobbying me to do a Raku firing for them which I used to do often but don't feel safe doing now because of dexterity required. But I can sit and give orders which is what I will do. Already there are too many people signed up for one firing so organization will be required.

Yay CC can't wait to hear your tales of Sedona. A big move is highly motivating to move. I would be tossing way more but DH gets cranky about his stuff. Sigh.

I am not weighing myself these days but that might be the next step. Dr. will do it. In my fattest days I used to close my eyes and tell them not to tell me.

Look up a place called Canyon View Ranch for dogs. A fancy dog hotel in Malibu. I think my brother is going to take his dog there. Heck I would like to go stay there.

Not much else. Wish me some mojo to keep the protein up.

Diane s