Thursday, October 19, 2023

Today is packing and hopefully finished the last 2 boating lessons and taking the final test. I haven't done this kind of stuff since I retired!

My iRobot seems revived after I changed its brushes this morning. I kept retrying it after it said the brushes needed cleaning earlier this week (after cleaning them). So I bought new ones and installed them this morning. It is whirring around now.

My new shapewear for the wedding Saturday seems to work though one doesn't hold my front up as well as it should and the other causes a slight muffin top in the back. But both are fairly comfortable so I am bringing both and will make the final decision on Saturday. I am also wearing pearls LOL.

BTW, has anyone bought a new mattress lately? I am not inclined to do it online as we want to try them out. But are we better off going to a mattress store or a furniture store???? Up north we had a furniture store with a huge selection of mattresses and the sales people were not on commission so it made choosing much easier. I hate having to deal with people on commission who are simply too helpful (and try to get you to buy up).

Time to take a walk. The weather is still nice (low humidity). Have a thriving Thursday!

I find buying a new mattress very stressful. How much can you really tell testing it out for a few minutes. What if you choose wrongly? It's such a consequential purchase. So I am no help at all. We need a new one too, my temporary solution of buying a feather top add on, or a memory foam pad can only work for so long.

I have been a real crank lately. But here's some more. Last night I dreamed a student held a knife to my throat. In my dream I yelled at the para to call 811. (That's our internal number for help). They kept saying what? I freed myself and called 811 myself and they told me no one was available, and that I seemed safe now, so I was okay. I don't think this dream needs much interpretation. Good Lord! Then I got texts from colleagues this morning. It appears our supervisor's (the only person on the new sped admin team that was retained and someone we trust) job is posted, start date immediately. Why would they post that without a heads up? Did he quit? He had cancer 6 years ago. Is he sick?

DHs brother is in town. He called this morning to ask him to go out with the railroad men again. That's okay, but I'm miffed that nobody gave me a heads up. I turned down invitations for lunch etc because DH was taking the whole day off, I thought, to spend the day with me. So change of plans. I'm taking myself out to lunch, and going shopping. DD arrives tomorrow, and things will be busy.

The shower we went to Sunday has created a Covid outbreak. Both DH and I feel fine, so I think we're safe. We'll test tomorrow before we go to my parents house, just to be sure.

No wonder you are have nightmares about not feeling safe!

Treat yourself to a nice shopping day. I kind of like those days periodically. DH likes to spend a lot of time together which is great but I was used to having more time on my own in the past.

We are bringing Covid tests to use the day of the wedding. What if we end up testing positive after traveling all that way??? One of the bartenders at our club came down with it this week but I don't think we were around him the week before but who knows? We also feel fine so are counting on being okay.

My folks just bought two new Sleep Number mattresses, one for here, one for MI. They love them. Expensive, but fancy with things like lights that come on under the bed when you get up to light the way to the bathroom, heated foot areas, adjustable headrests... It measures the quality of your sleep based on how you move around and gives you a report. It's not just something you crawl into and sleep on anymore!

Today I'm going to the fiber arts meeting (mostly because friends are going. I'm not feeling particularly fiber arty today). Then packing later, planning out when to leave for the airport, throwing a little color on my temple area which is the first to glow silver, and painting my nails.

Hope you all are well!

I would look into Sleep Number if it was for our bed but it is for the guest bedroom which will rarely be used (we have another larger, more private one).

Good luck getting ready for the weekend!

I forgot to post POSITIVE news. I thought about what Peps said, that my food intake was too low. Just because I can bear to eat very little because of the Wegovy, maybe I didn't need to go that low. So I upped intake a little, and now the scale moved a bit. I'm down 20 pounds from my highest point about a year ago. I've lost 18 pounds with Wegovy since the beginning of May. So yeah, shopping will be fun, because I'm either needing a new size in some cases, or current size fits and looks better.

20 pounds down is a lot! Congratulations!

That's fantastic!!!!!

One of my big worries with taking calories down below one's basic metabolic rate is that after a few days your body will begin to surrender muscle tissue for basic organ function. Muscle loss equals lower metabolism and therein starts the vicious cycle. My eating disorder shrink subscribes to the "find the highest number of calories on which you can lose weight" principle. That way as you lose you can reduce calories as needed to continue weight loss.

I hope you all have fun weekends at the weddings, with visiting DD etc..... I am dog showing this weekend, but don't really "feel" it.

I binge watched the last of The Fall of the House of Usher on Netflix on Tuesday night adn didn't get my butt in bed until 12:30 AM! I was a little beat yesterday. Training day was a push, but I did it! I'm sore already, too. Not sure if that bodes well for later today and tomorrow.

I have been feeling FAT this week. I even looked at semaglutide this week, but I'm still very much on fence. It's pretty pricy. But, at this point I wouldn't mind a little bit of help dealing with the "discomfort" of reducing calories. The idea of quieting the call of sugar is also quite appealing.

I guess it's a good thing I think off all this stuff. I know JFDI doesn't work with me, but I sure do kind of want to go there. Sigh....

Not much else.

Greetings all

Today started with mega fog but the sun is out now. And I mean mega - real pea soup. I had a million errands today and decided just to get on with it rather than whine. Got the stock certificates done for our new studio shareholder, picked up meds, stopped at the dreaded CVS, took new stuff to the gallery, checked the post office and went to the studio to deal with certificates and do some glazing. CVS continues to be a horrible store. I was greeted by a person with a painted face passing out lolllipops and saying "welcome to CVS". But when I was actually looking for items, no people were around. And no one was running the check out and I had to go find someone. They ran me through on the self checkout and did all the work. What a waste of effort. Plus it was a cheap lollipop.

Liz glad the robot vac is working. Sounds like a good thing. No clue on the mattress - we got one of those costco electric controlled beds some years back. Might be a good place to mattress shop. Our fancy one was way cheaper than the temperpedic. Makes me think that our guest room needs a new one. The one in there is 25 plus years old.

DD Peps is right on eating enough calories and finding just enough reduction to lose weight. Loss of muscle mass is real. I think it's why my legs hurt a lot - lost some muscle mass and when I regained its pure flab. Hope you are feeling a little less cranky. It is Thursday!

Well I have been continuing my walks. And I bought some more chicken legs though today's snack was tomato soup. With crackers. No muscle building there. I told DH to get some fairlife protein stuff at Target but they were out. Costco is the only option.

Well I bailed on the chicken and spinach last night as we had some leftover chili. But I gotta cook it tonight or else.

Tesla finally decided she would stoop to eating dog food. About time.

We started some new tv "George Gently" a British detective series. Set in the 60's. Pretty good but I am going to have to turn on closed caption.

Peps enjoy the dog show. Bet you get into it when you get there.

Cheers. Diane S