Tuesday, March 12, 2024

A beautiful day out today! Beach again probably.

The drama with DS' friend is really agonizing him. Apparently the wife had left the 15 month old son with her husband while she visited her parents in Florida. The husband committed suicide via illegal drug overdose. A friend found him dead and the son was fine. But because there was a death in a home with illegal drugs present, Child Protection Services has taken custody of the child apparently to investigate if it is safe for the child to be with his mother (in other words, should she have known that this could happen and allowed her child to be in danger). Just so sad all around.

I am cleared for surgery now after a final call yesterday going over everything and giving me instructions on what medications to stop ahead of the procedure. For some reason all vitamin supplements have to be stopped a week ahead. That surprised me. 8 days

I found Fairlife protein drinks at my local store here! The vanilla tastes great unlike the ones I drank after surgery. I am trying to eat less to get weight off my knees so want to be cognizant of having extra protein for that and for healing after surgery.

But time to get out in this beautiful day. Have a topical Tuesday!

As if a terrible situation could be made any worse - poor child! I can only imagine his mental state to think that was the right answer with his baby alone in the house. Depression is indeed a terrible thing.

Kirby has a vet appointment this morning. I have started switching his food in case it's that. Who knows what the right answer is! The vet may think I'm nuts. I just want his bowels to return to normal.

Another little 0.6 drop on the scale. Making choices is easier. I had 2 eggs and berries for breakfast yesterday, a cup of full fat cottage cheese, pretzels and a little beef jerky for lunch (craving salt), and 6 oz of salmon and half an acorn squash with butter at dinner. So the Zepbound doesn't make me feel ill, make me not want to eat, or not enjoy what I'm eating, it just makes me not be in "treat seeking mode". When normally by myself I would be thinking, what decadent thing can I eat because it would make me happy. Yesterday especially for dinner it was, what do I have and would give me good protein and a little veg. It makes it easier to make better choices. Would I still love pasta if I was to make it? Absolutely.

On the subject of birds, these are the only kinds I've gotten so far, but the House Finches are plentiful!

Off to start the day... Hope you all have a great one!

Your food choices sound delicious. Nobody in my family likes squash so I always to forget to buy/make it.

Greetings all

It rained this morning but now it's clear and almost sunny. Scrabble this morning where I won one, lost two. Lost one by 1 point. Oh well. Had a good word "dualist" but no place for it.

Liz that is so terrible about your son's friend. Hideous for that young wife. Hoping that the baby can be returned soon and that young woman can start to pick up pieces. Yeah I can understand removing the baby but so unfair.

And a wee****il surgery Liz. Sending good vibes. Seems odd about the vitamins. No clue why that would be. Good plan to have the extra protein. have only had fair life chocolate but it's so much better than the icky stuff after VSG.

I stopped in the studio and finished some glazing after getting my weekly cheeseburger. I can only eat half of it at a time. Then on to the bank. Junk removers come tomorrow and I have done nothing. Hoping they can just grab what I point to in the garage. Maybe load our old welding box into the SUV for us so we can deliver it to some friends. I still need to make all the copies of the tax returns and send them after a double check. Fondly remembering the days when I had secretarial help.

CC house finches are adorable! More will come soon. I sure hope the vet figures out Kirby's gut issue. Interesting that UC Davis recommended purina. I glanced at the stuff and it seems to relate to grain free dog food. I have never understood the grain free and gluten free fad except for the few who are truly allergic to gluten. I still think it's the processing and not the gluten per se.

Found a pork pot pie at the hippie grocery yesterday. It was quite good. More tonight. Their pies are 6 inch pies which is two meals for us. Yum.

Saw a stellar blue jay while playing scrabble.

One of the dogs peed the dog yesterday evening. Not just a dribble. Makes me worried. Dogs just don't do that and ours are not old. Dog bed inserted in wash machine by DH today.

Diane S

A blue jay! We hardly ever see them in our neighborhood anymore. My Dad told me that West Nile Virus killed many a few years ago.

The only times our adult dogs wee'd in the house was if they had a UTI... puppies are an entirely different story!!

Blue Jays are very pretty but can be bullies at bird feeders pushing the smaller birds out.

Our bird feeder bullies are those wretched squirrels. Last summer I gave up on the bird feeders. But hope prevails, and I am plotting all kinds of new plans to win the war this spring.

Today we administered the ACT test to juniors. Because competence is punished with more work, I always get to be the room supervisor, which involves many more tasks. I want to be a hall monitor. So a stressful day, filled with tedious tasks, which I think is the worst combination. But it is now behind me. I knew I really needed to work out today, so I did :). Feeling much better.

Liz, I hope DS's friend is reunited with her baby. Terrible situation.

My DD's insurance will cover Wegovy, but apparently it is very difficult to locate in Massachusetts, and she doesn't have the bandwidth to hunt it down. One of her friends is calling and then driving all over Massachusetts to fill his prescription. She said she will buy from a compounding pharmacy once she is done with grad school and gets her "better job".It makes my heart hurt. She embraces body positivity, but I know she is unhappy with her current weight. I fear she has taken herself off the dating market because of it. She tells me frequently that she is ready for a relationship, so if that is what she wants, I want it for her. She wants very much to be a parent, so much that she would consider being a single parent.We will support her either way, but I hope she will have a partner, male or female, we only care if it is someone who loves her and treats her well. I have been lucky in love and I do hope for the same for my kids.

Scale still not moving, but I swear I feel a little smaller everyday this week, so hopefully losing inches.

Of course we want our children to be happy and be able to follow their dreams. And knowing how supportive a loving relationship can be naturally makes us want that for them.