Thursday, May 30, 2024

Two more sleeps until Aruba! So much anxiety though. Will I need to buy a new refrigerator? Will the guy redoing our living room in Florida get the right size replacement doors for the cabinet? Is Justice getting sick (lacking energy this morning)?

My last injection of tirzepatide at 5 mg is on-board and the new shipment arrived yesterday (something I can stop worrying about). Weighing happens tomorrow. I feel like there is less fat in my belly (where I do my injections), so hopefully that means I have lost more weight (or my body is just adjusting). The good thing is that I have been doing this while still maintaining my lifestyle with all the eating out. Last night I ordered the meatball appetizer and ate one-half of it.

I talked to DD last night. She has been on semaglutide for about 1/2 month longer than I have been taking tirzepatide. She hasn't lost any weight even though she is on level 3 of the dosing. Don't know if tirzepatide will work any better for her, though I suggested she try moving to it. She is very frustrated.

We slept at DH's home last night and had planned to walk on the beach this morning. Unfortunately it is going to rain so I guess we will just pack up and go back to my place. The refrigerator repair person is due today and we have to talk to our guy in Florida and suggest he take the old cabinet doors off and bring them to the cabinet place to replicate. All 6 doors are slightly different in width and his plan was to order the 6 at the same measurement using the maximum current width. He couldn't seem to understand that that would mean they would end up too wide. Basic math doesn't seem to compute for him. Arghhh...

I hope you all have a thriving Thursday!

That is stressful when you foresee a problem and don't feel like you're being listened to. Like shouting "Stop sign!" at a driver who clearly doesn't see it even when you pointed it out repeatedly.

With my post shot woosh, I am back to my low. Onward... With Liz saying her range BMIs, I calculated mine. When I was at her low BMI, I looked emaciated (post plastics, struggling with recovery). I looked really good at a BMI of 23. Goes to show that BMI is a range and an average and you aren't going to be or look healthy at every number that falls in the "healthy" range for your height!

I am staying on 7.5mg for another month. If it's working, I will try not to go up as I don't want to max out too soon.

Yesterday was phone calls and bills. I got a CD rolled over into another for my MI board, scheduled a leptospirosis vaccine for Kirby and a heartworm blood test so he can take heartworm medication, made an appointment for servicing my heat pumps, paid the balance on my roof, and grocery shopped. I will say I make far fewer trips to the store these days.

Today, I think a pup walk and then I need to finish collecting and putting rocks from the yard around my steel agaves. Not sure what else, but my days fill up somehow! Kirby is currently enjoying watching the landscapers clean up the road verges and snorting at them... Love when they snort at stuff. Like a bull sussing out its challenger.

I think that's it for me! Take care!

Good Kirby, some snorts to say, I'm watching, so be mindful!

157.6 (and think I am out of the 3-4 day losing window. If the pattern holds, the scale will flip-flop a bit for 6-7 days, then drop some again- wash, rinse and repeat). I checked my goal range against BMI range: low 21.9 to high 23.5. Midrange is 22.7 and I have 13# to go to get smack in the middle.

All well and good this morning in mind, body and soul. Dental Procedure successfully completed and am just tender and in healing mode now. Just have to be careful about over abusing the comfort food choices (mashed potato, Mac and cheese, and, and, and..) as my go to protein and veggies are not available for a few more days.

Liz and Cicley, I totally understand your "project " anxiety. I feel most comfortable when a majority of life's list of activities are independent of (people created) shenanigans outside of my control. Maybe that's why I will try to find DYS ways of fixing this and that before calling a contractor or, worse, service help lines.

DD, parents are, indeed annoying. I think the disconnect comes from mistaking the final grade as a reflection of a student's ability, when instead (for me, anyway) the final grade was the averaging of that student's performance over the course of the semester. The kiddo might be a B+ student, but Not Performed (or most likely not attempted) the cumulative assignments at a B+ level. Final semester grades do not reflect ability- final grades reflect performance over time.

Shoot! (Sometimes when I say or write something, the message comes bouncing back to me). I am an A+ person, so why am I getting a C life? What I am confusing is ability with performance! When I participate in living life (remembering that we all have A+ ability) then I will have an A+ Life (as in the tired but true, Grades are earned, not given).

Self pep talk over-

Time to get about the joy of living my best life today

Good thoughts for continued healing! And congratulations on another drop in pounds.

Greetings all

It's sunny and calm here. The road trippers are out on their adventures. I think they are going up to Trees of Mystery - a kind of tacky yet fun tourist attraction. DH is back at jury duty. Yay, I have the house to myself and can watch my news shows to my heart's content. Just started the dishwasher. It's amazing how many dishes are made with the minimal cooking done here. Take out enchiladas last night. Scrambled eggs and toast today.

BMI! Have not thought about that in awhile. I got really low and probably too skinny. Seems like I dreamed all that now. Hopefully we all know to not be too driven by that number which is an extreme shortcut for the medical establishment.

Yeah Liz I don't blame you for worrying about the cabinet guy. Not cool. I once had a deck put in over what had been a brick patio. I came home and looked at the edging beams. I could see that if deck went over that, the back door could not have been opened. Too high. I pointed this out. The guy said Gee thanks for telling me, I would have hated to have to pull all that out. Well duh. How about measuring!Hope it works out and that the refer gets fixed easily.

Bonnie glad the tooth thing came out ok. No fun. But at least they are pretty skilled and make it painless. Yeah we all grade ourselves all the time. We are our own parents from hell sometimes. Note to all: take it easy on yourself.

CC I love hearing how you are feathering your nest and making your house your own. Bet it's spectaclular.

DH just sent me a text asking me to get frozen yogurt bars. Seems our guests ate them all. A crisis indeed.

Doorbell just rang. Dogs go berserk. I go and crack the door to two men in hats ask me "Hi, can I bother you for a minute?" My reply: no don't think so. End of conversation. Likely people selling solar panels.

Diane S

Unsolicited people at the door are not cool, especially these days.

I have a kitchen towel that says "The inventor of the doorbell clearly did not own a chihuahua".

I hope DH is done with his jury duty soon. Quite a commitment.

Haha, no, don't think so. Love it. Unless you're a girl scout or a student doing fundraising for the track team or such, no I don't think so. One time I was sitting on our porch, which is kind of tucked away, and people don't generally see me until they're almost to the door. Well it's Sunday morning, DH is not at home, and I'm wearing pajamas. Some guy starts striding up my driveway, and, for reasons still unknown, some southern belle took possession of me and I yelled Stop! Don't come any closer. I am not dressed to receive visitors! The look on his face, as he said, okay, and turned and walked back down the driveway. Still delights me to this day.

You put the DD in Fiddle-dee-dee!

Literally LOLing.