Friday, July 12, 2024

I love the visual!

Yay for being at the top of your range! All these goals and milestones being met!

I'm now 11 lbs. down and still have 2 days before my first month is over. Will I make it to 12? Clothes are fitting better!

Grilled salmon and veggies were good last night. Tonight is sushi date night! That will be 3 nights of seafood in a row, never a problem for me!

Need to start packing up the SUV for my art show on Sunday. So much work setting up and taking down! The weather is going to be hot, hot, hot! Planning on bringing a portable fan!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Good luck at the show!

Best of luck at the show - I hope you don't melt!

Greetings all

Another lovely day here in lala land. DH took both the dogs for walks even though he just had veins sealed in one leg. It's good to see him moving around again. The heart episode scared him I think. He is very much a creature of habit so once he starts doing something he does it day in and day out. Walks. Or cheese puffs.

Spent some time at the studio today glazing. Water will be out tomorrow for 3 days due to sewer line replacement. I had some large bottles of drinking water in the garage from some long ago emergency issue which were unopened so I took them to studio in case someone needs drinking water. We will have some buckets of water available plus hose on adjoining property. Might be a good time to stay away but I have lots to do!

I planned a store trip today but bugged out. We have enough to eat.

Hormones! Yep they can get to you. Being done with all that younger woman stuff was such a blessing to me. I did not take hormone replacement as I didn't get hot flashes or anything. No regrets there though my bones are not in the best shape. And boobs! Regain left me with whoppers. They get in the way and no bras work. One of the worst parts of regain. Fudge.

Paula tell us where we can see your art. Do you have a web site? Good luck on the show. I used to do those. Lots of work. Also fun to talk to all the people that come by.

Liz congrats on being in normal range. Who knew normal was so exciting.

Lordy this heat wave is so awful I feel guilty for not suffering. But not much....

Diane S

I have an Etsy site

https://artimagesbypaula.etsy.com

Thanks for asking!

The sun is starting to set, and its been a busy day! Drove my 1.25 hours there and back for my hair. When I got home, I was in the house about 15 minutes and then we left to pick up BFF to go to her grandsons 6th birthday party. Its 8:45 pm, and I am back home, sitting on the porch, drinking a protein shake.

I have to say I take some comfort in other people also having trouble with their boobs. And I hate bra shopping, it's worse than swimsuit shopping. I also need to wear a smaller band size if I want them hoisted higher, but I don't want to. So there. Phyllis Diller quote: I don't have my boobs anymore, but I still have the bags they came in.

Ouch, Phyllis, the truth hurts, donnut? I'm good with the band, and like side and back smoothing makes, but can't quite figure out the cup sizeing- hard to fill out the top of the cup. Have tried moving down to a B and increasing the band size- no good. Have heard that increasing the cup size while decreasing the band size sometimes works...Big mystery

Late comment on the boobs and hormones issues coming at you here ....

I don't have big boobs and am so glad I don't, but of course they're so much lower than they used to be. I didn't have any body cosmetic surgery after my VSG, and at nearly 79 I'm not about to do so now.

On the bra front, many of the still surviving department stores employ one or more women who truly know how to fit women with bras appropriate for their size, shape, etc. I did that earlier this year at Dillard's and now have 3 bras that work exceedingly well for dress up situations. I also have 3 old bras from Soma for days when I know I'm going to be working outdoors getting sweaty and dirty.

Re hormonal craziness, I barely remember those days, although I don't recall suffering overmuch from PMS. Menopause wasn't that bad either, except for the sudden end to 10-hour uninterrupted sleeps. But now with the legalization of marijuana I can manage that better with melatonin and evening THC gummies.