July 18, 2024 Thursday

Have a terrific time. Good thing you have such a reward (visit) after lugging those suitcases.

Ocean4dlm, wow, your friends have been through it!!! They are lucky to have all of you to help them through this.

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Ocean! Howdy and good morning, ma'am.

OMGosh! I am astonished at the overwhelming misfortune your friend and her BF are experiencing. So good to have friends to provide for needs and comforts. Prayers that the cleanup (business end of ordeal) will go glitch less.

I tend to get caught up in the chaos new experiences naturally create and lose the joy of the adventure. Your post reminds me to appreciate and have gratitude every day for my body's ability to do and enjoy the journey.

Peps, that is such a problem- dealing with clothes too large for you ( reminds me of the retort "are you bragging or complaining?") If you buy new, don't get very much. I have a feeling you'll be needing to size down even more.

****ly, I use a cream, Triamcinolone Acetonide, for poison ivy- works well so could be great on bug bites. It's a prescription, but I bet your Dr would call it in without a visit, maybe.

To all in vacation mode- enjoy! Ditto for all at home, too.

Speaking of the day- off to finish up the house for tomorrow.

I will have to save the name of that cream. Biting bugs seem to love me too.

Diane, your friends really did have bad luck. What good friends you are for helping them out! Hope the last leg of their trip is uneventful.

CC, glad your Dad can recover at home! Hospitals are definitely not the place for rest!

We had a good visit with my aunts and Mom and my brother and his wife yesterday. Did a little driving tour to all of the hometown haunts. Had good Mexican last night!

Today we took a walk by the river (Mississippi) and will hang low until we meet up with my girlfriends around 5. Going to the Tapas place for dinner again. Will head home tomorrow morning.

No weigh in while here, but I?m staying on track with calories and protein. Tonight may have a little alcohol.

I?m not noticing any difference in the increased dose and may even have a little more hunger. I may inject from the new vial this Sunday, just in case something is amiss.

OMG - what a terrible set of cir****tances for your friends! Good thing they have support for their return home. You just never know.

We made it to Florida yesterday and had a great time out to dinner with our friends. We hadn't seen any of them in 2 months so they were amazed by my weight loss. I wore a dress that I haven't put on since a month after I met DH.

The plane ride was very relaxing but on our way home from the airport around mid-day DS called in panic because the internet went out at the house and the provider had to be called from DH's phone because they won't talk to anyone else. Actually they don't "speak" to anyone, but we were finally able to work with a technician via text (actually I did because DH doesn't understand technology at all). They couldn't figure out the issue so set up an appointment for this afternoon. DS ended up going to the library to work. But all is well in the end as I googled the error code and someone posted online that it was their cable splitter that was bad, so DS removed it and all is functioning smoothly. It felt like another 3 hours was taken out of my life stressing over that.

Anyway, we got to the Florida condo mid-afternoon and the work we had done in the Living Room is beautiful! There are a few last details he needs to finish which we discussed this morning but it is at a point where I can put it back together in advance of DD's bachelorette party at the end of August.

The Cape house is listed!!! Fingers and toes crossed. Two showings are already scheduled for today and an open house on Saturday.

Injection on-board today and weight tomorrow (with a different scale of course).

Spending the afternoon at the beach (under an umbrella - too hot otherwise). Have a timeous Thursday!

Technology, our friend and foe! Glad you got some umbrella shaded beach time!

Greetings all

Another nice sunny day.

Ocean Diane what a frightful event for your friends! Terrible. It's so good of you and others to help out. Hope they are on the mend. So sorry for the lost dog. Agreed. Bucket lists count.

Liz glad you are safely on the beach. You deserve it.

DD hauling suitcases up all those stairs! I think I would have just changed clothes in the car every day. Enjoy the visit and the rest of summer.

CC glad your dad is home. Agreed that hospitals make it impossible to rest. Remember a long time ago there were signs outside hospitals that said "Quiet Hospital Zone"? Now the inside of hospitals require ear protection. I remember when DH had his VSG there was a room across the hall that had an alarm going off constantly. It was worse than an airport.

I seem to have recovered from my homicidal mood. Nothing like a sunny day and a little time in the studio to improve attitude. I made some more items and have a lot to be fired tomorrow. I ran some errands and picked up meds and dog food. Both essentials of life.

DH had another vein done today and has one more Saturday. Can't believe they are doing it on a Saturday but it's true. Us retired people don't care what day it is. So he is ecsconced in his lounger with his legs i compression stockings. He is happy and dinner is all set for tonight so I am happy.

Bonnie onward on the new house. Have you explained to Swan?

Slow day here. Thats how I like it.

Diane S

Nice to feel more relaxed and enjoy a slow day isn't it?