Monday, September 23, 2024

Weight 119. 5 days to the wedding! It is cool and cloudy out - today's high is 62. Fall is definitely here. BUT the forecast for Friday night, Saturday, and Sunday is dry with sun!!! It has been the same forecast for a couple of days now so maybe it will hold.

The wedding craziness has begun. Calls all day yesterday - have you got this, can you pick up chafing dishes here, what time is the cake supposed to be picked up, can we come a day earlier, what do you mean Sheila isn't coming??? It will not be a relaxing week. We have things on the agenda every day. Today's mission is to order some goodies for the hair/makeup session and get champagne for that day and the brunch.

I can't believe I will be moving out of this house in a week. It really has been my favorite house of the 6 I have owned. Hopefully Florida can replace it in my affections.

Time to get cracking. Have a marvelous morning Monday!

ETA: Just found out a close friend's wife decided not to go to the wedding a week ago and never notified DD (so we paid for her) - the friend thought she had. What is wrong with people?

Liz, the weather prediction for your DD's wedding sounds parfait. I hope it holds for you. I'm sure this will be a full week, but I've long been in awe of your organizational abilities and your ability to refrain from procrastinating about pretty much everything. Respect!

Today is housekeeping, errands, and prep for another road trip back to Kentucky mid-week for medical appointment, early voting for DF, and some administrative chores that must be done in person.

On voting day (November 5) we'll be in Missouri where I'll be working as a judge in the election, something I've done in four states where I've lived. It's a super-long day (starts at 5 a.m.) and has gone as late as 11 p.m. I love the solemnity and importance of exercising our right to choose our leaders, a right that so many Americans have struggled for and even died for. I'm always struck by the fact that my mother was born before her mother had the right to vote.

Gotta get on my horse now and ride. Y'all have a good one.

That's is wonderful that you are so involved on Election Day. Good for you!

The key to getting things done is to put them on a list. I can procrastinate with the best of them and I do that by not putting those tasks on a list. Once they are there my mind tells me I have to work at getting that task checked off.

Good for you for working the elections! So important!

Thank you for taking on the role of election judge. You personally sacrifice while honoring the sacrifices made by generations of people who fought to make voting accessible to all citizens, and the ones who are still fighting.

YES! It seems like the very least I can do to maintain the freedoms we've inherited from so many others' struggles.

183.8! You bet your sweet bippy I'm counting tenths! Normal BMI, woohoo! I still have about 14 pounds or so to go, but yay me.

Drinking my coffee now and watching Kirby rip the stuffing and squeaker from his birthday present. Tile guy 2.0 will be back today and for the foreseeable future. Hoping to see my landscape guy as the front yard looks crappy and shouldn't for as much as I pay them.

More tidying on the docket today. I think I can put away the dog fences and the crate. He's not destructive for the most part unless I leave something important out or leave doors open, which is on me. And the crate battle was lost before we left for MI. We also need a dog walk and to I need to sweep the bugs out of the garage. So. Many. Bugs. Here.

Another task on the list is finding a framer to change out the linen matting on a few paintings that came from my parent's house. Funny how things develop stains when they were nowhere near a place to get stained. Could be something oily like Pledge that yellowed with time and heat. But both are older than me, so I get it.

Anyway, best hop to... take care all!

Congratulations on the normal BMI! That's awesome!

Congratulations on normal BMI! Yay!!!

You just needed to be home for a New York minute, and Bam!!! Normal BMI.