Monday, January 13, 2025

120.5 - no surprise at the uptick as traveling yesterday has me a bit constipated. Hoping this morning's coffee takes care of that.

The temperature here in Albany is 27 this morning so not horrible. The high will be in the mid-30's. Not sure we will take long Justice walks here but he has staked out his spot on the couch under a fuzzy blanket. He and Stella, a smaller doodle, get along fine except when Stella tries to cozy up with me when he is already there. He snaps his displeasure and she moves elsewhere.

Travel yesterday was smooth. We had breakfast with DSD before she flew out to Miami. Granddaughter was home mid-day from her Dad's and grandson home from his activities in late afternoon. The neighboring girl who is like an older sister (18) came over to hang out and we took the 2 girls to dinner (grandson declined and got his own stuff). A friend of the older one came over for a bit after work. Nice young ladies! I met them a few years ago and it is great to see them keeping their great personalities as they mature. The older girls are seniors so are making college decisions these days.

Today we will drive around DH's old neighborhood where the kids grew up and eat lunch at the deli he loves to get lunch from. We will split a Reuben today (the best I have ever had) and I plan to get chicken soup to go for tomorrow. Not much else on the agenda other than shuttling the granddaughter around. The grandson has his own car so we just have to keep tabs on him.

Have a magnanimous Monday!

141.0

Liz, what a perfect space to dwell in amongst gchildren old enough to take care of themselves; you just get to play with and enjoy!

Up and getting around early. Have taken some more x-mas down and made a batch of cottage cheese- experimenting to see how dry curds keep in the freezer. Will pull the frozen out in a few days, "cream" it and compare with fresh for texture and taste. Am hoping for positive results as a whole batch makes more than I can use before tossing. Like yogurt, it is so much tastier and costs only the price of the milk used.

We're off on a short trip this afternoon to pick up some items won online, mostly art paper, tools and paints. Scored big time, including 3 Arches water color blocks (9x12, 11x14 and 18x24) $47, Koh-I-noor set of pens $9, Paasche airbrush kit $11... etc as well as some mystery boxes .... For this half off half kind of shopper--I'm in 7th heaven!!!

Congrats on your online wins, although I have no idea what any of those things are. However, I hope you'll show us some of your creations.

Here in Kentucky we're still snowed and iced in, but the streets are cleaned up. DH and I figure the whole mess will be gone by Thursday.

I am in the making New Year's resolutions phase of 2025, which always makes me feel good. This morning I read the BEST thing on Facebook about what someone's second grade teacher told them that has made a great difference in their life: "If something feels too hard to do, it just means that the first step isn't small enough." Isn't that brilliant?

Here's to small enough first steps! :-)

I am amazed it all hasn't melted yet in Kentucky. Agree with small steps - having been a project planner in my past that was always the key for any type of project.

I was into making cottage cheese for a while a few years ago but then I got lazy.

212.9 Leave it to a dog show weekend with careful eating and not enough liquid to show a drop on the scale! Whoo hooo.... Just hope that the increase in water consumption today doesn't negate the drop on the scale.

I need to contact OrderlyMeds and see if I can go ahead and order my 6 month supply to tirzepatide now, or if I have to wait a few more weeks.

Good session with eating disorder nutritional counselor on Friday. Always something to work on.

Beginning of the year money has all been transferred, so it's time to get the new dishwasher and water heater ordered and installed.

Dog show was really good for Buster this weekend. Came away with some very significant wins! For Diane S., he won the regular group on Saturday and a regular G3 on Sunday. He won the Owner handled group both days and a best in Show owner handled on Saturday.

Lots on the docket this week. I'm thinking I need to make a list! LOL! (As we all know, that is not my forte!)

Weird dream about my mom last night. It made me uneasy. I must be working through something because in my dream I was talking about my negative feelings towards her - sort of a love/hate feeling. I don't know why but that made me feel very uncomfortable when I woke up.

Not much else going on. Just same old.... work, visit dad, work out, tend to dogs, make dinner, etc... for the rest of the day.

Oh, and I did NOT feel our earthquake yesterday because I was at the dog show. BOOOOOOO! I do love the little ones. They are actually kind of fun. If they are too big, not so much! It was a 3.7 centered about a mile from my home.

Is Orderly offering a 6 month order before shutting down injectable tirzepatide in February/March?

They said they would, but I have not heard anything since that initial announcement.

It's just infuriating that people might be cut off from a medication that does them so much good because of no insurance coverage, making it out of reach financially! Infuriating that people are having to pay $300 out of pocket, but at least that's doable for some, but $1200 is not doable for many. Another part of our broken health care system.

So cold today, it was -3 on the way to work. Luckily the wind wasn't too gusty, so it was only a wind chill of -15. Excellent motivator to WALK FAST to get in the building. I survived.

We have morphed into the go to the grocery store every other day people too. Except it's DH doing the shopping, and I'm tired of frozen pizzas, so I went along with a few menu plans in mind that DH could cook, nothing fancy, but better than the aforementioned frozen pizzas. I think we bought enough for about 4 different meals, which should last us more than a week with leftovers. Tonight is cheeseburger sliders with mixed veggies, later this week, white guy tacos, breakfast pizza, grilled cheese with tomato basil bisque ( from the fancy store deli), and a frozen quiche Lorraine (also from fancy store deli). DH will still need to go to the grocery store for produce. He's on an apple kick.

We finalized our trip to Florida by reserving a condo in a timeshare complex we've stayed in before. Also nothing fancy, but quite serviceable as it has a pool with palm trees, and a balcony. And DH's wish: a poolside bar/grill should he require a sandwich and/or ****tail while sunbathing. We leave the evening of February 14, and return the 20th, so with President's Day holiday, we managed to squeeze out 6 days from my 3 personal days. Yes!!!

By any chance are you planning to be in town between August 20 -25? I'm probably coming again for a dog show in the same place. The club there is celebrating 50 years and has a great line up of judges. And if you remember, I was pretty smitten with Minnesota in the summer time!