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Back from lunch with my Controversy Club. Possible topics for our next meeting s: increasing screen time and automation (ex ordering at table with QR code, self checkout), what is happening to our younger generations. Someone recommended a book called The Anxious Generation. Another topic: how does the use of electronic texts vs hard copies of books effect learning?
One of our members was late because there was a shelter in place order in their neighborhood. They live in a golf course community, and apparently someone entered the clubhouse with an automatic weapon. They cleared the pool and golf course, and held people in some service building. Scary. The world is a crazy place some days.
The rest of the day is for getting ready to travel. DH worked his last part-time shift until the end of August. Now it's really summer!
I have a BIL like this too. You can barely walk through his apartment with all the furniture, rugs, and knickknacks that formerly belonged to family members. And there are lots of other family memorabilia stuffed in books, drawers, etc.
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
You have such a poetic way of describing the sorting process.
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
My sister is a bit obsessive about family artifacts, but it works out great for me. She wants and will take ANYTHING that was ever owned by our parents or previous generations. So I can purge without guilt! Her little house is STUFFED and looks a bit like a museum of the 50's, but if I ever feel a bit nostalgic, I can go over and see a recreation of the past, lol. I think it will end with her, though, as neither my daughter nor her son has any interest in all the old junk, er, I mean, family historical items...
Lizanne
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Good morning!
Second time I have seen the 4 showing in the 10-spot. Like many of us flip-flopping around and looking to slip closer to, or settle a bit more into the middle of our desired range--the going has slowed. I tally up the 1st of the month and check progress. July begins the half point of this year (sooooo quickly!) and looking forward (instead of dreading) comparing w/same time last year.
Liz, it will be super satisfying to watch that dumpster filling up as stuff that is no longer useful to you (or anyone else) leaves the house. It's all so much junk that hasn't paid "rent" for years---Evict the squatters!
I'm now in the midst of waffling over those things that, like mooching friends or now distant relatives and have overstayed their welcome, should have been dealt with long ago. Feels like I, the curator of all that is the physical representation of both DH's and my own families history, am about obliterate just what I was given to preserve and pass on....But, to whom (??) do those family photos, artifacts, boxes of ephemera, books, etc....when no one wants them? What happens when the generations after this generation curses me for dropping the baton?
I know, inevitably, what the answer is. It just makes me sad. If not now, when? If not me, who?
Definitely needing a bit of theurgic inspiration this Thursday, for sure.
Am off to address the 2 large branches that fell on/over the fence during the storm early yesterday morning. I can do that with out self debating!
Another hungry day yesterday only made manageable because I couldn't eat much. I ordered a 2 meatball appetizer for dinner and could only eat one. My tirzepatide injection at 7.5 mg is on-board this morning. Weigh-in day tomorrow will be interesting.
DD who had started on tirzepatide via HenryMeds just got approval by her insurance company for Mounjaro at $200 a month. Apparently her local CVS had it in-stock.
The dumpster arrived yesterday. It is much larger than I envisioned so hopefully all the junk will fit. We have it for a week. Tasks for today are to bring the junk from the basement storage room up and dump it, bring the latex paint cans up to fill with kitty litter so they can be dumped, finish cleaning/organizing the kitchen cabinets (about 3/4 done yesterday), and maybe organize the 2 bathroom cabinets. We have 2 other major tasks remaining: replace the ceiling insulation in one storage room (mice were making beds in it) and dejunk/organize the garage. And a lot of smaller tasks but being done by mid-July seems very doable. Of course before the actual sale, we have to pack up and move/get rid of what remains. At least we get a break in between.
Time to get motivated. Have a theurgic Thursday!
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
I'm missing that not wanting to eat this week! Good thing my injection is tomorrow and I am going up in dose.
You have to take care of yourself to be able to give to others. Otherwise you will burn out.
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
Good news on how your appointment went, but sad that you may lose your oncologist. I know from my family's experiences that if you build rapport with your oncologist and know how to work with them it is so difficult to contemplate working with someone else. Tough decision.
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
