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on 11/19/25 8:36 am
So much rain here! It's been fun especially since my house isn't leaking. I did indeed get to work on the newsletter as promised. It's nearly done, but I need to add any notes from today's HOA meeting before it goes out.
My shoulder has been really hurting since June or July. Dr. Google said it was frozen shoulder. Claudia told me about a rehab device called the Shoulder Reliever that has increasingly weighted balls you attach to the end and twirl it around with your arm pointed it various directions. It's supposed to strengthen the tiny muscles in your shoulder to stabilize and improve ailments. I finished day 10 of 40 and darned if it isn't feeling better after months of pain! It helps with frozen shoulders, rotator cuff injuries, tendonitis, bursitis... If you ever hurt your shoulder, it's worth a try.
My dad is doing well and agreed to stay in the hospital until Friday for his antibiotic infusions. He's got his iPad for football and I added them to my Netflix subscription so he's engrossed in the Quarterback series on there. I'm so hoping this does the trick for him.
My house still has a vague onion smell, but it's much better. DD, I agree with you on garlic too. So much so, I don't use fresh garlic cloves to cook with and instead use that squeeze tube of garlic you can find in the produce section. I figure it's a step up from "jarlic", and is much more mild and less smelly than fresh cloves.
The feels like temp is 38. Brr.
Take care and have a good day!
Right, I put it off too because of the bad press. If I need to lay low tomorrow and Friday I can, so i thought I'd better just get it over with while I'm getting the flu shot. I have never had any reactions to the flu shot, and get it yearly, so I'm hoping that holds true this year too.
on 11/19/25 8:20 am
I'll be anxiously following your shingles shot experience. I haven't done it yet because it sounds dreadful and I'm a chicken! But then shingles is more dreadful, so...
I continue with a pretty low key week here. It's very fun to hear all about the social activities in Florida. While Florida weather sounds great, I can offer that at least it is not snowing here!
This morning I took care of a few more details for the Brazil trip. So many details. Once I've done all the research and put things in place, it will all run so smooth (hopefully) when we are there. I also made an appointment to get my flu and shingles vaccine today, and scheduled a teeth cleaning for the first available opening, which is in December. I have a terrible dental phobia, but also have great trust in my dentist. Sadly, he is retiring. Because of this, I have put off scheduling, because I rarely have a check up that doesn't involve some follow up treatment. I don't want to see a new dentist, but I must. Finally made myself tackle this task. Sometimes being a grown up is challenging.
CC, I hear you on the onions. Mine is garlic. Using fresh garlic in recipes smells so good initially, but the leftover smell is so bothersome. I will use your idea Diane, and simmer some cloves and spices after cooking with garlic.
Last night I made a real dinner with meatloaf, baked potato and green beans. DH was appreciative. I hope he is not expecting a repeat tonight, because we need to eat the leftovers!
In April, my weight floated up 4 pounds, and I couldn't figure out why, especially since I stopped taking Tomaxifen that month. Those pounds stuck around until October, but this month they are gone. Again, I don't see any big changes in how I'm eating. I wonder if it took this long for the Tomaxifen to leave my system and for my own hormones to settle? Anyhow, I am happy.
118 - up a bit but no surprise. Great food last night: shrimp, oysters, lobster, steak, and cream puffs. Yummy! It was a great party - 415 people with tables packed in the usual restaurant area and around the pool. Lots of dancing poolside (and as far as I saw, no one fell in LOL).
Today is water aerobics while DH golfs. First I will take Justice for his long walk alone. Need to get moving to get ready as I stayed in bed an extra 25 minutes this morning.
Dinner out tonight with DH's work friend and wife who just moved here. I wouldn't mind staying home as we will be busy all next week with DH's family but everyone wants to pack in stuff before the holidays.
The weather looks like it will continue to stay beautiful for at least the next week. A great start for Paula at her new home!
Have a wonky Wednesday!
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
Isn't Amazon the best?
I bet Bella is going to be a lot more careful around the pool area going forward. Justice has never had a problem avoiding all water of any type. Maybe because he was a Florida dog? It took a while to even get him to walk in shallow water at the beach on Cape Cod.
I love that your new community is so welcoming! Sounds like you will not only be busy but will have the opportunity to make a lot of new friends quickly.
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
An 80 point play sounds amazing. I would be lucky to get 5 LOL.
I did see the redwoods once - must have been around 1982 or 1983? They were wonderful. My BIL lived in Pleasanton and DH, SIL, and our 3 kids (the older set) stayed with them for 2 weeks one summer and did a lot of side-trips all over California.
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
Well at least the onion smell isn't fully a Kimble job though I guess you have a point that if you had a proper vent it wouldn't be everywhere. Diane's idea of simmering spices sounds like a good way to bani****
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
I love having an app on my phone to change the house temperature if I need to (or set a schedule so it get warmer automatically before I usually get up). We have a Sensi thermostat here. Super easy to install and use. At my Cape house I had a Google Nest one which also works well but I found it more difficult to program. Alas, no such thing at DH's Cape house because the furnace is 40+ years old and not wired the way they require.
Snow is always pretty but I don't miss it!
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
I'm missing my scale! I don't think I've done too much damage but one never really knows if not monitoring!
Our second day in our new house and all is well!
My Amazon card is blazing hot from all the ordering I've been doing. Tomorrow we will go grill and sofa sleeper shopping locally! I still need to get a desk for my office, a file cabinet and storage cabinets!
Bella dog took her first unintentional swim today. I had just gone outside to sit poolside and the pool cleaning person entered the pool area and Bella being the good guard dog that she is, went chasing after her and decided to take a short cut over the spa but of course fell in. Our dogs have never swam before. She was actually able to keep her head up out of the water and the pool lady quickly scooped her out if the spa. Thankfully it wasn't the big pool. I would have had to dive in fully clothed to get her. Note to self, order life jackets for dogs ASAP! I had planned to already but need to measure their chests for sizing and my measuring tape is in a POD somewhere between WI and FL.
Bug guys also stopped by. We are now signed up for pool service and pest control!
A few neighbors stopped by in the early evening to be the official street welcoming committee and they invited us to the street's annual Christmas party. We probably have 25 houses on our street and I guess a very generous and obviously wealthy neighbor rents the clubhouse for the party and has it catered for the party along with providing an open bar! Every household brings a gift valued around $40 to exchange! How fun is that? They also gave me November's calendar of events and there are so many fun things to do - Nine and Dine like at Liz's community, comedian with buffet dinner, karaoke night with dinner, Lanai Ladies which I guess ladies visit each other's lanai's and have snacks and wine, this Friday there is a Decades dance and buffet and they even have a Community Thanksgiving dinner catered! Every weekend they have brunch specials at the Clubhouse on both Saturday and Sunday. The bus wouldn't even have to go very far! I'm so excited about all the things there is for us to do!
