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CC, I missed hearing how/why you can't talk on your phone inside your home ...?
In any event, that sucks big time.
ANN 5'5", AGE 74, HW 235.6 (BMI 39.2), SW 216, GW 150, CW 132, BMI 22
POUNDS LOST: Pre-op -20, M1 -10, M2 -11, M3 -10, M4 -10, M5 -7, M6 -5, M7 -6, M8 -4, M9 -4,
NEXT 10 MOS. -12, TOTAL -100 LBS.
on 5/21/25 8:32 am
Yesterday entailed chores including cleaning more windows and putting the bird cling film squares on them. One particular bird splat required getting out the Pink Stuff and a Scrubby Daddy sponge to remove. Ick. Sun baked bird remnants. Not an hour after finishing the big windows in the kitchen, a mourning dove flew into it and died. So much for the bird cling things and my clean window! Then later I was sitting out back talking to my folks (because I still can't talk on the phone in the house - however frustrating you can imagine that is, it's so much more), and I could see a raven landing outside the kitchen. I could not believe it when it then flew over me with the dove in its clutches. Dinner is served. Ravens are really enormous and apparently very strong.
Today will be more little chores I'm trying to tick off the long list. Hope you all have a good day!
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Yesterday I got my hair done - she does such a great job. She is from Massachusetts and is a friend of one of our friend's daughters. What a find! I am going to go to her exclusively - my summer appointment is booked for when I am here for DD's anniversary bachelorette party. I feel a little guilty about not seeing my Cape stylist anymore who I have gone to since 2014.
While I was at the hairdresser we were talking about useful lives of appliances and I suddenly had an epiphany that the ho****er heater here was old when we bought the place. When I got home I checked and it is 15 years. Since the usual lifespan is about 10 years, it is a flood waiting to happen and our condo is on the 3rd floor. So the plumber is coming tomorrow to replace it before we go home. My insurance agent (younger DD) was pleased to hear that we are being proactive.
Oh and DH's SIL must have sensed my complaining! He called DH last night to tell him that the deck and outdoor shower are done and the fence is going to be started in late June. Yay! That means Justice and the grand-dogs will have a safe yard to run around in by the time we get back from Europe in mid-July.
Today DH is playing golf for the last time here and it is going to be the hottest day yet - likely going to set heat records. I have water aerobics, then may start some housecleaning that needs to be done before we leave. Italian dinner at the clubhouse with friends tonight.
Today is DH's weigh-in day. If he loses the 2 pounds he is hoping for he will have reached the lowest weight that he remembers recording as an adult. I think his ultimate goal is another 6 pounds under that but he really isn't sure.
Have a whimsical Wednesday!
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
What's up with guys liking scary movies? My DH loves action movies. He has hinted about going to the new Mission Impossible movie on Friday. I would really rather not - I went to the last one with him on the day it opened and hated it. Not how I want to spend one of our last afternoons here.
That 3 1/2 weeks is going to fly by especially after you get to the 2 weeks is going mark.
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
I love that your Brazilian Mom was so insightful (and what she said about your DH and you)!
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
I unfortunately did marry my first love who was eldest DD's father. What did I know about relationships and compatibility at 17? We stayed together just short of 5 years because of our daughter and because I loved his parents too. There was no way to make it work in the end. But I never regretted having my daughter and I have been truly blessed to be married for 38 years to deceased DH and to meet and marry current DH. The first marriage taught me a lot about what makes a long-term relationship last.
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
You are a very special person - don't rule it out. If it happens, it does, if not you have lots of friends who love you 
My eldest DSD is similar - turning 52 in a couple of weeks, never married and almost no serious relationships. Super smart, attractive, and interesting. She doesn't need a guy but doesn't completely think it is out of the question - if it just happens.
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
Liz it seems you and DH are too competent, and "children" who are long past the age of depending on their father continue to do so. One thing we all know is that eventually parents can't take care of everything, and probably one day not anything. They need to pick up the pace, but I'm sure you've thought about it. I hope over time you feel more at home, and they appreciate the changes you bring. Because I know whatever you're up to in the house, you are making it better.
Holy Toledo Peps, it really is almost done. I have 3 1/2 weeks, but it still seems far away. I now have the confirmation letters that both my pension submissions are approved, so let the money start flowing into my accounts, or trickling in as it may be.
The weather is very gloomy, rainy and 43 degrees. It was in the high 80s a week ago.
It's nice to be home, but I sure am tired. Although much more sleep than Peps got!
CC, I bet your friends involved in their new romances actually miss you too, and they will make a new normal that includes time for important friendships. Its a period of adjustment.
Diane, good to hear all is well with your post surgery eyes. And how cool that you have coins languishing about that can be released into the wild. Back during the coin shortage (during Covid I think) I tried to always pay for my McDonalds ice cream cones with change. Just doing my part to make the world a better place. :)
DH is off watching scary movies with his buddy so I am having Wendys chili again for supper. I might even jammy up shortly. Simple pleasures.
Those first real loves stay with us. I would have stupidly done just about anything for this guy, and I did, until one day when I woke up from the spell and realized I would never want to parent with him, that if we stayed together I would forego parenthood because I would not want to subject my children to his charming but lethal dysfunction. And then it finally occurred to me that I shouldn't subject myself to it either. But it was a heady mix for two years of Latin charm, mixed tapes, (there are a lot of sad songs from the early 80s about being kept apart let me tell you), telegrams (no fax yet), ridiculously expensive phone calls and visits from across the world. Meanwhile, DH was also embroiled in a heady but dysfunctional romance that ended just about the time mine did, so that when we crossed paths 6 months later, we were ready for not our first loves, but the loves of our life. Or in Portuguese as I told my host mother (who never liked the Brazilian guy) when I introduced her to DH, " Here he is, meu grande amor" translated something like, my greatest love.
on 5/20/25 2:45 pm
That's lovely of you to say! After a lifetime of no luck on that front, it's probably not in the stars for me, but at least I don't mind my own company!
