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LOL on the paper clips! So many good memories you can keep from knowing how much you touched the lives of those children 
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
Sometimes we need a do nothing day to recharge and start moving the next day. My DH doesn't know how to do that but I am very happy just reading all day.
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
I am happy but tired. Today a student who graduated 2 years ago came to visit saying, I heard you were retiring while handing me some flowers. More amazing blessings. Oh my heart. Tomorrow I need to attend a staff meeting, then check out. My room, grades, computer are all in order. Although I will say, I now think paperclips are just bigger versions of glitter. They were everywhere. I'd think I had cleaned a drawer, and then check one more time, and there it was: a paperclip. In every nook and cranny of my desk, shelves, cabinet, file cabinet...
Greetings all
Sun is out now after a foggy morning. All is well. Yesterday I got nothing done - no studio and no gym. I gave into my spirit animal - a slug. Today I did better and went to the gym and even upped my time a tiny bit. Then I went to the studio and made more of guess what. Got some good news on our gallery member in the hospital. No heart attack and nothing terrible going on.
DH had an electrician come by to see about expanding our electrical panel in order to get solar and some stuff. We have a good roof exposure and with two electric cars it seems like a good idea. He learned some things so we may do this. It amuses him.
So Peps windmills! I had no idea they still work. Do they really grind grain? Part of travel is to enjoy the food so have at it. Kick that other person out of your head (said she who also has a food goblin living in her head).
Liz and Paula you both seem to be doing so well maintaining. Kudos. You got this. And yeah Paula, wind is the enemy of all craft set ups. And Liz maybe your DH will bring home fish for dinner
DD one more day.
More shrimp tonight. Gallery duty tomorrow so I may stop by the grocery there for dinner tomorrow night. It is a small but complete grocery and deli and you can always park right in front. Very convenient. Nothing like the major trecks I used to make to the gigantic midwestern grocery stores where the parking lot has a separate zip code. Cheers. Diane S
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Ignore that dysfunctional thinking! Have what you want just don't go crazy. As you said, enjoy in moderation and tell those dysfunctional thoughts to stay away!
Your trip sounds wonderful so far.
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
I suspected your weight would settle down. Mine is like a wavy line these days: up, up, down, down, up, down, etc. I do find that giving into a craving once in a while and having enough to satisfy but not go overboard and not repeating it daily doesn't seem to cause any gain. My weight just waves along within about a 2 pound range.
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
Only 4 more days left Liz, that time has gone fast! Justice will be happy to have you home!
125 even on the scale. Lowest point of my range. Maybe my anxiousness regarding my upticks in weight was unwarranted. Still having food noise though. Right now it is the Dove ice cream bar in the freezer that is calling my name!
Bible study was good today. I?m back to leading it after missing the last 2 weeks helping my Mom before and after her toe amputation.
Yucky weather again today. DH suggested a nap and I think that sounds perfect (after I eat a Dove ice cream bar!).
Still need to replenish some of my card supply from the last art fair. I ordered a few new bigger prints too to replace the ones that were sold and two that were damaged. DH dropped one and a light one blew off the tent wall. I?m actually surprised there hasn?t been more pieces damaged in transit or while displaying at an art fair. I do wrap the pictures in ?envelopes ? I make from that silver bubble wrap insulation stuff you might wrap around pipes and/or water heaters and such. I have to make some more of those for the art work too. I?m staring to transition from less WI/MI artwork to more FL/tropical stuff. The flowers can be sold anywhere!
5' 4" tall, HW: 242, SW:215.4 Weight Loss - pre-op: - 26.6, M1: -15.4, M2: -16, M3: -11.4, M4: -11.2, M5: -12.2, M6: -7.4, M7: -7.8, M8: -2.0 Goal of 130 lbs. reached at 8 months, 2 days post-op!
Not knowing the day of the week may become commonplace now that you are retired! DH was just commenting on this yesterday!
Your trip sounds fabulous so far, rich in history! Enjoy your down day! A nap sounds wonderful! Cool temps and grey skies here, I think a snuggle and nap with the pups and DH sounds perfect!
5' 4" tall, HW: 242, SW:215.4 Weight Loss - pre-op: - 26.6, M1: -15.4, M2: -16, M3: -11.4, M4: -11.2, M5: -12.2, M6: -7.4, M7: -7.8, M8: -2.0 Goal of 130 lbs. reached at 8 months, 2 days post-op!
We pull ours on a little trailer. Works well for us. Yes, trying to get them on and off of a big SUV was difficult!
5' 4" tall, HW: 242, SW:215.4 Weight Loss - pre-op: - 26.6, M1: -15.4, M2: -16, M3: -11.4, M4: -11.2, M5: -12.2, M6: -7.4, M7: -7.8, M8: -2.0 Goal of 130 lbs. reached at 8 months, 2 days post-op!
Good morning! Liz, I had started a post, but got interrupted by lunch schedule.
Here it is 1:30 pm. We have breakfasted, toured the Kinderdijk windmills, returned to sun on the boat's upper deck with a cappuccino, and have lunched! I find that there is a lot of food centered activity on this vacation. Both my brother and Ron are "foodies" of sorts (as am I, but I feel somewhat redeemed these days...LOL). While I don't feel I'm over eating, I do feel like I'm eating more than I would at home, and lord knows, that can be worrisome. I resolved to eat as I saw fit on this trip, but I can feel my eating disorder wanting to lash out. The first order of the dysfunction says, "Don't indulge!" If I follow that instinct what follows is the Tantrum, Pity Party, and then the What the **** Just Eat (everything in sight) phase. Not wanting to go that route, I'm opting to eat everything in moderation. The sleeve and tirzepatide and my safety nets.
We had a very good tour guide for the windmill excursion. She looked to be in her early 20s, was knowledgeable, and very well spoken. The windmill history was interesting to me. I didn't realize the original purpose of the windmills in the Netherlands was to pump water out of the canals to the higher elevated rivers. Windmills stay in families for generations - even though the windmills themselves are owned by the local government. In Kinderdijk there are 19 windmills. 18 still function and are inhabited by "millers". The 19th is now a museum. The tour fees and souvenir sales pay for the upkeep of each windmill (about 15K Euros per year for each windmill).
We are having a travel day, so not much to do. I am planning a nap and then an afternoon coffee on our little balcony. Today is relaxation day. Okay by me. My thigh muscles in my left leg are a little sore. We logged 13+ miles over the two days in Amsterdam. Being a tad sore makes sense!
I'm so relaxed and discombobulated from what seems like a lost day due to the long flight from San Francisco to Amsterdam, that I am having to work to remember what the heck day of the week it is! I'm not sure I like that!
