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Funny you mention the garage clean out as a workout! Ron was done in by the task. I had to bite my tongue because I didn't feel like we had done anything more than a walk around the block. I'm telling you strength training has its perks! Making household chores easier is one of them!
Greetings all
Big sun here. The dogs are basking on the deck. Nice. A sure sign that summer is approaching.
Kudos to DD for going to the capital. There is a protest here at the courthouse and gallery members wanted to go so sub worker needed. My protest march days are over but I certainly root for those who step up. My own activism consists of letter writing.
Yeah CC it is easy to get roiled about a personal situation where you feel misunderstood. But it sounds like you have done all you can to clear up the misunderstanding.Yeah when you signed on to your board you did not plan on being a cop. People should consider whether this activity is really hurting anything - ie traffic, noise, garbage or whatever. If not, I say chill. I have seen my arts groups get all caught up in rules when there is no evil being prevented and no harm done. But that is me I guess - anti autocracy. Bet your friend eventually comes around after she faces the issue.
Hey Peps, garage cleaning counts as a work out!! Plenty of effort there.
Missed the gym yesterday as I took Poppy on the training walk. Will do today and also get to the studio. Yeah Paula, DH and I are both sleeved so half a restaurant meal feeds us both. Of course, DH is a serial snacker so he does not eat a lot at one time but munches all day long - exactly what we are not supposed to do.
Liz hope you don't get a cold. Elderberry zinc lozenges are my go to for such. I do think they work. Are those Allbirds shoes ones with actual ties or are they the step in ones with fake laces. I need real laces.
Gee Ann stay safe from the floods. Interesting that they don't want you to wash stuff due to drainage overload but good that someone is paying attention to that. Mother nature is a B----.
Paula do you have other markets for your art work besides ETSY? I assume you have looked into consignment at local shops. A large part of our gallery business is cards but we have a kind of captive tourist audience. We finally got a bar code scanner for our cards as there are so many and all the inventory codes took a lot of time to enter.
Not much else. Time to make some eggs and head out for today's adventures. Diane S
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I love that you say Toodles! You are one of the only people I know that say that too! My friends often tease me for always ending conversations/outings with Toodles!
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!
Sorry the HOA thing has got you in a flip! I completely understand. I can perseverate on situations like that, too. Hopefully, your friend will come to realize you were caught by surprise and had no idea. In the meantime, breathe...
205.8 - same as yesterday.
I did not make it to the gym yesterday as I was unable to pull myself away from the garage cleaning. Booooo.... I could have taken a break, but Ron had mojo and motion and I was not going to miss the opportunity to get stuff done. We made a fairly good dent in decluttering. The driveway had three working piles: discard, donate, keep. I estimate we got about 25 percent of the garage tackled. We have a nice big donate pile, a medium donate pile and all the items in the keep pile are back in the garage and there is a lot more free space than there was before we started. Best is that the space for the new freezer is ready!
2 dogs on the books for today. I also have to work on Bug. Buster is ready to go. He'll just need some tweaking next week. I will try to hit the gym late afternoon or early evening while Ron is at church. No promises though.
I refuse to look at my investment accounts and am thankful and grateful to have a pension to rely on. My brother is "self pensioned" and I'm sure he is feeling the stress of the market.
On that note, GO Diamond D!!!! Proud of you for standing up and being heard.
Not much else. Toodles!
125.9. Calories increased just a bit! I need to remember to eat more toward the end of my shot cycle (even if I go over calories) because I often don't get to my calorie level the first half of my shot cycle!
Worked on my Etsy site this morning for a bit - boring! And will get on the treadmill soon. I'm sore from doing the new resistance training video yesterday. At least I know it is working then!
Making Liz's WW chicken Marsala for dinner. Looking forward to it!
Liz, hope you feel better soon and that a full blown cold doesn't hit you!
Ann, wishing you rain free weather so you can get your exercise in!
DD, have fun at the Capital! I love that you are standing up for what you believe in!
CC, I hope your neighbor understands your predicament and responds to your texts soon. She (or her son) were certainly in the wrong and she should have no beef with you!
Peps, try to do some relaxing on your weekend "off', though I know your furry friends always keep you somewhat busy!
Diane, looking forward to hearing about your gym stories and the interesting antics of your fellow exercisers. Hopefully DH will bring home some yummy leftovers so you don't have to make dinner. I'm always amazed that restaurant leftovers feed both of you for a dinner!
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!
on 4/5/25 8:21 am, edited 4/5/25 1:21 am
Still no contact from my friend. My friends who I've explained everything to, say to give her a few days. I am struggling with that. I have such problems with sitting with other people's silence (or silent treatment) and I go from being hurt to feeling rage at not being able to defend myself. So I slept very little last night and have a headache. And a big part of me wants to quit the board not in solidarity with my friend because what she's doing just plain isn't allowed however much I wi**** was, but because enforcing the rules on your neighbors is a terrible role and I hate it.
I managed to get my prescription filled, but for several hundred dollars more than it normally would be. The pharmacy tried every which way including multiple calls to Eli Lilly, but the savings card just wouldn't work anymore. At one point, it would only work if my BMI was over 27. I couldn't do the math fast enough to know what that weight would be, and lying is hard for me anyway.
In researching going back to compounding, that looks like a real mess. One of my former pharmacies is being sued by Eli Lilly (Empower), another has stopped selling it all together (Hallandale). The rest it sounds like can sell what they've already made so were busy bees stocking up, but once it's gone that's it unless there is a dramatic change in legislation. Several of them were trying the trick of adding something like B12 to get around the exact copy rule and are still getting sued. And now Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk are going after the prescribing companies to stop compounds. I thought about doing the individual self-pay doses from Eli Lilly, but they stop at 10mg and I'm on 15. I have some concerns as the reputable pharmacies keep getting sued and stop selling it, the fly by nights selling God knows what in a vial will be who's left. Leaving me with a $900+ prescription. Frustrating. https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/19/nx -s1-5333230/zepbound-tirzepatide-compounding-fda
Anyway, I have planting to do today. And fretting. Hope you all have a fret-free day!
Boy, that is an awkward situation--for everyone involved. Sorry you got caught up in the middle of it.
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.
Good Morning! Off to our State Capitol to hang out with some likeminded folks. Partly cloudy, with a high in the 40s. I may be over dressing, but I don't want to be cold. Power to the People!
Weight is 130.2, which is up 2-3 pounds from a month ago. It's due to being a bit bed-bound and not able to move around so much due to remodeling boredom and bad weather inactivity. Truth is, I think my face looks a bit better with these 2-3 pounds fluffing me up. So for now I'm good with it. I just don't want to keep heading in that direction.
Today's big news is that we're in the midst of that stalled rainstorm hanging across the lower Midwest--with the Ohio River cresting on Monday and localized flooding near the river and all the creeks around here that run into the Ohio.
Yesterday the city sent all residents an email saying, "Don't wash your clothes or use your dishwashers to avoid overtaxing our already super-overtaxed metropolitan sewer system." This weekend it'll continue raining, then we'll get a couple of sunny but cooler days, then more rain, then sunny, etc.
Mother Nature is really overdoing the "April showers bring May flowers" thang. At this point I'm expecting May to offer up a couple dozen roses every day--even though we haven't planted any rose bushes yet.
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.
