Saturday, February 22, 2025

Okay, I get it now. LOL.... Some days I'm just a little slow!

In my brain it translates to "avoiding what you don't want puts you on a path for getting what you want".

One came to mind for me immediately: don't schedule routine care appointments. I am way over due for a skin check and a dental cleaning. I have so many other health care appointments with the oncology follow ups etc I resist doing the routine health care things that can have a big impact.

131.2, mostly likely due to having 3 alcoholic drinks last night! Food consumption was good though! I didn't even want anything from the dessert table at the wedding reception. Funny how these meds take that away. Most of the time I don't want an alcoholic drink either, but for some reason last night wasn't one of those times. I'm such a lightweight drinker that my head was feeling it this morning even though I didn't really feel drunk last night. The 3 drinks were consumed over 4 hours. It was fun seeing my old work crew!

DH and I met with a couple from our Bible study for lunch. 2 hours of chatting just flew by!

Not much else planned for today. I have no ambition to make dinner but don't want to go out either! What 's a girl to do? Send her husband out for take out? We do need to go grocery shopping so maybe something will jump out to me!

Greetings all

The clouds are out today but it's not gloomy. Feeling pretty good and I may take the car and go to the gym to see how I drive with one lens out of the glasses. It feels pretty good around the house. We shall see....(lol)

Liz it is not surprising that you have good muscle. That is what is left when you get rid of fat!!! CC is right that the device may be best for longer term averages and such. Trends. And if you do not float well it likely is true. I am like DD - a floater. I am highly buoyant. Always have been. Never understood people who sink in the water. I have built in float tanks. So be proud to be a sinker Liz.

And hey DD, *****ads all the reports you have to write? Sounds like no fun but hopefully benefits students. Stay warm up there and hope you are feeling better.

Ann glad your DH is recovering well from the nails-in-toes. Looking forward to your choice words on the surgeon. Long term good outcome is the desire but why was this detour necessary? Floods! Be safe.

That car is really cool CC. What is it? Could not see. Looks fast and hot. Enjoy and also enjoy having your house back. House to yourself is a delicious indulgence. Just the idea of being able to do whatever you want is so indulging - even if you doni't want to do anything unusual.

Paula sounds like you had a fun event. Bet your outfit was a big hit, No dinner ideas = go buy a rotisserie chicken.

Yep Ann Charlie Munger is right. Makes sense.

CC impressive numbers on your wl journey. You have done well. We all have. This is not a small issue with an easy fix. It is a multifaceted highly complex matter. And the road map is not all that complete. We rock.

Not sure whats for dinner. DH brought home some rather suspect looking enchiladas from the grocery store. They need closer inspection.

I have been thinking about this eye surgeon that did my cataract. I may have mentioned he is an older guy but totally in command. He had some kind throat cancer a few years ago and uses this voice assisi device and had to touch his throat to use it. As a result he is very succinct in his words and very much to the point. The effect is that he makes a few words very powerful and effective. A valuable quality. Kind of reminds me of Pearl Buck's writing -much power in simple words.

Anyone buy a garbage disposal recently? Ours is on life support....

Diane S

These reports don't really help students, that's why they annoy me so much. I am monitoring their progress pretty much daily, but the federal rules for these reports create meaningless feedback.

212.7

As I mentioned, I ordered Liz's scale. Amazingly it came yesterday afternoon. I set it up. It's going back in the box and will be returned. The metrics are quite off from my DEXA Scan results. This scale has me having super low muscle mass, a higher fat percentage and a grand total of 7 pounds of bone in my entire body. DEXA scan results have me at an above average body fat percentage, but also in the 95% of muscle mass for my age and my bone density is magnificent. Then we put Ron on the scale to check his metics. He holds his fat differently from me. He is very, very apple shaped. Ron's metrics were also quite off. We know he has lower bone density from previous testing. Well, not according to this scale. His body fat percentage was about the same as mine, but he had double the bone weight, which would be quite odd given what we know. So, the best we can figure is that it measured hydration levels in us both, used some type of algorithm to figure out what we 'should' be and calculated. I will stick to using a quarterly DEXA Scan, mirror, clothing, and current bathroom scale to keep track of my progress.

Did a really nice push pull workout yesterday. I am figuring that 4 days of resistance training should start showing results in a few months, IF I keep working on changing the eating disorder behaviors. Doing my best!!!!

Ann, I will have to look at the video about inversion thinking. I understand what you did, but not sure exactly how that premise might work. I think I am still missing something.

I do try to keep politics out of my on line life and not let politics affect my relationships. Friends, I am struggling. Perhaps because I grew up in a time during which homosexuality was still very much taboo and I spent a lot of time as an "invisible" minority-at times concerned for my physical safety-I am more sensitive to what I see happening in our country. I truly am worried. Economy comes and goes. I get that. But the disregard for humanitarian issues and utter disrespect for the working classes is egregious. If I were the parent of a gay, trans, or gender fluid person I would be so worried about their safety and future status as part of our citizenry. I don't know if anyone here read Elon Musk's rant on X about our country's billionaires being tired of footing the bill for workers in the USA. It was stunning. The audacity to suggest that if we want health care we should befriend a doctor, or that should we want entertainment we should get in the mud and wrestle with pigs is unimaginable to me. This is the type of thinking that is running our country.

Well, on that positive note... Have a wonderful weekend.

Peps, I have wondered how some of the rhetoric is landing on you. I have a seat somewhat out of the rain, being a gender conforming, heterosexual white middle class woman. No one is saying I don't have a right to exist or threatening the legality of my marriage or the legitimacy of who I love.

I do remember in the 80s feeling like it was open season on women, but maybe it still is, and it was my age that made me vulnerable. Just one small example, I was at a college party and some guy goosed me. DH (boyfriend at the time) was with me, and I turned to him and said, that guy just goosed me! DH yelled at him, and the dude apologized to DH, said he didn't realize we were together!! So I do have some of that fear of what can happen to a marginalized group. INCEL rhetoric sometimes has me terrified for my daughter and the entitlement some of these weirdos feel they have to "females". And they're feeling pretty emboldened right now, posting "your body, my choice" all over the internet.

And then there are the fears for people who are quite different from me. Oh my students! Are they and their families going to make it through this? My non gendered young folks, or my 30 year old friends who are transitioned.

It's ugly out there. I have to believe that good eventually prevails, but at what cost before it does win?

Agreed. Seems like the social progress of the last 50 years is getting tossed. It is hard to accomplish social change and so easy to tra**** Discouraging. ds

I had to look up INCEL... that one had not crossed my path before, but now I know. In my world I refer to them as Creepers, but I know exactly the type of mentally tweaked misogynistic male you mean.

I forget that women were/are treated like objects in this country. I was raised in a liberal household, in a liberal area (my dad was getting his PhD at UC Berkeley in the early 70s) and lived in a region that celebrated the work of Dr. King and embraced the Women's Lib movement. Women being treated as objects is outside of my personal experience. I am grateful for the reminder that it does.

Yes! My kids are struggling big time in this political climate. Not just LGBTQ+ issues but all of the government funding cuts. Will affect us too!