Saturday, April 19, 2025

120.2 - methinks when my weight fluctuates often it is due to the need for good bathroom time.

Nice weather day yesterday. We ate lunch and dinner at the Beach Club but didn't stay at the pool/beach there because it was too crowded. Not an empty chair anywhere, so we came back to our neighborhood pool and floated around. Apparently MANY families come down for Easter weekend. The staff says after this next week it will start to look like summer volume around here. My family has rarely visited over Easter mostly because at this point I am close to coming home. We have been eating at the Beach Club a lot because it truly has the best food and view anywhere around here. Lucky us!

Today I have water aerobics, then this afternoon we are probably going to our usual outdoor music venue. Dinner out this evening with 8 of our "new" friends (friends made over the last couple of years). But first, a Justice walk!

Have a superb Saturday!

Liz, I agree that living in a new community with many other "transplants" creates eagerness to build friendships. Spring Break has descended upon us too! A former teacher and her husband are down vacationing and we'll meet for a late lunch to avoid crowds. Tomorrow afternoon, after three Easter Services, (Deputy Leader of Safety Team) I'll join friends for dinner at one of their homes. I am the only single person in my Mahjongg tribe and my close friends circle. The men join us for some of our adventures and I am just now beginning to feel open to another relationship. Today, I am 144, the high end of my 139-144 range. Too many Easter baked goods and jelly beans !

High end because it's a period of celebration! You'll adjust downward again, but for now, enjoy. It's nice to hear about your community. When we were thinking about a winter home in Florida, that was one of the selling points. Now, since we're going to be nomads, DH is stuck trying to get me to golf, instead of joining a league. God speed to him!

Your beach club is wonderful! Enjoy everything it has to offer. You and your DH are making a beautiful life together.

Sunny today and in the 50s. Its comfortable out of the wind and shade, but pretty nippy if you're not. Green is just starting to appear. We face north. Our neighbors across the street have a lot of green in their lawn, as they are south facing. We'll catch up.

The play we saw last night was tremendous. It's based on a true story/Minnesota history I did not know. During WW2, young men who were interred in Japanese Camps with their families were offered the chance to join the army and go to a special Japanese language training to become spies and translators. Even though they were 2nd generation Americans, many states didn't want to run the program. Minnesota did, so the language training happened here. The subject of internment camps for Japanese citizens is such an ugly part of our history, and sadly, tragically, feels relevant.

Today is a laid back Saturday. We went for coffee, then to St. Vinny's where I indulged my new hobby of buying cloth napkins. If they are in decent shape and the right color for my dishes, I buy them. Today's pale yellow ones were 49¢ a piece. If they get stained, they quickly transition to rags.

Laundry started, kitchen cleaned up, some paperwork needs tackling, and then dinner at my parent's house tomorrow. Then back to school, while resuming my countdown to June 13.

My mother was in Portland OR during WW2 and had a friend who ended up with her family in a Japanese internment camp. My mother is rotating in her grave over so many things these days.

It was over 80 in Mass, NJ, and NY today but only 79 here with a great breeze. So funny! (Why couldn't it have been like that up north last weekend???)

Greetings all

ipad check in while at the gallery. I overslept and dashed up here late with only cheese and crackers for the day. Not a good plan but shrimp tonight.

lots of drama Cc. I agree. You are done with that person

dd npr had a short story about a Japanese family facing interrment had to get rid of pets and home goods and lie to kids. So sad.

yay for beach club liz

more tomorrow when ican type

diane s

I was talking to someone about high protein foods and they said that one shouldn't eat shrimp as it would raise your cholesterol. I was pretty sure that recommendation had changed around the same time as the one about eggs so I looked it up and it had. Both eggs and shrimp have a lot of cholesterol in them, but they don't contribute to human body cholesterol significantly. Surprised me that someone still followed older nutrition rules.

Your cholesterol story is a great example of human frailty. People are invested in knowing stuff. What they learn can have great value to them. What some folks don't appreciate is that what we once understood to be "a fact" can be refuted by future observations and learning. It mat even be painful to learn that we were "wrong." For some folks, it's less painful to reject current knowledge and keep believing outdated, inaccurate, even injurious "truths."

And I'm not even talking about fake news or weird conspiracy theories.

For fun, I just googled "What used to be true" and found some fascinating things that used to be accepted as legit knowledge. Heck, I remember in junior high school (in the 1950s) girls were told not to wash their hair during their periods because it might make them sterile.

LOL (but not) about hair washing!

Years ago in an early year of maintenance I was very strict and ate no butter, shellfish and other high cholesterol foods. It made no difference in my own numbers. I concluded that the issue was more complex than eating shrimp. My own is high but at times the good kind is higher than the bad kind. A much more complex issue than common lore. ds